From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 14 18:23:53 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAF7316A4CE for ; Wed, 14 Jul 2004 18:23:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from web81706.mail.yahoo.com (web81706.mail.yahoo.com [206.190.37.137]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4604243D2F for ; Wed, 14 Jul 2004 18:23:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from schromms@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20040714182350.46691.qmail@web81706.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [4.246.90.76] by web81706.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 14 Jul 2004 11:23:50 PDT Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 11:23:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Jerry Schromm To: questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: I get the screen saying to load default by selecting 1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 18:23:53 -0000 Hey everyone. First of all sorry for replying directly back to people when I was nicely given a reply. I didn't really know how this worked. Just starting out. I won't do that again. I wasn't sure when I did reply and never replied to them all since it would have been outrageous rofl. Well I finally burnt all the ISO's with all your help. I did make sure my FTP was in BINARY mode. At first I just downloaded them from my browser which might have been corrupting them. Then I integrated my FTP program into the browser so it automatically opened when I went to download. I set it to Binary and it downloaded fine. Not sure if it actually was corrupting it since I also got a bad burn again on the second disc I was burning. The first burn was fine. Anway I turned it down to 12X burn speed and they all recorded great. Though yesterday I ordered some discs off Ebay. From a guy that says he contributes to FreeBSD with the profits. I hope so. QUESTION. I know I may be asking this question too soon. I should read that install book over. And take it step by step. I will. But for now I would enjoy a few replies on it. When boot up from the miniinstal and the screen comes up giving me the options it doesn't let me select anything. I want to select 1 or enter for default. It doesn't work. Then Hault comes up and it's over. I know I was reading you want me to reformat a partition ready for freebsd so maybe that is it since I have an op on it already. I read that I need to use my current op's operating system FDISK or I would use Diskpart myself. I just thought Freebsd would load it up and give me a reformat option at startup. I WILL START READING AN HOUR A DAY I PROMISE NOT TO SLOW ALL OF YOU DOWN! THANKS Talk to you all later, Jerry Schromm