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Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 10:07:27 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: matt greenslade <MGREENSLADE@CSI.compuserve.com>
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Subject: Re: Install problem
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On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, matt greenslade wrote:

> All goes smoothly until I inserted the disk containing bin.be at which
> point I get the message 'write failure on transfer: 1 byte of 1024
> transferred'.

Hop over to the Alt-F2 debug consoel and see what the error was. 

you can cram multiple parts onto one disk BTW.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major