From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 2 17:39:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from unixfreak.org (cx828557-a.orng1.occa.home.com [24.1.183.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1ABEF14EF8 for ; Wed, 2 Jun 1999 17:39:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kitty@tigress.org) Received: from purr (purr.tigress.org [207.171.202.196]) by unixfreak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA45471; Wed, 2 Jun 1999 17:40:00 -0700 (PDT) From: "Kitty" To: Cc: Subject: read error MSG Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 17:38:39 -0700 Message-ID: <000001bead59$6c328f60$c4caabcf@purr.tigress.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a NEC computer p75 24mb of ram about 3 years old. it has been running win95 fine. I have tried to install both 3.1 and 3.2 free bsd on it with no luck. I use the boot floppies and have a network card. it goes through the boot disk and I request everything to be installed goes to ftp://freebsd.org and downloads everything. when I exit install to boot to freebsd, I get the NEC screen, NEC bios info and then a read error any help would be appreciated. thanks in advance. kitty To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message