Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 14:44:08 -0500 (CDT) From: "M. L. Dodson" <bdodson@beowulf.utmb.edu> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, lila@aloha.net Subject: Re: 1.44 M Message-ID: <199706191944.OAA11486@beowulf.utmb.edu>
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Almost for sure (99.9%+) you either have bad sectors on your floppy,
or you used windows 95 to _COPY_ the boot floppy image to the floppy,
or you used a text file transfer (Netscape or FTP) to download boot.flp,
or this is a symptom of using a DOS command prompt window under Win95.
There can be NO bad sectors on the floppy.
boot.flp is NOT a dos file, but a disk image. You use the rawrite.exe
program to put it on your floppy. (I think there is a new program to
do this in 2.2.1 and later, as well, but it doesn't seem to work 100%,
judging from the problems people seem to have with it).
Always use binary FTP mode to download these files.
At least at one time, a DOS command prompt under Win95 or NT would
not work. It had to be real DOS, or a boot to DOS, not windows, on
Win95. I don't know whether these restrictions still hold; I have not
used them in a very long time. Since FreeBSD 2.0, I've used dd. 8)
Bud Dodson
>
> Hi, tried to download the boot file to floppy to see if I can use
> freeBSD and to my surprise, it won't fit! My 1.44 Meg floppies format
> to 1.38.
^^^^
This looks highly suspect.
> I have Windows 95 on an Acer Pentium. I ahte to look stupid
> but...
> Thanks.
> Rod
>
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