5.4-release install problem
Bryan Maynard
bryan.maynard at reallm.com
Thu Aug 4 14:46:50 GMT 2005
On Thursday 04 August 2005 02:33 pm, Darryl Hoar wrote:
>Greetings,
>I downloaded the 5.4-release iso images from the freebsd website.
>I used my windows machine and Nero to burn the iso images to
>cd's.
>
>I have an old machine that I am trying to install 5.4-release on.
>It is a PII 333, SCSI with 30GB scsi hard drive.
>
>I place cd 1 in the drive (disk 1 iso) and reboot the machine.
>When it boots, it looks to the cdrom drive as the first boot device.
>When it does, my screen is full of scrolling text which looks like
>dump info. It scrolls on and on.
If the text starts grey, then switches to white, then turns grey again
that's FreeBSD booting. After a little bit sysinstall should load.
sysinstall is the utility used to install FreeBSD.
>Any ideas on the problem ?
So far it doesn't sound like anything is wrong. Have you read the
handbook at:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html ?
>thanks,
>Darryl
Bryan
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