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Date:      Tue, 2 Jul 1996 12:00:25 -0400 (EDT)
From:      JAMIE <Giltner@cris.com>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: help on installation
Message-ID:  <Pine.SUN.3.93.960702115058.16609A-100000@galileo.cris.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960621124614.242J-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>

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On Fri, 21 Jun 1996, Doug White wrote:

> On Tue, 18 Jun 1996, JAMIE wrote:
> 
> > Sorry to bother you, but I keep getting stuck at the same spot on the
> > installation. I've tried dozens of times over the past week with several
> > boot and root disks trying to do a floppy install and I keep getting hung
> > when I try to load the root floppy. Also, though I'm not sure if it is
> > supposed to boot without the root floppy installed, but if I try to boot
> > straight from my hard drive instead of using the boot floppy I get the
> > same prompt as with the boot floppy but instead of going to the install
> > menu the opening message and prompt just keep repeating.
> 
> Are you using known error-free floppies?
> Are you ftping with BINARY?
> Are you writing the floppy images under MS-DOS mode of Windows 95?
> 
> What version of FreeBSD are you installing?
> 
> Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
> Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
> http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major
> 
> 
Sorry  about the delay in my reply. I decided to swap out my IDE drive for
a SCSI drive and an adapter, so I've been down for a while. But, in case
you were curoius...

I formatted them myself, but of course can never be certian.
yes
no

2.1.0

I'm not really sure what my problem was, and now I have a new one (bad
tracking on my SCSI Conner). I rma'd it and got another and so'll I'll try
again tonight after work. Thanks for your help and wish me luck.

-jamie





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