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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: [newbie help]  Difficulty starting up...
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 08:59:14 -0800
Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM
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To: David Kurtz <david@lightside.net>

David Kurtz wrote:
> Upon completion of the download, installation seemed to go alright. We
> removed the floppy, reboot, and all we are looking at is a prompt saying:
> 
> Default: F?
> 
> and, no bootage.

Read through the installation docs on the boot floppy - they discuss
this exact problem.  You have a geometry mis-match problem.
-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project