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From: Kevin Eliuk <cagey@kevin.sunshine.net>
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Subject: Re: installing freebsd
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On Sat, 26 Apr 1997, Scott J. Ellentuch wrote:

> In Kevin Eliuk' own words (And I ">_") :
> > 
" ":]
> > On Sat, 26 Apr 1997, Mike wrote:
> > 
> > > I'm having trouble installing FreeBSD.  I try to make the boot disk by
> > > following the instructions on the web page, but when I try to run
> > > fdimage, it says, "CRC error".  I am running Win95 on an AST 816
> > > (pentium 133, 16m ram).  I also tried it on a DOS 5.01 system, and it
> > > failed as well.  Thanks for your help.
> > 
> > I've noticed a lot of reports of problems with fdimage. I couldn't have it
> > work for me. You will probably have greater luck with rawrite.exe.
> >
> 	I tried, no luck.  The image is 1.474M and the disk is 1.456M!
> Rawrite tells me something about an ending marker problem.
> 
Well you got me so curious I had to try it.

Heres my step by step from dos:	

	1>	From Netscape http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/install.html
		[2.2.1-RELEASE]
	2>	Click right hand mouse key on link-Installation Boot Image
	3>	Chose: save as ... and D/L to dir
	4>	cd to dir that has boot.flp and rawrite.exe
	5>	rawrite<ENTER>
	6>	when asked for source file name :boot.flp
	7>	  "    "    "  Destination drive: a:
	8>	Inserted `formatted' floppy and pressed enter
	9>	After completion rebooted to floppy :-)
		
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P.S. I did try fdimage again just to see and recieved the error message:
		`sector not found' on a freshly formatted floppy.

I hope this helps.