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From: Charles Ferris <cferris@spider.innercite.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Problems installing FreeBSD . . .
Date: Sun, 09 Feb 1997 17:07:46 -0800
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Hello,
	I'm trying to install FreeBSD on my win95 machine. I downloaded
boot.flp and used rawrite from DOS (I rebooted my machine and told it to
go to the command line instead of Windows) to write the image to a
floppy. Then I rebooted my computer again with the floppy in the A:
drive. Here is where it doesn't work. When my computer gets past the
BIOS status screen the disk is read for about five seconds and then the
computer locks up. Nothing at all happens, no boot:, no nothing. Anyone
have any ideas what could be going on? Thanks

Nathan Ferris
nferris@spider.innercite.com