Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 01:26:06 -0700 From: "Christopher R. Maden" <crism@maden.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Installing 4.4-RELEASE on a Compaq Deskpro Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20011009011600.00a6a830@mail.maden.org>
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I can't seem to make it boot from the kernel floppy. I successfully installed 2.2 on a home computer about four years ago, and it was very easy. Now I'm trying to get my business away from using Windows, and I'm having trouble. The computer is a Compaq Deskpro with a Pentium II. It will boot from a Windows 98 floppy (made with format /s), so it can definitely boot from the floppy drive. However, I've tried to recreate the kern.flp floppy a half-dozen times, and no luck. The computer either skips past it, or if forced to boot only from floppy, gives the famous "Non-system disk or disk error" message. Yes, I made sure to download the image as binary. I tried using both fdimage and the older rawrite. No dice. I formatted the disk first, ran scandisk to make sure it was clean, and then wrote the image. A possible clue: should Windows and/or scandisk be able to make any sense of the disk afterwards? I wouldn't think so, but if they're supposed to, then my disks are definitely bad, because they can't. I couldn't find CD images anywhere on the net to see if that got past the problem. Although it's rude to ask, I would appreciate direct copies of replies; I'll subscribe to the list after I get this working. (I used to help back in '97 or so, and I've helped Nik with some problems with the Handbook, so I've paid my dues. (-: ) Thanks in advance, Chris -- Christopher R. Maden, Principal Consultant, HMM Consulting Int'l, Inc. DTDs/schemas - conversion - ebooks - publishing - Web - B2B - training <URL: http://www.hmmci.com/ > <URL: http://crism.maden.org/consulting/ > PGP Fingerprint: BBA6 4085 DED0 E176 D6D4 5DFC AC52 F825 AFEC 58DA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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