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Date:      Mon, 13 Mar 2000 20:09:43 -0500 (EST)
From:      Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org>
To:        ERRIC CHANEY <erricchaney@yahoo.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: installation troubles
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000313200438.15268A-100000@mail>
In-Reply-To: <20000313210626.13097.qmail@web106.yahoomail.com>

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On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, ERRIC CHANEY wrote:

> WHEN I TRY TO MAKE MY FLOPPIES TO BOOT FROM, I GET A
> READ FAULT ERROR WHEN I TRY TO MAKE MY 'KERNEL' DISK.

No need to shout :^)  It could be that the disk image file was corrupted
during download; try downloading it again. You *are* using dd (or
fdimage.exe) to make the floppies, right? If you just copy the image file
to a floppy it will fail.

> P.S. COULD THIS BE A BAD BATCH OF FREEBSD?

This isn't beer, it's an operating system. A damn fine one at that.

--
Chris Hill                     chris@monochrome.org
[place witty saying here]



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