Bug#65379: boot-floppies: drivers.tgz Error messes up screen

[Peter Naulls <Peter.Naulls@labs.FutureTV.com>]

> 
> Package: boot-floppies
> Version: 2.2.15
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> If there's an error during decompression of drivers.tgz, then an
> error is printed on the main dialog screen, which makes
> a slight mess of the display :-)
> 
> This could happen for example, (as I did), someone forgot
> to copy the 3rd drivers boot floppy image.
> 

Further to this, when I retried loading the drivers from
the correctly imaged floppies, it went ok, until it tried
to access the modules it had unpacked.   The was an 
error message "too many symlinks".  It turned out
that /target/lib/modules was a symlink to itself, and
there was a directory, modules.old which actually contained
the modules.



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