Date: Sat, 09 Mar 1996 15:54:44 +0000 From: Carey Nairn <Carey.Nairn@its.utas.edu.au> To: Carey Nairn <cp_nairn@cc.utas.edu.au> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: problem installing 2.1R on Acer Pentium 75 Message-ID: <3141A9C4.41C67EA6@its.utas.edu.au> References: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960308220311.16335A-100000@wedge.its.utas.edu.au>
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Carey Nairn wrote: > > Hi all, > > I guess it had to happen some time. After *many* trouble-free > installations in the past I am now having trouble installing 2.1R on a > pentium 75 Acer machine. The system boots with the boot.flp and goes > through the normal messages until it has displayed the device probe > messages for PCI bus devices and then just hangs. I have tried both > atapi.flp and boot.flp with the same results. > > The machine configuration is as follows: > > Pentium 75 cpu > 16 MB RAM > ne2000 ethernet card (detected OK) > sony ATAPI CDROM (detected OK with atapi.flp) > quantum fireball 1222 MB IDE HDD > > any help is appreciated > > thanks > Carey > > ========================================================================= > Carey Nairn ! email : Carey.Nairn@its.utas.edu.au > Networks and Communications ! phone : (002) 20 7419 > Information Technology Services ! fax : (002) 20 7898 > University of Tasmania. ! > ========================================================================= A small addition to this posting.... I pulled the NE2000 card out and rebooted and the install menu came up fine. I put a different NE2000 card (which I had lying around) in and things stopped working again. I guess my question now is if I put in a different (non-NE2000) ethernet card in will my problems go away? thanks again Carey
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