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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!realtime.net!usenet From: dhbrown@bga.com (Dave Brown) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: CONGRATULATIONS FreBSD Team Date: 8 Jan 1996 17:46:29 GMT Organization: DBAssociates Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4crl9l$nac@news2.realtime.net> References: <4b9s76$1a4@mitzi.rsmas.miami.edu> <TOMDEAN.96Jan2084824@slcsun2.slac.stanford.edu> <4cfhln$8o1@news2.realtime.net> <4cmee7$eli@uriah.heep.sax.de> Reply-To: dhbrown@bga.com NNTP-Posting-Host: jake-4j.ip.realtime.net Mime-Version: 1.0 X-RTcode: 47f26a9a30753c7c27f158af X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.93.11 In article <4cmee7$eli@uriah.heep.sax.de>, j@uriah.heep.sax.de says... > >dhbrown@bga.com (Dave Brown) writes: >>... >> 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 What output on what second screen? Where would I find something to tell me 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. -- Dave Brown Austin, TX