From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 29 23:08:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA24878 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 29 Jan 1997 23:08:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from atlantis.nconnect.net (root@atlantis.nconnect.net [206.54.227.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA24852 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 1997 23:07:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from arabian.astrolab.org (dial199.nconnect.net [206.54.227.199]) by atlantis.nconnect.net (8.8.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA18099; Thu, 30 Jan 1997 01:01:10 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <32F04875.2781E494@nconnect.net> Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 01:06:29 -0600 From: Randy DuCharme Organization: Computer Specialists X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-SMP i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: nferris@spider.innercite.com CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: not working References: <32F03A90.364D@spider.innercite.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Nathan Ferris wrote: > > Hello, > I'm trying to install FreeBSD onto a 486/DX2 - 66. I have two hard > drives (both IDE): C: = 400 Megs, D: = 1.6GB. I downloaded all of the > bin files from the 2.1.6 release plus all of the manpages files. I also > got fips, rawrite, restorrb, bootinst, and boot.flp. I used rawrite to > copy the boot.flp image to a 3.5 1.44 MB floppy. Then I tried to boot > off the floppy. Didn't work. SO then I used Fips to partition my D: > (1.6GB) hard drive. Didn't work. Used Bootinst. DIdn't work. DId the > same thing to the C: drive. Didn't work. I have downloaded the boot > image twice and rawritten it twice, but it still doesn't work. Can > anyone help me? Thanks > > Nathan Ferris > nferris@spider.innercite.com What do you mean 'didn't work'?? Did it try to boot? What messages did you get? HOW did you partition your drive(s) (ie: first partition = 20M for DOS, 2nd partition = 100M for Windows95 etc etc). Try to be specific about the details -- Randall D. DuCharme email: randyd@nconnect.net