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Date:      Sat, 5 Apr 2003 08:44:10 +0100
From:      Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 4.8-Installation floppies fail
Message-ID:  <20030405074410.GB86666@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi>
In-Reply-To: <3E8E8339.5060304@users.sourceforge.net>
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On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 04:18:17PM +0900, Rob Lahaye wrote:

> Yes, this is the official 4.8 release of April 3rd.
>=20
> I have put kern.flp and mfsroot.flp on two floppies.
> The kern floppy boots, as usual, but the mfsroot floppy
> stops after showing the following three dialogs in a row:

[...deletia...]
=20
> Does the official release come with broken floppy files?
> Anything I can do to avoid this?

No, but floppy disks are notoriously unreliable.  Sounds to me as if
your mfsroot floppy has got some bad sectors.  Could you try again,
making a new mfsroot floppy, preferably on a brand new never used
before floppy?

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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