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Date:      Fri, 21 Jun 1996 23:20:13 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        Joao Carlos Mendes Luis <jonny@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Problems boot 2.2-SNAP
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960621231900.741H-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199606181449.LAA11741@mailhost.coppe.ufrj.br>

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On Tue, 18 Jun 1996, Joao Carlos Mendes Luis wrote:

>   I'm trying to install 2.2-SNAP on my desktop machine, which is already
> running 2.1.0-RELEASE.  But both 960501 and 960612 SNAPs could not boot
> in it.
> 
>   It loads from the floppy, uncompresses itself and print the message
> "Booting ...".  After this, nothing more happens.  I have installed
> it on other machines, so I think it's not my fault.
> 
>   This machine is a 486DX2/66, 40 MB RAM (no parity), Chipset ALI, VESA BUS,
> Cirrus SVGA, NE2000 NIC, 2 IDE Drives.

I chant the mantra:

1)  Is it an ERROR-FREE floppy?
2)  Was the image downloaded in BINARY mode?
3)  If you are running under Win95, are you booting to MS-DOS to write 
the image?

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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