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From: Jesse Sahi <Sahijs@AXP.CALUMET.PURDUE.EDU>
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I have a 486/33 pc with 3.5 diskdrive and a segate scsi harddrive  with
8 meg ram, with no modem or cdrom. I am tring to install freebsd 2.1 but
am having no success. when I boot of the boot.flp My system freezes
while trying to read from the floopy.  The floopy light stays on but
system hangs.  Please help me.