From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 29 19:29:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA03607 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 19:29:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from laker.net (jet.laker.net [205.245.74.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA03599 for ; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 19:29:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sfriedri@laker.net) Received: from nt (digital-pbi-140.laker.net [208.0.233.40]) by laker.net (8.9.0/8.9.LAKERNET.NO-SPAM.SPAMMERS.AND.RELAYS.WILL.BE.TRACKED.AND.PROSECUTED.) with SMTP id WAA16258; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 22:29:38 -0400 Message-Id: <199809300229.WAA16258@laker.net> From: "Steve Friedrich" To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" , "Jonathon Orbeton" Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 22:29:12 -0400 Reply-To: "Steve Friedrich" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows NT (4.0.1381;3) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Install via FTP Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 29 Sep 1998 17:03:40 -0700, Jonathon Orbeton wrote: >I made the boot flop and it attempts to load the kernel, however, after >the inital boot screen it dies and the machine reboots... Any ideas? Just as a sanity check, make the floppy again, using a different floppy. The floppy MUST be totally error free. Do not use any floppies that AOL, CompuServe, etc sent to you (these floppies are usually rejects) >I would like to install it via FTP and the hard drive has a bunk copy of >NT on it...Should I format the hard drive first?? I would, just to take it out of the equation... Unix systems measure "uptime" in years, Winblows measures it in minutes. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message