From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 27 20:18:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from virgo.sdc.org (virgo.sdc.org [209.155.42.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4496814F0B for ; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 20:18:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mrevnell@sdc.org) Received: from sdc.org (IDENT:root@pm1-21.sdc.org [209.155.42.51]) by virgo.sdc.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id VAA21080 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 21:06:43 -0600 Message-ID: <37C7548C.4A23CCE@sdc.org> Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 21:16:28 -0600 From: mike revnell Reply-To: revnell@ieee.org X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.10 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: installation problems Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I got this address from the book in the Walnut Creek boxed set. I have been trying to install FreeBSD 3.2 on an IMB Aptiva. The bios tells me it's a model number 2140L61. It's a 266 MHz Pentium II box. When trying to boot from CD-ROM it tells me Can't work out which drive we're booting from. and gives the boot loader prompt. I can't find a spell which will get it to boot. When booting from floppy I go through the process of diabling all the devices I don't have. It seems to go smoothly until it emits a couple messages about the npx0 device and then hangs (I've waited at least 2 minutes) with the floppy light on. Ejecting the floppy does not elicit any sort of message. The system does respont to num-lock and caps-lock so it isn't completely wedged. It runs RedHat 6.0 mostly ok. Apart from constant carping about running the Gnome file manager as root and intermittent problems with slow X windows startup {magic cookie problems}{but then that's not your concern} Any ideas? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message