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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.sdsmt.edu!nntp.uac.net!news.tufts.edu!blanket.mitre.org!news.mathworks.com!news2.mathworks.com!newscaster-1.mcast.net!cs.tu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Problem with installing 2.2-950501-SNAP (was: Where does one find version 2.0.5?) Date: 27 May 1996 17:41:51 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 28 Message-ID: <4ocpgv$bko@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4nl5ct$q8i@access1.digex.net> <4nn60e$1ii@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4npo93$8cf@access1.digex.net> <4nqpg3$6gn@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4o39v5$nev@access4.digex.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E rdd@access4.digex.net (R. D. Davis) wrote: > >only need the files from the boot floppy itself, nothing else, so it's > >irrelevant whether you're going to install a 2.2-SNAP, or a 2.1R with > >the floppy. > > The messages that I get when trying to read help files, etc. are messages > like: "The slice file is not provided on this particular floppy image." > and "The partition file is not provided on this particular floppy image.", > etc. Yep, all the SNAPs prior to the March '96 one had a problem with their .hlp files. > Also, when selecting the distribution to install, the result is as > follows: > > "No distributions selected. Are you sure you wish to continue?" Hmm, hmm. No idea why this happened -- it never happened to me (and i've installed several SNAPs about a dozen times). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)