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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


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