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From: peterh@bellatrix.tdb.uu.se (Peter Haegglund)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help! Cannot install from floppies
Date: 28 Aug 1995 17:18:21 GMT
Organization: Uppsala University
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J Wunsch (j@bonnie.heep.sax.de) wrote:

: Any further kernel messages that can be seen?

In th ordinary window only
   Unable to transfer the bin dist from fd0.
   Do you want to try to retrieve again?

and
   Unable to link /kernel into place.

can be seen.

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