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Date:      Tue, 11 Jun 1996 00:05:09 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        Steve Schwartz <steve@server.gslink.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org, questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Boot Up
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960611000303.5035G-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSD/.3.91.960609215642.13378A-100000@server.gslink.com>

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On Sun, 9 Jun 1996, Steve Schwartz wrote:

> virgin dos.  I put in the disk, but the image onto it, and then rebooted, 
> and it gave me 'Read Error'.  I thought it was a disk problem so I put it 
> in another disk, copied the image to it also.  This time, when I rebooted 
> on it, it just sat there in the boot up.  It would begin to read off of 
> the floppy, (as if it was going to boot) but then the light would turn 
> off, and the computer woudl just sit there. 

Hm.  My first guess would either be that you have a BIOS setting 
somewhere disabling floppy boot or your floppy drive is broke.

> I have a 486/75Mhz with 
> 8mb of ram.  My brothers is a 486/66 8mb ram.  I am confused what is 
> going on.  I am going to upgrade my computer to a Pentium 150mhz 16mb ram 
> June 20th, but I want to install FreeBSD too much, and can't wait.  I 
> think it would be neat to fool around with, and help me at my job. 

Do you have any other interesting hardware?

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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