Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 11:43:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: pcwang@abbnm.com Cc: freebsd-config@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie install Message-ID: <200306131543.h5DFhcLr026687@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <386E475C.7060401@abbnm.com> from "P C Wang" at Jan 01, 2000 12:28:44 PM
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> > Hi, > > I am new to install FreeBSD OS on my PC. > > I have a old PC with floppy drive and 1GB hard drive without CD. > > I looked the web instruction for instruction to install the OS > > I formatted a floppy disk with size /A:1.44 and try to copy kern.flp > onto the floppy. Since the floppy has only 1.38MB of free space (even > though I formatted with size for 1.44MB) I can not really copy the file > over to the floppy. > I am therefore stucked. > > Any suggestion would be appreciated. You may have gotten too many bad sectors when it formatted which cut down on the size. Try another floppy. Usually I get the full 1.44 MB but it is not uncommon to get a few sectors marked as bad and so I just throw those away. I get maybe one bad one out of every couple of boxes or so. And if I get a bad one in a batch, it seems like that batch will have several when another batch has no bad ones. Of course, your drive might be either going bad or have dirty heads. Then it would be hard to get a good floppy made. ////jerry > > Thanks, > > PC Wang >
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