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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!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!gatech!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Problem installing from IDE CD-ROM Date: 23 Jun 1996 20:05:13 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4qk81p$9hc@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <Pine.HPP.3.91.960622172946.830B-100000@lint.cisco.com> 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 Sridhar Krishnan <skrishna@cisco.com> wrote: > when I try to boot of the floppy that I created, the system tries with no > messages and switches to C: drive and boots Win95. You have to enable booting off drive A: first in your system BIOS. Otherwise, you will never be able to bootstrap FreeBSD. (You can disable this later if you don't need it.) This is irrespective of whether you are installing from Floppy, CD-ROM, or Ethernet: the system must be booted off a floppy for the first time. -- 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. ;-)