From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 2 09:00:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA18168 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 2 Jul 1996 09:00:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from franklin.cris.com (franklin.cris.com [199.3.12.31]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA18153 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 1996 09:00:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from galileo.cris.com (galileo [199.3.12.30]) by franklin.cris.com (8.7.5/(96/06/11 2.45)) id MAA02979; Tue, 2 Jul 1996 12:00:28 -0400 (EDT) [1-800-745-2747 The Concentric Network] Received: from localhost by galileo.cris.com (4.1) id AA17158; Tue, 2 Jul 96 12:00:26 EDT Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 12:00:25 -0400 (EDT) From: JAMIE To: Doug White Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: help on installation In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 21 Jun 1996, Doug White wrote: > On Tue, 18 Jun 1996, JAMIE wrote: > > > Sorry to bother you, but I keep getting stuck at the same spot on the > > installation. I've tried dozens of times over the past week with several > > boot and root disks trying to do a floppy install and I keep getting hung > > when I try to load the root floppy. Also, though I'm not sure if it is > > supposed to boot without the root floppy installed, but if I try to boot > > straight from my hard drive instead of using the boot floppy I get the > > same prompt as with the boot floppy but instead of going to the install > > menu the opening message and prompt just keep repeating. > > Are you using known error-free floppies? > Are you ftping with BINARY? > Are you writing the floppy images under MS-DOS mode of Windows 95? > > What version of FreeBSD are you installing? > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > > Sorry about the delay in my reply. I decided to swap out my IDE drive for a SCSI drive and an adapter, so I've been down for a while. But, in case you were curoius... I formatted them myself, but of course can never be certian. yes no 2.1.0 I'm not really sure what my problem was, and now I have a new one (bad tracking on my SCSI Conner). I rma'd it and got another and so'll I'll try again tonight after work. Thanks for your help and wish me luck. -jamie