From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 31 19:53:59 2003 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 5EA9737B401 for ; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 19:53:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.acd.net (smtp.acd.net [207.179.64.154]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70C1943E4A for ; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 19:53:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from taxman@ACD.NET) Received: from Knoppix ([207.179.65.8]) by smtp.acd.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5329); Fri, 31 Jan 2003 22:54:18 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: taxman To: michaew@uci.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installation Problems Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 22:55:27 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <1044036689.smmsdV1.1.2@smtp.uci.edu> In-Reply-To: <1044036689.smmsdV1.1.2@smtp.uci.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200301312255.27430.taxman@acd.net> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 01 Feb 2003 03:54:19.0124 (UTC) FILETIME=[98DD9340:01C2C9A5] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I had thought this was in the early adopters guide (you did read that rig= ht?),=20 but doesn't 5.0 take more memory to install than 4.7 did? I don't know i= f=20 that would cause your problem or not, but it seems possible. Try install= ing=20 4.7, that should work fine, if not, let us know what problem you have. Tim On Friday 31 January 2003 07:11 pm, michaew@uci.edu wrote: > Hi. I'm trying to install release 5.0 on an i386 system with a P100=20 > processor with native windows 95 on the hard disk. I have 16mb ram and = a=20 > 1.2GB IDE Wester Digital Caviar. Because the computer does not support= =20 > CD booting and I have not been able to find a way to change boot order=20 > in the bios, I created boot disks as described in the install.txt. Th= e=20 > kernel and the mfsroot load fine, but when it boots the kernel it=20 > freezes on the line "Mounting root from ufs:dev/md0/stand/sysinstall=20 > running as init on vty0." It is detecting my cd-rom drive, which is a=20 > secondary slave. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. >=20 >=20 >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >=20 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message