From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 27 04:40:22 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA08788 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 27 Apr 1997 04:40:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from eac.iafrica.com (196-31-98-172.iafrica.com [196.31.98.172]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA08783 for ; Sun, 27 Apr 1997 04:40:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by eac.iafrica.com (8.8.5/8.6.12) id NAA08543; Sun, 27 Apr 1997 13:38:31 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199704271138.NAA08543@eac.iafrica.com> Subject: Re: installing freebsd In-Reply-To: from Kevin Eliuk at "Apr 26, 97 11:24:24 pm" To: kevin_eliuk@sunshine.net Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 13:38:31 +0200 (SAT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Kevin Eliuk wrote: > > > I've noticed a lot of reports of problems with fdimage. I couldn't have it > > > work for me. You will probably have greater luck with rawrite.exe. > > > > > I tried, no luck. The image is 1.474M and the disk is 1.456M! > > Rawrite tells me something about an ending marker problem. [ ... ] > P.S. I did try fdimage again just to see and recieved the error message: > `sector not found' on a freshly formatted floppy. I'd appreciate hearing from anyone who is experiencing reproducible problems with `fdimage', and would be prepared to spend a few minutes running a debugging version of the program, and send me the output. `Fdimage' was intended to replace `rawrite', which has significant problems of its own; and it would be useful to have a utility that works reliably for everyone. If anyone can assist, please mail me directly, and I'll send an updated version of the program which includes a debugging option. Thanks. -- Robert Nordier