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From: Steve Howe <un_x@anchorage.net>
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To: Bryan Liesner <bleez@netaxs.com>
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Subject: Re: CDROM installation problems
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On Mon, 5 May 1997, Bryan Liesner wrote:

just copy them off the CDROM into /usr/packages/All
                                      /INDEX   /*.tgz's

then use /stand/sysinstall.  works for me.  (if all else fails).

> I recently got tired of installing my system via ftp, so I broke down
> and subscribed to the CDROM distribution.  When it arrived, I tore open
> the box and installed 2.2.1 over 2.2.  The installation went flawlessly,
> as usual (for me anyway).  After rebuilding the kernel, I decided to
> check out some of the packages.  Initially, sysinstall refused to mount
> the cdrom drive, but after a few tries it did mount.  I was able to
> install some of the packages, but only one at a time.  After installing
> one package and going for another I got this error:
> 
> matcd0: Illegal data mode for this track while reading block xxxxxxx 
> 
> OK, so I used pkg_add and tried to install manually. Same problem.
> Also, if I tried to install a package with dependencies on other packages,
> the first package would install, and then it would bomb out with the above
> error, when pkg_add went for the next file.
> 
> I'm using a Matshushita CR563 CDROM drive attached to a SB16 card. 
> I never had problems reading other cdroms.  This problem is also 
> occurring with the live file system CD that was sent along with the
> install CD. 
> 
> Anyone have a similar problem?  Is my drive hosed?  Is there a problem
> with the matcd driver?
> 
> 
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