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Subject: Re: The sysinstall's safe_realloc() failure
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Makoto Matsushita wrote:
> Note that 4-stable doesn NOT have this problem, since 4-stable sysinstall
> have static buffer for chunks.  5-current sysinstall checks each
> chunk's size, and realloc() memory for that.
> 
> I do want to know this problem depends on only ftp server or
> sysinstall itself, but have very little luck...
> 

I have done 5.0 JPSNAP floppy installs in the past, but it was nearly a 
year ago.  How long have you known this problem to exist?

Pete...