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Date:      Wed, 10 Jun 1998 00:13:40 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        chado@isupply.net
Cc:        "questions@freebsd.org" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Bad boot disk
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980610001259.295N-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199806052300.TAA21601@server1.isupply.net>

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On Fri, 5 Jun 1998 chado@isupply.net wrote:

> I have downloaded the 2.2.6 boot.flp and the fdimage.exe from your site. 
> I created the boot disk using c:\fdimage boot.flp a:<ENTER>
> 
> After all is said and done and I attempt to boot off of the boot disk I
> receive a read error.  I have done this with two different diskettes to
> rule out bad disks.  Is there anything else that you may know of that
> would cause this? 

Odd to see that on a boot floppy. usually it happens to hard disks. :-/
what BIOS do you have?

Try re-downloading the disk image and using a brand-new disk.  Make sure
you use binary mode when downloading the disk image.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major
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