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From: Samy Touati <lmcsato@lmc.ericsson.se>
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To: "Daniel M. Eischen" <deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org>
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Subject: Re: Problems with SWiM Motif for FreeBSD
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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
>