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Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 13:24:58 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: Tom Voshell <tvoshell@micron.com>
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Subject: Re: floppy troubles
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On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, Tom Voshell wrote:

> FreeBSD
> 
> When  running  fdimage.exe I get "sector not found" on fresh diskettes.  When trying to boot it
> loops forever on boot:.  cant find kernel.  The boot.flp image is 1,474,560 bytes.  The floppy
> holds 1,457,664 bytes.  Is there another way to boot?

Redownload the image in binary mode.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major