From: dejesus@avalon.nwc.navy.mil (Francisco X DeJesus) Subject: Re: SLS problems with doinstall Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 17:38:22 GMT
>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?
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