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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
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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