FreeBSD on an old Compaq

[Doug Poland]

Charley said:
> I recently won a Compaq ProLiant 5000R in an auction on Ebay.  It
> arrived yesterday and now I want to put FreeBSD on it. 
Unfortunately, > I can't seem to find a way to cause the system to
boot from the CD and
> booting from the floppy returns an "Unexpected EOF" on the kernel
> (kern.flp).  Is there something else that I need?
>
Check the BIOS for boot order or boot sequence and see if a CDROM
device is in the list.  If it is, make it the first boot device and
re-try.

As for the floppy, I've seen the "Unexpected EOF" error because of
old or bad floppy media.  Try brand-new floppy disks.

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Regards,
Doug