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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!newsfeed.nacamar.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Media errors during boot floppy creation Date: 25 May 1997 16:46:57 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 25 Message-ID: <5m9qe1$j0i@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <230597x2118@semyam.dinoco.de> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41597 seggers@semyam.dinoco.de (Stefan Eggers) wrote: > During creating the boot floppy from a FreeBSD 2.7.1 CD via the script > (makeflp.bat I think) under Dos I got "Sector not found" without any > details. Of course this is some media problem (or drive problem - of > course) but which of the two is it? Media problem. Probably means a sector ID field could not be found when writing. If reformatting doesn't cure it, watch out for the next bit-bucket. > Was it wise to try it under > Windows? Probably not. I have no idea about Windows at all, but ISTR that the docs mentioned it should be run on plainDOS. There is rumoured to be a Win version available now, too. Again, hearsay. I use dd(1) to create my floppies. :) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)