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From: fredh@telerama.lm.com (fredh)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: FBSD-1.1R, CD install, pmap_use_pt page fault ???
Date: 9 Jul 1994 02:15:25 -0400
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Michael Giegerich (migieger@luva.stgt.sub.org) wrote:

: I was installing FBSD-1.1R from CDROM with cdinstall floppy.
: All went well up to the moment the install script failed to
: install (was creating /dev files) with the error message
: pmap_use_pt page fault.

: What am I doing wrong?

: -- 
: ------------------------------+------------------------------
: Michael Giegerich             | migieger@luva.lb.bawue.de
:                               | (migieger@luva.stgt.sub.org)
: ------------------------------+------------------------------

To put it frankly the cd is screwed up. Get the cdinstall disk from 
ftp.cdrom.com, then restore the the bindist file form the cd's tarballs 
directory.  Don't rely on the cdrom's system directory.  Many of the 
files are of zero length.