From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 29 10:51:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA00284 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 10:51:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail-ord-2.pilot.net (mail-ord-2.pilot.net [205.243.174.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA00190 for ; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 10:50:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from agkrueger@imcglobal.com) Received: from imcglobal-proxy.imcglobal.com ([204.48.31.144]) by mail-ord-2.pilot.net (Pilot/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA10765 for ; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 12:50:38 -0500 (CDT) Received: from skokie.imcglobal.com ([32.76.96.6]) by imcglobal-proxy.imcglobal.com (8.7.3/8.7.Beta.12) with ESMTP id MAA00642 for ; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 12:50:37 -0500 (CDT) Received: from imc1-mdl-nt-1.imcglobal.com ([204.146.92.95]) by skokie.imcglobal.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.5) with SMTP id AAA54A7 for ; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 12:48:52 -0500 Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 13:45:00 -0500 From: "Krueger Aaron G. - Bannockburn" Subject: Installation failure To: "'BSD'" X-Mailer: Worldtalk (NetConnex V4.00a)/MIME Message-ID: <7718054512F4.AAA54A7@skokie.imcglobal.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greetings, I have heard only good things about BSD, but this weekend was quite trying. I am attempting to install 2.1.5 onto a P133, 48MB RAM, 2.5GB WesternDigital EIDE, Syquest135a, 24x mitsumi CD-ROM, Adaptec 1520 with Ricoh 1420C (CDR) attached, Matrox Mystique 4MB video card, 56K internal modem, SB16 compatible sound card and a compaq netflex3 pci NIC. Upon reading the first several chapters of the complete FreeBSD manual, I backed up my Windows98 partition and blew away all existing partitions. I made my boot floppy from the view.exe and proceeded to reboot to start the install. I assumed I would have some type of problem, and to my dismay, when the probe was going on it seemed to find everything as far as I could tell. The only strange message I saw after going back to the probe screen when it was finished was that one device was not probed due to conflict at 0x350 ( I believe it was probing the sound card???). 0x350 would have been the i/o of my SCSI controller, so I assume it found that OK. I thought everything was actually going to go OK at that point, but to my dismay, It never gave me the infamous sysinstall menu. Instead all I get is the infamous cursor in the lower left hand corner..... At that point I rebooted several times, recreated the floppy, tried with the installations CD in the other CD-ROM. I went ahead and change video cards to a trident svga (pci 1mb) - same thing. I took out the modem - same. I removed the soundcard - same. I disconnected the IDE CD-ROM - same. - I disconnected the Syquest - same. The only other anomaly I did notice was that when I removed the IDE CD-ROM and the syquest drive - the probe would not find my IDE Hard drive. I am totally confused about this issue, so I began looking through the mailing list and FAQ's, but I seem to find tons of people with the same issue, but never any ANSWERS. I am not one to give up on something, and I would really like to get this beast running so I can get off the MicroShaft products......can someone point me in the right direction? Do I need the newest version (ALA Microsoft)? Or am I missing something.???? Please help... Thanks in advance for any assistance. Aaron G. Krueger LAN/Email Specialist agkrueger@imcglobal.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message