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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!news.umbc.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!xlink.net!zib-berlin.de!math.fu-berlin.de!news.fu-berlin.de!iddptm From: iddptm@iddss1.iddis.com (Paul T. Marquis) Subject: Problems installing FreeBSD 1.0 Message-ID: <IDDPTM.93Dec15174517@iddss1.iddis.com> Sender: news@math.fu-berlin.de (Math Department) Nntp-Posting-Host: iddss1.iddis.com Organization: I.D.D. Informations Services Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1993 22:45:17 GMT Lines: 25 Hi, I am trying to install FreeBSD 1.0 on a Gateway 486-33 Local Bus Computer with 16MB of RAM, an Ultrastor-34F SCSI-2 controller, and an ATI Ultra Pro local bus video card with 2MB of RAM. The motherboard has an onboard IDE controller, but I have disabled it in favor of the Ultrastor. I have downloaded the appropriate disks (kcopy-bt, filesystem, and cpio), and used rawrite to create bootable images. When I boot with kcopy-bt, the disk goes about its business then asks me for the filesystem disk. When I put it in, my keyboard lights flash to off and the system goes about probing my system. It seems to find everything okay (in particular, it identifies my Seagate 500 MB drive okay) and asks me if I want to proceed. My keyboard seems frozen at this point and I can't do anything. As I said the keyboard lights went completely off. I have to cold boot the system to get any response. Any ideas? BTW, to make matters worse, I'm trying to have three OS's on this system, FreeBSD, DOS, and OS/2 with Boot Manager. I have made all the partitions primary partitions. Is this possible? Thanks for your help. -- Paul, the Edge, Marquis pmarquis@iddis.com