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- From: pfau@coffee.enet.dec.com (Thomas Pfau)
- Subject: Re: Partial install of a series
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.160848.10991@e2big.mko.dec.com>
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 16:10:01 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec24.095749.17604@nwnexus.WA.COM>, danubius@halcyon.com (Joseph R. Pannon) writes...
- >I need urgent help to recover from the partial install of the series 'b'
- >disks. Apparently the 6th floppy was either of marginal quality, or not
- >seated quite right in the drive sending sysinstall into a seemingly
- >infinite loop displaying some error message about not being able to read
- >it. So, I had to stop it with Ctrl-C. But then, when I wanted to
- >reinstall the series, it would not recognize the first (b1) disk and
- >kept asking for it every time I hit the Enter key.
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- sysinstall wants to mount the disk to /user which didn't exist after I
- installed from SLS. Try 'mkdir /user' and invoke sysinstall again.
-
- tom_p
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