Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 12:47:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: JAMIE <Giltner@cris.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: help on installation Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960621124614.242J-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.93.960617235806.5847A-100000@voyager.cris.com>
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On Tue, 18 Jun 1996, JAMIE wrote: > Sorry to bother you, but I keep getting stuck at the same spot on the > installation. I've tried dozens of times over the past week with several > boot and root disks trying to do a floppy install and I keep getting hung > when I try to load the root floppy. Also, though I'm not sure if it is > supposed to boot without the root floppy installed, but if I try to boot > straight from my hard drive instead of using the boot floppy I get the > same prompt as with the boot floppy but instead of going to the install > menu the opening message and prompt just keep repeating. Are you using known error-free floppies? Are you ftping with BINARY? Are you writing the floppy images under MS-DOS mode of Windows 95? What version of FreeBSD are you installing? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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