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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
	
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