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Date:      Mon, 1 Jul 1996 20:53:07 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        Arasu Subramaniam <arasu@mik.uky.edu>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Installation problem
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960701205202.228Q@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960701152928.7752A@nx55.mik.uky.edu>

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On Mon, 1 Jul 1996, Arasu Subramaniam wrote:

> Hi. I'm trying to install FreeBSD 2.0 on my system and can't get very 
> far. I made the boot disks and when I try to boot from the boot disk I 
> created, it just keeps rebooting over and over again. Any ideas?
> I have a Zeos Pantera 486DX2-66, 2 IDE hard drives and a Mitsumi CD-ROM 
> drive, no SCSI devices, Diamond Speedstar Pro Video (Cirrus Logic 543x), 
> 16MB of RAM.

Here we go again:

1)  Did you use a FRESH, ERROR-FREE floppy to put the boot image on?
2)  Did you boot to REAL DOS (no Win95, WinNT, OS/2) to build the floppy 
image?
3)  If you downloaded the image, did you use BINARY mode?

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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