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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!hookup!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD-1.1 installation woes Date: 13 Jul 1994 14:06:40 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman Montana Lines: 29 Message-ID: <300sdg$sdg@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <2vvb6v$jdd@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> <2vvc8p$k2h@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 153.90.192.29 In article <2vvc8p$k2h@csugrad.cs.vt.edu>, Jeff Aitken <jaitken@vt.edu> wrote: >Oh, a couple things I left out. I tried this with *5* different >floppies, 2 of which were cloned with the dd(1) command, and the other 3 >with the dos rawrite.exe program. Same result no matter which one I >tried. I find it very difficult that 5 brand new Sony disks are bad. >Maybe I'm wrong about this, but it doesn't seem too likely. Were they formatted under DOS. They *have* to be formatted under DOS (sort of) and they have to be error free. DOS marks out the bad spots but the FreeBSD boot disks MUST have error free disks. >I also downloaded the 1.1.5 floppy images and tried those, and got the >same errors (well almost the same, the format looked like it changed a >tad, but basically the same crap). So, is this something like a BIOS >incompatibility? I have Phoenix BIOS, v1.03. I still suspect it's bad disks. Re-format them under DOS *before* running rawrite on them and try them again. I've often had problems with disks that were used under DOS that I deleted all the files off before trying to use them for FreeBSD disks. I had to do a fresh format on them before I could use them as the boot disks. Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD core member and all around tech. nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-4836 | home #: (406) 586-0579 | Available for contract/otherwise work.