Had more time to do tests.

Gray, David W wrote:
Ummm, nobody has mentioned it, but a more modren machine vs. a really
old bios - the "No operating system" message is a classic sign of a geometry
mismatch - the
new BIOS is probably mapping the drive differently (since it undoubtedly
can handle
multi-gig drives vs 500M for the old BIOS.)

No, as the FreeBSD floppies don't work either.

Darren Pilgrim wrote:
> A few stupid questions:
>
> - Are you using dedicated mode?  Most older computers require the use of
> a DOS partition table (slices).
>
> - Are you making sure to set the active partition?
>

Of course, if the FreeBSD installer does that.

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About the Linux OS's floppies, some work, but not much.

Conclusion: this crap is going back to the ashcan.
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