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Date:      Mon, 13 Oct 1997 00:38:28 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        patience <patience@worldonline.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: problems with installation
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971013003725.9609v-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3441C23C.681E3C5A@worldonline.nl>

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On Mon, 13 Oct 1997, patience wrote:

> gentlemen,
> 
> i would like to use FreeBSD. however, i encounter problems when i try to
> install the OS.
> 
> i downloaded the floppy and image-copied it to disk. after booting with
> this floppy, i configuer my hardware options. after finishing this the
> probing starts. and then the kernel crashes with a "panic: double
> fault". the system goes to "syncing disks..." and nothing happens
> anymore.

you probably have 48MB of RAM in this box.  Pull a SIMM or two out,
install, then put them back.  It's a known bug with the 2.2.2 install
floppy.

> one thing that puzzles me is, that my floppy address is at 0x3F2
> (according to the win95 system info), but the configuration menu uses
> 0x3F0 (and this cannot be changed). however, i get the above error also
> when i disable the floppy (acutally i even get the error when i only
> chose to use the console).

Don't worry about it.  WIn95 may be using a different interface but it
works OK at the default.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major





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