From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 6 20:50:54 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA06584 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 6 May 1996 20:50:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA06578 for ; Mon, 6 May 1996 20:50:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id UAA29038; Mon, 6 May 1996 20:53:41 -0700 Date: Mon, 6 May 1996 20:53:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Joseph Christie cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <318c0ec9.7340506@unix.asb.com> 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 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