FreeBSD Not Making Friendly

[Biz Diva]

I tried the disk on another PC and it worked fine, up to a point. I got to 
the window where it shows the machine's settings and it reported 7 
conflicts. (This machine is running Windows95). All of the options were 
"collapsed" so, I began opening them to see what further info I could 
gather. After collapsing the third tier of options (multimedia), the screen 
went black. I removed the FreeBSD CD and rebooted to windows. No losses.

***The original pc that I wrote to you all about is a BSD box. Nothing else 
on it. I need to tell the BSD box to boot from the CD-ROM but don't know how 
to make the changes in configuration.
It could be that the CD-ROM was improperly configured to begin with.

***There is nothing on the BSD box that I am concerned about losing so, a 
complete wipe with an install of 4.9 or later will be fine! I am willing to 
start from scratch! The problem is, getting the CD-ROM accessed and getting 
the latest media to that box.
   a. I burned the latest 4.x version ISO images to CD in binary via ftp
   b. I was unable to download the floppy images because of insufficient 
media error msgs.

***BOTTOM LINE: I need to boot from the CD-ROM on the BSD box and don't know 
how to configure the box to do so.

A friend built the box and as such, only he knows how he configured it and I 
cannot reach him. (sigh). I am working through Annelise's book FreeBSD, to 
get my machine upgraded and functional. Thank God for that book and this 
forum!

I appreciate everyone's help and assistance!

Biz


>From: Matt Anderson <emattman at cascadeaccess.com>
>Reply-To: emattman at cascadeaccess.com
>To: Biz Diva <bizdiva at hotmail.com>
>CC: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>Subject: RE: FreeBSD Not Making Friendly
>Date: Sat, 1 May 2004 07:23:40 -0700 (PDT)
>
>My first thought on reading of your problem is to wonder if you have a bad
>cdrom.  I mean the actual disc.  Not the drive.  Can you try it on another
>computer?
>
>Matt Anderson
>
>
>On Fri, 30 Apr 2004, Biz Diva wrote:
>
> > To All:
> >
> > The screen says: Located INDEX, now reading package data from it...
> > The actual message that I get when re-routed to the prompt from trying 
>to do
> > a CD-ROM upgrade is: Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> >
> >
> > Then I get kicked back to the prompt.
> >
> > Biz
> >
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