From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 7 11:25:10 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA21562 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 7 Aug 1997 11:25:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts16-line10.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA21554 for ; Thu, 7 Aug 1997 11:25:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA00341; Thu, 7 Aug 1997 11:24:53 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 11:24:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Les Smith cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Failed Novice Install In-Reply-To: <199708060020.TAA03526@indy4.indy.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 5 Aug 1997, Les Smith wrote: > I've tried 4 times and it just wont take, where did I mess up? I don't know, you didn't tell me what errors you're seeing. > I booted with a floppy. Got 23 conflicts. Standard default. Disable what you don't have. > I have a 486 sx25 with 20mb of > RAM, an Adaptec SCSI card, a 700mb scsi hd, a ne2000 compatible network > card. The SCSI card is set @ IRQ 11, 340h. > The computer has a localbus mouse set at irq 5. OK. What model of Adaptec? > I resolve all of the conflicts, follow the on screen instructions for a > BSD only install in novice mode. The install looks like it is installing > okay. The system reboots and can't find a kernel. You don't get any error messages _at all_? You might try typing this at the Boot: prompt: sd(0,a)/kernel Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo