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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!oleane!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.sprintlink.net!in2.uu.net!news.iag.net!tous!aaahq05!supt10!jeh From: jeh@aaahq05.aaa.com (John Homrighausen) Subject: Lost OS/2(DOS) mouse after install Message-ID: <DE88Hx.2s1@aaahq05.aaa.com> Sender: news@aaahq05.aaa.com (USENET Administrator) Nntp-Posting-Host: supt10 Reply-To: jeh@aaahq05.aaa.com Organization: American Automobile Association References: <41gtu9$knu@news.bu.edu> Date: Fri, 1 Sep 1995 12:39:32 GMT Lines: 15 hello everyone, I recently got the FreeBSD CD-ROM from WC and attempted to install on my home machine(486-50, 16M RAM, 1.2G disk). MY CD-ROM is an NEC 2X Multispin. I created the boot floppies and installed, partitioning the disk fine and mounting my OS/2 DOS partition. When attempting to install the binary distribution the install software replied that it couldn't mount /dev/cd0. I got around this by copying the bindist directory on my DOS partition and loading from there. After installing the bindist files, I exited the installation and typed exit at the root prompt. I believe this is where I erred. I booted OS/2 and the mouse driver could not be loaded. (OS/2 - mouse = RTFM) When I booted FreeBSD I got HD errors, finally when I booted off the FreeBSD boot floppy I got panic: unable to mount /. Also I seem to remember a message "not going anywhere without init" I don't understand this. My question is, when I install FreeBSD and wind up at the # prompt what do I do to shutdown the system and prepare it for reboot? I am pretty much resolved to reloading the entire system from scratch (I backed everything up). Any advice would be helpful at this point. Thanks in advance. John