From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 7 18:46:30 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA16649 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 18:46:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA16635 for ; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 18:46:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id SAA12437; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 18:47:14 -0700 Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1996 18:47:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: tommyr@agora.rdrop.com cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation(boot.flp)Help In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 7 Jun 1996 tommyr@agora.rdrop.com wrote: > The system hangs when running boot.flp without any information being > displayed (not even >>FreeBSD..). As this is my first Intel box, can you > point me where I can get information on troubleshooting? Sounds like a busted floppy. Make sure you use a ERROR-FREE, FORMATTED floppy to generate the boot floppy. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major