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From: "Mike K." <flaq@synwork.com>
To: Mark Wheeler <verulan@msn.com>
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Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD
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You may have to enable the floppy seek at boot and the boot order A: C: 
in your CMOS.

Mike


On Sat, 4 May 1996, Mark Wheeler wrote:

> I have been having some problems with creating the Boot floppy via
> rawrite & boot.flp.  I have downloaded these files several times
> and created the boot disk several times but when I try to boot up 
> my system (Hardware is all approved in the supported hardware section 
> of your web site.) it just ignores the floppy and boots from the
> hard disk.  I have tried this with a non-partitioned disk that has been
> low-level formatted and the system just hangs out.  What am I doing 
> wrong?  I think I have followed your directions thouroughly but of no
> avail.  Could you contact my at the following phone or e-mail?
> 
> Mark Wheeler - email verulan@msn.com
>                voice phone (home) 805-684-4143
>                work phone 800-980-9960
> Please leave a message for me if I am not at these phones when you
> try to contact me.
> Thank you for your time.
> 
> 
>