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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!feeder.chicago.cic.net!chi-news.cic.net!data.ramona.vix.com!nnrp1.crl.com!not-for-mail From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Help:Installing FreeBSD Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 00:38:25 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 20 Message-ID: <338154F1.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> References: <33809115.770@cse.psu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE i386) To: weichen@cse.psu.edu Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41268 William wrote: > > I try to install FreeBSD by foloowing the instruction from <a > href=http://www.freeBSD.com></a>. But I cannot download the > installation boot disk image file to floppy disk. what I did was > as follows. > 1. save boot.flp and fdimage.exe to my hard drive. > 2. C:\ fdimage.exe boot.flp a: > > After rebooting my PC, the computer told me I could not access the > floppy disk a:. Hmmmm. Are you sure the boot.flp image was copied correctly? I assume you copied the files in binary mode... Hmmmmm. Other floppies boot normally in drive A on this machine, I also assume? Will your FreeBSD boot floppy boot in any _other_ machine? Just trying to narrow it down. -- - Jordan Hubbard FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM.