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Date:      Sat, 10 Jul 1999 22:29:55 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
To:        bahwi@technologist.com (bahwi)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 3.2-RELEASE Installation problems
Message-ID:  <199907110229.WAA14863@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907092338060.8112-100000@localhost> from bahwi at "Jul 9, 99 11:44:23 pm"

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bahwi wrote,
> I am installing FreeBSD on a friend's computer, we are having two
> problems.
> 
> First of all, we can not install over ppp because ppp gives this error
> "Phase: Unexpected protocol 0x00fd (1st choice compression)"
> and nothing happens. The dns will go fine, and it will log into
> ftp.freebsd.org, and then stop. No more traffic is sent. The service is
> prodigy but the ip address is always splitrock.net. Anyone have any ideas? 

No help there. Sorry.

> Second, from the failed installation the boot manager was installed, and
> when the machine boots up it has three options. F1 - DOS    F2 - FreeBSD
> and F5 - Disk 0
> To get to windows or freebsd(even though freebsd boot-up will fail since
> there is nothing there) you must go through F5, anyone have any ideas or
> ways to fix this? 

I had the exact same problem on a machine at work. What I eventually
did was go to the -CURRENT boot blocks (just the boot blocks, the rest
of the system is 3.2-STABLE). They give many more options, some really
|<00l options too, and solved my 'Disk 0' problem.

Robert Nordier, one of the developers, has the new blocks at,

       http://www.freebsd.org/~rnordier/boot0.tar.gz

And thanks again to Robert for helping me with my problems and his
work for FreeBSD.
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@home.com


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