Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 10:13:04 -0500 From: "Jason" <jasonc@concentric.net> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Installing 3.3 from CDROM Message-ID: <004201bf47d8$0d12b0e0$0101010a@stan>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] I downloaded the ISO from the bsd ftp site some time ago. Burned it and made floppies using makeflp.bat. Now I have wo disks that I labeled Kernel and MFSRoot. When I boot on the Kernel Disk It goes through some process with cryptic information coming acrss the screen and a spinning icon thing made up os slashes.....think this is a wait promt of some sort. After about 5 minutes it beeps and tells me to insert the MFSRoot disk which I do and press enter. It goes through more of the above and then states that it will reboot automatically in 10 seconds. This reboot was not mentioned in any of the DOCs but I since there is no error message I let it continue. A complete reboot happens...Computer counts memory and then comes up with the following message/prompt >> FreeBSD/i386 Boot Default: 0fd(0,a)? boot: There is no information in the DOCs as to what I should do at this point. No matter what I type is always responds with . .. mfsroot.gz >> FreeBSD/i386 Boot Default: 0fd(0,a)? boot: Do I have a bad ISO file here? bad install disk or what? Any help you may provide will be greatly appreciated.. Also for the record no internet access on this box will be available...so FTP install will be impossible. Thanks Jason Cribbins MGM Services Part of the FtS Productions Team [-- Attachment #2 --] <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2919.6307" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I downloaded the ISO from the bsd ftp site some time ago. Burned it and made floppies using makeflp.bat.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Now I have wo disks that I labeled Kernel and MFSRoot. When I boot on the Kernel Disk It goes through some process with cryptic information coming acrss the screen and a spinning icon thing made up os slashes.....think this is a wait promt of some sort.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>After about 5 minutes it beeps and tells me to insert the MFSRoot disk which I do and press enter.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It goes through more of the above and then states that it will reboot automatically in 10 seconds. This reboot was not mentioned in any of the DOCs but I since there is no error message I let it continue.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>A complete reboot happens...Computer counts memory and then comes up with the following message/prompt</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>>> FreeBSD/i386 Boot</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Default: 0fd(0,a)?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>boot:</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>There is no information in the DOCs as to what I should do at this point. No matter what I type is always responds with </FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>. .. mfsroot.gz</FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>>> FreeBSD/i386 Boot</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Default: 0fd(0,a)?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>boot:</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Do I have a bad ISO file here? bad install disk or what?</DIV> <DIV>Any help you may provide will be greatly appreciated..</DIV> <DIV>Also for the record no internet access on this box will be available...so FTP install will be impossible.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Thanks</DIV> <DIV>Jason Cribbins</DIV> <DIV>MGM Services</DIV> <DIV>Part of the FtS Productions Team</DIV></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>
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