From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 18 21:42:37 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA27274 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 21:42:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts10-line8.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.106]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA27265 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 21:42:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA00282; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 21:42:31 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 21:42:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Tony Kanakis cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Can't get ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/2.1.0-RELEASE/floppies/boot.flp to work In-Reply-To: <31EE7BE4.2E0B@hsi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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