Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 15:24:39 -0500 From: Dan Papasian <bugg@bugg.strangled.net> To: Eric Dedrick <dedrick@dsl-035-f.resnet.purdue.edu> Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/17627: problem with install floppy? Message-ID: <20000327152439.A6444@moe.c705742-a.htfdw1.ct.home.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10003271415230.336-100000@dsl-035-f.resnet.purdue.edu>; from dedrick@dsl-035-f.resnet.purdue.edu on Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 02:19:57PM -0500 References: <200003271849.KAA35644@freefall.freebsd.org> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10003271415230.336-100000@dsl-035-f.resnet.purdue.edu>
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If your CPU wasn't functioning properly your computer wouldn't boot or it would be causing the system to have a full freeze. More likely is that you've got a broken floppy or floppy controller. Try checking all of your connections. Also, you say that these disks are new? Have they been formatted? You may run into problems restoring an image to a floppy that hasn't recieved a low-level format once. But if that old 3.3 floppy of yours used to work, I'd guess that your problem is with the floppy drive or controller. Good luck, -Dan Papasian Note: Further discussion on this topic should be taken to freebsd-current. On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 02:19:57PM -0500, Eric Dedrick wrote: > 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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