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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!sgigate.sgi.com!newsfeeder.sdsu.edu!hookup!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!quest.ccsi.com!news From: Redgie Joy <redmike@ccsi.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: First time booting FreeBSD with boot floppy HELP Date: Mon, 08 Jul 1996 15:15:28 -0700 Organization: Commuter Communication Systems, Austin TX Lines: 22 Message-ID: <31E18880.4906@ccsi.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dialup37.ccsi.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Win16; I) Yes I have formatted several disks with several different computers and wrote the floppy with binary downloaded stuff. Just to start when I boot up to install it it gives me the normal boot prompt the goes to probe and says: ERROR C:0 H:0 S:0 it does this and just goes down the monitor? I have no Idea why it does this. I have tried almost everything I can think of. THis is my system below take a look and see what you think? Pentium 75 24 mb EDO ram Quantum 540 fireball hard drive connected to intel TRiton chipset controller IDE Cheap generic ethernet card not plug and play PS/2 microsoft mouse PS/2 Keyboard Number Nine trio64 Sound Blaster Awe32 USR Sportster 14.4K V.42 Modem I have formatted My hard drive deleted partitions created partitions I have no Idea why it isn't working. It is driving me insane!!!