From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 26 09:09:07 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68C5716A417 for ; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 09:09:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from coughlandesmond@yahoo.fr) Received: from web27204.mail.ukl.yahoo.com (web27204.mail.ukl.yahoo.com [217.146.182.94]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C096B43D45 for ; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 09:09:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from coughlandesmond@yahoo.fr) Received: (qmail 58285 invoked by uid 60001); 26 Sep 2006 09:09:05 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.fr; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=tqQaW11t/qaLKDOd+mt6JncXqYvryR2tv2P2pl3Ot8tTRR4liFPq39BTGq5coMaDCWtpx/voJytkWjNkCrJyXBNU2IPY2TJPMGvDV/LRJbekdoM83mU8TuWyflrXh7yVB6wkY83V22WgmeA/OaJDlxe5Q0oe7ncUMDuv2x7clow= ; Message-ID: <20060926090905.58283.qmail@web27204.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Received: from [81.57.37.99] by web27204.mail.ukl.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 11:09:05 CEST Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 11:09:05 +0200 (CEST) From: Desmond Coughlan To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: problem installing on i386 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 09:09:07 -0000 Hi, I hope that I'm not sending this to the wrong list, or that the question hasn't already been answered. I'm trying to install 6.1-RELEASE onto a Pentium-3. I had a lot of trouble creating the diskettes, but after changing the floppy drive, no problem. Now, when I do the install, I have two hard drives, and configure them as follows... disk0 150M / 512M /etc 512M /etc 512M /var 1024M /bin 4096M /usr 1024M swap disk1 4096M /forums 4096M /mail 4096M /sql 1024M swap I go through the installation, via ftp, and then set the root password. Oh, and the 'FreeBSD boot manager' is the option I choose, when configuring the disks. When I reboot, this is what I see ... Manual root filesystem specification : Mount using filesystem eg ufs:da0s1a ? List valid disk boot devices Abort manual imput ... and that's it. Nothing else. The machine just sits there. Is there something I've missed ? We've tried the same install on three different machines, using three different motherboards, and four different hard drives. Something is wrong, either with the installation media, or else with our method of going about it. Oh, and I tried installing 5.5 on the same machines, with the same result. FreeBSD rocks; I've used it for a long time on many different machines, and this is the first time that this has happened. Could someone suggest a solution? The people with whom I'm installing this, are starting to whisper the word 'Linux', and it's giving me nightmares.... :( Thanks. D.C --------------------------------- Découvrez un nouveau moyen de poser toutes vos questions quelque soit le sujet ! Yahoo! Questions/Réponses pour partager vos connaissances, vos opinions et vos expériences. Cliquez ici.