Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 19:06:17 -0700 (PDT) From: "e l l e :)" <suzuki@soda.csua.berkeley.edu> To: suzuki@csua.berkeley.edu, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD install Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909281905140.98246-100000@felix.mycomix.com>
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Maybe you can help me re: FreeBSD install. So I want to put in FreeBSD on my computer (PC) at home. I got the kern.flp and mfsroot.flp image copies (via fdimage in dos) after copying the originals from the web (ftp), and the formatted dos floppies ready for the bin directory stuff. My bios boot sequence reads: A, C, SCSI. Ok. I restart the computer and there's a point in startup when the screen displays, "hit '^' to boot from floppy." So I do that. This takes me to some foreign place where it reads, "Hit A to boot from a:" so I do that, after sticking in the kern.flp floppy in a. You can tell that the a: is being read briefly, and then the words, "starting win 95" shows up on the screen. Win 95 (my main and only current OS) starts up, and it seems that the a: kern.flp stuff was totally ignored. Many have suggested that it may be a faulty floppy. But I've redone this 3 times on 3 different floppies. Any advice? Thanks, elle ".. the answers one gives to life's crucial questions are never truly spontaneous; they are the embodiment of years of contextual experience, of the building of patterns in each of our lives that eventually grow to dominate our behavior." [p75, The Alienist] -------------------------------------------- Elle Yoko Suzuki/ www.csua.berkeley.edu/~suzuki suzuki@csua.berkeley.edu/ suzuki@techpointer.com -------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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