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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Subject: Re: misc/1515: Unable to install 2.1.5 from CD-ROM. 
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The following reply was made to PR misc/1515; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To: Bill <bill@duchess.wagill.com>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: misc/1515: Unable to install 2.1.5 from CD-ROM. 
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 09:17:45 -0700

 > Seems as if there's some kind of bug in /stand/sysinstall that, at least in
 > 2.1, used to show up here and there, but never in the initial full install,
 > and which seems to be showing up in the full installation under 2.1.5. 
 > 
 > So, am I basically out of luck? (although another word comes to mind). 
 
 I'm afraid so - I see nothing in sysinstall which has changed, and if
 /dev/mcd0a no longer works then sysinstall just isn't going to see it.
 For what it's worth, those drives were incredibly slow, are totally
 obsolete and perhaps this is a good reason for an upgrade. :)
 
 					Jordan