RE: CD install problems on Sparc

[Per Fogelstrom <pefo@opsycon.se>]

On 16-Jul-97 David E. O'Brien wrote:
>I'm having lots of problems installing 2.1 from CDROM on a sparc2 and
>sparc1.  ``install'' (the script) seems to have a problem with mounting
>the CDROM using "cd0", "a" partition, "CD9660" fs.  Rather than a mounted
>CDROM, I get mount's usage() output.  I can manually mount it using
>"mount /dev/cd0a /foo" just fine.  So I hacked ``install'' to continue on
>failure, ^Z'ed and manually mounted it.
>

This one is known and a workaround was just added to the 2.1 errata. It will be
on the mirrors soon.

>Things went fine until the end.  Then I got an error message from ``cp''
>that it couldn't find /BSD (or was it /bsd).  And then the shell gives an
>error message that it can't find getops when running the binstall script.
>
>Are these known errors, or am I doing something wrong?
>

Someone else? I know nothing about sparcs. Sorry.


Per