*BSD News Article 85756


Return to BSD News archive

Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!blackbush.xlink.net!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news
From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: HELP!, installation problems
Date: 27 Dec 1996 19:40:40 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
Lines: 17
Message-ID: <5a18no$df1@uriah.heep.sax.de>
References: <32BCDED7.4AE4@epix.net>
Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6
X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669
X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F  93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E
Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33200

Charlie Savko <savko@epix.net> wrote:

> I'm a user of MS-DOS and I'm trying to set up FreeBSD.  I downloaded the
> installation disk and can boot my computer with it.  I can go through
> kernel setup alright.  Then it changes screens where I think its testing
> the devices on my computer.  Then it goes to a blank screen and my hard
> drive light anf floppy drive light stay on, and my computer locks up. 

Which hard drive?  What controller?  What else is there?  What's the
last message you can see?  Can you switch screens (Alt-F1 and Alt-F2)?

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)