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- From: leisner@trianguli (Marty Leisner 311/? x?)
- Subject: Checksum for bootable system?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.211121.21672@spectrum.xerox.com>
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- Organization: Xerox
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- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 21:11:21 GMT
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- I snarfed the system (and lots of other stuff)
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- I formated a 1.2 meg floppy in my sparcstation, did:
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- zcat dist.fs.Z >/dev/rfd0a
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- and on a few Compaq 486 machines, it tries to boot (doesn't say anything) and goes back in an infinitely
- loop for a RAM count...
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- I tried it again (fdformat, cat dist.fs >/dev/rfd0a
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- When I ran beav, there was something on the disk (the first few bytes say `4386BSD'.
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- I ran:
- cmp dist.fs /dev/rfd0a
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- and got this after a while...
- cmp: I/O error on /dev/rfd0a: Invalid argument
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- Hints?
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- --
- marty
- leisner.henr801c@xerox.com
- Member of the League for Programming Freedom
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