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To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: install broken on the 970124 snap (fwd) 
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Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 16:57:11 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> Little problem with installation on yesterday's SNAP release. I am doing
> an install from a dos partition, and I copied everything correctly into
> c:\freebsd\bin. When I get to the point in the install where it is to
> do the extraction of the distributions, the install says it can't find
> the bin distribution. I put the install system into debug mode to watch
> the festivities, and it seemed to be snagging the bin.inf and choking on 
> it. It was bombing out with an error about a "P" and it couldn't find
> "pieces".
> 
> I played with it for a bit, and if you edit bin.inf and change the "Pieces
> = 72" to "pieces = 72" it works correctly.

Hmmm.  I doubt that the applied fix was actually responsible for
fixing it since case is ignored (I use strcasecmp() for the attribute
name lookup), but perhaps he's run into a different error masquerading
as such.  I'll look into it.

					Jordan