Trying to boot freeBSD

[Dominic Clifton]

I have actually got it to work now. I did have a freeze whilst trying to
download the gnome desktop environment. I also changed the ribbon cable to the
harddrive for good measure. I will try to configure the desktop stuff later.

Cheers

Dom.
  
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Quoting Sam Smith <S at mSmith.net>:

> On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Dominic Clifton wrote:
> > I am very new to FreeBSD and UNIX as a whole. Anyway, we have a
> > couple of old computers in our lab that used to run windows 95 and
> > can't cope with windows 98.  So I thought I give FreeBSD a bash. I
> > downloaded most of the files via FTP and got the usal
> > "Congratulations on installing FreeBSD" etc, after which I was told
> > to reboot. Intially it all seemed fine, then the last few lines that
> > are srolled on booting up, state:
> [snip]
> > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a
> > no such device 'ad'
> [snip]
> > Any ideas would be appreciated as I am new to this.
> 
> Did you get any failures during in the install?
> 
> This sounds like device creation during setup may have failed.
> 
> How much memory has this machine got?
> 
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> 
> 
> Sam
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