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[F] Skippy Diskette
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jjmorey@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Thu Jul 15 08:05:38 1993
From: jjmorey@Athena.MIT.EDU
To: hotline@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: dcns-cluster@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 93 08:05:29 EDT
Sorry Meaw I blew away your original note.
Basically said error when trying to make
Sun install diskettes.
I have gone throught the procedure and it
has worked for me fine on skippy.
skippy:7:48am hunter! attach bootkit
attach: /afs/athena.mit.edu/astaff/project/bootkit linked to /mit/bootkit
for filesystem bootkit
cd /mit/bootkit/solarisinstall
Error while subscribing: Hostmanager not responding
skippy:7:54am hunter! cd /mit/bootkit/solarisinstall
skippy:7:54am hunter! fdformat
Press return to start formatting floppy.
................................................................................
skippy:7:56am hunter! fd.install /dev/rdiskette
installing label & boot block
installing boot program
544+1 records in
545+0 records out
ejecting floppy
skippy:DING! hunter!
When I used the diskette that was already in drive I got following err:
skippy:8:03am hunter! fdformat
Press return to start formatting floppy.
fdformat: check density?, I/O error
skippy:8:03am hunter!
The diskette I used was a Sony High Density MFD 2HD.
JJ
