From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 31 19:39:22 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id TAA10573 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 31 Dec 1996 19:39:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts12-line7.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.139]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id TAA10568 for ; Tue, 31 Dec 1996 19:39:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.2/8.6.12) with SMTP id TAA00244; Tue, 31 Dec 1996 19:39:02 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 19:39:01 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: twells@popmail.ucsd.edu cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <9612302136.AA0017@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 30 Dec 1996 twells@popmail.ucsd.edu wrote: > i recently purchased the FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE from Walnut Creek. i have been > unable to install FreeBSD due to the fact that both the install from DOS > partition and install from floppy options do not seem to work. The problem is > that when installing the devices from boot, the system stops right after > installing the npx0 driver. it confirms the "npx0: INT 16" message, but > completely stops after that. i have tried using the custom configuration at > boot to disable hardware not in use by my machine, but that did not help. i > would appreciate some insight on the nature of this problem as i am anxious to > install FreeBSD on my machine. Thank you for your time and consideration. We need some machine details: cpu, video card, memory, disks, etc... Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major