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From: brian@ui-gate.utell.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Problems installing FreeBSD . . .
Date: 10 Feb 1997 17:54:09 GMT
Organization: Utell International
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Charles Ferris (cferris@spider.innercite.com) wrote:
: Hello,
: I'm trying to install FreeBSD on my win95 machine. I downloaded
: boot.flp and used rawrite from DOS (I rebooted my machine and told it to
: go to the command line instead of Windows) to write the image to a
: floppy. Then I rebooted my computer again with the floppy in the A:
: drive. Here is where it doesn't work. When my computer gets past the
: BIOS status screen the disk is read for about five seconds and then the
: computer locks up. Nothing at all happens, no boot:, no nothing. Anyone
: have any ideas what could be going on? Thanks
Sounds like a dodgy floppy.... You should at least get the `Boot: '
prompt !
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> <brian@utell.co.uk> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !