Date: Sat, 26 Apr 1997 23:24:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Kevin Eliuk <cagey@kevin.sunshine.net> To: tuc@stormking.com Cc: FreeBSD-questions <FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: installing freebsd Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970426230254.158A-100000@kevin.sunshine.net> In-Reply-To: <199704270303.XAA00442@tucslap.stormking.com>
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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 :-) _______________________________________ |\ /| | \ kevin_eliuk@sunshine.net / | | \ Kevin G. Eliuk / | | /^\_________________________/^\ | | / \ | |/--===### Powered By FreeBSD 2.2.1 \| | www.freebsd.org | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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.
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