From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Mar 27 11:19:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from dsl-035-f.resnet.purdue.edu (dsl-035-f.resnet.purdue.edu [128.211.162.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DF2337B8BB; Mon, 27 Mar 2000 11:19:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dedrick@dsl-035-f.resnet.purdue.edu) Received: from localhost (dedrick@localhost) by dsl-035-f.resnet.purdue.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA00344; Mon, 27 Mar 2000 14:19:57 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dedrick@dsl-035-f.resnet.purdue.edu) Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 14:19:57 -0500 (EST) From: Eric Dedrick To: billf@FreeBSD.org Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/17627: problem with install floppy? In-Reply-To: <200003271849.KAA35644@freefall.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Well, I have used several new floppy disks, and I have copied kern.flp from several different ftp sites, always in bin mode, and just used dd to copy it over to my floppy drive. Actually, I can't even boot off of my old 3.3 kern.flp, so I'm pretty sure this a hardware problem on my part. I'm suspicious that my CPU might be damaged, do you think that a damaged CPU could prevent me from booting off of a floppy as described? Thanks. On Mon, 27 Mar 2000 billf@FreeBSD.org wrote: > Synopsis: problem with install floppy? > > State-Changed-From-To: open->closed > State-Changed-By: billf > State-Changed-When: Mon Mar 27 10:47:46 PST 2000 > State-Changed-Why: > It means you have a bad floppy or the image you transfered got damaged. > > Use binary mode to transfer and try a different floppy. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message