From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Aug 4 17:58:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA02727 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 17:58:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA02648 for ; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 17:58:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@cain.gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id KAA11965; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 10:26:27 +0930 (CST) Message-Id: <199808050056.KAA11965@cain.gsoft.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Michael C. Vergallen" cc: Chris Hill , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Install *actually* friendly In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 05 Aug 1998 01:39:49 +0200." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1998 10:26:27 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > for most Unisis can install without requiring anything else besides the > boot floppy or floppys. however one does need to have access to a working > system to create a boot floppy on. Yes, but he's saying the _docs_ are misleading, ie implying that you need an OS already on the machine. > > have encountered a "Write failure on transfer!" when in fact it was a READ > > error due to the bad floppy? > I think that is due to the fact that the comparisson off the byte sizes is > different and it assumes that the floppys are correct. ?? The point is, why does it say 'write error', when in fact, its reading :) > > drive much if at all, still, it *is* there. I would have liked not to have > > had to manually edit my /etc/fstab just to be able to use my floppy drive. > No .. I would not like to see this happen for the simple reason that I see > that most poeple disable the floppy in bios when done installing the > system. On some off my systems I disable and remove the floppy after > installation to make shure no clown tampers with the data contained on > those systems or in event off the systems going down enabling the system > to reboot itself without having to worry that a floppy might be in the > drive. Yes, but adding it to the fstab file won't worry you because the floppy will be disabled, so it won't get detected, which means any attempt to use it will fail. --------------------------------------------------------------------- |Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software | |http://www.gsoft.com.au | |The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to| |choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum | --------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message