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From: dhbrown@bga.com (Dave Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Installation Hell!!! Help!!!
Date: 11 Dec 1995 06:03:39 GMT
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In article <4afi3a$5iu@giga.bga.com>, dhbrown@bga.com says...
>
>I seem to be having the same kind of problem.  Everything loads just fine 
>until I get to the bin.ca diskette.  I get the message "write failure on 
>transfer  (wrote -1 bytes of 10240 bytes).  I've downloaded the bin.c* 
>...

I downloaded the 2.1 bin.c* from three different mirrors and compared 
them.  All compare the same.  All failed to install.  My conclusion is 
that something is wrong somewhere.  I finally downloaded the 2.0.5 bin.* 
and they all installed okay.  Now all I have to do is upgrade, right?
>-- 
>Dave Brown   Austin, TX
>

-- 
Dave Brown   Austin, TX