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To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
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Subject: Re: Bummer... Trying to install WITHOUT DOS 
In-reply-to: Your message of Thu, 11 Sep 1997 18:46:39 +0930.
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Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 02:20:35 -0700
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In message <19970911184639.57405@lemis.com>, you wrote:

>On Thu, Sep 11, 1997 at 01:33:09AM -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
>>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> I just got the FreeBSD 2.2.2 VCD ROM from Walnut Creek and made the
>> requsite boot floppy from it, as directed.
>>
>> The boot floppy boots up to the Boot: brompt OK, but then after about
>> 5 seconds it takes off running and just generates a long stream of
>> repeating device errors of some sort.
>
>Of what sort?  At this point you should be getting a twirling baton.

The baton just barely starts to twirl, and then I get an endless
stream of message that all say:

	Error: D:0x0 C:0 H:1 S:0

repeating over and over again.

I have no idea what these mean.  Please enlighten me.

>Report the error message.  If it's telling you that it can't your
>floppy, throw it away and start again.

Is that what the above message means??  That I just have a bad floppy??


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