Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 14:02:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Andrew Shugg <andrew@guinness.it.net.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD on an AMD 386 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9810061402080.19930-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <19981005012243.U15425@guinness.it.net.au>
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On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Andrew Shugg wrote: > Hello, > > As per the directions on the FreeBSD website, I am sending a message to a > mailing list which I'm not on, and I have no idea what goes on here ... :) > > I have been trying hard to install FreeBSD on a machine I picked up a few > days ago. Until now I have only been running Linux as my 'alternative' > operating system at home and am really keen to run FreeBSD on this 'new' > machine. > > I have tried both the 2.2.7 and the 3.0-19980804-SNAP install disks > (boot.flp, written to clean error-free floppies with dd in linux). On this > new system, which is an AMD 386DX clone, both disks will boot, and come to > the kernel config screen. I remove nearly all the devices from the list > (this is a very minimal system) and then proceed. The system continues, > correctly finding the ethernet card, the serial and parallel ports, and the > hard disk. The blue screen then comes up with "Probing for devices" and > then it just sits there. I found that alt-F2 shows the debug screen, which > showed that the aforementioned devices were found. Going back to alt-F1, > the blue screen is still just sitting there - the longest I've left it is > fifty minutes, with no progress. I know the machine hasn't actually > crashed, because I can still press ^C and abort. What devices do you have in said box? Internal ZIP drives are known to cause this behavior... Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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