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From: "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de>
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To: Aaron <click46@webpimps.net>
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Subject: Re: fdimage refuses to work
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On Sat, 29 Sep 2001, Aaron wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
>
>   I've been trying to create the two boot disks for FreeBSD [kern and
> mfsroot] today and for the life of me, cannot. I've done this
> successfully many times before; but now all of a sudden, fdimage refuses
> to work an ANY of the 5 systems I have here. It will not run in any Win9x
> system; it throws illegal operation errors. Under Windows NT, depending
> on the FTP server I got it from, it just hangs or does nothing and quits.
> Under 2000 it doesnt do anything, just returns to the DOS prompt. I have
If one of your 5 systems were some sort of UN*X you could do
# dd if=kern.flp of=/dev/fd0
?!?

Uli.

> tried and downloaded fdimage from ftp through ftp6 [ftp4 doesnt allow
> guest access?] with no success. What is odd is different fdimage files
> from different ftp sites act differently.
>   I'm quite flustrated and quite confused. Is there an obvious mistake I
> am making? Because I just dont see it...
>
> Thank you,
>
> - click46
>
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