From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 21 22:45:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA20558 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 21 Jun 1998 22:45:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hotmail.com (f86.hotmail.com [207.82.250.192]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA20529 for ; Sun, 21 Jun 1998 22:45:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pixelking@hotmail.com) Received: (qmail 18932 invoked by uid 0); 22 Jun 1998 05:45:17 -0000 Message-ID: <19980622054517.18931.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 209.214.113.201 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Sun, 21 Jun 1998 22:45:16 PDT X-Originating-IP: [209.214.113.201] From: "Pixel King" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: install difficulties Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 22:45:16 PDT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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