From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 20 08:55:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA29478 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 08:55:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from prometheus.smlt.com (prometheus.smlt.com [195.172.80.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA29468 for ; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 08:55:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from quintin@smlt.com) Received: from orion.smlt.com (orion.smlt.com [195.172.80.149]) by prometheus.smlt.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA23636; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 15:53:58 +0100 Received: from localhost (quintin@localhost) by orion.smlt.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id RAA12440; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 17:18:55 +0100 Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 17:18:55 +0100 (BST) From: Quintin Oliver To: Scott Mitchell cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD 3.0 In-Reply-To: <19981020161131.C9354@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> 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 Hi, Many thanks for the quick reply, the problem was traced down to a faulty floppy drive, the disk has been writing incorrect sectors onto disks, and has been having troubles with reading disks aswell. Regards, Quintin. On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, Scott Mitchell wrote: > On Tue, Oct 20, 1998 at 03:52:47PM +0100, Quintin Oliver wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've just downloaded the FreeBSD 3.0 boot.flp file, I did a: > > > > dd if=boot.flp of=/dev/fd0 (on Linux) > > > > I placed the disk in a fresh machine, it beeped and crashed :( > > > > Any ideas? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Quintin. > > It would help if you could give us a bit more information here, eg: > > Did the dd work correctly (ie transferred the whole file to the floppy)? > What hardware does this 'fresh machine' consist of? > Can it/has it booted Linux/Windows/whatever successfully before? > What happened before it 'beeped and crashed'? > > More than likely your boot floppy is shafted in some way, but we can't tell > for sure unless you tell us what really happened... > > Cheers, > > Scott. > > -- > =========================================================================== > Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID |"If I can't have my coffee, I'm just > | 0x54B171B9 | like a dried up piece of roast goat" > QMW College, London, UK | 0xAA775B8B | -- J. S. Bach. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message