From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 29 10:14:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA26300 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 10:14:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smartmail1.business.net.uk (smartmail1.business.net.uk [194.88.64.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA26282 for ; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 10:14:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from John.Kellett@relmat.com) Received: from [194.88.76.194] (helo=lima.relmat.com) by smartmail1.business.net.uk with smtp (Exim 2.02 #1) id 0zYwUU-0003q5-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 18:08:10 +0000 Received: from [10.10.10.12] by lima.relmat.com (NTMail 3.03.0017/4c.acea) with ESMTP id oa006618 for ; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 18:12:41 +0000 Message-ID: <000901be0367$e08ffc40$0c0a0a0a@juliet.relmat.com> From: "John Kellett" To: Subject: Installation problems Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 18:13:48 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3115.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I'm trying to install FreeBSD on an old 486SX ISA bus system. I intend to do an internet install. I have downloaded the current boot.flp and made a boot diskette. The system boots fine to the point where I am asked to configure... I have a 3C509B combo network adapter with default settings. I have an Adaptec AHA 1548B with the only hard disk attached as device 0. The floppy is being driven from the AHA1548B's floppy controller. There is also some unknown vga video card in there. In visual mode I delete all devices except the AHA154x, floppy, 3C509 and console. When I then move onto saving the configuration I -never- get past the blue "probing..." screen. On console 2 I see that the floppy, network, and hard disk have all been recognised. The system is not locked as I can switch between consoles easily. The last message on console 2 is : "DEBUG: Found a DOS partition da0s2 on drive da0" Any clues ?? JohnK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message