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From: searle@longacre.demon.co.uk (Michael Searle)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: boot.flp sucks!!! FreeBSD guys.
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 14:16:54 BST
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mb@malibu.ts.rz.tu-bs.de (Martin Butkus) wrote:

> aks@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com wrote:

>> I created boot flopy as it is explained on www.freebsd.org. My machine
>> simply hangs!!! Don't tell me that my flopy is busted, or I don't have
>> enough memory. I can't get boot prompt?!. That really sucks. I guess
>> I'll get Caldera Linux.

> Since you're constantly claiming FreeBSD is "dead" and "sucks" just
> because it doesn't work for you immediately, I had to think twice if I
> should answer.

> Please be more specific about the hardware you're using, as well as the
> version of FreeBSD you want to install. Also tell us any diagnostic
> messages you get.  And even if you don't want to hear it, there's truth
> in it: _Please_ make sure you use a _new_ floppy disk since a single bad
> block can make it impossible to use it. I.e., even if you can format and
> use it with MSDOS doesn't mean you can use it as a FreeBSD boot disk!! 
> Also, you need 8 MB of RAM, otherwise you can't install it without some
> trickery.

Make that 5 MB with the standard boot floppy, or 4 MB with boot4.flp.

> OTOH, if you're unhappy with FreeBSD, go ahead and use Linux!  We don't
> need people who ramble without thinking first.

-- 
Michael Searle - searle@longacre.demon.co.uk