From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 29 17:24:11 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B07A16A4CE for ; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 17:24:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mxoutdr1.us.army.mil (mxoutdr1.us.army.mil [143.69.242.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9226B43D41 for ; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 17:24:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from yitzchak.lander@us.army.mil) Received: from mailstore03.int.dr1.us.army.mil (HELO us.army.mil) (10.240.36.29) by mxoutdr1.us.army.mil with ESMTP; 29 Dec 2004 17:24:09 +0000 X-SBRS: None X-BrightmailFiltered: true X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== X-IronPort-AV: i="3.88,90,1102291200"; d="scan'208,217"; a="141986666:sNHT38943344" Received: from [10.240.32.46] (Forwarded-For: [158.4.184.167]) by akomail3.3d.us.army.mil (mshttpd); Wed, 29 Dec 2004 10:24:08 -0700 From: To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <5e8ebdd5e88354.5e883545e8ebdd@us.army.mil> Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 10:24:08 -0700 X-Mailer: iPlanet Messenger Express 5.2 HotFix 1.21 (built Sep 8 2003) Content-Language: en X-Accept-Language: en Priority: normal Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: i386 iso images for 5.3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 17:24:11 -0000 hello, i am having problems installing 5.3 on my laptop. it is an hp pavillion ze5700. i am currently using windows xp home, and have downloaded the 5.3 release disk1 iso image to my hard drive. i have tried putting it on several cd's to boot from and have successfully made all of them (to the best of my knowlege). when i boot up though i get nothing but a blinking cursor . although on the disk that i made as a hardrive emulation i get a message that says "no operating system installed". as a note, i have a comercial disk that has 5.0 on it and it boots, but dosnt make it to the sysinstall menu. if you want more info on the 5.0 boot messages i will try to get them for you. i heard a rumor that you are located in bolder colorado and since i am in colorado springs i can drive up if nessasary to get my macine running. it is my intrest to learn freebsd well enugh to start contributing in anyway i can. thanks for your time, issac lander