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From: ralfi@pemcom.pem-stuttgart.de (Ralf U. Holighaus)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: sco odt install
Keywords: sco odt
Message-ID: <1173@pemcom.pem-stuttgart.de>
Date: 16 May 91 15:05:39 GMT
References: <1246@telesoft.com>
Organization: PEM GmbH, Stuttgart
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holder@telesoft.com (Robert L. Holder @lone) writes:

>I am trying to install SCO OpenDesktop 1.0 and have two questions
>perhaps some can answer.

>1. Trying to intall the ODT TCP-RT package generates a tar
>   extract failure on 4 files from floppy 12. If I let it 
>   continue it moves on to floppy 13. Floppy 13 completes

I had problems on some no-name 386 and 486 systems when reading or writing
diskettes. In fact, after retrying severel times, I got a kernel panic.

In the meantime, I know it's a hardware failure and shows the incompatibilities
of the PC.    

Regards
Ralf.
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