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Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 11:57:42 +0930
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc: Mike Stewart <mikest@inetport.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: 2.2.2 install problems
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On Wed, Sep 10, 1997 at 06:42:03PM -0700, Doug White wrote:
> On Sun, 7 Sep 1997, Mike Stewart wrote:
>
>> I am trying to install freebsd from the Walnut Creek CDROM.
>> The CDROM is the 2.2.2 July 1997 release.
>> I have an atapi CDROM, and when I look at the log file using
>> the ALT-F2 option, I see many errors like this:
>> /stand/cpio invalid header
>> warning skipped ____ bytes of junk
>>
>> Then when makedev runs, it has a error, missing files, etc.
>
> I've not seen this before.  Are you sure you're installing from the CDROM
> and not from a DOS partition, say?
>
>> In the install book it mentions using the atapi.flp boot floppy
>> file, but it is not on the CDROM. I also looked at your web
>> site, and I dont see it there either.
>
> The book is out of date; atapi.flp hasn't existed since 2.1.5, released
> last year.

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Greg