Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 23:07:47 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: jeff@stat.uconn.edu (Jeffrey M. Metcalf) Cc: rnordier@iafrica.com, bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Installation of FreeBSD from DOS partition Message-ID: <199601302207.XAA15755@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <9601301556.AA19557@ruddles.stat.uconn.edu> from "Jeffrey M. Metcalf" at Jan 30, 96 10:56:15 am
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As Jeffrey M. Metcalf wrote: > > An important fact is that I am able to install a WORKING version of the > the minimal distribution of FreeBSD on my machine from floppy. It's > an annoying 14 disk installation, but it works. I mount my DOS partition > at /dos. When I go to read my files from DOS, I have the problem that > the files appear in a directory, but they are somehow corrupt. Trying > to read them using vi, it seems that a good portion of my system becomes > corrupt. ... It seems that you've got serious disk troubles. Either you've got serious memory problems, and since parity chips on the SIMMs have been eliminated these days, you don't get the usual parity error warnings for this. Try making the memory timing more benign and see if this would help. But i'd rather suspect the IDE controller. Try replacing it by another one temporarily. Any dumb IDE adaptor should do, FreeBSD doesn't use any nifty EIDE extensions anyway. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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