From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 15 14:24:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns.clientlogic.com (ns.clientlogic.com [207.51.66.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B47E14CFD for ; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 14:24:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ChrisMic@clientlogic.com) Received: by site0s1 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) id ; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 17:24:43 -0400 Message-ID: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105992@site2s1> From: Christopher Michaels To: 'Shawn Ramsey' Cc: "FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)" , 'paul msava' Subject: RE: FreeBSD Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 17:26:31 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Not in my experience and it was the only other thing I could think of off the top of my head that did not require any hardware troubleshooting. The "safe" thing to do would be to restart in MS-DOS mode, and take winblows out of the loop. -Chris P.S. PLEASE CC: questions@FreeBSD.org in any replies. Thanks. > -----Original Message----- > From: Shawn Ramsey [SMTP:shawn@cpl.net] > Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 1999 5:12 PM > To: Christopher Michaels; 'paul msava' > Cc: FreeBSD Questions (E-mail) > Subject: Re: FreeBSD > > > Were you on a windows machine when you created the floppies? And if so, > > were you actually in Windows? I've found that I have to restart in > MS-DOS > > mode to make workable floppies. > > > > FDImage.exe is able to make workable floppies in windows fine. The old > utility which for some reason I can't remember the name, sometimes would > work, sometimes would not work. Just be safe and use fdimage if you are > going to > do it from windows. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message