Date: Sun, 8 Mar 1998 23:58:02 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: chris <chris@printerworks.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing on a new machine Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980308235739.3844W-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <35007C0B.6B64@printerworks.com>
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On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, chris wrote: > I have a new machine. It has no IDE drives and has a blank > (unformatted) SCSI hard drive (ID5). > > >From an SCO UNIX machine, I downloaded the FreeBSD bin files and put > them all on floppies (using tar) and created the boot.flp floppy (using > "dd" per the readme). > > When I try to boot from the floppy, it goes through the initial stuff, > gets the boot: prompt, then automatically starts booting from the > floppy. It goes through a couple of lines like "text=0x000120 blocks=04 > 23 ff 37 ..." (this is not the actual wording, it just *looks* like > this). Then the system reboots and starts the whole process over. It > keeps going through the same series of steps (boot, restart, boot, > restart, ...) until I turn the machine off. > > Where am I going wrong? What can I do? > Looks like the disk image is bad. Try a new floppy and make sure the disk image was downloaded in binary mode. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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