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From: pascal@netcom.com (Richard Childers)
Subject: Re: another person with dist.fs booting problems
Message-ID: <1993Mar10.191910.15998@netcom.com>
Organization: The Free State of Dis
References: <1993Mar2.034835.1497@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1993 19:19:10 GMT
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pinch@cs.washington.edu (Ricardo Pincheira) writes:
>I've seen a couple of postings from people with problems booting off
>the "tiny" bsd floppy, and unfortunately I've not seen responses. Well,
>I'm another one with problems :-( .
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>I copied the files into floppy from a unix machine using "dd":
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> dd if=dist.fs.pk-0.2 of=/dev/fd0 bs=16
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>I figure since I got the banner message this step must have been ok. . .
Might want to try using a block factor of bs=1, some boot blocks need to
be copied on a block-by-block basis, and do not end on 16-block boundaries.
Takes longer but the result is more reliable, overall.
-- richard
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richard childers pascal@netcom.com