Subject: Re: new boot floppies
To: Laine Stump <lainestump@earthlink.net>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 04/15/1999 17:18:08
On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 09:34:42AM -0400, Laine Stump wrote:
> When I installed on my Thinkpad last night using the 2nd to most recent
> install floppies, I used NFS to get the distributions and it gave me some
> error messages about "failed to cleanup existing install" or something like
> that after *most* (but not all) of the extraction steps. (sorry, I didn't
> write down the message, and the machine has its disk swapped out and
> running another OS again. If this description isn't good enough to
> determine the problem, let me know and I'll plug the same disk in again and
> do the installation over)

There was a return(0) which should have been return(1) somewhere in one
of the boot images I made available, causing this kind of behavior (failure
when there's nothing to cleanup). I guess you used this one.


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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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