From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 4 10:32:34 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA12348 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 4 Jun 1997 10:32:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from juris.prdf.mpf.gov.br (root@juris.prdf.mpf.gov.br [200.130.34.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA12340 for ; Wed, 4 Jun 1997 10:32:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from suporte_1.prdf.mpf.gov.br (luthor@suporte-1.prdf.mpf.gov.br.34.130.200.in-addr.arpa [200.130.34.31]) by juris.prdf.mpf.gov.br (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA00572 for ; Wed, 4 Jun 1997 14:36:45 -0300 (EST) Message-ID: <3395A6A5.C644615F@prdf.mpf.gov.br> Date: Wed, 04 Jun 1997 14:32:21 -0300 From: "Alex Antão" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.0b5 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "FreeBSD - Lista de Discussão Brasileira" Subject: Re: --> Panic error -Reply X-Priority: 3 (Normal) References: <199706031745.MAA18268@horton.iaces.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Paul T. Root wrote: > In a previous message, Robert Clark said: > > > > If you're not willing to help someone else, why should I help you? > > > No comments about this.... > This is a bad attitude. It's better to welcome him in and encourage > him > to join, than to beat him with a stick and chase him away. I believe > we had a discussion like this last week. > Thank you. It's good to see that this list is still like it used to be. > > > > I'm triyng to boot my Pentium with 2.2.2-RELEASE floppie, but at > the > > end of the probes, I get a > > > > panic : double fault > > > > syncing disks.... > > > > and the instalation does not continue. > > Unfortunately, I don't have a difinitive answer. I would first start > with the floppy. Floppies *MUST BE* completely free of bad sectors. > Did you download the image in binary mode? I assume that this is a > new install, and that you made the boot floppy in DOS with rawrite. > Did it say any problems occurred. > The disk IS free of bad sectors. I boot my computer at home, and it "booted" correctly. No problems were found, and rawrite didn't said any error. My computer configuration is : PENTIUM 133 48 Mb EDO RAM AHA 2940 SCSI Controller HD SCSI 2.1 GB CD IDE 8x > Alex, I'm leaving town tomorrow, so please make sure to send to the > whole list, I will only be reading late at night and you don't want > a whole day turn around time. I also would encourage you to join the > list, there is a lot of good discussion on how to get various things > going in FreeBSD. It's an invaluable resource for me. > I used to be a member of this list, now I'm just subscribed the FreeBSD list of my country. It's suficient to me, I don't have enough time to read all mails from both of lists, I send e-mails to this list when they cannot answer my questions there. I don't think it's necessary to be subscribed.... :) Thanks, -- ___________________________________ _________________________ / Alex Carlos Braga Antao \ /_ __ \ | UnB - Universidade de Brasilia | // ...on IRC | | | // ____ | | e-mail : luthor@prdf.mpf.gov.br | // / _/________ | | http://www.prdf.mpf.gov.br/~luthor | /____ /_/ / /) (_) / | \___________________________________/ \_______It's me !_________/