Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 22:45:16 PDT From: "Pixel King" <pixelking@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: install difficulties Message-ID: <19980622054517.18931.qmail@hotmail.com>
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hi, i have oodles of experience with all kinds of windows/dos based os's... but FreeBSD completely befuddles me. I used System Commander Deluxe to prepare a BSD-formatted partition on my system (the first partition on my first and only ide hard drive). I used fdimage to copy the boot.flp to a floppy, and that boots fine. I go through and i identify my hardware, which is correct and on the compatible list, and when i hit 'q' and then 'y' to save settings, my system reads from the floppy for a moment, then hits the hard drive for a millisecond, then it locks up, with the white block cursor in the top left-hand corner. i've waited long periods of time, to no avail. I have a DFI BX chipset motherboard, a celeron 266 chip, 64mb sdramm, a maxtor 7gb ide drive, ide floppy, ide (on second chain) 32x cd-rom drive, audiopci ensoniq sound card, isa diamond 56k pnp modem, pci matrox millenium 2mb video card, pci pure3d voodoo 1 video card, and isa ne2000 compatible nic. thanks in advance, jake ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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