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From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il>
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Gabriel Sîrbu wrote:
> 
> Dear Sirs,
> 
> I bought the book "The complete FreeBSD" by Greg Lehey (two CD-s
> included).
> I was surprised to find that is not "complete" at all... from the
> beginning there are few incompatibilities like this one:
> On page 38 of this book is mentioned that if I am using an IDE CD-ROM
> drive I should copy the file Floppies/atapi.flp instead of
> Floppies/boot.flp. Well, on the CD-s that I have there is no such
> file...
> What should I do in this case?
> --
> Gabriel Sîrbu
> 
> tel: +81-11-706-6182 (office)
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> E-mail: gabi@eng.hokudai.ac.jp

The book is pretty complete, just a bit outdated. The atapi.flp file is
history. Use the standard boot.flp instead. You may also want to search
the archives for this list for a monthly posting of Addendum and Errata
to the book that Greg posts.

Nadav