From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 25 05:42:40 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id FAA12247 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 25 Oct 1995 05:42:40 -0700 Received: from mercurio.uc.pt (mercurio.uc.pt [192.84.15.41]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id FAA12242 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 1995 05:42:31 -0700 From: pgr95@ciunix.uc.pt Received: from ciunix.uc.pt by mercurio.uc.pt (4.1/SMI-4.2) id AA02783; Wed, 25 Oct 95 13:42:11 +0100 Received: by ciunix.uc.pt (AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/4.03) id AA25192; Wed, 25 Oct 1995 13:40:53 +0200 Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1995 13:40:53 +0200 Message-Id: <9510251140.AA25192@ciunix.uc.pt> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello. I am from University of Coimbra and I've just got Free BSD package to install in my computar at home but I've had some problems. I have a 386 DX (40 MHz) computer (4 MegaBytes - RAM) with a Maxtor hard disk and a Super I/O card. My computer doesn't have a numeric coprocessor (I don't if it is necessary). I tried to install FreeBSD from floppies but the first menu didn't even apeared nor i could get into the configuration prompt. At the boot process the computer always stop at the following point: Text=0x100000 data=0x0 bss=0xa00 Symbols=[0x600+0x4+0x258+0x4+0x1d9] Total=0x40139 entry point=0x300000 After this message the light drive stays always on but the computer no longer reads the boot floppy drive and the keyboard doesn't even receive my keystrokes, so I have to power off the computer. I would like to know if I have to get a better computer to run FreeBSD or can I do it with this one and what is the problem I am having. In the manual handbook says that we should get a bootmanger if we are going to have msdos in one partion and BSD in another but I can't find it. Could you tell me how to get it? Many thanks. I hope hearing from you soon. Paulo. ================================ * Paulo Rodrigues * * University of Coimbra * * * * email - pgr95@ciunix.uc.pt * ================================