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Date:      Mon, 20 Mar 2000 01:23:15 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Marc van Kempen <marc@bowtie.nl>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: install problem with 4.0 (spec_getpages)
Message-ID:  <20000320012315.V14789@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <200003200834.JAA07659@bowtie.nl>; from marc@bowtie.nl on Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 09:34:32AM %2B0100
References:  <20000319120140.Q14789@fw.wintelcom.net> <200003200834.JAA07659@bowtie.nl>

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* Marc van Kempen <marc@bowtie.nl> [000320 00:58] wrote:
> 
> > 
> > You also ought to make sure the floppies can get through a complete
> > format before dd'ing the images over them.
> > 
> This was it! I went through 8 floppies before I found a decent pair,
> these 3.5" things s*ck.

Another fun one is dd'ing the 2.88MB images to a 1.44 diskette and
being too tired to figure out what the #@$@#$@@# is going wrong while
shivering your butt off in the colo facility.

blech! :)

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]


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