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Re: 2.1_r0 install experience



Mark Eichin writes:
>another minor nit: one of the install docs suggests that one should
>boot off of the last binary cd in your set - so disk 1/1, 2/2, or 2/4
>(in the set that is 2 bin + 2 src.) binary-sparc-2 doesn't appear to
>be bootable, though - or at least, it has no /boot and no
>disks-sparc.  (As mentioned earlier I can't boot ISO disks on my
>machine anyway.)  Probably the doc should be changed, though there's
>plenty of room on b-s-2 if we wanted to make it bootable as well...

Hmmm. If that's correct then it's a bug - the comment should say to run
_dselect_ with the last binary CD in the drive, not to boot that way...

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