From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Dec 4 17:20: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from f1node01.rhrz.uni-bonn.de (node01.rhrz.uni-bonn.de [131.220.18.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D47614E9D for ; Sat, 4 Dec 1999 17:19:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from uzs106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de) Received: from max.alleswirdgelber (root@ascend-tk-p17.rhrz.uni-bonn.de [131.220.244.17]) by f1node01.rhrz.uni-bonn.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA31036; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 02:19:23 +0100 Received: from localhost (uzs106@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by max.alleswirdgelber (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id CAA02104; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 02:11:02 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from uzs106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de) Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 02:11:01 +0100 (CET) From: Heiko Recktenwald X-Sender: uzs106@max.alleswirdgelber To: geekboy@mistic.net Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: boot disks are broke? In-Reply-To: <19991204235951.9798.qmail@web903.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org What a subject ;-) > however, after in put in the mfsroot disk, it gets to > a prompt, and won't let me install anything. (fyi, i Have you tried other floppies, did you format them yourself, even if they came "Dosformated" out of the box ? Maybe you have other problems with your hardware, but this is the first thing to think about, at least from my (few) experiences in my homelan. It took me 4 or 6 floppies the last time I did an install. And you should maybe do the fdimaging not in a windows dosbox but in real dos, if you did it this way. Maybe it helps, good luck, Heiko To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message