From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 13 18:10:39 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA00309 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 18:10:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from marlin.gulf.net (doc@marlin.gulf.net [198.69.72.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA00298 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 18:10:26 -0800 (PST) Received: (from doc@localhost) by marlin.gulf.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) id UAA02193; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 20:10:19 -0600 Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 20:10:19 -0600 (CST) From: Brian Watson To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: install problems Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk hello, i'm having trouble installing freebsd 2.1 off of walnut creek's cdrom. i'm trying to use an atapi ide cdrom. i'm trying to install it to my 3rd ide harddrive. i ran the inst_ide.bat, booted it, and the install seem to go fine. after it asks if im sure about everything, (using novice) it goes through a few things and freezes on "Loading root image". i figured my cdrom was the problem so i booted dos and setup for a dos install. went through the install again after doing a new boot disk with install.bat. it froze at the same place. i pretty much used the defaults through the whole install. let it setup my disk etc. i ran ''pfdisk'' before hand and the geometry matched. im not sure what other info would be helpful. i have a p90, w/16mb ram, 3 ide hd's. thx for any help in advance. brian watson doc@gulf.net