From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 22 9: 8:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from po4.wam.umd.edu (po4.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF2CD37C32C for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 09:08:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from culverk@wam.umd.edu) Received: from rac4.wam.umd.edu (root@rac4.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.144]) by po4.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA15364; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 12:08:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rac4.wam.umd.edu (sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rac4.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA01041; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 12:08:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (culverk@localhost) by rac4.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA01037; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 12:08:23 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: rac4.wam.umd.edu: culverk owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 12:08:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver To: Robert Small Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG" Subject: RE: New computer & 4.0 install In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hrrm... you didn't delete either of the ata devices in the visual userconfig part of the install did you? ================================================================= | Kenneth Culver | FreeBSD: The best NT upgrade | | Unix Systems Administrator | ICQ #: 24767726 | | and student at The | AIM: muythaibxr | | The University of Maryland, | Website: (Under Construction) | | College Park. | http://www.wam.umd.edu/~culverk/| ================================================================= On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Robert Small wrote: > 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