From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 4 23:00:59 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 032D416A4CE for ; Tue, 4 Jan 2005 23:00:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: from a34-mta01.direcway.com (a34-mta01.direcpc.com [66.82.4.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A060C43D46 for ; Tue, 4 Jan 2005 23:00:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gasloan@direcway.com) Received: from [192.168.0.3] (dpc6714230182.direcpc.com [67.142.30.182]) by a34-mta01.direcway.com (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.25 (built Mar 3 2004)) with ESMTP id <0I9T00L6DELBN8@a34-mta01.direcway.com> for freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org; Tue, 04 Jan 2005 18:00:58 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 18:00:44 -0500 From: Jerry Sloan In-reply-to: <20050104175408.GB15819@odin.ac.hmc.edu> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Message-id: <41DB201C.2090704@direcway.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041206) References: <41DABB14.4010700@direcway.com> <20050104175408.GB15819@odin.ac.hmc.edu> Subject: Re: Problems installing on Sager Laptop X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 23:00:59 -0000 Brooks Davis wrote: >On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 10:49:40AM -0500, Jerry Sloan wrote: > > >>Hello List, >> >>I am attempting to do an ftp install of FreeBSD release on an older >>Sager laptop. Pentium MMX. I go through the floppy part and when I am >>able to setup partitions it says No Disk found. The boot floppy finds >>the disk as disk1. Any and all help will be appreciated. >> >> > >You're going to have to provide a lot more information for use to do >anything for you. > >Which version of FreeBSD are you using? What do you mean by "The boot >floppy finds the disk as disk1"? Can you see anything that looks like a >disk drive or controler in the dmesg? > >-- Brooks > > > Brooks, Sorry for not being more specific. I am trying to install 5.3 Release over the net. When I boot from the boot floppy to do the setup one of the first things I see on the screen BIOS drive c: =disk1. I'm not sure if a controller or hard drive is showing in dmesg since it moves by so fast, and it isn't being created anywhere. Jerry