From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 7 11:37:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA22500 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 7 Aug 1997 11:37:08 -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 LAA22493 for ; Thu, 7 Aug 1997 11:37:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA00382; Thu, 7 Aug 1997 11:36:48 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 11:36:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: KDAberSr@aol.com cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installing freebsd In-Reply-To: <970806164709_-153789665@emout03.mail.aol.com> 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 Wed, 6 Aug 1997 KDAberSr@aol.com wrote: > When trying to boot after installing freebsd, I get the message "can't find > kernel".I have done a ftp download to my "c" drive,to a directory called > freebsd. I downloaded > the bin files from /.25/FreeBSD/3.0-970618-SN including > bin.inf,bim.mtree,checksum.mds and install.sh. Quite naturally I have also > downloaded the installboot floppy.I also tried using the bins from 2.2.2 > release,with the same results.I have a 2.4gig drive with 388m partitioned as > sd0s1 for use with FreeBSD.Could you please help me? I have tried to provide > you with as much info that I could, so that you would have a clear picture of > what is going on.If you need any more info, I will respond promptly. 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