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Subject: Can't boot from floppy.. at all!!
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I'd like nothing more than to install freebsd on my system.. however it won't
even boot from floppy.

 I got the 2.1 boot.flp and rawrite.  I made the floppy and tried to boot from
it, but all that happened was the floppy light would turn on adn stay that way
but it wouldnt boot... I tried several times and the same thing happens it just
sits there not even reading from the disk.  I tried booting to dos from a 
floppy and that worked fine. Then I pulled down the 2.0.5 boot.flp with the
same results.

My system consists of:
CPU: 486-66
RAM: 8
BIOS: AMI dated 11/11/92
SCSI adapter: DTC 3270VL

I was thinking it might be the SCSI adapter which controls the floppies...
but would that prevent it from booting at all?!?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
-AMB

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