From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 28 18:11:45 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id SAA29121 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 28 Feb 1995 18:11:45 -0800 Received: from mail04.mail.aol.com (mail04.mail.aol.com [152.163.172.53]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA29115 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 1995 18:11:43 -0800 From: Psycho3439@aol.com Received: by mail04.mail.aol.com (1.37.109.11/16.2) id AA111723870; Tue, 28 Feb 1995 21:11:10 -0500 Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1995 21:11:10 -0500 Message-Id: <950228211101_35407939@aol.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: problems Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk i am trying to install freebsd 2.0 onto my computer. i downloaded all binaries and the 2 boot diskette images. when i try to boot with the boot_144.flp floppy in my a drive it comes to the boot prompt. if i select default or /kernel -c it will start the bootup but never gets to the line "checking memory (8meg)". i either get a repeating error message or my system hangs my system: 486SLC33 w/ math coprocessor 8 meg ram 70ns conner 420 IDE hard drive generic IDE/FD i/o card paradise vga plus card sound blaster (8 bit) boca research 14.4 modem i have tryed my boot diskette in a ibm ps1 consultant (386sx25 6meg) and a ibm ps1 486sx25 8meg. on both machines the system booted up until i got to the installation screen. please e-mail me at psycho3439@aol.com as i would like to install freebsd 2.0 on my machine. Al Sites