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 NOTICE: Make sure your mailer replies to dwhite@resnet or I won't get it! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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