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From: "Aaron" <click46@webpimps.net>
To: "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de>
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Subject: Re: fdimage refuses to work
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Well thats the thing...the first system to run *nix is the one I'm trying 
to install right now. Luckily the CDROM boots just fine...but I'm still 
curious about fdimage since I use it often.

- click46

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-----Original Message-----
From: "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de>
To: Aaron <click46@webpimps.net>
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 18:26:21 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Re: fdimage refuses to work

> 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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