Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 17:16:07 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: whonew@newworld.bridge.net Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: (Fwd) BOOT.FLP Bad Sector when writting to floppy A: Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960126171446.3014A-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199601261728.MAA01520@newworld.bridge.net>
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On Fri, 26 Jan 1996 whonew@newworld.bridge.net wrote: > I was attempting to try out you product, but after downloading > BOOT.FLP and RAWWRITE.EXE the executable was able to finf BOOT.FLP, > and appeared to write all of the sectors to disk, but then displayed: > > bad sector 1 Sounds like a bad floppy. Did you try a fresh, formatted 1.44MB floppy? Otherwise I would try re-downloading boot.flp and making sure you selected binary mode. > I downloaded BOOT.FLP more than once, tried multiple floppies, (1.2M > 5.25"), but did not re-download the executable. boot.flp will only work with 1.44mb 3.5" disks, if I remember correctly. I could be wrong, I don't have the image in front of me here. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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