From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 21 08:36:28 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA17053 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 21 Dec 1995 08:36:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA17046 for ; Thu, 21 Dec 1995 08:36:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id DAA16019; Fri, 22 Dec 1995 03:09:27 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199512211639.DAA16019@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: freebsd 2.1 To: wasserma@crayola.cse.psu.edu (Brian S Wasserman) Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1995 03:09:26 +1030 (CST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <95Dec21.100549est.14352-2@smith.crayola.cse.psu.edu> from "Brian S Wasserman" at Dec 21, 95 10:05:57 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Brian S Wasserman stands accused of saying: > > I downloaded the boot disk from your web page and followed the install > instructions. I formatted the disk in DOS mode (of W95) and used rawrite. > When I boot it looks at the C drive for 30 secs after the A drive was used > for a few moments, and then just sits there. A cursor is all I get. Sounds like the write didn't take properly; check that your BIOS doesn't have an 'anti-virus' option enabled. You could also try rawriting a copy on another machine. > not be able to even try installing FBSD until May. I am an experienced > Unix user who wants to have the power of Unix on my PC. Unfortunately, you may be in for more grief; your EIDE card probably has a BIOS on it that will beed to be talked to before you can use that disk, but one thing at a time 8) > Brian -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 041-122-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[