From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Nov 16 13:51: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9498937B479 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 13:51:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.54.101] (helo=freebie.demon.nl) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #2) id 13wWvv-00073X-00; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 21:51:03 +0000 Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.demon.nl (8.11.1/8.11.0) id eAG9rUv02251; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 10:53:30 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 10:53:30 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: Matthew Jacob Cc: John Polstra , alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.2-RC1 failure on 164LX Message-ID: <20001116105330.C1772@freebie.demon.nl> References: <200011161856.eAGIue348925@vashon.polstra.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from mjacob@feral.com on Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 11:00:34AM -0800 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.2-BETA X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 11:00:34AM -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > > 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. If you have a Multia doing that please try the SRM version I once found somewhere on the Net and that works with floppies ;-) See ftp://www.tcja.nl/pub/wilko It solved my Multia's complaints. -- Wilko Bulte Arnhem, the Netherlands wilko@freebsd.org http://www.freebsd.org http://www.nlfug.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message