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From: julian@mailhub.tfs.com (Julian Elischer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: bad floppy install in 951104snap
Date: 15 Nov 1995 00:16:01 GMT
Organization: TRW Financial Systems, Oakland, CA
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In article <4897tm$mu0@crl11.crl.com>, Christine Maxwell <kaila@crl.com> wrote:
>won't work on either...many of the problems on the debug screen scroll by 
>too fast for me to read, but these were reported on the dialog screen

hit 'scroll-lock' to freeze the screen, and then use the up and down arrows
to scroll back up through the old output..

> 
>"Unable to swap to /dev/wd0s1b  device not configured"
sugests you didn't make a wd0s1b in the partitioning (or similar..)
it worked fine for me..

I hate to say it but it looks like pilot error..
there is probably something you are making an assumption about that is not 
correct....


>
>"unable to make file system on /dev/rwd0a  command returned status one"
probably similar..
as I said, worked just tickety-boo for me!


>

make sure you didn't get floppies from an exactl momemnt when jordan was
updating them (he did more than once)..

julian
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