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Subject: Re: floppy installation
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On Tue, 7 Jan 1997, RT Hamilton Brown wrote:

> I'm trying to install vi floppy...arggg. I believe I configured 
> everything correctly but when I'm prompted to insert the floppy for 
> floppy drive unit A, I receive the following message:
> 
> "Couldn't extract the following distributions. This may be because 
> they were not available on the installation media you've chosen: 
> 
> bin"
> 
> On the floppies, I have one directory /bin. In each directory I have 
> five files, bin.aa -- and so on. They are formatted using the ms-dos 
> format command. Did I do something incorrectly? Did I miss something?

bin.inf

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