Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 01:38:37 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Andrew <andrew@soc.lg.gov.ua> Cc: ERRIC CHANEY <erricchaney@yahoo.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, keramida@ceid.upatras.gr Subject: Re: installation troubles Message-ID: <20000314013836.K14279@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000314095805.1502A-100000@soc.lg.gov.ua>; from andrew@soc.lg.gov.ua on Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 10:01:54AM %2B0200 References: <20000313210626.13097.qmail@web106.yahoomail.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000314095805.1502A-100000@soc.lg.gov.ua>
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* andrew <andrew@soc.lg.gov.ua> [000314 01:27] wrote: > on mon, 13 mar 2000, erric chaney wrote: > > > dear sir, > > > > when i try to make my floppies to boot from, i get a > > read fault error when i try to make my 'kernel' disk. > > so i am stuck once again. so what's next. please send > > me more detailed instructions on how to install this > > o/s. thanks for the fast turnaround. i am a unix > > 'virgin', so i need some help with this install. > > > > p.s. could this be a bad batch of freebsd? > > > > ===== > > do you use windoza for making floppies? don't do it. only dos!!! > do you use old not formatted floppies? you should use only new clean > floppies. > Whoa guys, off with the capslock please. :) Ok, now you should be able to make floppies from windows without problems, but I'm pretty sure that the install instructions specify that you must do a _full_ format of the diskette beforehand to make sure there aren't any bad spots. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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