From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 14 22:09:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA17743 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 22:09:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA17737 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 22:09:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA28414; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 22:09:39 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 22:09:39 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Greg Rapp cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: trouble installing In-Reply-To: <19961114210108.AAA14962@gregrapp> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 14 Nov 1996, Greg Rapp wrote: > Hi! I am trying to install FreeBSD v2.1 from one of those Walnut Creek > cdroms. Wait a month or so until 2.1.6 comes out, then buy that. > Well, I do a clean bootup (only loading my cdrom driver) and run > the inst_ide.bat and it does some stuff for about 5 secs, then a bunch of > text scrolls across the screen too fast for me to read, then the screen > goes blank, almost like it tried to reboot, but didn't make it. I also > tried a boot disk, but I got the same result. I would be eternally greatful > if you could help. Thanks!!! copy floppies/boot.flp and tools/rawrite.exe to the same place and run rawrite. make sure you have a formatted floppy before you start. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major