From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 22 8:58:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.inu.net (downtown.inu.net [208.129.164.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13E6F37BA57 for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 08:58:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from robert@superjake.net) Received: from technogeek [208.129.166.68] by mail.inu.net (SMTPD32-5.05) id A78F23660114; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 10:58:07 -0500 From: "Robert Small" To: "Kenneth Wayne Culver" , "Robert Small" Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG" Subject: RE: New computer & 4.0 install Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 10:58:09 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 In-reply-to: Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sorry, I should of said that I tried that too. I've tried everything I can think of (including the obligatory beating my head against the wall!).. Robert -----Original Message----- From: Kenneth Wayne Culver [mailto:culverk@wam.umd.edu] Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2000 10:56 AM To: Robert Small Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG Subject: Re: New computer & 4.0 install > I just got a new computer for my network (K6/2-500), with a Western > Digital 10.2G hard drive, and everytime I try to install off the 4.0 > cd (latest snapshot of the cd), it tells me that it can't open > /dev/disk0. But, I can boot off and install off of a 3.3 CD. I'd > rather install 4.0, but I haven't had any success. Any ideas? Well, you could boot off of floppies, and then just install from CD. Just follow the installation instructions for making floppies. Ken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message