Re: Person new to FreeBSD needs help...

2004-07-12 Thread aerial_gus
For what this is worth... It looks like something loaded. That 'ok' prompt is not what I would really call a bootloader in the sense of allowing you to pick an OS/partition to load. It comes up when the system can't find a bootable kernel; thus the 'trying kernel.old'. It's what you get when you

Re: Ftp server near me

2004-07-10 Thread aerial_gus
I had this question a couple years back. I did command line ftp logins until I found something I recognized, usually a school or university. I'm on the East Coast (US) so I got lucky with MIT, Perdue and UNC. Commercial-sited servers, your guess is as good as mine. I guess you could try to

Re: Installation/Boot-up help please...

2004-07-10 Thread aerial_gus
- Original Message - From: Jeff Erickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 6:59 PM Subject: Installation/Boot-up help please... Dear Group, I am new to FreeBSD and am having a problem. I downloaded Disk 1 and 2 of version 4.10 and go through the