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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news 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 Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4cv0t1$2pi@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4b9s76$1a4@mitzi.rsmas.miami.edu> <TOMDEAN.96Jan2084824@slcsun2.slac.stanford.edu> <4cfhln$8o1@news2.realtime.net> <4cmee7$eli@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4crl9l$nac@news2.realtime.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 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. ;-)