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From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il>
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Nathan Ferris wrote:
> 
> Hello,
>         I'm trying to install FreeBSD onto a 486/DX2 - 66. I have two hard
> drives (both IDE): C: = 400 Megs, D: = 1.6GB. I downloaded all of the
> bin files from the 2.1.6 release plus all of the manpages files. I also
> got fips, rawrite, restorrb, bootinst, and boot.flp. I used rawrite to
> copy the boot.flp image to a 3.5 1.44 MB floppy. Then I tried to boot
> off the floppy. Didn't work. SO then I used Fips to partition my D:
> (1.6GB) hard drive. Didn't work. Used Bootinst. DIdn't work. DId the
> same thing to the C: drive. Didn't work. I have downloaded the boot
> image twice and rawritten it twice, but it still doesn't work. Can
> anyone help me? Thanks
> 
> Nathan Ferris
> nferris@spider.innercite.com

Are you trying this from Win95? If so, you may have better luck running
those utilities when booting DOS (plain DOS, not the Win95 in DOS mode
if possible).

Nadav