From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Jan 7 17:33:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id RAA02392 for bugs-outgoing; Tue, 7 Jan 1997 17:33:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailgate.execpc.com (root@mailgate.execpc.com [169.207.16.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id RAA02368 for ; Tue, 7 Jan 1997 17:32:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from earth.execpc.com (crome@earth [169.207.16.1]) by mailgate.execpc.com (8.8.4/8.8.3) with ESMTP id TAA14804 for ; Tue, 7 Jan 1997 19:35:45 -0600 Received: from localhost (crome@localhost) by earth.execpc.com (8.8.4/8.8.3) with SMTP id TAA11516 for ; Tue, 7 Jan 1997 19:31:48 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 19:31:48 -0600 (CST) From: Jason Crome X-Sender: crome@earth To: bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Help Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk To anyone who can help: I am trying to install FreeBSD and not having any luck. Im actually having the same problem trying to install Linux. I have walnut creek distribution of FreeBSD 2.5.1. Following the directions in the pamphlet that came with the cd, I made the bootdisk to install FreeBSD. When the machine rebooted, the floppy drive would endlessly spin, not booting from the boot diskette. I tried making the disks manually using rawrite.exe, and had the same results. I even tried using an older rawrite.exe, but no luck. I tried installing from the CD with no luck as well. have tried all of the above on two totally different computers. Both CD-Roms are ATAPI/IDE, but do not match any kernel descriptions, so I installed with bare.i. (I have an NEC and a Mitsumi CD Rom drive). I have the smae identical problem trying to install Linux. I can install my slackware 3.0.0 distribution just fine, but not the latest (October 1996). Can you please help? I really need this to work. Thanks a bunch. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jason Crome Email: crome@execpc.com Consultant, CID NET Software WWW: http://www.execpc.com/~crome ------------------------------------------------------------------------------