Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 16:29:04 -0400 From: Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com> To: Langa Kentane <evablunted@earthling.net> Cc: FreeBSD <Freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "'Arthur H. Johnson II'" <arthur@tucows.com> Subject: RE: Installation woes... about to get fired for incompetence! Message-ID: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105BB5@site2s1>
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Arthur, No! On 2.2.8 it is bool.flp. On 3.x it is kernel.flp and mfsroot.flp. Langa, Where are you obtaining the floppies? How are you creating them? Have you tried re-downloading the floppy images? -Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: Arthur H. Johnson II [SMTP:arthur@tucows.com] > Sent: Thursday, August 19, 1999 3:58 PM > To: Langa Kentane > Cc: FreeBSD > Subject: Re: Installation woes... about to get fired for > incompetence! > > The boot floppies are kernel.flp and mfsroot.flp. boot.flp is a rescue > disk executed after booting into the kernel and mfs. > > Arthur H. Johnson II > http://www.linuxberg.com > Linuxberg Manager > arthur@tucows.com > > On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Langa Kentane wrote: > > > I have been trying to install FreeBSD 2.2.8 for the past 5 days and > > everytime I get stuck trying to boot from the FreeBSD boot disk. > > > > I made the boot image from boot.flp and tried to boot the machine. What > I > > got was error: D:0x0 C:43 H:0 S:3. > > > > I have since replaced every bit of hardware on the system and even tried > a > > new machine with no change. I tried to use different floppies but still > I > > get the same message while trying to boot. The machine I am using is a > > P200MMX with 128 meg ram and 2 hard drives (1 two gig drive and one 650 > meg > > drive). > > > > I have installed FreeBSD on the same machine before with no problems. > Please > > help me before my boss fires me for incompetence. > > > > Thanks in advace > > > > Langa Kentane > > System Administrator > > Sunshine Networks cc > > Tel +27 82 928 1952 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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