From owner-freebsd-current Tue Feb 21 08:24:27 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id IAA06542 for current-outgoing; Tue, 21 Feb 1995 08:24:27 -0800 Received: from cybernetics.net (jeffh@server0.cybernetics.net [198.80.48.52]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id IAA06536 for ; Tue, 21 Feb 1995 08:24:25 -0800 Received: by cybernetics.net (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA05988; Tue, 21 Feb 95 11:24:02 EST Date: Tue, 21 Feb 1995 11:23:59 -0500 (EST) From: Jeff Hoffman To: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: 2.0R, floppy problem Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I recently posted this question on the Questions mailing list and got no response. I am posting it here in hopes that someone on this list can find the problem and fix it before v2.1. I will do anything I can to help diagnose the problem, and if any of you hackers have any suggestions I am open to anything at this point. As some of you know, when I tried to install 2.0 from my Walnut Creek CD-ROM, I got a hard error when it went to make fd0c root. I got it installed, finally, after using the floppies in the 'newer' directory on freefall. Now I can boot the machine fine, but cannot install anything from floppy (my X server from X Inside.) --- begin forwarded message --- Ok, by downloading the newer 2.0R floppies from freefall, I got FreeBSD to install off of my WC 2.0R CD. Now, for some reason, whenever I try to read a floppy disk (or mount one, or...), I get an error. Here is an example: nexus# mount_msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 0 (ST0 40 ST1 1 ST2 0 cyl 0 hd 0 sec 1) mount_msdos: mount: Input/output error nexus# This is with a DOS-formatted floppy in the drive. When I try to install my X server (AcceleratedX from X Inside, Inc.), I get the following: nexus# tar -xvzf /dev/rfd0 fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 0 of 0-19 (ST0 40 ST1 1 ST2 0 cyl 0 hd 0 sec 1) tar (child): read error on /dev/rfd0 : Input/output error gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file tar: child status returned 1 nexus# does anyone have any idea what is wrong? I re-made my kernel from the srcdist and the whole 9 yards, yet nothing seems to fix the problem. Is there any hope? Jeff -- Jeff Hoffman -- jeffh@cybernetics.net ------------------------------------- "A man facing the light looks not into sorrow, but to to the future...always." WWW: http://www.cybernetics.net/users/jeffh ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PGP Public Key available on request.