From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 2 13:51:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.mrf.mail.rcn.net (smtp02.mrf.mail.rcn.net [207.172.4.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0AA737B502 for ; Mon, 2 Oct 2000 13:51:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ct-hartford-us218.javanet.com ([209.150.34.71] helo=[209.150.38.76]) by smtp02.mrf.mail.rcn.net with esmtp (Exim 3.15 #2) id 13gCYO-0005gv-00; Mon, 02 Oct 2000 16:51:17 -0400 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: media@ct1.nai.net Subject: Re: install from 4.1 CDROM failed Cc: Heredity Choice Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 16:51:17 -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 10:21 AM -0700 10/01/00, Heredity Choice wrote: > >I get this error message when I try installing on a drive with bad blocks. >DOS is very tolerant of bad blocks. Check for bad blocks with DOS >Scandisk. Thanx!! I ran Scandisk before, but I did it again, and it still didn't find anything wrong. >Typically a harddrive warranty runs from the date of manufacture which >should be on the drive's paper label, 3 years for IDE and 5 years for >SCSI. Contact the manufacturer and he will give you a number and address >to return it for free warranty replacement. This drive was given to me, so I cannot return it to the manufacturer. Then again, I don't have any evidence that the disk is bad. Is there any other way to solve the problem?? Can I use the 3.4 installer to create the partition and then use the 4.1 installer?? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message