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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: FreeBSD Installation
Date: 6 Feb 1995 03:28:08 -0000
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Cory Remick (cremick@rain.org) wrote:
: I'm trying to install FreeBSD-2.0 that I ftp'd from ftp.cdrom.com.
: I partitioned my 340mb ide drive. 150 for dos and the rest for BSD
: Wrote the Bootcode
: Wrote the Bootmanager
: Wrote the Disklabel
: Rebooted from the hd
: inserted CPIO.FLP
: ran that 
: then it asks yes or no for installing bindist from ftp, cdrom or disks.
: I enter y for yes and then it locks up my system and does nothing.
: No error message or anything.
: My system consists of
: Cyrix 386sx
: 6mb ram
: 340MB ide c:
: 80md ide d:
: 1.44 meg 3-1/2
: SB16 irq 5 dma 1 port 220
: AGX Windows accel card
: CD-Rom drive hooked up through the sound card
: 14.4 modem on com4
: logitech mouse on com1
:  

Try pressing ALT-F2 - there may be more info there.

--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>

Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....