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To: Mikael Hybsch <micke@dynas.se>
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Subject: Re: 2.0.5-ALPHA installation hangs 
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Date: Wed, 31 May 1995 14:53:07 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com>
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> I'm trying to install 2.0.5 from a DOS partition.
> If I tell sysinstall to get the distribution from a DOS partition
> it asks which one (I have 2, on different disks). Later when it tries to 
> mount the dos partition it always fails. (I don't remember the error 
> message now).

Could you let me know?  It's actually pretty important! :-(

> from a mounted filesystem. This works, but (now comes the real problem)
> after unpacking  root.flp, the last message on screen 2 is something like
> "DEBUG: Preparing /etc/fstab". Then nothing more happends. If I go to 

This is a bug I just fixed - if you don't assign a mountpoint to a DOS
partition, it does this.  Assign a mountpoint and all is well!

					Jordan