From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 27 13:16:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dsinw.com (dsinw.com [207.149.40.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CDB914C3C for ; Sat, 27 Mar 1999 13:16:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hamellr@dsinw.com) Received: from bb-b1-11a (ppp65.pm3-0.pdx.dsinw.com [207.149.41.65]) by dsinw.com (8.8.8/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA07426; Sat, 27 Mar 1999 13:14:19 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 13:14:15 -0800 () From: Rick Hamell To: Ben Manes Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: unhappy installation In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-X-Sender: hamellr@dsinw.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > So, two questions. What do you mean by 'clean,' and if I copy the cd to > the root of one of my fat16 partitions, booting off the cd, will it > install that way? I tried before, but said it didn't see the data on any > of the partitions... Well since it's autoterminating it won't work. But in damp/dusty environments (which I seem to end up working in...) you frequently need to give the connectors of cards (and in the this case the terminators,) a good cleaning. A pencil eraser then a clean cotton cloth works fine. You can usually see the differance pretty easily. :) Now that I think about it, you can choose to change the termination on card can't you? I had roughly the same problem with a Seagate drive that wouldn't autoterminate itself. Also, you'll want to put the files in c:\bin or c:\freebsd to load from DOS. Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message