From: Dave Airlie (david.airlie at domain ul.ie)
Date: Wed 12 May 1999 - 16:55:57 IST
> After battling with this for a while I conceded defeat and
> downloaded the whole thing from sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk (using
> their tar.gz ftp facility). I unpacked all the files and burned them
> onto a CD (Joliet file system). On trying to install from the CD
> I get as far as choosing installation off the local CD. At this point
> the CD begins spinning and then nothing happens.
Well this was because of a dodgy CD burning exercise .. you need to make
sure the premissions and paths on the CD are perfect, this is not always
easy to do ....
>
> When I press <CTRL> <ALT> F3 it says
> *error in exec of second stage loader :-(
> * error: No such file or directory
>
>
> To make a long story longer, I have now copied the
> entire CD onto a Win95 partition on the same disk and tried
> installing from that. Again I have problems but not of the same
> type. Now I can manage to get into the second stage install but
> it complains that the comps file is not version 0.1 (which it is - I
> checked!).
Can't help with that one though :-(..
Dave.
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