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/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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