Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 02:16:54 -0500 (EST) From: Samy Touati <lmcsato@lmc.ericsson.se> To: "Daniel M. Eischen" <deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org> Cc: owner-freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, PROBLEMS@POMONA.EDU Subject: Re: Problems with SWiM Motif for FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.Sola.3.91.960114021436.14622B-100000@chicago> In-Reply-To: <9601140630.AA04386@iworks.InterWorks.org>
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Hi, You can contact lasermoon: support@lasermoon.co.uk and they will give you access to their ftp site from where you can download the bad floppy. In any case they're supposed to come out with a CD version of SWim for FBSD 2.1 very soon. Samy On Sun, 14 Jan 1996, Daniel M. Eischen wrote: > > I recently got a copy of SWiM Motif for FreeBSD - but I have been having > >some trouble. First, the install script that SWiM used must have been for an > >older version of FreeBSD, because it referenced directories that did not exist > >with my vanilla 2.1.0-RELEASE. Anyway, that is not really the problem. > > The REAL problem is that I get this error when trying to untar one of the > >seven supplied floppies (1.44): > > > >fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 216 of 216-235 (ST0 40<abnrml> ST1 4<sec_not_fnd> > >ST2 0 cyl 6 hd 0 sec1) > >tar: read error on /dev/rfd0: Input/output error > > > >I'm assuming the floppy is corrupted. Has anyone else had any problems with > >SWiM Motif? What is a recommendation for a good Motif for FreeBSD? Is Motif > >worth it? > > > >And if the above error is not due to a bad disk, but some other fault, please > >tell me before I write to the distributor asking for another diskette. Thanks! > > I've been using SWiM Motif 2.0 for FreeBSD for a few months and haven't run across > any problems other than the installation script not being correct. > > It does sound like you've got a bad floppy. I'd offer to send you the missing > (corrupted) floppy, but I don't think that would be legal. > > Dan Eischen > deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org >
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