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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!news.nsw.CSIRO.AU!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!ensta!not-for-mail From: bouyer@chassiron.ensta.fr (Manuel Bouyer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: netbsd-386 first time install help Date: 24 May 1996 16:05:27 GMT Organization: Ecole Nationale Superieure de Techniques Avancees (ENSTA), Paris Lines: 14 Message-ID: <4o4mo7$br3@ici-paris.ensta.fr> References: <alex.832888381@sun1.acm.rpi.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: chassiron.ensta.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: alex@sun1.acm.rpi.edu X-Newsreader: Newsview 0.38 (pre-beta) Alex Scotti (alex@sun1.acm.rpi.edu) wrote: > hello there. > > after about a line or 2 of text, the message is: > "Error: C:0 H:1 S:0" repeated as ininitum. Sounds like your floppy has a bad sector. Did you try another one ? Also, are you sure that your floppy drive works ? At this point, the loader still uses the bios to read the disk. -- Manuel Bouyer, Ecole Nationale Superieure de Techniques Avancees, Paris email: bouyer@ensta.fr --