Re: Install problem
On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote:
[ snip ]
: > Sounds like that disk 5 was bad. Use another disk and rebuild (rawrite2)
: > disk 5 and try the install from the beginning. As the docs say, most
: > install problems stem from bad disks.
:
: Hmm - I found this as well - a friend made the various floppies with
: rawrite2 and started installing. I had to nip up to my room and dd three
: of them again; is this perhaps a W95 <spit> problem (not detecting the
: problem)?
I have found that since disk 5 does not fill the entire disk I need to
FAT format the floppy before rawriting to it. I've never had disk 5
fail when I've formatted it beforehand (and thrown away crappy disks :)
but I have seen the problem a few times when I've been in a hurry and
haven't put down a fresh filesystem first.
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