From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 2 14:15: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E26A237C196 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 14:11:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jive.SoftHome.net (jive.SoftHome.net [66.54.152.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3CA4444826 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 11:59:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jicit@softhome.net) Received: (qmail 7504 invoked by uid 417); 2 Jul 2002 18:59:20 -0000 Received: from shunt-smtp-out-0 (HELO softhome.net) (172.16.3.12) by shunt-smtp-out-0 with SMTP; 2 Jul 2002 18:59:20 -0000 Received: from aurvandil.softhome.net ([66.114.152.144]) (AUTH: LOGIN jicit@softhome.net) by softhome.net with esmtp; Tue, 02 Jul 2002 12:59:19 -0600 Message-Id: <5.1.1.6.0.20020702115740.00b1f5f8@mail.infinitebubble.com> X-Sender: jicit@mail.softhome.net (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1.1 Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2002 11:59:29 -0700 To: "Daniel Blankensteiner" , Freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Jason Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.6 Release installation In-Reply-To: <004701c221d5$e2147f60$8400a8c0@rafter> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-637E2417; boundary="=_jive-7467-1025636360-0001-2" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a MIME-formatted message. If you see this text it means that your E-mail software does not support MIME-formatted messages. --=_jive-7467-1025636360-0001-2 Content-Type: text/plain; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-637E2417; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mime-Autoconverted: from 8bit to 7bit by courier 0.38 I've had this same thing happen on a machine without enough memory. 8meg if IIRC. Bumping it up to 16meg solved the problem. At 07:36 AM 7/2/2002, Daniel Blankensteiner wrote: >Hi all > >I have an old computer (100mhz, 515mb harddisk). The computer have a >cd-rom drive, but I can't boot from it, so after reading: >ftp://ftp.dk.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.6-RELEASE/INSTALL.T >XT >I made two bootable floppies, one with kern.flp and one with mfsroot.flp >using fdimage under dos. Now I can boot from them, but then what? I >insert the floppy with kern.flp and it boots, then it ask for the other >floppy and continue booting, then it count down from 9 and restart, but >I don't get the installation menu? > >br >db > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message --=_jive-7467-1025636360-0001-2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-avg=cert; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-637E2417 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.373 / Virus Database: 208 - Release Date: 7/1/2002 --=_jive-7467-1025636360-0001-2-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message