Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 01:52:07 -0700 From: "DenDen" <daraiza1@home.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Newbie trying to install FreeBsd 4.0 Message-ID: <000801c04faa$7ff26300$f0330f18@phnx2.az.home.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Hello, I am a newbie to the FreeBsd environment and have just purchased the FreeBsd powerpack 4.0. I am trying to install the Bsd Os as a second partition next to Win 98. I have a 700 K7 processor with a maxtor 30 gig hard drive. I had three partitions on the drive and added a fourth on the primary where Win. is installed using the Fips tool supplied with the discs. I then set my Yamaha 8x burner as the primary boot device, assured the disc was in the drive, and rebooted. Bios recognizes the BSD disc in the drive and begins booting. It then comes up with " keyboard - no" and halts the booting. I figured it was my Win 98 keyboard and replaced it with a generic keyboard and tried booting again with the same results. I then created a kern.flp and msfroot.flp image with the fdimage utility. I set the Bios to boot off the floppy, inserted the kern.flp image disc ( I assured the discs were good by formatting) and the rebooted. The system halted again with the same error "keyboard - no". I went back to the books and your freebsddiary.org web site to see if I can find a solution but had no luck. Is there something I'm doing wrong or maybe it's my hardware? I'm seeking assistance as to what can solve my problem. Any suggestions would be most appreciated. Thanks. [-- Attachment #2 --] <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2614.3500" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello, </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am a newbie to the FreeBsd environment and have just purchased the FreeBsd powerpack 4.0. I am trying to install the Bsd Os as a second partition next to Win 98. I have a 700 K7 processor with a maxtor 30 gig hard drive. I had three partitions on the drive and added a fourth on the primary where Win. is installed using the Fips tool supplied with the discs. I then set my Yamaha 8x burner as the primary boot device, assured the disc was in the drive, and rebooted. Bios recognizes the BSD disc in the drive and begins booting. It then comes up with " keyboard - no" and halts the booting. I figured it was my Win 98 keyboard and replaced it with a generic keyboard and tried booting again with the same results. I then created a kern.flp and msfroot.flp image with the fdimage utility. I set the Bios to boot off the floppy, inserted the kern.flp image disc ( I assured the discs were good by formatting) and the rebooted. The system halted again with the same error "keyboard - no". I went back to the books and your freebsddiary.org web site to see if I can find a solution but had no luck. Is there something I'm doing wrong or maybe it's my hardware? I'm seeking assistance as to what can solve my problem. Any suggestions would be most appreciated.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></BODY></HTML>help
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