Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 09:39:12 +0000 From: Bryan Maynard <bryan.maynard@reallm.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.4-release install problem Message-ID: <200508040939.13252.bryan.maynard@reallm.com> In-Reply-To: <002701c59901$6e90af40$0701a8c0@darryl> References: <002701c59901$6e90af40$0701a8c0@darryl>
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On Thursday 04 August 2005 02:33 pm, Darryl Hoar wrote: >Greetings, >I downloaded the 5.4-release iso images from the freebsd website. >I used my windows machine and Nero to burn the iso images to >cd's. > >I have an old machine that I am trying to install 5.4-release on. >It is a PII 333, SCSI with 30GB scsi hard drive. > >I place cd 1 in the drive (disk 1 iso) and reboot the machine. >When it boots, it looks to the cdrom drive as the first boot device. >When it does, my screen is full of scrolling text which looks like >dump info. It scrolls on and on. If the text starts grey, then switches to white, then turns grey again that's FreeBSD booting. After a little bit sysinstall should load. sysinstall is the utility used to install FreeBSD. >Any ideas on the problem ? So far it doesn't sound like anything is wrong. Have you read the handbook at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html ? >thanks, >Darryl Bryan -- Open Source: by the people, for the people.
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