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Date:      Sat, 05 Dec 1998 16:30:57 +0000
From:      Dom Mitchell <dom@myrddin.demon.co.uk>
To:        "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sysinstall question
Message-ID:  <E0zmKbh-0000EA-00.qmail@myrddin.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: "Gary Palmer"'s message of "Fri, 04 Dec 1998 18:27:52 -0500"
References:  <8841.912814072@gjp.erols.com>

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"Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG> writes:
> Doug White wrote in message ID
> <Pine.BSF.4.03.9812041523450.9820-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>:
> > > mountmsdosfs(): bad bpb
> > 
> > The fixit floppy is a UNIX format disk image.  mount_msdos shouldn't be
> > touching it.  
> 
> This is a known issue. Jordan broke the fixit floppy for 3.0. My
> guess is he's trying to use the same internal fn to mount the floppy
> for doing a DOS floppy install as he is mounting the fixit
> floppy. End result: sysinstall gets royally confused. He's aware of
> the problem and promises to fix it. Sometime.  :)

Thanks.  I really was wondering why it wasn't working...

Could somebody update the errata.txt with that?

I eventually got it working by dragging my 2.2.5 CDROM out of the
dusty cupboard for use as a fixit CD...

-Dom

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