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From: stesin@elvisti.kiev.ua (Andrew V. Stesin)
Subject: Re: boot.flp sucks!!! FreeBSD guys.
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aks@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com wrote:

: : What's your hardware configuration?  Try turning off your CPU cache
: : (problem with some 486 caches; turn it back on after the install). Did
: : you write boot.flp to a verified good (preformatted) floppy?

: My floppy is OK.
: My hardware is PC. Isn't that enough?
: I would expect to get at least the boot prompt to begin with.

	Pretty reasonable expectation.  You should, as did I for years.

	Is your "PC" a 386 or higher? (Neither 286 nor XT will suffice :)

	Do you have booting from floppy enabled in the BIOS?

	Did you fetch the boot floppy image with "binary" FTP mode?

	Are you _really_ sure that you created boot floppy in the correct way?

	Despite of your strange sense of humor, I'll gladly help you,
	if you'll provide some more details.

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