From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 2 02:40:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id CAA04213 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 2 Apr 1996 02:40:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from tscc.macarthur.uws.EDU.AU (tscc.macarthur.uws.EDU.AU [137.154.72.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA04164 for ; Tue, 2 Apr 1996 02:39:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from MUSIC.MACARTHUR.UWS.EDU.AU by tscc.macarthur.uws.EDU.AU (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 1171; Tue, 02 Apr 96 20:38:08 EST Message-Id: <02APR96.22285450.0016.MUSIC@MUSIC.MACARTHUR.UWS.EDU.AU> Date: Tue, 02 Apr 96 20:38:04 +1000 From: Alex Masoch To: Subject: Reply for Boot Problems. X-Mailer: MUSIC/SP V3.1.1 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk To you guys at FreeBSD, Thanks very much for your prompt help with the booting problem I have. The problem is, that I still have that same problem, the floppy with the FreeBSD image will not boot, or won't really try. The disk begins to load for about 1 second but freezes. I have read all the sugestions allof you have sent me and I will reply to these: Binary Mode - I use Netscape 2.0 to save the boot.flp file to disk. I have a feeling this may be the problem. I have looked for options that suggest anything to do with binary with no success. I have even searched Netscape's help archives with the same result. No speak of saving in binary format. I have also tried however to tell my browser to save instead of view but for some reason it won't listen. Instead of viewing it however, I right click on the FTP boot.flp file (Windows 3.1) and select save to disk instead of viewing it. Will this work? It doesn't seem to have. I note that I have no problems saving graphic and program files (JPG, EXE). Rawrite - Seems to work fine, though I note that the previous10 times o r so that I have prepared the disk it has taken only about 40 seconds to do. Is that normal? The last time I tried about 20 minutes ago it took s ignificantly longer, about 2 minutes. Still freezes though. Downloaded boot.flp size - 1,232,594 bytes Floppy - I used various Verbatim 1.44 floppies with no errors whatsoever . It was also formatted using PC-DOS with no problem. My System - Pentium 100, 16M of RAM, Panasonic FDD, Quantum fireball 1.0 8 Gig HDD, on board controller, ISA game card, IBM token ring card. Windows 3.11, Netscape 2.0.I normally use Windows 95 but have to use PC -DOS to log on to the UNI networkand use the internet. Thanks for your help again, Alex Masoch AUS rdnn@music.macarthur.uws.edu.au