Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 01:16:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: Kay Kurbjun <Kurbjun@pobox.upenn.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help on Installing Free BSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960611011516.5035V-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <31BB76E4.380E@pobox.upenn.edu>
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On Sun, 9 Jun 1996, Kay Kurbjun wrote: > Hello, I am trying to install Free BSD. I have a 486DX 33 MHZ with > 8 Megs of RAM and a 420 meg HD I have a SIIG EIDE Hard Drive Controler. I > have a Trident Video Card. My Operating System is Windows 95. I am copying > the boot.flp image file to a 1.44 meg floppy using RaWrite. I can copy the > image file to the disk, but when I try to boot from it I get a blank screen. > I can get the disk to boot on my 386 but I cannot install because it does > not have a connection to the internet, and it only has 2 megs of RAM. Is > Free BSD not compatable with my system? Or is Windows 95 conflicting with > the installation in some way? If you could help me I would greatly > appriciate feedback. Shutdown Win95 to DOS mode to make the floppy. And make sure your floppy is DOS formatted and 100% error-free. And make sure you downloaded the boot.flp in binary mode. the 386 won't run until you put 5MB of RAM into it. 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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