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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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On Thu, 17 Jul 1997, raistlen wrote:

> I downloaded and made a boot disk from the disk map on your site, and
> i'm pretty sure that all of my hardware devices are compatible.  I have
> a 1.2G HD that i want to be a FreeBDS ONLY system. Right now I am
> running windows95, and i wanted to make sure that freebsd would at least
> boot up to the install before I formatted the HD, since I was to start
> fresh, but when I boot up of the disk, I get a "error: d:0x0 c:25 h:1
> s:10" error.  Is this because my HD is full and only in 1 partition
> right now?  Will it work when I format?  I have a fujitsu drive, and I
> use the ontrack drive manager, should i install that before I install
> FreeBSD??  Thanks a lot!

Looks like the floppy didn't get written right.  

1.  Redownload the boot.flp image, making sure you use BINARY mode.
2.  Grab ``fdimage.exe'' from tools.  rawrite won't work correctly under
Win95.
3.  Use a new, verified floppy and write the image.
4.  Try booting it.

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