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From: Randal F. Williams <randal@lsjt.linuxsjt.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: sysinstall core dump
Date: 27 Jun 1997 03:57:48 GMT
Organization: WCC
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I have installed 2.2.2R a couple of times. Each time I install, I usually
get the system set up with the distrutions I want and LATER go back and add
a few packages. After the system is set up to my liking, it never fail I
need another package at a later date. When I restart sysinstall and try to
access a mirror I have on another machine to get a package, sysinstall gives
an error and does a core dump. Any idea why this is happening? It always
happens when it is reading the index out of the packages directory and seems
to work flawlessly up to a point.......then it does nothing but core-dump.

Help please.......randal@linuxsjt.org