In message <Pine.NEB.3.91.970212214224.7760B-100000@galaxy.connectek.com>, 
Allen wrote thusly:

-> I have been trying to install NetBSD 1.2 on a 486 system.

[...]

->    fd0a: soft error reading fsbn 2104-2109

	These are floppy read error that the driver caught and corrected.
	They're annoying but harmless.

-> The numbers are different as the items scroll down up screen.
-> I have changed floppy drives, I have changed drive cables, I
-> have changed floppy disks, creating new from rawrite, and so
-> on, and so on.  But each time I get the same thing, maybe the
-> numbers are different, but the same type of errors.

	That's rather odd, but the errors are harmless.

[...]

-> Even with the errors, I decided to continue with the install and
-> see what happened.  I copy_kernel, load_tape, and configure the
-> system. Then on bootup, prior to any customizing of the kernel
-> I received a number of errors in the boot process.
-> 
-> Checking for coredump
-> save core: /netbsd: _dumpdev not in name list

	This is because the installed kernel is stripped.  When you get 
	enough of a system to rebuild a kernel (or get someone to build 
	you one), this should go away...

--rafal

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Rafal Boni                                                rkboni@concentric.net