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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!Germany.EU.net!news From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Bad Sectors killing installation for NetBSD-0.9... HELP! Date: 5 Jan 1994 14:31:19 +0100 Organization: EUnet Deutschland GmbH, Dortmund, Germany Lines: 24 Distribution: world Message-ID: <2geff7$kc3@Germany.EU.net> References: <2fqp53INN7mf@nbc.ksu.ksu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: qwerty.germany.eu.net In article <2fqp53INN7mf@nbc.ksu.ksu.edu>, windsor@nbc.ksu.ksu.edu (Rob Windsor) writes: |> I have been trying to install NetBSD-0.9 on my system for a couple of |> days now... I have tried twice... |> I have answered 'N' - stating that my controller does not automatically |> remap bad blocks. That didn't seem to help, but I was receiving messages The first time round, I mis-understood the question; the second time, the install procedure nuked my bad sect table that had been working perfectly with 386bsd0.1/0.2.3 |> that the bad-block table was bad. What's up here? Do I need to do something |> to initiate a bad-block table? Or, more precisely... Can I initiate a |> 'bad-block' table during the installation? As soon as one of those nifty "new" and "improved" BSD's out there are up to doing that, I'll try installing again. Sorry, just a bit of grumbling from my side.... -Bernard