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From: Keith Woodworth <kwoody@pheebs.citytel.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: What's wrong with this ATAPI setup? (and adduser.conf)
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 14:44:32 -0800
Organization: Ontario Northland--ONLink
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> 
> >I don't have a solution, but I've run into this problem twice. The
> >2.1.x documentation says that you need to use a different file to
> >create the boot disk (or run a different .exe if you are installing
> >from MS-DOS) if you are using an ATAPI CD-ROM. However, those files
> >do not seem to exist on my 2.1.5 CD-ROM. 
> 
> There used to be different boot floppies for ATAPI and "normal"/SCSI,
> but now there's only one boot floppy image on the CD-ROM.  I also
> noticed that in 2.1.7 the /etc/adduser.* files don't seem to get
> installed, so the adduser script always fails, especially through
> /stand/sysinstall.  Anyone know if this is fixed in 2.1.7.1 or 2.2.1?
> -- 
> font@mcs.net                              Wishes are like dishes.

I just installed 2.1.7 a few days ago using setup.exe to copy what I want 
to install to a dos partition since my mediavision scsi cdrom is not 
recognized by bsd. At any rate all the adduser stuff got intalled 
properly the 2 times ive installed bsd now. Myabe this may make a difference?

Keith