From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 13 00:38:35 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA26755 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 00:38:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA26750 for ; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 00:38:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA10599; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 00:38:28 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 00:38:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: patience cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problems with installation In-Reply-To: <3441C23C.681E3C5A@worldonline.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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