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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
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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
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