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To: Jean-Paul Nuytten <jnuytten@penn.com>
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Subject: Re: Installation Problems 
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Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 18:47:56 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> problems loading the distribution.  I seem to be reading the
> distribution from the DOS partition OK, but I am getting write errors "Write
> failure transferring dists".

You cannot install this release of FreeBSD from a DOS partition, I'm
afraid.  That will be supported in 2.2, but that's at least 60 days in
the future and of little help to you now unless you can download
2.2-BETA (but if you could download it, you probably wouldn't have the
CD).

> Secondly, I have an IDE 8X CDROM (it came with the Creative Labs Sound
> Blaster 32PNP).  The book says that I should make a boot floppy using

It's also doubtful that this model will work with 2.1.5, but if it
does it will using the boot.flp image.  The atapi.flp image is gone
and only erroneously referenced in 2.1.5 - it has been merged into
boot.flp

						Jordan