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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help! Cannot install from floppies
Date: 29 Aug 1995 09:40:05 +0200
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Peter Haegglund <peterh@bellatrix.tdb.uu.se> wrote:

>In the alternative window (just discovered it), alt-F2,
>something maybe more interesting can be seen:
>   /stand/cpio premature end of file.

Nothing above this?

Is the ``emergency holographic shell'' already running on VT4?  (Try
Alt-F4) If so, please run `dmesg' there and quote the last 10 lines
here.
-- 
cheers, J"org                      private:   joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
                                   http://www.sax.de/~joerg/

Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)