Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 14:02:37 -0800 (PST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Jason <jasonc@concentric.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing 3.3 from CDROM Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.9912161358310.4557-100000@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <004201bf47d8$0d12b0e0$0101010a@stan>
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On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Jason wrote: > 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. This how we tell you things are ok loading from disk. > > 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. This isn't what it says, it must say something else at least be more verbose about it. I think you most likely have a bad MFSroot floppy, try doing a DOS format on both disks you made and re-make the install disks if they format ok. currently the installer can't tolerate disks with bad sectors. > 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. Probably bad install floppies. As a side note please tell your mailer to wrap lines at 70 characters. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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