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From: ap713@yfn.ysu.edu (Christopher L. Mikkelson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: [FreeBSD] cdrom problems
Date: 19 Jul 1994 22:18:26 GMT
Organization: St. Elizabeth Hospital, Youngstown, OH
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Reply-To: ap713@yfn.ysu.edu (Christopher L. Mikkelson)
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In a previous article, ejr@ee.cornell.edu (Eric Rossin) says:

>Here is the problem: when I have tried to copy some of the ports
>to disk so I can compile and install, the cdrom hangs. Specifically,
>I mount the drive with "mount_isofs /dev/mcd0a /cdrom".
>Then I tried to copy ports/math/octave and xv. I tried both using
>"cp -r" as well as "tar cvf - octave | (cd /usr/local/src; tar xvf -)"

I had a similar problem with a SCSI CD (TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-3301TA0272)
and the InfoMagic Source Code CD-ROM.  I tried to "cp -r" the X11R5
sources and things started getting wierd.  I got I/O errors, and certain
files on my disk appeared to be blank.  Therefore, it probably isn't the
CD or the Disc.

-Chris
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