4.8-Installation floppies fail

[Rob Lahaye]

Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 04:18:17PM +0900, Rob Lahaye wrote:
>>Does the official release come with broken floppy files?
>>Anything I can do to avoid this?
> 
> 
> No, but floppy disks are notoriously unreliable.  Sounds to me as if
> your mfsroot floppy has got some bad sectors.  Could you try again,
> making a new mfsroot floppy, preferably on a brand new never used
> before floppy?

Thanks; indeed that was the problem.

I found out that I can check first whether my floppies
are alright by
   fdformat -f 1440 /dev/fd0
on my other FreeBSD box. This program reports
bad blocks on the floppy.

I actually wonder if this should go in the installation
manuals somewhere.

Thanks!
Rob.