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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!cs.mu.OZ.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!lll-winken.llnl.gov!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!uniol!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD v Linux (again! ;) Date: 22 Jun 1996 12:15:51 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4qgo5n$q31@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <31BD1390.54AB@bekkers.com.au> <4q08tj$jju@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com> <4q0umm$l6l@baygull.rtd.com> <4q1kcp$1mc@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com> <4q29eq$33k_002@news.livenet.net> <4q2lfe$ai0@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com> <4q3m32$35v@dyson.iquest.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E root@dyson.iquest.net (John S. Dyson) wrote: > >Thank you Sir. But I don't get the boot prompt. > > You have not described your hardware at all. Apparently FreeBSD > is dependent on something or specific behavior that the other's > aren't (assuming you have hardware that we support.) Note, of the This is far beyond the point where it will become FreeBSD-specific, John. He's got problems in loading the first 15 sectors off his boot floppy (which is done by the BIOS). He fails to describe us in any way how he was preparing the disk, whether he tried multiple disks, etc. The best we can do at this point is ignoring this guy. He doesn't even seem to _want_ help. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)