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Date:      Fri, 10 Jan 1997 13:09:47 -0500 (EST)
From:      Andre LeClaire <leclaire@venus.net>
To:        Jesse Sahi <Sahijs@AXP.CALUMET.PURDUE.EDU>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Help
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.970110125637.144A-100000@lostfork>
In-Reply-To: <32D68C9C.4860@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.
> 
I had the same problem trying to install 2.1.0 onto my old 386SX-33 system.
Going into CMOS setup and turning off all ROM shadowing took care of it. 
I believe this was fixed in later releases - 2.1.5 installed witout a hitch.

Andre



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