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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!newsrelay.netins.net!newsfeed.dacom.co.kr!arclight.uoregon.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!hunter.premier.net!news1.erols.com!panix!news.panix.com!usenet From: perry@jekyll.piermont.com (Perry E. Metzger) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Problems with Install floppies for NetBSD 1.1 Date: 25 Sep 1996 12:05:17 -0400 Organization: Partnership for an America Free Drug Lines: 16 Message-ID: <87ranqd1he.fsf@jekyll.piermont.com> References: <3248BFEE.70E4@bga.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: jekyll.piermont.com X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.32 Anomaly <Anomaly@bga.com> writes: > When trying to install the kernelcopy and inst floppies on an i386 I > get random "fd0a - soft error reading ..." messages at various stages of > the process. It does not seem to adversely affect the installation but > just that they appeared at all made me somewhat apprehensive. Has anyone > else had this problem? Is it normal? Does anyone know what causes it? > Is it possibly caused by a slow floppy drive? Any insight into this > would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. 1) I wouldn't worry about it too much. 2) I would install 1.2 instead -- 1.1 is aging badly, and although 1.2 isn't officially out, the i386 snapshot binaries on the ftp sites are in fact likely the ones that will be the 1.2 release. Perry