Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 22:02:09 -0800 From: Mike Haertel <mike@ducky.net> To: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: attempting to install 10/31 snapshot on a Noname Message-ID: <199811050602.WAA20725@ducky.net>
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Hi all, I have a Noname that I am trying to install the 10/29 Alpha snapshot on. This machine has a Quantum Fireball SCSI disk, a Kingston 21140 based ethernet controller, and 32 meg of memory. Right now the machine has NetBSD-1.3.2 on it and that seems quite stable. So I downloaded the 10/29 snapshot, and made the necessary boot floppies. After some difficulties with preparing a floppy for mfsroot.gz (during which I discovered that the FreeBSD kernel will happily boot using the old NetBSD root file system, and run at least some NetBSD binaries--so I know the kernel works well enough to load and run user programs off the hard disk on this machine), I managed to get it to load the mfsroot image and drop into the FreeBSD install screen. Exceedingly cool! But is it really supposed to be red? Anyway... Problem: the install menu is completely non-responsive to keyboard input at this point. However, I can type Alt-F2 and switch to the 2nd virtual console, where there is a bunch of debugging messages. Keyboard input there gets echoed, so I know the keyboard isn't totally wedged. Any suggestions? Thanks, Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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