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Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 16:21:02 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: Install without a floppy
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On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Gunnar Flygt wrote:

> Hello!                                                                        
> 
> I've got a Toshiba laptop where the floppy drive is dead. So I tried to just 
> copy the files (via the network) install.bat, fbsdboot.exe, kernel and 
> fips.exe to my hard disk in the laptop. But when I try to run fips.exe the 
> machine hangs. (The same goes for fbsdboot.exe) I've started the machine without any config.sys or autoexec.bat 
> Is this a possible way to install? Have I missed any files that was needed? 
> The FreeBSD CD is on a FreeBSD box on the network.

What filesystem type is the DOS partition you copied to?  FIPS doesn't
like FAT32 systems, and you may have something nutty running that is
interfereing with fbsdboot, make sure no memory managers are running.

Did you download the images in binary mode?

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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