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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. ;-)