Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 18:00:59 +0100 (BST) From: Niall Smart <nsmart@iona.com> To: Paul Bangert <pdbindy@ibm.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installation problems Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.970807175619.6670C-100000@ultra> In-Reply-To: <33E9EDE2.2FA7@ibm.net>
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the 5 step guide to making boot disks :) 1) you must make the boot disks in DOS ( not a DOS prompt from Windows 31/95/NT ) 2) if you still have no luck run a scandisk with surface check on your diskettes 3) if you still have no luck redownload rawrite.exe and boot.flp and try again 4) sounds like a hardware failure with your computer, try it on someone elses :) Do you have Linux installed? You can use the dd command to write the image if you do: # dd if=/some/path/boot.flp of=/dev/fd0 -- Niall Smart Customer Engineering, IONA Technologies. (www.iona.com) On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, Paul Bangert wrote: > I can't seem to get to square one. > I am trying to use the makeflp.bat and it keeps failing with a sector > not found error. I have formatted the diskettes using MS-DOS Format, > they are 1.44Meg diskettes and I have tried several of them all with the > same results. > Any ideas. Obviously I can't go any further until I get a clean build > of the boot diskette.
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