From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 21 17:27:31 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AADF816A4BF for ; Thu, 21 Aug 2003 17:27:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web20508.mail.yahoo.com (web20508.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.226.143]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4746943FDF for ; Thu, 21 Aug 2003 17:27:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pyr0teknix696@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20030822002731.90582.qmail@web20508.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [67.75.16.151] by web20508.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 21 Aug 2003 17:27:31 PDT Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 17:27:31 -0700 (PDT) From: R B To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Problems Installing FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 00:27:31 -0000 hi my name is pyr0teknix696 and i've been using linux for 3 years and decided to try freebsd on an old AST x486 with 32MB ram and a 3.16G HDD my problem is that the BIOS is not able to boot from CROM drives so i read through the docs and BSD and it says to create boot floppies with fdimage i do everything im supposed to do and the I reboot off the kernel.flp disk that works fine then it says to put in msfroot.flp disk i do that and then hit enter the problem is i reboot and it gives a message saying something like this: /kernel default 0:fd(0,a)fd0 boot: i dont know what this is can you please help me so that i can actually get to the installation process THANX-Unix is A Gift From God!! ===== __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com