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Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 17:38:43 -0500
From: Peter Radcliffe <pir@pir.net>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE delayed until November 20th. (fwd)
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Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net> probably said:
> Since the Spectria cannot boot from CD-ROM, I needed the
> installation floppies.  I tried to prepare them under Windows NT 4.0 with
> Service Pack 6, using the rawrite.exe from
> ftp://ftp.freesoftware.com/pub/FreeBSD/tools/rawrite.exe .  I consistently
> received the error:
> 
> 	Attempt to DMA across 64K boundary

fdimage is now the recommended way to write floppy images;

  ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/tools/fdimage.exe

P.

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