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From: Max F Lang <mflang@bellsouth.net>
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Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 12:22:34 GMT
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Rob Lahaye wrote:

> The MINIX boot-installation disk results in an
> error when trying to boot from disk:  "READ ERROR 04"
> 
First: don't give up on Minix, certainly not yet. The fun is just about
to begin...!

I got the same error message back after downloading 2.0.0 a long while
back. It seemed to come from a bad cat to the floppy. I had to make a
new root+usr floppy twice on my Linux box before I got something that
booted. And that was only after I downloaded a new usr (now usr.mnx)
from the i386 directory. It's apparently easy to cat garbage to a
floppy.
So: try making a new boot floppy, and if that fails download new root
and usr images.

I just dl'd 2.0.2 last weekend and have been up and running since.

MFLang
