Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 20:21:11 -0800 (PST) From: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" <ejs@bfd.com> To: Brian Woodruff <wood@freeq.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.1 UNstable Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903272018350.21518-100000@harlie.bfd.com> In-Reply-To: <36FD7335.96FB761D@freeq.com>
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On Sat, 27 Mar 1999, Brian Woodruff wrote: > My business partner just spent three hours trying to install 3.1 STABLE > onto a new system, and always got "bad format" errors (or something > similar) when we tried to load the kernel upon boot. > > When we switched to the 3.0 CD-ROM, the system loaded and booted fine. > In every case, we used the "minimum" configuration. My partner and I > have both performed dozens of successful installations in the past, both > via net and CD. I can only assume that 3.1 STABLE is not suitable for > release. I found that 3.1-RELEASE was very sensitive to floppy disk quality. I formatted the disks on Win95 with verify on, and threw out any disk with even a single bad sector, and that got it to work. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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