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From: tron@lyssa.owl.de (Matthias Scheler)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Newbie: Install-Problems on i386
Date: 24 Jan 1997 02:09:13 +0100
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In article <Pine.SV4.3.95.970120160630.1287A-100000@solarix1.uni-muenster.de>,
	"Manfred Sand" <sand@uni-muenster.de> writes:
> fdcresult: timeout
> fd0a: soft error reading fsbn 2124 of 2120-2125
> ....

As long as you only get soft errors you can ignore them.

> Can anybody explain how to get the correct parameters for the 
> Disk-Geometry ?

Use MS-DOS's mapping as shown by "pfdisk".

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Matthias Scheler				http://colwyn.owl.de/~tron/