From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 28 06:54:30 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21A2916A4CE for ; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 06:54:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: from jericho.eigg.org.uk (jericho.eigg.org.uk [81.2.109.215]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D4E043D46 for ; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 06:54:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nick@wilson.org.uk) Received: from [IPv6:2001:8b0:73:1:2c63:219a:9f20:b24a] ([IPv6:2001:8b0:73:1:2c63:219a:9f20:b24a]) by jericho.eigg.org.uk (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j2S6r13V088883 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-DSS-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 07:53:02 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nick@wilson.org.uk) Message-ID: <4247AA1E.3090504@wilson.org.uk> Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 07:54:22 +0100 From: Nick Wilson User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Installation from Floppies X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 06:54:30 -0000 Hi I am trying to install 5.3 from floppies/network and I boot from the the three discs (boot, kern1 and kern2). At the end of this I get the FreeBSD 5 boot screen (about 8 options and the character drawing of a daemon). Taking the default option 1 just starts the boot from floppies process again - how do I get past this screen to start the network setup and install? Many thanks, Nick