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- From: 890025d@dragon.acadiau.ca (Andy DeWolfe)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: SLS won't install disks a3 and up; why not?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.193210.14712@dragon.acadiau.ca>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 19:32:10 GMT
- References: <1993Jan22.160506.16880@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
- Organization: Acadia University
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- buchanan@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (BUCHANAN TIMOTHY E) writes:
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- >There really does seem to be something wrong w/ the SLS sysinstall, perhaps
- >because of the new compress format? I don't know, but here is what happens-
-
- >doinstall asks for diska2 and installs bin,faq, and shlibs. Then it asks for
- >disks a3 and so on. It takes no install action on each, simply asking for the
- >next disk. The boot disk it creates at the end will not work. Afterwards,
- >commands such as ls won't work either.
-
- >Tx,
- >Timothy.
-
- I had a different problem, but it happened at the exact same place.
- I was getting Invalid header info messages with each package. Everything
- is the same as you describe. (Note: I got my copy of SLS from sunsite
- this week)
- -Andy
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