From owner-freebsd-current Sat Dec 5 11:03:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA01826 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 11:03:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from myrddin.demon.co.uk (myrddin.demon.co.uk [158.152.54.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA01819; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 11:03:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dom@myrddin.demon.co.uk) Received: from localhost (myrddin.demon.co.uk) [127.0.0.1] by myrddin.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #1) id 0zmKbh-0000EA-00; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 16:30:57 +0000 To: "Gary Palmer" Cc: Doug White , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysinstall question References: <8841.912814072@gjp.erols.com> From: Dom Mitchell In-Reply-To: "Gary Palmer"'s message of "Fri, 04 Dec 1998 18:27:52 -0500" X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Date: Sat, 05 Dec 1998 16:30:57 +0000 Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Gary Palmer" writes: > Doug White wrote in message ID > : > > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message