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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!nsw.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!imci3!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!hunter.premier.net!netnews.worldnet.att.net!ix.netcom.com!netcom.net.uk!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!longacre.demon.co.uk 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 Lines: 29 Message-ID: <nE034B55B@longacre.demon.co.uk> References: <4q08o1$jfn@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com> <4q0q6q$11e@malibu.ts.rz.tu-bs.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: longacre.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: longacre.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Offlite 0.09 / Termite Internet for Acorn RISC OS 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