From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 3 23:37:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA26057 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 23:37:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (gatekeeper.barcode.co.il [192.116.93.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA26038 for ; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 23:37:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nadav@localhost) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (8.6.12/8.6.12) id JAA21265; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 09:36:03 +0200 Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 09:36:03 +0200 (IST) From: Nadav Eiron To: Matthew Longmore cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PROBLEMS INSTALLING FREEBSD In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 4 Sep 1996, Matthew Longmore wrote: > Dear Sir, > > I have recently purchased FREEBSD and am experiencing problems with the > installation. I have created an appropriatre floppy boot disk to no evail. > > It seems to hang, but CTL-ALT-DEL will reboot the system. (The message, > Rebooting system is shortly displayed). > > Is there any knon BIOS settings such as caches etc etc that could be effecting > this?? > > Regards, > Paul Hourmouzis > PAULH@MELBOURNE.NET > There are many things that could cause that. Please give us more information so we can help you. At what stage does it hang (i.e. what is the last thing that it does)? What is your exact hardware configuration? What version of FreeBSD are you using? Nadav