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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!gatech!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!cobia.gulf.net!marlin.gulf.net!doc From: doc@marlin.gulf.net (Brian Watson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Install help... Date: 1 Apr 1996 02:13:17 GMT Organization: The Gulf Coast Internet Company Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4jne3t$art@cobia.gulf.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: marlin.gulf.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] I'm trying to install FreeBSD 2.1 on my PC. I have a P90 w/16MB and 3 IDE HDs, a 730MB, 1.2GB, and a 528MB in that order. The first two I want to keep for DOS(Win95) and the 528MB I want to devote to FreeBSD. I spent weeks reading all the documentation I could find. Then I went to install it from Walnut Creeks CDROM. The installation goes fine until I confirm that I'm ready and it does a few things, then on "Loading the root image" it locks up. I tried a few more times and the same. So I figured it must be my CDROM. So I copied all the distributions to my hard drive and selected the Install from HD option. The same lockup ezactly. I tried both root floppies and neither worked. I dont have any unsupported hardware (at least none I want to use w/FreeBSD). I used "X-User" for the dist set. It did however install the boot manager but its only got one option "F1 . . . dos". If ANYBODY can offer ANY help I'd really appreciate it. Ive read and re-read the docs until I'm blue in the face... Thanks in advance, Brian Watson -- doc@gulf.net