Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 09:36:11 +0000 From: Carey Nairn <Carey.Nairn@its.utas.edu.au> To: Carey Nairn <Carey.Nairn@its.utas.edu.au> Cc: Carey Nairn <cp_nairn@cc.utas.edu.au>, FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: problem installing 2.1R on Acer Pentium 75 Message-ID: <3142A28B.2781E494@its.utas.edu.au> References: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960308220311.16335A-100000@wedge.its.utas.edu.au> <3141A9C4.41C67EA6@its.utas.edu.au>
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Carey Nairn wrote: > > Carey Nairn wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > I guess it had to happen some time. After *many* trouble-free > > installations in the past I am now having trouble installing 2.1R on a > > pentium 75 Acer machine. The system boots with the boot.flp and goes > > through the normal messages until it has displayed the device probe > > messages for PCI bus devices and then just hangs. I have tried both > > atapi.flp and boot.flp with the same results. > > > > The machine configuration is as follows: > > > > Pentium 75 cpu > > 16 MB RAM > > ne2000 ethernet card (detected OK) > > sony ATAPI CDROM (detected OK with atapi.flp) > > quantum fireball 1222 MB IDE HDD > > > > any help is appreciated > > > > thanks > > Carey > > > > ========================================================================= > > Carey Nairn ! email : Carey.Nairn@its.utas.edu.au > > Networks and Communications ! phone : (002) 20 7419 > > Information Technology Services ! fax : (002) 20 7898 > > University of Tasmania. ! > > ========================================================================= > A small addition to this posting.... > > I pulled the NE2000 card out and rebooted and the install menu came up > fine. I put a different NE2000 card (which I had lying around) in and > things stopped working again. I guess my question now is if I put in a > different (non-NE2000) ethernet card in will my problems go away? > > thanks again > Carey Here I go responding to my own posting again... drove to work and got an old 8-bit SMC card and plugged it in. Everything is now OK. cheers, Carey
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