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From: jfieber@grendel.csc.smith.edu (John Fieber)
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To: prince@cent.com (Prince Emeka Uchendu)
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Prince Emeka Uchendu writes:
> the rawwrite.com utility to write all the BOOT.flp file to the floppy. I
> inserted the floppy in drive A: and reset the PC but it hangs at boot
> without any message...

Could you provide some information about your computer?  

> I would have just ordered the CDROM for a turnkey
> installation...but I have an IDE CDROM Drive and I would have to go through
> the same process of making boot floppies so I just down loaded the files
> from the NET....

If your CDROM drive is not supported, you can copy the compressed
distribution files to an MS-DOS partition which FreeBSD can read
during the installation.  Its much easier than getting the files
from the net (at least for those of us with slow modem connections).

-john

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