Boot it off a cd?
Regards
S.
On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 10:55:23 +0200, Jouke Witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Hello,
I happen to have the same problem with different (all NEW) floppies and
different kern.flp
Jouke,
Does the old pc already have an operating system on
it?
If not, you could try installing DOS on it and then
copying rawrite.exe (I think it's called under
'dostools' folder from cd) to the hard drive and
creating the boot discs on the machine that will be
using them.
Sometimes floppy
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http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-July/051498.html
Hello,
I happen to have the same problem with different (all NEW) floppies and
different kern.flp files (4.8, 4.9, 4.10) even from diiferent FTP
servers (!) on my old compaq prolinea 66MHz (DX2) 20MB RAM.
On Sat, 3 Jul 2004, Danny MacMillan wrote:
If you have another laptop, you can:
1. Put the hard drive in the other laptop.
2. Install a boot manager on it that will allow you to boot from CD.
3. Put the hard drive back in the HP.
4. Boot the HP from the FreeBSD and proceed as normally.
Fishing for insight here.
Trying to install FreeBSD on an HP Pavilion 7050 from around 1996 or so.
Here's what I've tried so far:
Boot from 4.9 install CD, burned from ISO. I've used this CD successfully
on other machines, so I assume it's OK. The HP ignores it completely and
only boots from
On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 06:30:28AM -0600, David Fleck wrote:
...
I'm pretty much at a standstill here. My current working hypothesis is
that my main machine's floppy drive is writing crap, or the HP's floppy
drive is reading crap. I can live with that, but is there any other way
to get
