Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1998 10:26:27 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: "Michael C. Vergallen" <mvergall@mail.double-barrel.be> Cc: Chris Hill <jchill@dgsys.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Install *actually* friendly Message-ID: <199808050056.KAA11965@cain.gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 05 Aug 1998 01:39:49 %2B0200." <Pine.LNX.3.96.980805012506.18941B-100000@ns.double-barrel.be>
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> 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
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