Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1995 03:09:26 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: wasserma@crayola.cse.psu.edu (Brian S Wasserman) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd 2.1 Message-ID: <199512211639.DAA16019@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <95Dec21.100549est.14352-2@smith.crayola.cse.psu.edu> from "Brian S Wasserman" at Dec 21, 95 10:05:57 am
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Brian S Wasserman stands accused of saying: > > I downloaded the boot disk from your web page and followed the install > instructions. I formatted the disk in DOS mode (of W95) and used rawrite. > When I boot it looks at the C drive for 30 secs after the A drive was used > for a few moments, and then just sits there. A cursor is all I get. Sounds like the write didn't take properly; check that your BIOS doesn't have an 'anti-virus' option enabled. You could also try rawriting a copy on another machine. > not be able to even try installing FBSD until May. I am an experienced > Unix user who wants to have the power of Unix on my PC. Unfortunately, you may be in for more grief; your EIDE card probably has a BIOS on it that will beed to be talked to before you can use that disk, but one thing at a time 8) > Brian -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 041-122-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[
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