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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!newsfeeds.sol.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!chippy.visi.com!visi.com!news-out.visi.com!tyme.visi.com!theron From: Josh Lynch <theron@tyme.visi.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Floppy timeout's and read error's Date: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 07:15:05 -0500 Organization: (missing) Lines: 21 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970606070614.171A-100000@tyme.visi.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: tyme.visi.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII NNTP-Posting-Date: 06 Jun 1997 07:12:54 CDT Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:6081 I'm having a ploblem installing netbsd 1.2 (x86). Everytime I try to install via floppies, I get a ton of timeout and softread errors, which eventually lead up to a install error adn corrupted files. I've tried many sets of floppies and even tried two different drives (Teac and Mitsumi) with no luck. The kernel floppy doesn't do this but the filesystem floppy does and all DOS fommated floppies with the split distribution on them do it. I am really stumped. No other OS that I've installed does the same thing. FreeBSD, Linux, and SCO have had no problems (of course, the only floppy in SCO was the boot one) Nevertheless, It it really bugging me. Any input is greatly appreciated. -- Josh Lynch theron@tyme.visi.com "I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."--Calvin, Calvin & Hobbes.