From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 22 7:54:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A70714BD2 for ; Mon, 22 Nov 1999 07:54:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA69994; Mon, 22 Nov 1999 16:52:49 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des) To: Gordon Price Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3.3 install problems sent to bugs by mis-understanding References: <19991122150506.29324.rocketmail@web118.yahoomail.com> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 22 Nov 1999 16:52:48 +0100 In-Reply-To: Gordon Price's message of "Mon, 22 Nov 1999 07:05:06 -0800 (PST)" Message-ID: Lines: 38 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070097 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.97) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Gordon Price writes: > Dear Dag, Can you please spell my name properly? > [failed attempt at biting sarcasm elided] I would be very much obliged if you would point out to me which parts of my response you found offensive. I tried to answer your question as accurately as possible, but you were very vague and did not give much useful information apart from the version number and a half-remembered error message. The error message in question is typical of a mangled or truncated kernel such as one would get if one had tried to copy boot.flp onto a 1.44 MB floppy, which is a very common error for users not familiar with FreeBSD 3.x (no matter how much experience they have with previous versions), and given the lack of details, I guessed that was your problem. I can't tell you why install.bat is missing - as far as I can determine, it's not part of the OS itself, but something that was added on the CD-ROM to facilitate installation. I can, however, tell you that the error message you got means one of three things: 1) you goofed, and copied boot.flp instead of kern.flp. 2) your copy of kern.flp got mangled somewhere on the way. 3) the floppy you copied kern.flp onto is defective. Make sure none of the above applies. If you still can't install FreeBSD, come back with a detailed description of what you are trying to do and what results and error messages you are getting. And remember, we can't read minds, so if you don't specifically tell us that you did something, we'll assume you didn't. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message