Re: reading boot 100's of times (first install)

[Nick Holland <nick@holland-consulting.net>]

Chris wrote:
> 
> This is my first experience with OpenBSD, from reading the docs it seemed
> like it should be pretty painless.  I have download 3.1 from
> ftp.openbsd.org.  I have tired booting from all the floppies and cdrom.
> Each time it loads it just fills the screen with reading boot just scrolling
> 100's of times.  I have tired it in other machines and does the same.  I
> tired creating the floppies and cd's in other machines as well.  I have
> downloaded 3.0 and it gives the same problem.  Didn't see anything in the
> FAQ on OpenBSD.org nor any results on google.com.  Thanks in advance!

Been there, done it.
 
When you downloaded the boot floppy image, you downloaded it to a
WINDOWS machine, and forgot to tell it it was a BINARY file.

Try the download again, use the BINARY option, you will be in good
shape, I think.

Nick.	
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