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From: "Scott MacFiggen" <smf@pdm.kla.com>
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Date: Fri, 3 Nov 1995 15:32:59 -0800
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Subject: Re: Crash & Burn: A Woe Tale of 2.0.5-RELEASE Install
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> From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@reptiles.org>
> Date: Fri, 3 Nov 1995 10:51:24 -0500 (EST)
> Subject: Crash & Burn: A Woe Tale of 2.0.5-RELEASE Install
>
> 	Oh well.  I downloaded boot.flp, root.ftp and the complete bin
> distribution.  Now, the first mistake was that it isn't listed anywhere
> in the Preparation sections of handbook.ascii, but ... it nowhere mentions
> that to install from floppy, you have to put the bin.* file in a /bin
> directory on the floppy themselves...

>From the INSTALL file on ftp.cdrom.com under subsection 2.2
'Before installing from Floppy:'

"Each distribution should go into a subdirectory on the
floppy, e.g.:   a:\bin\bin.aa,  a:\bin\bin.ab, ..."

> 	Got through the install phase, and got through bin.a[a-m] before
> I got an error message on my screen - Write failure on transfer! (Wrote
> - -1 bytes of 10240 bytes).  Great, my hard drive is screwed, since it does
> say it is a write error, doesn't it?

I got this error when I tried to install the man page distribution. It
happened because I downloaded the files in ascii mode not binary mode.

	-Scott