From nobody@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 6 04:02:57 1999 Return-Path: Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 32767) id B6723153D3; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 04:02:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <19990706110257.B6723153D3@hub.freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 04:02:57 -0700 (PDT) From: gift@sancelink.co.za Sender: nobody@FreeBSD.ORG To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Installing Freebsd on an MSDos Fat Partition X-Send-Pr-Version: www-1.0 >Number: 12532 >Category: misc >Synopsis: Installing Freebsd on an MSDos Fat Partition >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: high >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: closed >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Tue Jul 6 04:10:00 PDT 1999 >Closed-Date: Fri Jul 9 06:56:01 PDT 1999 >Last-Modified: Fri Jul 9 07:01:13 PDT 1999 >Originator: Gift Ruud Mlotha >Release: 3.2 stable version >Organization: Sance E-call Company >Environment: Pentium II 266MHZ 2.2GB HDD 64MB RAM NE2000 Ethernet card WIN95 Partition >Description: I have created freebsd boot floppies using the Fdimage utility thus to transfer kern.flp and mfsroot.flp to two IBM formatted floppies but as soon as it starts to load the kern.flp it hangs and brings in an error message saying No C,C,C, >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: State-Changed-From-To: open->closed State-Changed-By: sheldonh State-Changed-When: Fri Jul 9 06:56:01 PDT 1999 State-Changed-Why: Your problem is probably better dealt with by sending mail to the freebsd-questions mailing list. When you do, be sure to provide more information than you did here. Specifically, you'll want to explain exactly what you see, not just what the error message is. In other words, how far into the boot does it get. As an aside, the Sybopsis of your PR was very confusing. I'm not sure what you meant by "Installing FreeBSD on an MSDos Fat partition". Also, does "IBM formatted" mean that the disks came preformatted, or that you formatted them yourself. You should _always_ format the disks yourself. >Unformatted: