From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 29 23:44:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA12474 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 29 Apr 1996 23:44:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA12467 for ; Mon, 29 Apr 1996 23:44:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id HAA00343; Tue, 30 Apr 1996 07:15:14 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id HAA20859; Tue, 30 Apr 1996 07:15:14 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id HAA05502; Tue, 30 Apr 1996 07:06:07 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199604300506.HAA05502@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Question :) To: steve@server.gslink.com (Steve Schwartz) Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 07:06:05 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from Steve Schwartz at "Apr 29, 96 09:23:12 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL15 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk (Moved to -questions where it belongs. NB: i'm not on this list.) As Steve Schwartz wrote: > ok, great. When I get boot.flp image, and type 'rawerite boot.flp a:' it > writes to the disk for about 3 min..then when I boot up with it, my > computer just sits there, and does nothing. Umm, am I missing something? > I'm going to try and download it again. Are you sure you've been using ``type binary'' when ftping? Is your floppy 100 % error free? (Don't trust anyone, reformat, and have a look whether the DOS format program tells'ya something about bad sectors.) There's no sort of bad sector remapping on the boot floppy, all the first 2400 sectors must be ok (the remaining 480 sectors of a 3.5in floppy are unused). If the answers are `yes', where exactly does it sit? Do you see the ``Boot:'' prompt, parts of the ``twiddle'', what else? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)