From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 14 1:11:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5A6A37B724 for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 01:11:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id BAA18748; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 01:38:38 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 01:38:37 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Andrew Cc: ERRIC CHANEY , questions@FreeBSD.ORG, keramida@ceid.upatras.gr Subject: Re: installation troubles Message-ID: <20000314013836.K14279@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20000313210626.13097.qmail@web106.yahoomail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from andrew@soc.lg.gov.ua on Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 10:01:54AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * andrew [000314 01:27] wrote: > on mon, 13 mar 2000, erric chaney wrote: > > > dear sir, > > > > when i try to make my floppies to boot from, i get a > > read fault error when i try to make my 'kernel' disk. > > so i am stuck once again. so what's next. please send > > me more detailed instructions on how to install this > > o/s. thanks for the fast turnaround. i am a unix > > 'virgin', so i need some help with this install. > > > > p.s. could this be a bad batch of freebsd? > > > > ===== > > do you use windoza for making floppies? don't do it. only dos!!! > do you use old not formatted floppies? you should use only new clean > floppies. > Whoa guys, off with the capslock please. :) Ok, now you should be able to make floppies from windows without problems, but I'm pretty sure that the install instructions specify that you must do a _full_ format of the diskette beforehand to make sure there aren't any bad spots. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message