From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 6 14:38:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA04657 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 6 Mar 1998 14:38:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.printerworks.com (printerworks@printerworks.com [204.188.127.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA04628 for ; Fri, 6 Mar 1998 14:38:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chris@printerworks.com) Received: from magellan_nt4 (204.188.127.8) by mail.printerworks.com with SMTP (Apple Internet Mail Server 1.1.1); Fri, 6 Mar 1998 14:39:16 -0800 Message-ID: <35007C0B.6B64@printerworks.com> Date: Fri, 06 Mar 1998 14:43:23 -0800 From: chris Reply-To: chris@printerworks.com Organization: The Printer Works, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Installing on a new machine Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a new machine. It has no IDE drives and has a blank (unformatted) SCSI hard drive (ID5). >From an SCO UNIX machine, I downloaded the FreeBSD bin files and put them all on floppies (using tar) and created the boot.flp floppy (using "dd" per the readme). When I try to boot from the floppy, it goes through the initial stuff, gets the boot: prompt, then automatically starts booting from the floppy. It goes through a couple of lines like "text=0x000120 blocks=04 23 ff 37 ..." (this is not the actual wording, it just *looks* like this). Then the system reboots and starts the whole process over. It keeps going through the same series of steps (boot, restart, boot, restart, ...) until I turn the machine off. Where am I going wrong? What can I do? Thanks, Chris Monser To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message