Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 10:53:30 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl> To: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> Cc: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>, alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.2-RC1 failure on 164LX Message-ID: <20001116105330.C1772@freebie.demon.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0011161059350.9657-100000@zeppo.feral.com>; from mjacob@feral.com on Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 11:00:34AM -0800 References: <200011161856.eAGIue348925@vashon.polstra.com> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0011161059350.9657-100000@zeppo.feral.com>
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On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 11:00:34AM -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > > I can't use the ISO image because my link is too slow to download it > > and I don't have a CD burner. > > > > I could probably try to netboot it if somebody gave me step-by-step > > instructions. I've never netbooted anything before. > > > > A question: if the floppy had read errors, would they be detected > > and reported? I.e., is it worthwhile to try a different diskette? > > No, SRM does complain about bad diskettes. At least the Multia one does all > the time. If you have a Multia doing that please try the SRM version I once found somewhere on the Net and that works with floppies ;-) See ftp://www.tcja.nl/pub/wilko It solved my Multia's complaints. -- Wilko Bulte Arnhem, the Netherlands wilko@freebsd.org http://www.freebsd.org http://www.nlfug.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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