From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 28 8:52:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from POSTAL.CSELT.STET.IT (postal.cselt.it [163.162.4.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C9CE15720 for ; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 08:52:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Fabrizio.Invernizzi@CSELT.IT) Received: from satchmo (satchmo.cselt.stet.it) by POSTAL.CSELT.STET.IT (PMDF V4.2-15 #4385) id <01JAKQ24XP8G003DK7@POSTAL.CSELT.STET.IT>; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 17:51:43 MET Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 17:51:47 +0200 (MET DST) From: Fabrizio Invernizzi Subject: Re: Problems installing FreeBSD-3.1 In-reply-to: <37272D8A.7138BA9D@ocsny.com> To: pete collins Cc: FreeBSD QUESTIONS , Guardini Ivano Message-id: X-Envelope-to: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Absolutely yes ! On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, pete collins wrote: > 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