From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 28 11:50:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA15169 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 11:50:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA15040 for ; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 11:49:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA24447; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 11:48:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 11:48:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: "J. W. Ballantine" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.7 boot floppies updated. In-Reply-To: <9807242030.AA07300@akiva.homer.att.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, J. W. Ballantine wrote: > > HI, > > I downloaded the new floppies and tried to copy them to disk via dd > on a sun4.1.3 system (same way as previously), and received: > > << Fri Jul 24 16:01:28 1998 >>> > fd0: write failed (44 4 0) > fd0: bad format > > And when I tried to start I received a read error. > > Yes, I did use bin to download , and the length is: > > 1474560 Jul 24 16:15 boot.flp > > same as on cdrom. Then the disk itself is probaby bad. Use a new floppy. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message