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Date:      Thu, 26 Apr 2001 11:44:26 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Rick Hamell <hamellr@heorot.1nova.com>
To:        William M Bobbitt <bobbitwm@netscape.net>
Cc:        freebsd-doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Installation of BSD
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104261142380.2682-100000@heorot.1nova.com>
In-Reply-To: <1542E69B.06CD4F20.00952706@netscape.net>

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> To whomever this may concern, I have been trying to create a floppy
> disk with the BOOT.FLP file.  So far I have attempted to download the
> file from two different install CD-ROMs using the RAWRITE utility.  I
> have used new disks and reformatted ones.  Each time I receive a BAD
> SECTOR error.  Is there another way to obtain this file???  I was able
> to download MFSROOT.FLP & KERN.FLP without any problems.

	Please ask questions in -questions. Use fdimage.exe to create your
floppies, not rawrite - especially if you're under Windows 2000. Bad
Sector error means there is a bad spot on the floppy. Oh... and BOOT.FLP
only works with 2.88 disks... use the other two files you have.

	Rick


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