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From: "Ian Kallen" <ian@gamespot.com>
To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 19:51:07 +0000
Subject: Re: boot floppies broken?
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Sorry, I was really thrown off 'cause I had a 2.1.5 install floppy 
that was mountable so I ASSumed they all were.  Pardon me!

thanks




> Date:          Wed, 8 Jan 1997 15:25:07 -0700 (MST)
> From:          Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
> To:            ian@gamespot.com
> Cc:            freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
> Subject:       Re: boot floppies broken?

> Ian Kallen writes:
> > I've downloaded boot.flp from /pub/FreeBSD/2.1.6-RELEASE (yes, as a 
> > binary) and used
> > dd if=/tmp/boot.flp of=/dev/rfd0c bs=36b
> > to make an image but if I try to mount it I get a bad superblock 
> > complaint.
> 
> The disks aren't filesystems, so therefore aren't mountable and/or
> fsck'able.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Nate
> 
> 
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