Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 06:44:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Steve Schwartz <steve@server.gslink.com> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Boot Up Message-ID: <Pine.BSD/.3.91.960611064223.23188A-100000@server.gslink.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960611000303.5035G-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
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> 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? When I stuck the FreeBSD boot disk in my computer just froze. When I put BSDI's boot disk in got the following message: Warning, CMOS geometry for C: is mapped, too many heads Mapped Geometry: 63 sectors 64 heads 787 cylinders Drive geometry: 63 sectors 16 heads 3148 cylinders I have on my C: a 1.6 Western Digital with 3 partitions. A 900MB (Win95) 250(Empty for Unix/Linux) and 350(NT4.0)
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