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#! rnews 1421 bsd Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Media errors during boot floppy creation Supersedes: <230597n2106@semyam.dinoco.de> Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news-peer.gsl.net!jupiter.nic.dtag.de!RRZ.Uni-Koeln.DE!gtnduss1.du.gtn.com!news.gtn.com!news.xenologics.com!semyam.dinoco.de!news From: seggers@semyam.dinoco.de (Stefan Eggers) Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 21:18:02 +0200 Message-ID: <230597x2118@semyam.dinoco.de> Lines: 21 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41541 Hi! During creating the boot floppy from a FreeBSD 2.7.1 CD via the script (makeflp.bat I think) under Dos I got "Sector not found" without any details. Of course this is some media problem (or drive problem - of course) but which of the two is it? And related to this: Executing this script in a Dos box under Windows produced strange sounds. As if it had problems with writing to the disk sectorwise instead via Dos interrupts. Was it wise to try it under Windows? Finally I got a working boot disk so it's not a real problem anymore. But I of course like to know what this was. Stefan. -- Stefan Eggers Lu4 yao2 zhi1 ma3 li4, Max-Slevogt-Str. 1 ri4 jiu3 jian4 ren2 xin1. 51109 Koeln Federal Republic of Germany