I'm getting these errors during install also, any ideas as to why?  Is
it a problem, or can you have a full function NetBSD 1.2?

Haven't see any responses to Allen's problem on the list.

Seth Owen (seth.pchelp.inc.net)


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>From: 	Allen E. Caldwell[SMTP:caldwell@connectek.com]
>Sent: 	Wednesday, February 12, 1997 8:57 PM
>To: 	port-i386@NetBSD.ORG
>Subject: 	Installation Questions
>
>
>I have been trying to install NetBSD 1.2 on a 486 system.
>
>Configuration Information :
>
>   80486DX4/100 AMD
>   2s/1p/2ide/1fdc on motherboard
>   16mb memory
>   Adaptec 2940 ( pci )
>   1gb scsi id 0
>   3gb scsi id 1
>   qic scsi id 2
>   1.44 floppy disk
>   svga ( isa )
>   Kingston nic ( pci )
>
>All goes well during the boot from kcadp12.fs, and the initial 
>setup of the size of the different file systems ( root, swap, 
>var, usr ).  But when the install starts to copy from the 
>inst-12.fs floppy to the hard drive filesystems, I start getting 
>a long stream of error messages that look like the following :
>
>   fd0a: soft error reading fsbn 2104-2109
>
>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.
>
>Any ideas what this is about?  Any suggestions as to what to do, 
>or who to ask.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>