Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 00:05:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: Steve Schwartz <steve@server.gslink.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Boot Up Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960611000303.5035G-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSD/.3.91.960609215642.13378A-100000@server.gslink.com>
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On Sun, 9 Jun 1996, Steve Schwartz wrote: > virgin dos. I put in the disk, but the image onto it, and then rebooted, > and it gave me 'Read Error'. I thought it was a disk problem so I put it > in another disk, copied the image to it also. This time, when I rebooted > on it, it just sat there in the boot up. It would begin to read off of > the floppy, (as if it was going to boot) but then the light would turn > off, and the computer woudl just sit there. Hm. My first guess would either be that you have a BIOS setting somewhere disabling floppy boot or your floppy drive is broke. > I have a 486/75Mhz with > 8mb of ram. My brothers is a 486/66 8mb ram. I am confused what is > going on. I am going to upgrade my computer to a Pentium 150mhz 16mb ram > June 20th, but I want to install FreeBSD too much, and can't wait. I > think it would be neat to fool around with, and help me at my job. Do you have any other interesting hardware? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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