From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 20 18:35:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.comstocksys.com (208.185.161.233.comstocksys.com [208.185.161.233]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E33FF37B417 for ; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 18:35:52 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail.comstocksys.com (Postfix, from userid 48) id C013D20801D; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 18:35:48 -0800 (PST) To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Floppy Boot installation problems: Plz help Message-ID: <1006310148.3bfb1304b6625@mail.comstocksys.com> Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 18:35:48 -0800 (PST) From: Ashwin Kotian MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: IMP/PHP IMAP webmail program 2.2.6 X-Originating-IP: 192.168.1.202 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I've been trying to install the current stable version of FreeBSD v.4.4 through the floppy boot installation method. I've used fresh new floppies & have formatted them under Linux (and also Windows NT ). I've copied the image files for kern.flp & mfsroot.flp onto 2 individual floppies. I've been able to boot from both floppies in succession till the phase where we resolve the conflicts during installation. However inspite of specifying the minimum hardware for the kernel to probe, once I quit & save the parameters, after probing for the common devices until it finishes probing the system console device, the machine stays hung up. I've tried with a no. of new floppies. Also the image files which I dowloaded were in binary mode. Still I'm unable to proceed with the installation of FreeBSD. This machine currently has FreeBSD v4.3 installed & running, however I've read that it is better to redo the entire installation from scratch rather than do the upgrade. Any help here will be greatly appreciated. Thanks a lot, Ashwin. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message