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Date:      Sat, 2 May 1998 18:25:52 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        "William J. Manning" <wmanning@flash.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Installation problems....
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980502182517.21194J-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <000301bd732d$365059c0$30321ed1@wmanning>

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On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, William J. Manning wrote:

> 	I am trying to install FreeBSD v2.2.5 using a boot floppy I created using
> Walnut Creek’s CDROM distribution.  My system boots up successfully from the
> floppy and I am presented with three options:
> 
> 1.  Skip kernel configuration and continue with the installation
> 2.  Start kernel configuration in full screen visual mode
> 3.  Start kernel configuration in CLI mode
> 
> I  select the second option and configure the kernel:
> 
> Floppy at IRQ6 (default - not edited)
> IDE hard drives at IRQ 14 and 15 (default - not edited)
> Sony CDROM at IRQ 5 address 0x340 (I do edit the default settings to these
> values)
> PS/2 Port mouse IRQ 12
> I remove all the network devices, no network card on my system
> I keep all the COM and LPT ports, except LPT2. The IRQs
>   COM1 - IRQ 4
>   COM2 - IRQ 3
>   LPT1 - IRQ7
> I keep all the PCI devices because it won’t let me remove them.

Hm, where did sc0 go?

> I then select "Q" to save and quit.  The system spins the floppy for a
> second and then hangs!

Try booting without making any changes.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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