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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: CONGRATULATIONS FreBSD Team
Date: 10 Jan 1996 00:22:57 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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dhbrown@bga.com (Dave Brown) writes:

> >Well, at least with the `verbose' option (from the options menue), and
> >by looking at the output on the second screen (Alt-F2), you should
> >have found the bad floppy.
> >cheers, J"org
> 
> What output on what second screen?  Where would I find something to tell me 

Alt-F2

> that there's a second screen?  I was using the verbose option, but all the 
> pop-up window said was 'put in the next diskette'... it started reading the 
> next diskette and then generated the error message.  That's what made me 
> think the next diskette was bad.

If you've been running with the `verbose' option, you've certainly
missed the message in the bottom line telling you to hit Alt-F2 to
look at the messages on the second screen, have you?

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)