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Date:      Thu, 18 Jul 1996 21:42:31 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        Tony Kanakis <kanakis@hsi.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Can't get ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/2.1.0-RELEASE/floppies/boot.flp to work
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.960718214157.265B-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <31EE7BE4.2E0B@hsi.com>

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On Thu, 18 Jul 1996, Tony Kanakis wrote:

> I copied 
> ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/2.1.0-RELEASE/floppies/boot.flp and 
> ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/tools/dos-tools/rawrite.exe and ran 
> it on a formatted floppy on two different pcs and can't get to the boot 
> prompt. It starts to read the disk then hang with nothing on the screen.
> Any ideas?

.  boot.flp downloaded in binary mode?
.  error-free, formatted floppy?
.  rawrite run under straight DOS?  (_NO_ win95)

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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