From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 17 16:57:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA18872 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 17 Mar 1997 16:57:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA18860 for ; Mon, 17 Mar 1997 16:57:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id QAA01140; Mon, 17 Mar 1997 16:57:31 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 16:57:31 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: David Gilbert cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 386 install hangs ... HELP? In-Reply-To: <199703170557.AAA06331@repeat.pci.on.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 17 Mar 1997, David Gilbert wrote: > I've tried several times to get the 2.2-RELEASE boot floppy to > run, but it hangs after getting to the end of the ISA config > messages (zp0?). I have tried removing everything by my > hardware... It has a NE2000 (0x300, 10, cc000) a plain 1 meg VGA card, > a 2.5 Gig IDE disk and a IDE CDROM... and 8 megs of memory. Have you tried re-fetching the boot floppy and building it on a DOS or existing Unix system? Your boot image may have been incomplete, either because of a copy failure or you forgot to specify binary mode for the ftp. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major