From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 10 11:17:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA02744 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 11:17:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason05.u.washington.edu (jason05.u.washington.edu [140.142.78.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA02736 for ; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 11:17:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul5.u.washington.edu (root@saul5.u.washington.edu [140.142.83.3]) by jason05.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id LAA47928; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 11:17:05 -0800 Received: from S8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul5.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id LAA12300; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 11:17:04 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 11:16:42 -0800 (PST) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu Reply-To: "Jason C. Wells" To: Jun Chen cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installation In-Reply-To: <36486A48.B668D70B@usclearing.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, Jun Chen wrote: >Hi, > >I bought BSD 2.2.7 and created three bootable floppies(one from setup, >one from view, one from tools), the process seemed normal, i.e., first >it formated, then the file was created. But the problem is, None of them >boots! Neither from DOS-> install-> configure, Nor turn off/on the PC. >After the floppy drive indicator flashes for 4-5 seconds(the "bootable" >was inserted at the beginning and so was the CD), the machine was simply >dead. No response from the keybaord, no error message on the screen. >I thought my floppy drive crashed, but it boots for MS windows stuff(98, >95) normally. > >Can you help me out? I really appreciate. Did you use fdimage or rawrite to copy the boot.flp image to the floppy disc? http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/install.html Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message