From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 8 15:05:29 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id PAA09165 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 8 Sep 1995 15:05:29 -0700 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA09158 for ; Fri, 8 Sep 1995 15:05:27 -0700 Received: (from julian@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id PAA01506; Fri, 8 Sep 1995 15:05:19 -0700 From: Julian Elischer Message-Id: <199509082205.PAA01506@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD setup problem To: rthomas@pamd.cig.mot.com (Robert Owen Thomas) Date: Fri, 8 Sep 1995 15:05:18 -0700 (PDT) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <9509081633.ZM4216@pamd.cig.mot.com> from "Robert Owen Thomas" at Sep 8, 95 04:33:30 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1789 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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.. > +----------------------------------+ ______ _ __ | __--_|\ Julian Elischer | \ U \/ / On assignment | / \ julian@ref.tfs.com +------>x USA \ in a very strange | ( OZ ) 300 lakeside Dr. oakland CA. \___ ___ | country ! +- X_.---._/ USA+(510) 645-3137(wk) \_/ \\ v