From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Oct 17 15:19:44 1995 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id PAA10968 for bugs-outgoing; Tue, 17 Oct 1995 15:19:44 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA10951 for ; Tue, 17 Oct 1995 15:19:34 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id XAA02856; Tue, 17 Oct 1995 23:19:29 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id XAA05135; Tue, 17 Oct 1995 23:19:28 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id XAA03564; Tue, 17 Oct 1995 23:08:24 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199510172208.XAA03564@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Problem installing. To: walcottt@stu.beloit.edu (Tom Walcott) Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 23:08:24 +0100 (MET) Cc: bugs@FreeBSD.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <9510172126.AA22998@stu.beloit.edu> from "Tom Walcott" at Oct 17, 95 04:26:21 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 611 Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Tom Walcott wrote: > > recal failed > ST0 80 cyl > fd0c: hard error rep. head> > ST1 1 ST2 0 cyl 53 hd 1 sec 3 > zcat: stdin: Input/output error You most likely have a 72065/compatible floppy controller. 2.0R had a serious brokeness with those controllers, leading to a total inability to read floppies with it. Your best bet is using a newer release, the second one to change the floppy controller (at least for installation). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)