Install errors on old HP machine

[BSDjunkie]

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 drives can be aligned very
differently and creating them on the machine you'll be
using them on makes a bit of a differance.

Wow! 66mhz....makes me yearn for my old 486 DX2 66
with 32M of ram....that my friend is a test in
patience.

But if you want to use it as a firewall and put say
two isa nics in it...then go for it. Mine lasted a
couple of years before the hard drives in it started
going out.

Let me know how it goes. Feel free to write.

Mark

--- Subhro <subhro.kar at gmail.com> wrote:

> Boot it off a cd?
> 
> Regards
> S.
> 
> 
> On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 10:55:23 +0200, Jouke Witteveen
> <j.witteveen at mail.ru> wrote:
> > about
> >
>
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. Everytime I
> > boot a kern floppy it gives a zf_read error. This
> error does not occur
> > on other (modern) pc's so the floppy seemes oke
> but other boot disks
> > (for instance my debian installation disk) do
> work, so the floppy drive
> > seems to read oke as well. What can I do to
> install FreeBSD 4?
> > 
> > Yours sincerely,
> > Jouke Witteveen
> > the Netherlands
> > 
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