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Date:      Wed, 30 Oct 1996 18:38:03 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Geoff Mohler <gemohler@c-com.net>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: HP Vectra Booting
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.961030183708.2083E-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961030105210.9246A-100000@dyslexic.phoenix.net>

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On Wed, 30 Oct 1996, Geoff Mohler wrote:

> Im working with an HP Vectra VL, Series4 5/166.
> 
> It has 16Mb of ram, and a 1.2G hard drive.
> 
> It came with W95 and worked fine..of course.
> 
> I have tried to install FBSD about 5 times now..and although the install 
> goes great, the machine refuses to boot FBSD.
> 
> The machine responds "Read Error" when it jumps from the floppy to the HD 
> to boot.

Have you tried this disk in another machine?

Try a new floppy and/or make sure the floppy drive is configured properly
and the machine is set up to boot A: first.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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