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Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 12:45:48 -0500
From: Jason Stewart <jstewart@rtl.org>
To: jsha <johann@ninja.terrabionic.com>
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Subject: Re: kern.flp === zf_read: unexpected EOF
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On 27/01/04 16:17 +0100, jsha wrote:
> 
> hi.
> 
> i'm trying to install freebsd on my family box using
> the freebsd 5.2 floppies to initiate a network/cd install,
> but i keep on receiving "zf_read: unexpected EOF" on both
> kern.flp and boot.flp.
> 
> i've tried fetching different kern.flp:s from freebsd
> mirrors all across europe. and my floppies are clean.

Could be that your floppy drive is going bad.