From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 20 18:37:02 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id SAA10862 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 20 Jan 1995 18:37:02 -0800 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id SAA10846 for ; Fri, 20 Jan 1995 18:36:59 -0800 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA14172; Fri, 20 Jan 95 19:31:08 MST From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9501210231.AA14172@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: Installation To: rbose@uclink.berkeley.edu (Rajen Bose) Date: Fri, 20 Jan 95 19:31:07 MST Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Rajen Bose" at Jan 20, 95 01:24:49 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I have a 25MHz IBM 486SX running Windows 3.1, and I'm trying to install > FreeBSD 2.0, but I am having problems creating the initial boot disk. > I've downloaded boot_144.flp and cpio.flp from the SNAP950112 directory > and the 2.0-release directory from your ftp site. I used rawrite to copy > the images onto 3.5" floppies. CPIO.FLP transfers to the floppies just > fine, however, boot_144.flp always gives me an error (Controller has > failedector: 1) after the 80th track. I noticed that the size of the > boot_144.flp file was 1480Kb, so I thought that there was a size > descrepancy. So, I used the boot_12.flp file. It transfered to the 3.5" > floppy, using rawrite, with no problem. However, whenever I restart the > machine with the boot disk in the a: drive, the computer reades the drive > and then just hangs. There is a flashing underscore in the upper > left-hand corner, but nothing else. Do you have any suggestions? Make sure your CMOS settings correctly reflect the drive type. If this is a 2.88 floppy, lie to the CMOS and say it is a 1.44 during the install process. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.