Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 11:03:47 +1100 (EST) From: Andrew Perry <andrew@python.shoal.net.au> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: boot.flp prob Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.970222105547.24504A-100000@python.shoal.net.au> In-Reply-To: <199702211540.KAA19336@freebie.brann.org>
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On Fri, 21 Feb 1997, John Brann wrote: > KevinWaterson wrote... > > I have tried every way to get boot.flp on to a disk but cannot seem > > to get it right. > > When I try to run rawrite my PC (586 133) hangs. > > I have downloaded from different sites to be sure the file is not > > corrupt. > > What am I doing wrong here. > > Is this another of those Roswell things? > > > > Kevin > > > Oops, I guess I should read mor mail, before answering... > > What's your OS? Rumour has it that rawrite doesn't like NT or win95. If > your on a win95 machine do an F5 boot and then try. > > jb > > -- > Prohibit work, prohibit pay - people are dying! > Situationist International slogan > > finger jbrann@brann.org for pgp public key > You're right there, been mucking about with this myself the last few hours. (With the 2.1.7 release). Couldn't get it to work at all when I created the boot disk on a machine win win95 it failed, even when booting straight into dos mode. Finally woke up to myself and did it on a FreeBSD box as follows: dd if=boot.flp of=/dev/fd0 If you don't have access to a unix box then try on a machine with dos machine. Alsomy machine didn't hang when running rawrite, it appeared to work just fine, but when i tried to boot the diskette it just sat there waiting. BTW: you wan't F8 not F5 to go to dos mode with win95. F5 puts you into "safe" mode. :) Hope this helps Andrew Perry andrew@shoal.net.au
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