From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 13 17: 9:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.monochrome.org (monochrome.org [206.64.112.124]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B1EB37B530 for ; Mon, 13 Mar 2000 17:09:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chris@monochrome.org) Received: from localhost (chris@localhost) by mail.monochrome.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id UAA15289; Mon, 13 Mar 2000 20:09:43 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from chris@monochrome.org) Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 20:09:43 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Hill X-Sender: chris@mail To: ERRIC CHANEY Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installation troubles In-Reply-To: <20000313210626.13097.qmail@web106.yahoomail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message