From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 7 10:01:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA17315 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 7 Aug 1997 10:01:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dublin.iona.ie (root@operation.dublin.iona.ie [192.122.221.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA17297 for ; Thu, 7 Aug 1997 10:01:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ultra (ultra [192.122.221.136]) by dublin.iona.ie (8.7.5/jm-1.01) with SMTP id SAA17651; Thu, 7 Aug 1997 18:01:20 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 18:00:59 +0100 (BST) From: Niall Smart X-Sender: nsmart@ultra To: Paul Bangert cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installation problems In-Reply-To: <33E9EDE2.2FA7@ibm.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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.