Date: Sat, 4 Jul 1998 07:41:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Don Lazov <dlazov@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Trouble Installing Message-ID: <19980704144159.27151.rocketmail@send1e.yahoomail.com>
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Okay, where to begin, I have a pentium 75 machine with 40 megs of ram and two hdd (a western digital 2 gig and a conner/seagate 1.6 gig) also have a 33.6 modem, I am currently running Windows 95 version 4.00 (i.e. before/pre osr2) and I basically just want to install FreeBSD with a dual boot (i.e. FBSD or Win 95). So what I did was study the material presented in these web pages, downloaded the fdimage.exe program and then did the download of the boot.flp, went into dos and did a image copy and all seemed fine. Then I shut down the computer, with the new diskette in drive a: restarted the computer and the installation program began. After disabling the devices that my hardward does not support and selecting 'q' and 'y' options the computer shuts down, restarts and the screen goes black with a gray square cursor (box shape) in the upper left corner of my screen, the computer sounds like it dials and then nothing happens, the machine just stays in this mode until I shut it down and reboot. So my first question is what is wrong? And how do I fix it? I suppose the most easisest fix would be to buy the cd-rom, but that sort of defeats the FreeBSD purpose does'nt it? Now don't get me wrong if I do enjoy and like the O/S then I may contribute (either by paying a fee or writing some useful code or perhaps even some type of helpful text/docs) but as far as the free part goes I should be able to run the install program and it should work, no? I have also tried the setup.exe, and it can't find any files (mainly cause I did not down load any of them), downloading all the files sounds like a major pain in the butt. >From the snap shots I have seen this looks like a very cool O/S and I would be interested in using it. Any help would be highly appreciated. Thank you. Don Lazov dlazov@yahoo.com _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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