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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: CONGRATULATIONS FreBSD Team
Date: 6 Jan 1996 18:18:47 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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dhbrown@bga.com (Dave Brown) writes:

> Actually, the installation program is kinda nice.  I will withhold
> congratulations, since I have a complaint.  I happen to be doing a
> floppy install, with a batch of old diskettes (from a previous dos
> backup).  Well, there were two diskettes which had problems.  One
> was just a bad diskette; the other, a truncated file--apparently an
> incomplete download.  The install program did not indicate which
> diskette was bad...

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

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. ;-)