Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 08:03:25 +1000 From: "Richard Lyon" <rlyon@ozemail.com.au> To: "Greg Lehey" <grog@lemis.com>, <rfg@monkeys.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Bummer... Trying to install WITHOUT DOS Message-ID: <199709112204.IAA08726@oznet02.ozemail.com.au>
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Yes I wonder also. I use floppies to install FBSD, X86Free, emacs, tex, latex, octave ... FBSD (2.1.5, 2.2.1 & 2.2.2) appears to have problems with about 10% of floppy disks. I have tried different hardware for both reading and writing. The problem only happens with disks with all tracks loaded. The disks have been formatted using FBSD, WIN95 or WINNT. I generally stick to verbatim. There have been no problems with the boot disk ever. After reading about the various problems people have had over the years I follow the following procedure to create a boot floppy. 1. Use the WINNT box and use WS-FTP to download the image with binary mode set. 2. Format a floppy and check it for errors on the WINNT box. If any track errors are found, I throw the floppy away. 3. Use rawrite2.exe (from ftp.debian.org) to copy the image onto the floppy. There is no issue with using NT to create the boot floppy. I use rawrite2 as it is fast and reliable. There is no problems if NT is running a lot of other application while rawrite2 is doing its stuff. Yes I have a big box of disks, but it all works. -----Original Message----- From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: rfg@monkeys.com <rfg@monkeys.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Date: Thursday, 11 September 1997 19:51 Subject: Re: Bummer... Trying to install WITHOUT DOS Yup. It happens so often that I wonder if we don't have a bug in the floppy driver. But it *does* go away with a new floppy. In case of doubt, format it first. Greg
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