[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread] 

List:       freebsd-hackers
Subject:    2.0-950322-SNAP installation problem
From:       Scott Blachowicz <scott () statsci ! com>
Date:       1995-03-31 18:02:27
[Download RAW message or body]

[Amancio Hasty suggested to me that this might be a better place to send
this than -current, so here goes.  Rereading this, I wonder if it could be
a problem RAWRITEing a 1.2Mb image onto a 1.4Mb 3.5" diskette & something
getting done wrong in the process??]

Hi-

I just pulled down the 950322-SNAP tree to use as my first attempt at
installing FreeBSD on my home system.  That system is:

        Pentium-90; 16 Mb RAM; 256K cache
        CAF Tech motherboard / SiS chipset / Award 4.50G BIOS
        PCI IDE - boot disk
        NCR 8150S PCI SCSI - Toshiba 3501 CDROM, Exabyte EXB-8200 8mm drive
        ATI Mach64 (2Mb)/17" display
        Sound Blaster AWE32
        network card (can "be" NE2000 among other personalities)
        floppy/2S/1P/game card
         one 3.5" floppy drive; no 5.25" floppy drive

I've tried using both RAWRITE & RAWRITE3 from the tools/dos-tools
directory to put a gunzip'd boot.flp.gz onto a 3.5" diskette, then boot
from that.  My first attempt (with RAWRITE) ended up having my boot
process completely ignore the inserted diskette.  My 2nd & 3rd attempts
using RAWRITE3 ended up just sitting there spinning the diskette drive for
a while before I came back and tried CTRL-ALT-DEL with no results and the
RESET button.  I then pulled the boot floppy out.  The reboot sequence got
to the point where I think it normally scans the system & spits out the
NCR SDMS BIOS banner (from my NCR 8150S card) and just hung.  I power
cycled and got the same hang.  I then turned the system off for a while
(hours) and turned it back on - it came up fine.

So, does anyone have any idea

1) what I'm doing wrong?
2) how I can do it right?
3) what the heck is happening here?

Thanx!
Scott Blachowicz    Ph: 206/283-8802x240    StatSci, a div of MathSoft, Inc.
                                            1700 Westlake Ave N #500
scott@statsci.com                           Seattle, WA USA   98109
Scott.Blachowicz@seaslug.org

[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread]