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From: j@narcisa.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Snapshot boot floppies
Date: 31 May 1995 12:04:19 +0200
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Dan Dartman <uffda@cs.montana.edu> wrote:
>I can't get any of the snapshot boot.flp to boot.  They just spin for 
>awhile with the drive light on, then reboot the machine.  I have used
>new floppies so I know the media is reliable.  I have tried disabeling
>the caches and no luck.  The odd part is that I did a rawrite for the 
>2.0 dist boot_144.flp and it works fine. Any ideas?

When does it reboot?
-- 
cheers, J"org                      private:   joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
                                   http://www.sax.de/~joerg/

Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)