From owner-freebsd-current Tue Aug 18 14:19:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA27983 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 14:19:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA27973 for ; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 14:19:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA26340; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 14:18:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 14:18:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Brian Dean cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sysinstall broken: can't load config file from floppy In-Reply-To: <199808181823.OAA05715@dean.pc.sas.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Brian Dean wrote: > While installing FreeBSD from today's snap (8/18), I got the following > error when loading a configuration file from a floppy: > > "Error mounting floppy fd0 (/dev/fd0) on /dist : Invalid argument" > > The debug screen only said: > > "DEBUG: Init floppy called for xxx.cfg distribution" > > The floppy I'm using is MS-DOS formatted. Are you sure? Invalid argument usually comes if /dev/fd0 isn't a MSDOS formatted floppy. > The last snap I installed was 7/26 and it worked with no problems. I > was wondering if anyone else has had this problem and if there are any > known work-arounds. Try regenerating your floppy disk. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message