From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Aug 9 19:38: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.svr.pol.co.uk (mail1.svr.pol.co.uk [195.92.193.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65D2437B403 for ; Thu, 9 Aug 2001 19:37:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mmarcus@psych.fslife.co.uk) Received: from modem-744.articuno.dialup.pol.co.uk ([217.135.22.232] helo=c5x0l3) by mail1.svr.pol.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.13 #0) id 15V2BR-0002Bb-00 for freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 03:37:57 +0100 From: "mark" To: Subject: bsd 4.4 installation Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 03:49:24 -0000 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1155 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, I've picked up a copy of BSD v4.4 and Im having trouble installing it (Bet you've never heard that one before!). It seems to recognise all my hardware during the initial stages, then it tries to mount the floppy as root/boot? I think it's meant to go for the cd or HD instead but I'm not sure. Anyway, it then gives a double panic error (?) and hangs with the message "syncing disks". I hope this question isn't too dumb, but if you could help me out I'd be very grateful. Mark W P.S I'm booting from a floppy as my BIOS doesn't recognise my CD-ROM. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message