From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 17 21:20:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA24125 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 17 Jun 1996 21:20:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from franklin.cris.com (franklin.cris.com [199.3.12.31]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA24113 for ; Mon, 17 Jun 1996 21:20:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from voyager.cris.com (voyager [199.3.12.37]) by franklin.cris.com (8.7.5/(96/06/11 2.45)) id AAA22481; Tue, 18 Jun 1996 00:18:54 -0400 (EDT) [1-800-745-2747 The Concentric Network] Received: from localhost by voyager.cris.com (4.1) id AA07338; Tue, 18 Jun 96 00:18:14 EDT Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 00:18:14 -0400 (EDT) From: JAMIE To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: help on installation Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Sorry to bother you, but I keep getting stuck at the same spot on the installation. I've tried dozens of times over the past week with several boot and root disks trying to do a floppy install and I keep getting hung when I try to load the root floppy. Also, though I'm not sure if it is supposed to boot without the root floppy installed, but if I try to boot straight from my hard drive instead of using the boot floppy I get the same prompt as with the boot floppy but instead of going to the install menu the opening message and prompt just keep repeating. To complicate things a bit, this is a machine that I just built, so I was wondering if this could be caused by a piece of bad hardware or something that isn't compatible with FreeBSD. Most of it is pretty standard stuff, except maybe the hard drive. It's a 2.5" Seagate 524mb IDE drive with a 3.5" adapter. Any help you could give me at this point would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. jamie@cris.net