From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 27 20:33:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from eris.quintessential.com (ns1.quintessential.com [209.98.180.202]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8493F14EBE for ; Sat, 27 Mar 1999 20:33:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wood@eris.quintessential.com) Received: from none.visi.com (freeq-host33.dsl.visi.com [209.98.235.33]) by eris.quintessential.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA29906; Sat, 27 Mar 1999 22:35:29 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.19990327223254.008d1c80@freeq.com> X-Sender: wood@freeq.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 22:32:54 -0600 To: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" From: "Brian D. Woodruff" Subject: Re: 3.1 UNstable Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <36FD7335.96FB761D@freeq.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 08:21 PM 3/27/99 -0800, you wrote: >On Sat, 27 Mar 1999, Brian Woodruff wrote: > >> My business partner just spent three hours trying to install 3.1 STABLE >> onto a new system, and always got "bad format" errors (or something >> similar) when we tried to load the kernel upon boot. >> >> When we switched to the 3.0 CD-ROM, the system loaded and booted fine. >> In every case, we used the "minimum" configuration. My partner and I >> have both performed dozens of successful installations in the past, both >> via net and CD. I can only assume that 3.1 STABLE is not suitable for >> release. > >I found that 3.1-RELEASE was very sensitive to floppy disk quality. I >formatted the disks on Win95 with verify on, and threw out any disk with >even a single bad sector, and that got it to work. I didn't install off a floppy - I booted off a CD and installed off ftp5.freebsd.org I subsequently installed successfully off of the same CD, so I know that is not an issue. Also, yes, since the image files are mapping by cluster, you must have perfect media in order to get a useful set of install disks, if you have to install off of floppies. Fortunately, I have bandwidth on my side, and don't have to go through such pains! BDW > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message