From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 28 8:48:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from petent.ocsny.com (petent.ocsny.com [204.107.76.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D045A15156 for ; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 08:48:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pcollins@ocsny.com) Received: from ocsny.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by petent.ocsny.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id LAA60406; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 11:47:22 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from pcollins@ocsny.com) Message-ID: <37272D8A.7138BA9D@ocsny.com> Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 11:47:22 -0400 From: pete collins Organization: Optimized Computer Solutions X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fabrizio Invernizzi Cc: FreeBSD QUESTIONS , Guardini Ivano Subject: Re: Problems installing FreeBSD-3.1 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hey are you sure you used the floppies in the right order? kern.flp first then mfsroot.flp next i'm sure you did buy hey you never know pete Fabrizio Invernizzi wrote: > Hi, > > As I told in my previus mail , I can' t install FreeBSD 3.1 on my PC. > > This is exactly what I did: > > 1- I downloaded via FTP (not using NETSCAPE and in BINARY MODE) kern.flp > and > mfsroot.flp. > 2- I formatted 2 (new) floppies with : fdformat /dev/rfd0 (I tried > with different floppies) > 3- I copied the two files on the floppies with : dd if=___.flp > of=/dev/rfd0 > 4- I boot the PC with the kern floppy into the drive > 5- When the bootstrap loader asks me for the MFS root floppy I inserted it > and press enter, but the result was: > > int=0000000e err=00000004 elf=00030246 eip=00002147 > eax=00002001 ebx=00000000 ecx=0000df07 edx=000003f5 > esi=0000a9a3 edi=0000a9a3 epb=000003e8 esp=000003de > cs=ebce ds=0040 es=f000 fs=0000 gs=0000 ss=9db7 > cs:eip=8a 64 0a 8a c4 d0 e4 c0-e8 02 02 e0 b0 ff 2a c4 > ss:esp=00 f0 6a 21 37 29 9e 25-a3 a9 00 00 fe 9d a3 a9 > System halted > > I tried the same floppies on two other PCs: they works only on one of > them (the one they didn' t work onto gave the same problem). > > I tried also with the boot.flp of the 2.2.8-RELEASE and this works fine. > > Can anyone help me? > > Fabrizio Invernizzi > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message