From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 30 21:45:54 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id VAA11178 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 30 May 1995 21:45:54 -0700 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id VAA11170 for ; Tue, 30 May 1995 21:45:53 -0700 Received: (from phk@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id VAA22378; Tue, 30 May 1995 21:45:46 -0700 From: Poul-Henning Kamp Message-Id: <199505310445.VAA22378@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: Announcing FreeBSD 2.0.5 ALPHA! To: ghelmer@alpha.dsu.edu (Guy Helmer) Date: Tue, 30 May 1995 21:45:46 -0700 (PDT) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Guy Helmer" at May 30, 95 10:35:41 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 736 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > NOTE: If you're installing directly from ftp you can simply grab the > > boot.flp image from the floppies directory... > > It's an awesome installation process! > > However, I have tried installing it on a PC with an older 300MB ESDI drive > that has several bad sectors; initially, I tried to just un-tar the Hmm, we cannot guarantee to find all badspots with a simple read-check, but that you have trouble with badspots on the list makes me wonder if your boot-blocks got updated right. Try to wipe the disk entirely before installing again... -- Poul-Henning Kamp -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc. 'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent' => 'no rude people are relevant'