From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Jul 15 14:00:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA15632 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 14:00:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bb.cc.wa.us (chris@bb.cc.wa.us [134.39.181.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA15627 for ; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 14:00:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@bb.cc.wa.us) Received: from localhost (chris@localhost) by bb.cc.wa.us (8.8.8/8.6.9) with SMTP id UAA14808 for ; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 20:56:07 GMT Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 13:56:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Chris Coleman To: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Basic Question. Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I am installing NetBSD 1.3 on my alphaPc. It currently has NT on it. The big problem is that it won't boot from the floppy. The boot loader doesn't seem to allow it. I am sorry if this is too basic for this list, but how do I tell it to boot from the netbsd boot floppy. It appears to be looking for a FAT formatted partition and the floppy isn't Christopher J. Coleman (whyareyou@lookingforme.com) Computer Support Analyst I (509)-762-6341 FreeBSD Book Project: http://www.vmunix.com/fbsd-book/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message