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Date:      Wed, 19 Jan 2000 21:02:36 -0600
From:      "Billy E. Henley" <billyehenley@email.msn.com>
To:        <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   freebsd installation
Message-ID:  <011701bf62f7$0d3e63e0$0200a8c0@billy>

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Help!
I have tried for several hours now to load freebsd on a computer attached to
my network.  This computer does not have a cdrom.  The installation cdrom
was received with a book named "UNIX System Administrator's Bible" from IDG
Books.  All files in the bin directory on the installation disk have been
copied across the network to the target hard drive under a directory named
freebsd.  A boot disk has been made per installation instructions.  When the
target machine boots, it comes up with an option for the configuration
utility.  After all conflicts have been resolved/deleted, <Q> is pressed,
then <Y> is pressed.  I then get the following:

panic: bounce memory out of range
reboot in 15 seconds

If I let it reboot, it gives me a page fault error.  Then boots again back
to the configuration choice screen.

The target machine is a unisys running a 100 mhz pentium with 64k of memory.
It has a fd controller and 2 IDE hd controllers built in on the motherboard.
It has a 3com 3c503 NIC in an ISA slot.  The mouse and keyboard are both PS2
styled.  The floppy is standard 3.5.  The hard disk is a 2.5 gig with
nothing on it except the aforementioned copied files and Windows for
Workgroups.  If a floppy is not installed, the machine will boot into WWG
and access the network.

I know absolutely nothing about UNIX.  What am I doing wrong?

Thanks for the help.
billyehenley@email.msn.com






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