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@@ -29,7 +29,9 @@ getting OpenBSD installed on your hard disk. If any question has a
default answer, it will be displayed in brackets ("[]") after the
question. If you wish to stop the installation, you may hit Control-C
at any time, but if you do, you'll have to begin the installation
-process again from scratch.
+process again from scratch. If, at any point, the kernel panics
+with "ffs_valloc" your inst floppy is probably corrupted. You
+should make a new inst floppy or fsck your existing one (if you can).
Boot your machine using of the appropriate kernel-copy floppy.
When presented with the boot prompt (the prompt begins with