Russell Hires <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>> Irritating is, it says searching for Release when in fact its
>> searching for basedebs.tgz.
> 
> Yeah! I second that...of course, after unpacking the basedebs, then it's 
> getting the Release file...

My fault.  I think this patch should do the trick.  Could someone
apply it?

--- choose_medium.c.~1.108.~    Fri Jul 13 12:38:38 2001
+++ choose_medium.c     Tue Jul 17 00:09:16 2001
@@ -422,9 +422,15 @@
                free (mountpoint);
                mountpoint = strdup (buffer);
            }
-           snprintf(prtbuf, sizeof(prtbuf),
-                    _("The installation program is building a list of all directories 
containing the file '%s' that can be used to install %s."), 
-                    pattern, descr);
+           if (backuppattern)
+               snprintf(prtbuf, sizeof(prtbuf),
+                        _("The installation program is building a list of all 
+directories containing a file '%s' or '%s' that can be used to install %s."), 
+                        pattern, backuppattern, descr);
+           else
+               snprintf(prtbuf, sizeof(prtbuf),
+                        _("The installation program is building a list of all 
+directories containing a file '%s' that can be used to install %s."),
+                        pattern, descr);
+           
            pleaseWaitBox(prtbuf);
            dirc = 0;
            dirv = (char **) malloc(5 * sizeof(char *));


> 
>> It finds it but then says there was a problem unpacking the
>> tarball (the acutal error message is overwriten by that window, console-3
>> only tells me there as a problem, like in the error window). 
> Didn't have this problem at all.
> And it does not look as
>> if I had run out of space, the partition is only ~100MB, but there are
>> still 68MB available. 
> I have tons of space... :-) But a slow disk. :-\
>> But maybe other testers have more luck...
>>
>> Christian
> 
> Well, I'm stuck on the "4403980 4403980 Downloading packages" message. For at 
> least 30 minutes. I don't think I crashed, because the cursor is blinking to 
> the right, and there is occasional disk activitiy --- this is all on my LCII 
> (m68K mac). I don't know what's going on here...This machine is not connected 
> to anything internet related (yet), though it is connected via a serial cable 
> to my Powermac...
> 
> Russell
> 
> 
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