Re: 7.1-BETA2 installation from floppies - has anyone tried lately?

2008-11-06 Thread Christoph Kukulies
In the vein of getting a way to install FreeBSD 7.1-BETA2 onto my SATA IDE drive (otherwise still running 5.2.1. from IDE drives) I found in the seek of other methods to bootstrap myself, that the boot floppy hangs after asking for kern1 floppy. Could that be just bad media or could it have

Re: Installation from Floppies

2005-03-28 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Nick Wilson wrote: Hi I am trying to install 5.3 from floppies/network and I boot from the the three discs (boot, kern1 and kern2). At the end of this I get the FreeBSD 5 boot screen (about 8 options and the character drawing of a daemon). Taking the default option 1 just starts the boot from

Re: Installation from Floppies

2005-03-28 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Nick Wilson wrote: Ramiro Aceves wrote: Nick Wilson wrote: Hi I am trying to install 5.3 from floppies/network and I boot from the the three discs (boot, kern1 and kern2). At the end of this I get the FreeBSD 5 boot screen (about 8 options and the character drawing of a daemon). Taking the

Installation from Floppies

2005-03-27 Thread Nick Wilson
Hi I am trying to install 5.3 from floppies/network and I boot from the the three discs (boot, kern1 and kern2). At the end of this I get the FreeBSD 5 boot screen (about 8 options and the character drawing of a daemon). Taking the default option 1 just starts the boot from floppies process