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Date:      Thu, 16 Nov 2000 11:00:34 -0800 (PST)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
Cc:        alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 4.2-RC1 failure on 164LX
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.21.0011161059350.9657-100000@zeppo.feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <200011161856.eAGIue348925@vashon.polstra.com>

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> 
> I can't use the ISO image because my link is too slow to download it
> and I don't have a CD burner.
> 
> I could probably try to netboot it if somebody gave me step-by-step
> instructions.  I've never netbooted anything before.
> 
> A question: if the floppy had read errors, would they be detected
> and reported?  I.e., is it worthwhile to try a different diskette?

No, SRM does complain about bad diskettes. At least the Multia one does all
the time.

What I had been thinking of is taking boot.flp and copying all 3MB to the head
of a SCSI or IDE disk and booting that on your 164LX.

-matt




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