From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 10 6:13: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from 1upmc-msx4.isdip.upmc.edu (1upmc-msx4.isdbu.upmc.edu [128.147.18.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2302D15098 for ; Mon, 10 May 1999 06:12:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from personrp@ccbh.com) Received: by 1upmc-msx4.isdbu.upmc.edu with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) id ; Mon, 10 May 1999 09:12:50 -0400 Message-ID: <576A688A7DA7D011899B00805FEA1AFF60387F@sych02.isdip.upmc.edu> From: "Person, Roderick" To: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG.'" Subject: Help Newbie with install Nightmare!!! Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 09:12:42 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG To put along story short, on saturday I had a full function Linux system. Monday I have a win 95 system. Ok, I have been trying to install FreeBSD. I finally got it to write to my drive and install /bin. But, the problem is when I boot I get a invalid format error? My drives are : on first controller disk 1 is a 1.2 GB DOS/Win 95 only. on first controller disk 2 is 6.0 GB parition FreeBSD 1GB Linux 2 GB Linux 2 GB FreeBSD 1.1GB At boot I have tried, 1:wd(1,a)kernel 1:wd(2,a)kernel and they give me the invalid format error. Now when I type 1:wd(2,b)kernel (which I believe is correct for my sytem) I see the hash (\) start to spin, then the system locks. Now, I did use the 2.2.8 boot floppy to install the 3.1 stable bin. I could not get the 3.1 kern and MFS floppies to write to the disk, the could not detect read my DOS part where I had /Freebsd/bin and /freebsd/compat22 Can someone help Rod... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message