From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 24 19:20:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA07874 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 19:20:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from quackerjack.cc.vt.edu (quackerjack.cc.vt.edu [198.82.160.250]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA07869 for ; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 19:20:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from yiyang@vt.edu) Received: from sable.cc.vt.edu (sable.cc.vt.edu [128.173.16.30]) by quackerjack.cc.vt.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA07446 for ; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 22:27:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from vt.edu (as5200-1.sl014.cns.vt.edu [128.173.34.92]) by sable.cc.vt.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA15746 for ; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 22:20:44 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <360AFD51.AD03F5D@vt.edu> Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 22:17:53 -0400 From: Yili Yang Reply-To: yiyang@vt.edu Organization: Virginia Tech X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: BSD installation trouble Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I am a new user of Free BSD, the only exp. I had was the > installation of Slackware Linux 20 or so times. I am having problems > installing Free BSD 2.2.7 > I can get Free BSD to install, but I am having two problems: > 1: After the installation of system I was prompted to run XF86Setup, I > assumed that this will be similar to the same command in Linux, and > others told me that it willswitch to graphic mode. But it didn't. The > program asked me to wait and I see on the screen " this will take a > while ", after a while, there was nothing, the program just stoped and > went straight to the next section, prasorted packages I did not have a > chance to spacify my vedio card or anything. And I did not see any user > interface. I am pretty sure that was not right. 2: > After finally geting everything to install, I quit the installation > program, and the program told me to remove floppy and it will reboot. > Then it reboots, the computer give me the boot manager choise to chose > between HD1 and HD2, I choose Free BSD, it started to load, but after it > detects my 2 HDs, it says Intel Pentium FOOF detected installing > workaround > changing root device to wd1s1a > panic cannot mount root > reboot > It happened everytime after I install the thing, and I did all the clean > installation too, I reformatted the HD and devoted the entire HD to BSD. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message