From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 27 23:38:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA03468 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 23:38:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason01.u.washington.edu (jason01.u.washington.edu [140.142.70.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA03461 for ; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 23:38:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul9.u.washington.edu (root@saul9.u.washington.edu [140.142.82.7]) by jason01.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id XAA24840; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 23:37:59 -0700 Received: from s8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul9.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with SMTP id XAA09744; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 23:37:59 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 23:33:39 +0000 (GMT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu To: sykester@ICSI.Net cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19980827224036.007a25f0@icsi.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 27 Aug 1998 sykester@ICSI.Net wrote: >Ive been to the freebsd page and downloaded fdimage and the boot file and >ive put the boot file on one of my floppy didks using fdimage. i reset my >computer and watch it. it gets to a list and it shows that most of my >hardware is collpsed or something like that. And then it starts probing and >it never quites. what can i do to install frebsd. When you see the message about "hardware collapsed" you must read everything on the screen more closely. The instructions are there. You must eliminate conflicts before you start probing. Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message