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From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Free beer for every FreeBSD User!!
Date: 28 Sep 1994 08:19:18 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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In article <3699f3$439@wsiserv.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>,
Andrej Gabara <gabara@peanuts.Informatik.Uni-Tuebingen.DE> wrote:
>Great, now I lot your attention. I've posted a problem before but got no
>replies; would some kind soul please tell me why I can't install FreeBSD 1.5.1.1
>on my PC? (Alaris Leopard, IBM SLC2-66, IDE)

I replied!  I asked you to check that your boot media had been properly
formatted on a DOS box.  I've seen this error before when the DOS format
wasn't quite up to par (somebody had formatted it on a Macintosh or
similar beast).

					Jordan