Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 10:46:31 -0500 From: Prashant Dongre <pdongre@opentech.stpn.soft.net> To: "Shin'ichiro Seto/OTESS, Inc." <sseto@otess.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Difference between 2.2.2 and 2.1.7 Message-ID: <3427E456.60B73461@opentech.stpn.soft.net> References: <199709222336.QAA15717@otess.com>
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Shin'ichiro Seto/OTESS, Inc. wrote: > Hi! > > I'm new to FreeBSD and trying to install FreeBSD 2.2.2 on a SBC system. > > SBC stands for Single Board Computer that is used for industrial systems. > It has everything on a half size board, IDE, VGA, serial ports, and so on. > I'm actually building a small server for our site. > > If I boot from floppy that is rawited with Walnut CD-ROM 2.2.2, It'll say > crc error when the process is doing uncompress. But if I use 2.1.7, it will > be ok and up and running. > > The other OS, Linux or Windows95 are also fine for the PC. > > Is there anyone who has any ideas? > Don't say "The floppy media it self is BAD". I've tried that over 10 times. > > Thanks, Hi All, I too faced similar problem with FreeBSD 2.2.2. The Floppy which was made for 2.2.2 was a good one (that's what I thought) had MS-DOS boot on it and working well.... had 2.1.7 on it working well.... but problems with 2.2.2. I think problem could be with the the large size of 2.2.2 boot image. Many floppies have some sort of a problem at the end of writing medium. This is what I have come across many a times. Even DOS format command sometimes takes time to format a floppy when it reaches end, lot of screeching sound and it seems it retries. When I had this problem I changed the floppy but again the same problem. What I did then is to rawrite on another system. I did't get into detail as I was in a hurry to get my 2.2.2 up and running. I am not able to conclude anything from my experience, whenther to blame Floppy drive OR a medium itself.. Prashant.
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