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From: wpaul@panix.com (Bill "This is a close-up?!" Paul)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Cant get rawrite to work
Date: 12 May 1994 18:43:34 -0400
Organization: The M00se Illuminati (bl00p!)
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Daring to challenge the will of the almighty Leviam00se, Russell LaVelle
(xperts@infi.net) had the courage to say:
: Can anyone give me any hints as to how to get rawrite to build the
: cdins_xx.flp file that came on the Walnut Creek cdrom? I've tried both
: files one 3.5 and 5.25 disks... The disk is left corrupted after rawrite is
: done. (i.e. trying to access it gives me a general failure error).
Uhm, if I read you correctly, you're missing the point. By 'general
failure error,' I gather you really mean 'General failure reading from
drive A:' which to me says you're trying to use the DIR command in DOS to
view the contents of the disk. (I may be wrong, but I'm prepared to
swear on a stack of man pages that you'll never see the message 'general
failure' anywhere in FreeBSD, or any other UNIX for that matter. :)
You can't do that: the floppy you've just created is a bootable FreeBSD
disk, not an MS-DOS disk. It has a 4.2 BSD filesystem on it, not an
MS-DOS 'FAT' filesystem, so of course you can't do a DIR on it.
Rawrite is probably working just fine. Put the disk in your A: drive and
reboot your machine. You should get a boot prompt. I'll wager you're
supposed to have your Walnut Creek CR-ROM in your CD-ROM drive at
the same time (I'm guessing here because I don't have it myself -- I
downloaded the distribution from the net). Press ENTER at the boot prompt
and see what happens.
Now, if I guessed wrong, and you actually have tried booting the floppy
already and still encountered errors, then I hereby entitle you to make
as many nasty remarks about my lack of mental acuity, questionable
parentage or poor taste in ties as are needed to make you feel better.
But frankly, I strongly suspect than all you need to do is R the FM
a little more closely. (That, or the FM in question isn't clear about
what needs to be done. The CD-ROM does come with intstructions, doesn't
it?)
Hope this helps. Really. :)
-Bill
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Uhm, yeah. Wait a minute... is this a troll? >;)
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