From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 9 1:27:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dot.dreamhost.com (dot.dreamhost.com [216.240.131.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2638C37B408 for ; Tue, 9 Oct 2001 01:27:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from maden.maden.org ([209.218.143.94]) (authenticated (0 bits)) by dot.dreamhost.com (8.12.0.Beta7/8.12.0.Beta7/Debian 8.12.0.Beta7-1) with ESMTP id f998RLAf020882 for ; Tue, 9 Oct 2001 01:27:21 -0700 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20011009011600.00a6a830@mail.maden.org> X-Sender: maden@mail.maden.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 01:26:06 -0700 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: "Christopher R. Maden" Subject: Installing 4.4-RELEASE on a Compaq Deskpro Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 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