Re: Boot error - Bad Magic

[James Davis <james.davis@st-peters.oxford.ac.uk>]

On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Clarence wrote:

> 1)  boot from the floppy (e.g. use the floppy31.fs as the boot diskette)
> 2)  fsck /dev/rwd0a
> 3)  mount /dev/wd0a /mnt
> 4)  mv /mnt/boot /mnt/boot.org

I can follow those instructions successfully as far as this point.

> 5)  cp /usr/mdec/boot /mnt/boot

However upon reaching this point I failed. I then inspected /usr only to
find that the directory is completely empty. Reinstalling didn't help.
What's gone wrong here? I'm installing via. FTP from plig.org.uk

James

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