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Date:      Mon, 6 May 1996 20:53:41 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        Joseph Christie <christij@unix.asb.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Installing FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960506205253.26792R-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <318c0ec9.7340506@unix.asb.com>

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On Sun, 5 May 1996, Joseph Christie wrote:

> 
> I've got a thinkpad 701c and when I try to boot with the boot disk in the
> floppy drive it just blinks the floppy light once or twice and hangs. I can
> boot from dos (dr dos 6 and pcdos 6) boot floppies and from OS/2 boot
> floppies so I know the hardware works.
> 
> I d/l'd the boot.flp  and rawrite with two different OS/2 ftp programs and
> a dos one and they all do exactly the same thing. Rawrite appears to work,
> no errors and the floppy disk has been used for other things and surface
> scanned and is OK.  I prefer to get FreeBSD working rather than trying to
> install Linux, anyone got any ideas?

. Did you turn on binary mode?
. Did you use a fresh, error-free floppy?

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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