From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 22 14:18:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA10530 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 14:18:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts9-line14.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.95]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA10509 for ; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 14:18:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id OAA00350; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 14:18:25 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 14:18:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Barry Mishler cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Infinite error loop with boot.flp In-Reply-To: <9607222026.AA18305@rcp6> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 22 Jul 1996, Barry Mishler wrote: > I have a Dell 100MHz Pentium with a 1.08GB Quantum Fireball followed by > a 1.6GB Western Digital drive on the first EIDE channel and nothing but an > NEC CDROM on the second channel. I haven't decided whether to install by > FTP or CDROM yet. I'm currently using Windows 95 if that makes any > difference. Sorry, didn't catch this. Find an original DOS boot floppy, boot with it, and build the image from that environment. Win95 screws with the floppy drive and will give the result you are getting here. Booting to MS-DOS mode isn't enough. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major