greetings all and best wishes to all for christmass and teh coming new
year,

i've got a loaner computer (dell optiplex gx-240) it is a pentium 4 1,5
ghz cpu 256 mb dram and an 80 gb ide type hard disk and a similar stype
cdrom.

a friend cut a cdrom off the netbsd v2.0.0-release and today i tried to
install netbsd from this cdrom onto the above machine. it seems to work
as in it leaves an impression that it is writing to the hard disk
drive, all the relevent light flicker as required,

but when it gets to teh end where one needs to remove floppy/cdrom et
al and to reboot all i get on a grey screen (i am using an eizo
paperwhite 21 inch screen because of my visual disbilities). ater what
appears to be a satisfactory reboot the compuuter complains about not
being able to oopen /boot/ and it just brins backup teh installation
menuc/screen.

ohhh, on an unrelated matter i cannot seem to get neworking running on
this machine either as it has two nics (relev. drivers being ew0 and
rtko or something like that, it is a realtek chipset accton card) and
teh subnebu that asks for information about dns servers and gateways
etc and finishes with trying to ping teh nameserver/gateway in my setup
just drops dead because it cannot reach teh relevent ip addrs (it is
the smae physical machine.

please accept my most humble apologies, i am trying to help a friend
and this is hos machine .. i've been using freebsd for some 10 years on
old but reliable machines and as such my trouble shooting skills are a
bit rusty and nothing has gone ring in teh 10 years i've used bsd set
and i;m a bit rusty .. sorry.

a place to start reading would be muchly appreciated or have i missed
something in teh basic installation process .. i just followed teh
bouncing ball so to speak and it produced a installation that says
cannot find /boot/ directory on teh installed hard disk, i am presuming
??

woth most kind regards and much thanks in advance (sorry for my
spelling/typing errors they are caused in large part by svere
neurological errors, er damage in my brain and cns)

warm regards

jonathan

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