From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 20 1: 0:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EF8537B803 for ; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 01:00:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e2K9NGk17635; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 01:23:16 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 01:23:15 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Marc van Kempen Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: install problem with 4.0 (spec_getpages) Message-ID: <20000320012315.V14789@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20000319120140.Q14789@fw.wintelcom.net> <200003200834.JAA07659@bowtie.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200003200834.JAA07659@bowtie.nl>; from marc@bowtie.nl on Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 09:34:32AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Marc van Kempen [000320 00:58] wrote: > > > > > You also ought to make sure the floppies can get through a complete > > format before dd'ing the images over them. > > > This was it! I went through 8 floppies before I found a decent pair, > these 3.5" things s*ck. Another fun one is dd'ing the 2.88MB images to a 1.44 diskette and being too tired to figure out what the #@$@#$@@# is going wrong while shivering your butt off in the colo facility. blech! :) -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message