From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 11 03:33:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA21515 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 03:33:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from server.gslink.com (steve@server.gslink.com [205.157.143.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA21510; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 03:33:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from steve@localhost) by server.gslink.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) id GAA23241; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 06:44:48 -0400 Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 06:44:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Steve Schwartz To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Boot Up In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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? When I stuck the FreeBSD boot disk in my computer just froze. When I put BSDI's boot disk in got the following message: Warning, CMOS geometry for C: is mapped, too many heads Mapped Geometry: 63 sectors 64 heads 787 cylinders Drive geometry: 63 sectors 16 heads 3148 cylinders I have on my C: a 1.6 Western Digital with 3 partitions. A 900MB (Win95) 250(Empty for Unix/Linux) and 350(NT4.0)