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Remove install-bad-blocks:

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95% bogus, user-controlled bad block mapping stopped being a
thing about 20 years ago

Noted by:	scottl
Approved by:	bcr (mentor, implicit)
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Eitan Adler 2013-01-24 17:34:55 +00:00
parent 176b2b4049
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Notes: svn2git 2020-12-08 03:00:23 +00:00 
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en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml
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</answer>
</qandaentry>
<qandaentry>
<question id="install-bad-blocks">
<para>Can I install on a disk with bad blocks?</para>
</question>
<answer>
<para>You can, but it is a bad idea.</para>
<para>If you are seeing bad block errors with a modern IDE
drive, chances are the drive is going to die very soon (the
drive's internal remapping functions are no longer
sufficient to fix the bad blocks, which means the disk is
heavily corrupted); we suggest you buy a new hard
drive.</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
<qandaentry>
<question id="boot-floppy-strangeness">
<para>Strange things happen when I boot the install disk!
What is happening?</para>
</question>
<answer>
<para>If you are seeing things like the machine grinding to a
halt or spontaneously rebooting when you try to boot the
&os; installer, make sure that the SHA256 hash of
the image matches the one on the website. If you
accidently downloaded the disk image in binary (or
image) mode the will be corrupted. (Do not be embarrassed,
even the best of us have accidentally downloaded a binary
file in ASCII mode at least once!)</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
<qandaentry>
<question id="no-install-cdrom">
<para>I booted from my ATAPI CD-ROM, but the install program