From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 24 1:15:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from leeloo.zip.com.au (leeloo.zip.com.au [203.12.97.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA22F37B406 for ; Sun, 24 Jun 2001 01:15:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fineprint@wr.com.au) Received: from the_dell (ppp125.dyn146.pacific.net.au [210.23.146.125]) by leeloo.zip.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id SAA27243 for ; Sun, 24 Jun 2001 18:15:04 +1000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Michael Baxter To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: problem installing 4.2 stable Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 18:14:04 +1000 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01062418140401.03315@the_dell> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 Hi - I'm trying to install FreeBSD 4.2 stable from floppies made from a linux central cd. The floppies have been used to install a system on an old pentium and still boot that system ok. But when I try to boot a 486 the bootloader says it can't find 'kernel' then 'kernel.old'. From the 'ok' prompt I get after that, the ls command gives: open '/' failed: input/output error I can boot ok using dos and redhat 7.1 diskettes in the floppy drive so it seems to be alright. Any suggestions please - I'm stuck. tia, Michael Baxter. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message