Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 05:26:25 +1000 From: "Richard Lyon" <rlyon@ozemail.com.au> To: "Niall Smart" <nsmart@iona.com>, "Paul Bangert" <pdbindy@ibm.net> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Installation problems Message-ID: <199708081524.BAA07975@oznet07.ozemail.com.au>
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See comments below. -----Original Message----- From: Niall Smart <nsmart@iona.com> To: Paul Bangert <pdbindy@ibm.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Date: Friday, 8 August 1997 3:25 Subject: Re: Installation problems 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 ) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This is not true. I have always made all my boot disks from the dos prompt in windows NT using rawrite2. The real issues are whether there are any bad tracks on the floppy, if the image has been downloaded correctly, has the floppy been formatted to the correct capacity. Always format the disk before starting. Use scandisk to check for errors. Only use the disk if scandisk reports no errors. Wait until the LED on the drive is off before removing the floppy from the drive. I have installed FBSD from floppies a number of times. All floppies were formatted using NT. At work I have also created boot floppies under 95 and never had a problem using rawrite2. 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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