From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 29 17:31:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA02569 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 29 Oct 1997 17:31:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from out2.ibm.net (out2.ibm.net [165.87.194.229]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA02560 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 1997 17:31:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mikegoe@pop03.ca.us.ibm.net) Received: from aldebaran.ird.rl.af.mil (slip166-72-108-101.ny.us.ibm.net [166.72.108.101]) by out2.ibm.net (8.8.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id BAA08198; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 01:31:06 GMT Message-Id: <199710300131.BAA08198@out2.ibm.net> Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Michael G." To: "Jaime Bozza" , "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 20:28:21 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: 2.2.5 Unable to boot floppy Image !SOLVED! X-Confirm-Reading-To: "Michael G." X-pmrqc: 1 Priority: normal In-reply-to: <01bce4be$ed100320$0f3d31cc@electron.nuc.net> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.54) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >Hm, first time I've heard of fdimage failing where rawrite works. :-/ > > > I had that once ... The Feb 97 version of fdimage never worked for me, no > matter what I tried, yet rawrite always worked. I'm using the May version > now (which I believe is the current version) and it works fine. > > Perhaps verifying you (he) have the latest fdimage? This is the first time I've used fdimage.exe, I did get it at ftp.freebsd.org along with 2.2.5. Although unlikely, it could be that my 3.5 drive is actually a 2.88 drive but the disk is formatted to 1.44. Michael G. ------------------------------------------------------------ Brought to you by the letters "O" and "S" and the number "2" Live FreeBSD... or Die! COBOL...the language of business! C:\DOS C:\DOS\RUN RUN\DOS\RUN ----------------------------------