From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Apr 29 12:24:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA08700 for freebsd-doc-outgoing; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 12:24:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (root@andrsn.Stanford.EDU [36.33.0.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA08692 for ; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 12:24:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.8.8/8.6.12) with SMTP id MAA07130; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 12:23:23 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 12:23:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson To: "William J. Manning" cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD, I really want to run this OS, Help! In-Reply-To: <000001bd732d$8dca2640$30321ed1@wmanning> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id MAA08693 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Usually freebsd-questions is a better place to get an answer to this kind of question. However..... On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, William J. Manning wrote: > Hi, > I am trying to install FreeBSD v2.2.5 using a boot floppy I created using > Walnut Creek’s CDROM distribution. My system boots up successfully from the > floppy and I am presented with three options: > > 1. Skip kernel configuration and continue with the installation > 2. Start kernel configuration in full screen visual mode > 3. Start kernel configuration in CLI mode > > I select the second option and configure the kernel: > > Floppy at IRQ6 (default - not edited) > IDE hard drives at IRQ 14 and 15 (default - not edited) > Sony CDROM at IRQ 5 address 0x340 (I do edit the default settings to these > values) Why did you do this? Does it really have a different address or use a different IRQ? If so, I would edit this ONLY and then let it continue. If this creates problems, I'd skip the kernel config altogether; the problem with that is the CDROM might not be recognized at all. > PS/2 Port mouse IRQ 12 > I remove all the network devices, no network card on my system > I keep all the COM and LPT ports, except LPT2. The IRQs > COM1 - IRQ 4 > COM2 - IRQ 3 > LPT1 - IRQ7 > I keep all the PCI devices because it won’t let me delete them. > > I then select "Q" to save and quit. The system spins the floppy for a > second and then hangs! It shouldn't hang; it should continue. Did you give it enough time? Annelise So I don’t know if the new kernel has been written > to the disk (I doubt it). When I reset/reboot the system, it boots from the > floppy and searches for and tries to load drivers for devices I remove > previously. When I select option 2 again, I see the original kernel > choices. This leads me to believe their is a problem? (Nope, my mom didn’t > raise no fool!) > > My system is a P-133 from Gateway with 32MB of RAM and the hardware > described earlier (obviously). I know you have just released FreeBSD > v2.2.6 but this version should work also. What should I do? Should I just > select option 1 and just follow the Novice installation and hope for the > best? Any help would be greatly appreciated. (The small booklet that came > with the CDROM is not much help. It assumes that everything is going to > work… > > Thanks, > William > wmanning@flash.net > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message