From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 25 06:32:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA15233 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 25 Apr 1997 06:32:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from horton.iaces.com (root@horton.iaces.com [204.147.87.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA15190 for ; Fri, 25 Apr 1997 06:31:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from proot@localhost) by horton.iaces.com (8.8.5/8.8.4) id IAA15510; Fri, 25 Apr 1997 08:31:48 -0500 (CDT) From: "Paul T. Root" Message-Id: <199704251331.IAA15510@horton.iaces.com> Subject: Re: installing freebsd To: smatheso@enternet.com.au (Stuart Matheson) Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 08:31:48 -0500 (CDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199704251223.WAA02858@entoo.connect.com.au> from Stuart Matheson at "Apr 25, 97 10:23:24 pm" X-Organization: !nterprise Networking Services - ACES X-Phone: (612) 663-1979 X-Fax: (612) 663-8030 X-Page: (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7270 X-Address: 200 S. 5th St., Suite 1100 X-Address: Minneapolis, MN 55402 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In a previous message, Stuart Matheson said: > I have tried fdimage and rawrite (on ms-dos) and neither of them can write > to the disk because with fdimage, it reports that the file is too big for > the disk, and with rawrite, it writes up to track 80 (or was it 79?) then > bombs out. HELP! (please) > > Stuart Matheson Try a different diskette. It must be a diskette without any bad tracks, if I remember correctly. Paul. -- Life is pretty good until you stop believing in Santa Claus. It goes pretty much down hill from there. - Sum of All Our Fears