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From: james@parody.tecc.co.uk (James Raynard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Boot trouble
Date: 17 Dec 1995 01:18:38 -0000
Organization: A FreeBSD box
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Message-ID: <4avr5e$2ae@parody.tecc.co.uk>
References: <4aunog$6vl@dfw.nkn.net>
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In article <4aunog$6vl@dfw.nkn.net>,
Craig G. Andersen <andersen@I_should_put_my_domain_in_etc_NNTP_INEWS_DOMAIN> wrote:

Please put your domain in /etc/NNTP_INEWS_DOMAIN 8-)

>	The hardware is a 486 Dell Tower/EIDE/8Mb/DX2 50Mhz.
>	It boots the Linux floppies and the NetBSD floppies
>	but when booting FreeBSD, the light only flickers a
>	couple of times and then vanishes forever with no messages.
>
>	I have tried the "dd" from Linux and rawrite from DOS.
>	The flopies have been pulled from ftp.freebsd.org
>	for both 2.0.5 and 2.1.

Have you tried writing the floppies on a different machine (or if you
aren't already, writing them on the same machine)? Floppy disk controllers
can be strange beasts sometimes. (I assume you've checked the obvious
things like specifying binary transfers when FTP'ing, trying it with
brand new disks, etc).

James
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