Date: Fri, 8 Sep 1995 15:05:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com> To: rthomas@pamd.cig.mot.com (Robert Owen Thomas) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD setup problem Message-ID: <199509082205.PAA01506@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <9509081633.ZM4216@pamd.cig.mot.com> from "Robert Owen Thomas" at Sep 8, 95 04:33:30 pm
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ok, well, for a start you should look at getting a newer freebsd release.
2.0 is now 9 months old
if we can build a baby in that time imagine how much
it's been changed! :)
2.0.5 is available for ftp.
the boot disk is a single disk. You shoud be able to ftp that
from ftp.freebsd.org
>
> hello, all--
>
> well, since i have heard FreeBSD's support is second to none...8-)
well we try..
>
> i am attempting to load FreeBSD on a Zeos tower. the configuration is:
> 1) 486 DX2 66mhz
ok
> 2) 8 MB RAM
ok
> 3) 340 MB IDE Hard drive (all dos FAT-16)
ok
> 4) 573 MB CDC SCSI-1 hard drive on an Adaptec 1522 controller
1522 is SLOW.. don't expect performance here..
> 5) Mitsumi IDE CD-Rom drive attached to the Mitsumi controller
IDE cdrom support starts in -current, it came in too late for 2.0.5
unfortunatly
> 6) 3-1/2" Floppy drive ("a:")
ok
> 7) Sound Blaster Pro sound card
no idea.. I don't do sound :)
>
> the problem is this: when i insert the FreeBSD 2.0 boot floppy, everything
> goes according to plan until it attempts to mount the floppy device as the
> root filesystem. it then panics and reboots. after the reboot, my bios
> tells me that the floppy drive is not correct. i then enter my CMOS setup,
> and save & exit (my floppy is, indeed, still correct in the setup). hmmm...
> both MS-DOS and Linux (ugh, which is worse?) load and operate without error.
do try a newer disk..
>
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