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Date:      Wed, 28 Apr 1999 11:47:22 -0400
From:      pete collins <pcollins@ocsny.com>
To:        Fabrizio Invernizzi <Fabrizio.Invernizzi@CSELT.IT>
Cc:        FreeBSD QUESTIONS <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, Guardini Ivano <Ivano.Guardini@CSELT.IT>
Subject:   Re: Problems installing FreeBSD-3.1
Message-ID:  <37272D8A.7138BA9D@ocsny.com>
References:  <Pine.GSO.3.96.990428152049.27904D-100000@satchmo>

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hey are you sure you used the floppies in the right order?

kern.flp first
then
mfsroot.flp
next

i'm sure you  did
buy hey you never know

pete

Fabrizio Invernizzi wrote:

> Hi,
>
> As I told in my previus mail , I can' t install FreeBSD 3.1 on my PC.
>
> This is exactly what I did:
>
> 1- I downloaded via FTP (not using NETSCAPE and in BINARY MODE) kern.flp
> and
>         mfsroot.flp.
> 2- I formatted 2 (new) floppies with : fdformat /dev/rfd0 (I tried
>         with different floppies)
> 3- I copied the two files on the floppies with : dd if=___.flp
>         of=/dev/rfd0
> 4- I boot the PC with the kern floppy into the drive
> 5- When the bootstrap loader asks me for the MFS root floppy I inserted it
>         and press enter, but the result was:
>
> int=0000000e    err=00000004    elf=00030246    eip=00002147
> eax=00002001    ebx=00000000    ecx=0000df07    edx=000003f5
> esi=0000a9a3    edi=0000a9a3    epb=000003e8    esp=000003de
> cs=ebce ds=0040 es=f000 fs=0000 gs=0000 ss=9db7
> cs:eip=8a 64 0a 8a c4 d0 e4 c0-e8 02 02 e0 b0 ff 2a c4
> ss:esp=00 f0 6a 21 37 29 9e 25-a3 a9 00 00 fe 9d a3 a9
> System halted
>
> I tried the same floppies on two other PCs: they works only on one of
> them (the one they didn' t work onto gave the same problem).
>
> I tried also with the boot.flp of the 2.2.8-RELEASE and this works fine.
>
> Can anyone help me?
>
> Fabrizio Invernizzi
>
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