From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Jul 8 16: 8:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from dt054n86.san.rr.com (dt054n86.san.rr.com [24.30.152.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3518C1554D for ; Thu, 8 Jul 1999 16:08:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by dt054n86.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA29784; Thu, 8 Jul 1999 16:08:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 16:08:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug X-Sender: doug@dt054n86.san.rr.com To: Abbas Karbassian x7148 Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problem with making boot floppy In-Reply-To: <199907081127.MAA11098@serv10.yp.development> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Abbas Karbassian x7148 wrote: > I have tried to make a bootflopy from dos using the following commands. > > D: > > tools\rawrite floppies\boot.flp You should be using fdimage instead, it's a better tool. > When the boot floppy created, the message was displayed: > "one bad sector" The freebsd boot images require every bit of space on the floppy, including some space that DOS doesn't use. This message is telling you that your diskette has a bad sector, and therefore is not usable for the boot image. Can you suggest a better wording for this error message that would make it more clear? Also, if I recall correctly this is one area where fdimage is superior (better error messages) so perhaps try using that tool with the same disk and let us know what happens? Good luck, Doug -- On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does. -- Will Rogers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message