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Date:      Tue, 10 Nov 1998 11:16:42 -0800 (PST)
From:      "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>
To:        Jun Chen <jchen@usclearing.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Installation
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811101115210.818-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <36486A48.B668D70B@usclearing.com>

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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/


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