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Date:      Tue, 28 Jul 1998 11:48:20 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        "J. W. Ballantine" <jwb@homer.att.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 2.2.7 boot floppies updated. 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.00.9807281148040.21490-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <9807242030.AA07300@akiva.homer.att.com>

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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


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