Re: CD install problems on Sparc

[Thomas Graichen <graichen@rzpd.de>]

hasn't Per Fogelstrom said ? ...
> 
> 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.
> 
i have heard from someone having had problems installing on sparc too
... and reading the above lines it looks like it were the same 2
problems (about the first i warned him before) ... anyone with a
little time should look into the sparc install script and write down a 
fix for the errata page

t

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