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From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net>
To: Fabrizio Invernizzi <Fabrizio.Invernizzi@CSELT.IT>
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	Guardini Ivano <Ivano.Guardini@CSELT.IT>
Subject: Re: Problems installing FreeBSD-3.1
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On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Fabrizio Invernizzi wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> As I told in my previus mail , I can' t install FreeBSD 3.1 on my PC.
> 
> This is exactly what I did:
> 
> 1- I downloaded via FTP (not using NETSCAPE and in BINARY MODE) kern.flp
> and
> 	mfsroot.flp.
> 2- I formatted 2 (new) floppies with : fdformat /dev/rfd0 (I tried
> 	with different floppies)
> 3- I copied the two files on the floppies with : dd if=___.flp
> 	of=/dev/rfd0
> 4- I boot the PC with the kern floppy into the drive
> 5- When the bootstrap loader asks me for the MFS root floppy I inserted it
> 	and press enter, but the result was:
> 
> int=0000000e	err=00000004	elf=00030246	eip=00002147
> eax=00002001	ebx=00000000	ecx=0000df07	edx=000003f5
> esi=0000a9a3	edi=0000a9a3	epb=000003e8	esp=000003de
> cs=ebce	ds=0040	es=f000	fs=0000	gs=0000	ss=9db7
> cs:eip=8a 64 0a 8a c4 d0 e4 c0-e8 02 02 e0 b0 ff 2a c4
> ss:esp=00 f0 6a 21 37 29 9e 25-a3 a9 00 00 fe 9d a3 a9
> System halted
> 
> 
> I tried the same floppies on two other PCs: they works only on one of
> them (the one they didn' t work onto gave the same problem).
> 
> I tried also with the boot.flp of the 2.2.8-RELEASE and this works fine.
> 
> 
> Can anyone help me? 

try using the disk images from a SNAP:

ftp://current.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/i386/3.1-19990426-STABLE/floppies/

don't forget to point the installer to "ftp://current.freebsd.org/"

-Alfred



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