Wolfgang Solfrank wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> > > Double-check the split files that you have... the split files available
> > > for FTP look just fine to me.  e.g.:
> > 
> > The MD5 sums for each file match the ones listed in binary/sets/Split/MD5,
> > and I tested with both a 1.4.2 and 1.4.1 installation disk. Unpacking of
> > base.tgz died all three times (using different floppies each time) at
> > /usr/share/misc/vgrindefs.db. I got the system up and running in single
> > user mode, and /usr/INSTALL/base.tgz was less than the expected size, and
> > 'cd /; tar -zxvvpf /usr/INSTALL/base.tgz' died on the same file. I split
> > base.tgz on my own and untarred it to / and it worked. Maybe it's a
> > problem with sysinst?
> 
> Well, the problem is that sysinst "knows" (actually, thinks it knows), how
> many parts are in each set.  And this table wasn't updated after the split.
> So sysinst thinks base has only parts aa-bw where it actually has aa-by,
> and thus it misses the last two of the split files.

In the "that's really yucky" category, can't we just concatenate bw and
by into a new bw for now?

> We really need a better mechanism to handle this.

Yes :-)

Simon.