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Date:      Mon, 15 Dec 1997 11:01:03 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Steven Harris <steve@playgal.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD installation problem - init not found
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971215110026.292P-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199712111540440941.0F04831E@192.168.60.1>

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On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Steven Harris wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am attempting to install FreeBSD 2.2.5 on a machine using the standard
> boot disk.  It detects the SCSI hard drives correctly but then comes up
> with "cant find init" message.  What has gone wrong here?  Should i be
> commenting out all un-necessary hardware first?

No, if you're getting that then the installation must have failed before
it installed any files.

Try reinstalling from scratch, blowing away the slice before running the
installer.

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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