From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 15 8:23:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web116.yahoomail.com (web116.yahoomail.com [205.180.60.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A33AE37BA0A for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 08:23:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from erricchaney@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 25352 invoked by uid 60001); 15 Mar 2000 16:23:27 -0000 Message-ID: <20000315162327.25351.qmail@web116.yahoomail.com> Received: from [166.102.173.4] by web116.yahoomail.com; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 08:23:27 PST Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 08:23:27 -0800 (PST) From: ERRIC CHANEY Subject: Re: installation problems To: "Ronald G. Arnold Jr." , freebsd MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ron, here is my methodology. 1.created a primary partion d:(fat 32) 2.formatted 2 1.44 3.5 fd 3.ran mkflp.bat to make kernel and mfsroot fd(complete) 4.booted the machine with kernel disk 5.got no keyboard message, suddenly i had no keyboard. My keyboard is USB(Should it matter) 6. rebooted hit enter used -Dh recognized the keyboard and started to install the kernel(completed). 7. asked for mfsroot disk, inserted disk and lost keyboard and the a: never would stop accessing. Questions 1. does freesbsd support fat32 2. looked for fdimage on cdrom-1 could not find it, is it the mkflpbat file? p.s. I am close to installing this thing, if anyone can see any error in my methodology of install, please feel free to elaborate. Also, I will definitely know how to install freebsd when this is over. Oh yeah, thanks for the help to all. Hope this time is the charm so I can start my unix journey. ===== SINCERELY, ERRIC G. CHANEY __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message