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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Writing boot.flp to 1.2M disk Date: 18 May 1996 22:57:21 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4nlkkh$1l5@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4nhupp$g1g@dawn.mmm.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E shstolle1@mmm.com (Steve Stolle) wrote: > I downloaded the boot.flp image and rawrite last night (from > freebsd.org). The page I was reading said you could write the image > to either size floppy. When I try to write to the 1.2M disk, I get > an error at the end that says I have a bad sector at sector #1. A problem with your DOS, or with rawrite.exe? rawrite uses a very simple int 0x13 interface. Are you sure the drive is properly announced in the CMOS? Any chance to copy the diskette in another machine? -- 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. ;-)