From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 27 17:10:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA00152 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 17:10:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from word.smith.net.au (vh1.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA29896 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 17:09:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Received: from word (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA00410; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 11:32:02 +1030 (CST) Message-Id: <199801280102.LAA00410@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: "Pablo Quintana" cc: "Questions" Subject: Re: Booting after installation problems In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 27 Jan 1998 18:50:59 MDT." <199801271851.SAA26380@miraf-server2.hondutel.hn> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 11:32:01 +1030 From: Mike Smith Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id RAA29909 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Please don't send questions to the -install list. > Hi, Iīve finally downloaded the complete binaries from an FTP site. Which binaries, for what? (I am guessing FreeBSD, but which version?) > Followed the simple instructions after the download and then it returns me > to the main menu screen of the install program. I didnīt know what to do so > I pressed Exit Install and told to take out any floppy and reboot. Sounds reasonable. Did you read the instructions? > When it > reboots it doesnīt happen anything. Just a underscore line blinking on the > screen. Well with my poor expirience (and before trying to download again) > I boot the PC with the installation floppy inside and typed It sounds like your BIOS disk setup may be wrong. Can you install DOS on this system? > 0:wd(0,C)kernel > > After that the booting started and test the hardware (everything fine) and > said this Ok, so prettymuch everything else works OK. You can salvage this prettymuch without having to download. The command above is wrong though, that should be 0:wd(0,a)kernel (Why did you select 'C'?) -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\