From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 11 4:52:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9026714D8B for ; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 04:52:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id FAA06333; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 05:12:18 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 05:12:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Jarl McConnel Cc: FreeBSD Support Subject: Re: Installation In-Reply-To: <000901bf13dc$7bbed4e0$0200a8c0@callum> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, Jarl McConnel wrote: > Hello. > I was trying to install FreeBSD on my computer. It is to be > installed on a 4.3gb Quantum hdd, celeron 400, 64mb PC100 sdram, > Gigabyte GA-660 TNT2, Soundblaster 16, Realtek Ethernet Controller, > Rockwell Modem Chip(don;t know exactly which one). > > I create the boot floppies with fdimage.exe like said, boot off > the kern.flp boot disk, insert the mfsroot.flp and it displays a > messege which reads somethinng like: > > cannot load /mfsroot input/output error > > then goes on to load the kernel, but I cannot install (or am doing > something wrong) > > I have almost no experience with Unix before, and so I dont know > if it is me or something else. It seems that your floppy may have bad sectors, have you tried formatting it in MS-DOS and making sure that it has no bad sectors? > Sorry if this is the wrong email address to mail tech support > questions to, but on the contacting page, it said for questions > about FreeBSD email this address. You got the right place. :) In the future though, please make your email program wrap lines at 70 characters. thanks, -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message