From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 2 14:12:56 2003 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 BB57037B401 for ; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 14:12:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from chen.org.nz (chen.org.nz [210.54.19.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D406943ED1 for ; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 14:12:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: from grimoire.chen.org.nz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chen.org.nz (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h02MChS9007181; Fri, 3 Jan 2003 11:12:43 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from jonc@grimoire.chen.org.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by grimoire.chen.org.nz (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h02MCgd9007180; Fri, 3 Jan 2003 11:12:42 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 11:12:42 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: Bruno Campanelli Cc: freeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems installing FreeBSD Message-ID: <20030102221242.GA6953@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <023201c2b287$1fcaaae0$6fd9b550@computer> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <023201c2b287$1fcaaae0$6fd9b550@computer> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 06:48:13PM +0100, Bruno Campanelli wrote: > > I've got the FreeBSD 2.1.5 CD-ROM from Walnut Creek, and I'm > having a lot of difficulty installing it. I have a 66 MHz 486 with 16 > MB of memory and an Adaptec 1540A SCSI board, a 1.2GB Quantum Fireball > disk and a Toshiba 3501XA CD-ROM drive. The installation works just > fine, but when I try to reboot the system, I get the message "Missing > Operating System". Version 2.1.5 is about 7 years out of date. You might want to retry this with a more recent release (we're up to 4.7-RELEASE). The ISO images are available from : ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/ -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Nyuck, nyuck, nyuck" - Curly To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message