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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help:Installing FreeBSD
Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 00:38:25 -0700
Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM
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William wrote:
> 
> I try to install FreeBSD by foloowing the instruction from <a
> href=http://www.freeBSD.com></a>.  But I cannot download the
> installation boot disk image file to floppy disk.  what I did was
> as follows.
> 1. save boot.flp and  fdimage.exe to my hard drive.
> 2. C:\  fdimage.exe boot.flp a:
> 
> After rebooting my PC, the computer told me I could not access the
> floppy disk a:.

Hmmmm.  Are you sure the boot.flp image was copied correctly?  I assume
you copied the files in binary mode...  Hmmmmm.  Other floppies boot
normally in drive A on this machine, I also assume?  Will your FreeBSD
boot floppy boot in any _other_ machine?  Just trying to narrow it down.

-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM.