From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 18 23:10:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA06066 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 23:10:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freenet.hamilton.on.ca (main.freenet.hamilton.on.ca [199.212.94.65]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA06032 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 23:09:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca [199.212.94.66]) by freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA29050; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 02:09:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek Received: (from ac199@localhost) by james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA00530; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 02:11:26 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 02:11:26 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199607190611.CAA00530@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca> X-Mailer: slnr v.2.13 as ported to FreeBSD cc: questions@freebsd.org To: falstaff@netcom.com Subject: Re: problem with installation Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In Email, falstaff@netcom.com (anthony m. vervoort) wrote: > When I try to boot from the floppy, the machine gets to the point where it > reads the floppy to load the OS, and it accesses the drive for about 3 seconds, > then all activity stops and the machine sits there. This sounds like the problem you get when you download the boot floppy in text mode. Make sure that you download everything in binary mode. Also, check the size of boot.flp on ftp.freebsd.org before you download it and then the size of boot.flp on your own computer after you download it. (Obviously, they should be the same). > Any suggestions for how to get around this problem? Yes; see above. -- The one and only usenet god : Email god@heaven.com asdlfjalsdflkjasdlkfjasdkl;fjasdl;kjf my new signature!