From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 28 13:07:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA02685 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 13:07:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA02591 for ; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 13:07:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA08513; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 13:06:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 13:06:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Terry Brady cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Install problem In-Reply-To: <199807270436.OAA13094@smople.thehub.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 27 Jul 1998, Terry Brady wrote: > Being in a hurry to get up and running and without access to the > install CD's, I'm trying to install FreeBSD using the boot floppy and > ftp via ethernet. > > My computer is a Pentium 166 with 430TX chipset, 16MB RAM, Seagate > 1.7GB IDE HDD, Mitsubishi 16x CD-ROM, S3 PCI video card, Optimedia > 16-bit sound card and SN3200 PCI ethernet card. > > Unfortunately I don't get very far: I get an error message over and over > Error: D:0x0 C:6 H:0 S:16 Your floppy image is bad. Try a new floppy. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message