Re: Installing 6.2-BETA3 from floppies

2006-11-16 Thread jonathan michaels
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 01:19:28PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: > Eugene Grosbein wrote: > > Eugene Grosbein wrote: > > > I'm trying to install FreeBSD 6.x onto old Packard Bell machine, > > > it is Pentium-166 with 80Mb RAM and 10Gb HDD ("Orlando" motherboard). > > > [...] > > > However, timer

Re: Installing 6.2-BETA3 from floppies

2006-11-14 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Eugene Grosbein wrote: > On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 03:43:41PM +0700, Eugene Grosbein wrote: > > > > I've prepared 4 floppy disks and tried to boot from floppies. > > > It successfully loads kernel and acpi.ko and shows menu > > > formerly known as 'Beastie' (now draws 'FreeBSD' instead of Chuck). >

Re: Installing 6.2-BETA3 from floppies

2006-11-14 Thread Oliver Fromme
Eugene Grosbein wrote: > Eugene Grosbein wrote: > > I'm trying to install FreeBSD 6.x onto old Packard Bell machine, > > it is Pentium-166 with 80Mb RAM and 10Gb HDD ("Orlando" motherboard). > > [...] > > However, timer does not 'tick' and there is always 10 seconds left. > > I choose verbose

Re: Installing 6.2-BETA3 from floppies

2006-11-14 Thread Eugene Grosbein
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 03:43:41PM +0700, Eugene Grosbein wrote: > > I've prepared 4 floppy disks and tried to boot from floppies. > > It successfully loads kernel and acpi.ko and shows menu > > formerly known as 'Beastie' (now draws 'FreeBSD' instead of Chuck). > > The menu shows that FreeBSD det

Re: Installing 6.2-BETA3 from floppies

2006-11-14 Thread Eugene Grosbein
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 03:26:22PM +0700, Eugene Grosbein wrote: > I'm trying to install FreeBSD 6.x onto old Packard Bell machine, > it is Pentium-166 with 80Mb RAM and 10Gb HDD ("Orlando" motherboard). > > 6.2-BETA3 boot-only CD is no-emulation one and CD loader > cannot boot this machine. > >

Installing 6.2-BETA3 from floppies

2006-11-14 Thread Eugene Grosbein
Hi! I'm trying to install FreeBSD 6.x onto old Packard Bell machine, it is Pentium-166 with 80Mb RAM and 10Gb HDD ("Orlando" motherboard). 6.2-BETA3 boot-only CD is no-emulation one and CD loader cannot boot this machine. I've prepared 4 floppy disks and tried to boot from floppies. It successfu