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Subject: Re: Installation Troubles
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In-Reply-To: <3238674A.1943@caravelle.com> from "Keith Ng" at Sep 12, 96 03:40:58 pm
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Keith Ng writes:
>
> I seem to have trouble installing FreeBSD.  I'm having trouble in trying
> to configure FreeBSD on the network.  FreeBSD is not detecting the
> NE2000 network card for some odd reason.  Is there anyway to get the OS
> working?

Well, it sounds like the OS is working :-)  How about telling how you
have set up the board?

> The other problem I am also having trouble is when I install FreeBSD bin
> distribution set through floppies is that I get a writing disk error -1
> at fd0.  The installation will skip the rest of the bin and install the
> rest of the distribution files.  Could this be a installation error or
> maybe an error in the partition?

Sounds like an error on the floppy, to judge from what you say.  Are
you having the error writing the floppy?  Do you really need to
install from floppy?

Greg