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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!howland.erols.net!torn!onlink3.onlink.net!pheebs.citytel.net!kwoody 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 Lines: 21 Message-ID: <Pine.A32.3.91.970401143948.11041A-100000@pheebs.citytel.net> References: <5hpvus$ieh$1@Venus.mcs.net> <5hrc5h$4km@lace.colorado.edu> <5hs1ij$l5b$1@Venus.mcs.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: pheebs.citytel.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <5hs1ij$l5b$1@Venus.mcs.net> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38265 > > >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