Date: Sat, 1 Nov 1997 19:00:17 +0000 (GMT) From: sporkl <spork@dti.net> To: Blue Temp <cbeverly@mindspring.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hmmmm Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971101185823.214A-100000@iconoclast.com> In-Reply-To: <345BBDAB.49514BE5@mindspring.com>
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Hello. My boot.flp wouldn't fit either, turns out my disk drive was misconfiged in the BIOS. Make sure your BIOS doesn't think you have a 1.2 M disk drive when you actually have a 1.44M drive. On Sat, 1 Nov 1997, Blue Temp wrote: > I have been trying to install freebsd for about 4 hours now. Reading > your webpage re reading it, logging on to your ftp site ect. Even tried > the floppy installation which btw: was a work of genius. I mean giving a > program that "Supposedly" Formats and makes a floppy bootable for the > installation is a really great idea. If it worked! Even the attempt at > d/ling the boot.flp is a good idea if it fit on a floppy. > Yeah it would be cool to buy a cd just so that I could have freeware. > But there is something that just doesn't seem right about that ave. > Perhaps I am stupid I have ran bbs's , I program in C++, I even know > perl and other scripting Lang. Yet I can not figure out how to install > your program into my computer. > Perhaps I am just plan dumb and have no real buiness attempting to use > your program. > > Disgruntled and > Amazed, > Jason Warwick > > > > > BTW: Took me four and a half hours, but I love it 8-) -Spike Gronim sporkl@dti.net "Tradition is the chastity belt of the mind"
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