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- From: dejesus@avalon.nwc.navy.mil (Francisco X DeJesus)
- Subject: Re: SLS problems with doinstall
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- Organization: Science Applications International Corp.
- References: <VZANDY.93Jan21003124@occs.cs.oberlin.edu> <1993Jan27.104510.9105@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 17:38:22 GMT
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- >vzandy@occs.cs.oberlin.edu (Victor Zandy) writes:
- >: I have the complete SLS package on MS-DOS formatted floppies. The
- >: boot and utilities disks work fine, but we've been unable to get the
- >: install script to work.
- >:
- >: I have a 5.25 A drive and 3.5 B drive. All of the SLS packages are on
- >: 3.5 floppies. I boot from drive A. It tells me to take out the boot
- >: disk, replace it with the utilites disk, and THEN choose the drive and
- >: format the SLS disks are to be installed from. This seems confusing
- >: to me, since the drive that I want the utilities disk in should not
- >: necessarily be the drive from which the SLS installation should be
- >: done -- or should it? In any case, when I choose the drive number to
- >: do the installation from, that number is also used to indicate the
- >: drive that the utilities disk is in. So I *cannot* use my A: for
- >: booting and utilities, while using B: for installation disks.
-
- I had a1 on a 5.25" A: drive, booted from it, and had a2-... on my 3.5"
- B: drive. I didn't take the "replace and choose" order to be significant,
- and I suppose it wasn't.
-
- >: Furthermore, after we seemed to get things going successfully and were
- >: asked to insert disk a3, it only read for one second, and then gave us
- >: the following error message:
- >:
- >:
- >: MINIX-fs magic match failed
- >: [MS-DOS FS Rel, alpha.8, FAT 12, check=n, conv=b, uid=0, gid=-, umask=000]
- >: [me=0xf0,cs=1,#f=2,fs=1,fl=9,ds=19,de=224,data=33,se=2880,ts=0]
-
- I got this too, but it went on fine. I imagine the problem was that it
- went from a2 being aLinux (minix?) format disk, to a3 being DOS, and it
- took a second to figure it out and print a message about it. Anyone know
- for sure?
- --
- Francisco X DeJesus ----- S A I C ----- dejesus@chinalake.navy.mil
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