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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!sdd.hp.com!wupost!udel!rochester!rocksanne!trianguli!leisner From: leisner@trianguli (Marty Leisner 311/? x?) Subject: Checksum for bootable system? Message-ID: <1992Jul21.211121.21672@spectrum.xerox.com> Sender: news@spectrum.xerox.com Reply-To: leisner.henr801c@xerox.com Organization: Xerox X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4 Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 21:11:21 GMT Lines: 26 I snarfed the system (and lots of other stuff) I formated a 1.2 meg floppy in my sparcstation, did: zcat dist.fs.Z >/dev/rfd0a and on a few Compaq 486 machines, it tries to boot (doesn't say anything) and goes back in an infinitely loop for a RAM count... I tried it again (fdformat, cat dist.fs >/dev/rfd0a When I ran beav, there was something on the disk (the first few bytes say `4386BSD'. I ran: cmp dist.fs /dev/rfd0a and got this after a while... cmp: I/O error on /dev/rfd0a: Invalid argument Hints? -- marty leisner.henr801c@xerox.com Member of the League for Programming Freedom