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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Yet more install woes
Date: 10 Mar 1996 14:07:32 GMT
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giese@value.net () writes:
> I'm not getting very far on my WC CDROM FreeBSD 2.1 install. Used 
> makeflp.bat to create the boot floppy, but booting just yields the 
> following error, repeated ad infinitem...
> 
> Error: C:35 H:0 S:6

If it bails out that late as cylinder 35, you've certainly got a bad
floppy.

Make sure your floppy is 100 % error free.  The boot floppy doesn't
know about any bad sector remapping feature.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)