Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2003 08:44:10 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.8-Installation floppies fail Message-ID: <20030405074410.GB86666@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <3E8E8339.5060304@users.sourceforge.net> References: <3E8E8339.5060304@users.sourceforge.net>
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On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 04:18:17PM +0900, Rob Lahaye wrote:
> Yes, this is the official 4.8 release of April 3rd.
>=20
> I have put kern.flp and mfsroot.flp on two floppies.
> The kern floppy boots, as usual, but the mfsroot floppy
> stops after showing the following three dialogs in a row:
[...deletia...]
=20
> Does the official release come with broken floppy files?
> Anything I can do to avoid this?
No, but floppy disks are notoriously unreliable. Sounds to me as if
your mfsroot floppy has got some bad sectors. Could you try again,
making a new mfsroot floppy, preferably on a brand new never used
before floppy?
Cheers,
Matthew
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