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Date:      Fri, 21 Jun 1996 12:47:15 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        JAMIE <Giltner@cris.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: help on installation
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960621124614.242J-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.93.960617235806.5847A-100000@voyager.cris.com>

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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




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