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From: jdr@magpage.com (Jim Rosemary)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: boot floppy problem
Date: 3 Dec 1996 02:56:33 GMT
Organization: The Magnetic Page [302] 651-WRLD
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Message-ID: <5804t1$63s@tofu.alt.net>

I created a boot floppy using the following:

dd if=/cdrom/floppies/boot.flp of=/dev/fd0 bs=36b

When uncompressing the kernel, I consistently get crc errors.
I suspected the floppy drive was bad and replaced it with another but the
problem persists. Any ideas?