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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