I've been trying to install FreeBSD 5.0 RELEASE on an old Pentium 200 MHz, but i cannot get the installer to start.

I cannot get the disk to boot up i should say.

I've changed the startup settings in the BIOS a million times, nothing helps there.

I ran an Md5 checksum and everything was ok.

Downloaded Mandrake 9.1 and burned, did a checksum and everything was ok. Stuck that disk in and it would not boot either. (Did this as a test to see if it was only the BSD disk that wasn't working) However, Mandrake's boot problem was easy to fix with an easily make boot disk using rawwritewin.

I downloaded FreeBSD's kern.flp and mfsroot.flp and put them on floppies using fdimage. I insert kern.flp and everything goes fine and it askes me to insert mfsroot. I do, and it works for a little while, but then it seems to freez. It doesn't seem like its reading the floppy, the cd doesn't seem like it spinning, i don't hear anything from the box...

So, i found boot.flp in the floppies directory of the FreeBSD downloads, but it's too big to be made into a floppy.

Any ideas on how to get my system to start up? Is there a way to make a disk that will force a cdboot up? Is there something about that boot.flp that i'm missing?

THanks so much!!!!

~SonicDragon