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On Sunday 10 October 2004 07:37 pm, Paul W Halliday wrote:
> I am trying to install 5.3 via the 5 floppies -> network install. It keeps
> choking on finding perl. The package is there, i dunno.

The package is probably not there.  I would try unselecting perl via the 
custom distributions menu during the install and seeing if that works.

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