Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 21:50:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Kurt Jones <kurt@woftam.com.au> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can't install Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980419215026.8564N-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980419234332.009386e0@woftam.com.au>
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On Sun, 19 Apr 1998, Kurt Jones wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > On advice from our upstream provider I finally got around to installing > FreeBSD a couple of weeks ago and have been fiddling with it ever since. So > yesterday I decided we would use it to run one of our servers (we are a > small ISP). Today I built up the machine (nothing special, P90, 32mb, 1Gb > and 250mb HD's, ReakTek PCI network card and an old 512k Trident 9000 video > card). Cool. > > So I boot from the installation floppy I used 2 weeks ago and run the > UserConfig utility to setup my hardware. When I quit and save the machine > appears to write something to the floppy, waits a few seconds, and then > there is a second of HD activity followed by block cursor in the top left > of the screen. Thats it. Stop. Go get the NT CD (just kidding). Sounds like you deleted sc0 by accident. Try booting without making any changes to the boot config. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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