Date: Sat, 01 May 2004 14:01:23 -0700 From: "Biz Diva" <bizdiva@hotmail.com> To: emattman@cascadeaccess.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: FreeBSD Not Making Friendly Message-ID: <BAY16-F93cPvs0Z60e200001a4d@hotmail.com>
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I tried the disk on another PC and it worked fine, up to a point. I got to the window where it shows the machine's settings and it reported 7 conflicts. (This machine is running Windows95). All of the options were "collapsed" so, I began opening them to see what further info I could gather. After collapsing the third tier of options (multimedia), the screen went black. I removed the FreeBSD CD and rebooted to windows. No losses. ***The original pc that I wrote to you all about is a BSD box. Nothing else on it. I need to tell the BSD box to boot from the CD-ROM but don't know how to make the changes in configuration. It could be that the CD-ROM was improperly configured to begin with. ***There is nothing on the BSD box that I am concerned about losing so, a complete wipe with an install of 4.9 or later will be fine! I am willing to start from scratch! The problem is, getting the CD-ROM accessed and getting the latest media to that box. a. I burned the latest 4.x version ISO images to CD in binary via ftp b. I was unable to download the floppy images because of insufficient media error msgs. ***BOTTOM LINE: I need to boot from the CD-ROM on the BSD box and don't know how to configure the box to do so. A friend built the box and as such, only he knows how he configured it and I cannot reach him. (sigh). I am working through Annelise's book FreeBSD, to get my machine upgraded and functional. Thank God for that book and this forum! I appreciate everyone's help and assistance! Biz >From: Matt Anderson <emattman@cascadeaccess.com> >Reply-To: emattman@cascadeaccess.com >To: Biz Diva <bizdiva@hotmail.com> >CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: RE: FreeBSD Not Making Friendly >Date: Sat, 1 May 2004 07:23:40 -0700 (PDT) > >My first thought on reading of your problem is to wonder if you have a bad >cdrom. I mean the actual disc. Not the drive. Can you try it on another >computer? > >Matt Anderson > > >On Fri, 30 Apr 2004, Biz Diva wrote: > > > To All: > > > > The screen says: Located INDEX, now reading package data from it... > > The actual message that I get when re-routed to the prompt from trying >to do > > a CD-ROM upgrade is: Segmentation fault (core dumped) > > > > > > Then I get kicked back to the prompt. > > > > Biz > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > MSN Toolbar provides one-click access to Hotmail from any Web page – >FREE > > download! http://toolbar.msn.com/go/onm00200413ave/direct/01/ > > > > _________________________________________________________________ FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar – get it now! http://toolbar.msn.com/go/onm00200415ave/direct/01/
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