From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 29 13:55:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA22884 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 29 Nov 1997 13:55:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from kiowa.wildstar.net (falcon@kiowa.wildstar.net [198.203.196.143]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA22879 for ; Sat, 29 Nov 1997 13:55:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from falcon@kiowa.wildstar.net) Received: from localhost (falcon@localhost) by kiowa.wildstar.net (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA29177; Sat, 29 Nov 1997 15:54:24 -0600 Date: Sat, 29 Nov 1997 15:54:23 -0600 (CST) From: "R. Wyatt" To: Doug White cc: support@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: recent troubles during a FreeBSD install In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Well, I have made significant progress with this help. I ended up using bootpart an extension to load FreeBSD via the NT 4.0 bootloader. I just could not get BootEasy to install correctly. > > Now, the next problem is once installed and getting it to boot. > > I get problems with getty > > getty spawning too fast of /dev/cuaa1 sleeping 30 seconds, > > Do you have anything attached to COM2? You can disable this by editing > /etc/ttys and on the line starting with ttyv2 change the `on' to `off', > then run `kill -1 1' as root. My modem is on com2. > > > It also says login class root unknown.. > > See http://www.freebsd.org/releases/2.2.2R/errata.html got this > > > The final problem I am having is with X. I can't find the proper specs > > for my monitor any where. I have contacted the vendor and the vendor will > > not provide it. > > Then use reasonable defaults. > Still no luck with X. I think its complaining about not enough vram. Thank you for your help. Randy Wyatt > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > > >