why so many broken links when installing 1.3?

[Lawrence Chim <ychim@ibm.net>]

Tried to install debian 1.3 but dselect displayed broken links error
message:

Installing Communicator Java files...
 ==> moving existing '/usr/local/netscape/java/classes/ifc11.jar' to
'/usr/local/netscape/java/classes/ifc11.jar.old'
 ==> moving existing '/usr/local/netscape/java/classes/iiop10.jar' to
'/usr/local/netscape/java/classes/iiop10.jar.old'
./ns-install: line 289: 15565 Broken pipe             tar -cf - ${i}
     15566 Done                    | ( cd ${TARGET}/java/classes; tar
-xf - )
 ==> moving existing '/usr/local/netscape/java/classes/jae40.jar' to
'/usr/local/netscape/java/classes/jae40.jar.old'
./ns-install: line 289: 15572 Broken pipe             tar -cf - ${i}
     15573 Done                    | ( cd ${TARGET}/java/classes; tar
-xf - )
 ==> moving existing '/usr/local/netscape/java/classes/java40.jar' to
'/usr/local/netscape/java/classes/java40.jar.old'
 ==> moving existing '/usr/local/netscape/java/classes/jio40.jar' to
'/usr/local/netscape/java/classes/jio40.jar.old'
 ==> moving existing '/usr/local/netscape/java/classes/jsd10.jar' to
'/usr/local/netscape/java/classes/jsd10.jar.old'
./ns-install: line 289: 15593 Broken pipe             tar -cf - ${i}
     15594 Done                    | ( cd ${TARGET}/java/classes; tar
-xf - )



I also found that netscape 4.0 installer have a similar problem and the
netscape binary is not installed properly.

Installing Communicator Help files...
./ns-install: line 289: 15602 Broken pipe             ${GZIP} -dc
nethelp-*.nif
     15603 Done                    | ( cd ${TARGET}; tar -x${v}f - )


/usr/lib/dpkg/methods/disk/setup: line 8: 15786 Broken pipe            
find "$mountpoint$2" -follow -name '*.deb' -print 2>/dev/null
     15787 Done                    | head -1
     15788 Done                    | grep . >/dev/null
Using `/large/mirror/debian/stable/binary-i386' as main binary dir.
Using `/large/mirror/debian/stable/binary-i386/Packages.gz' for main.
Using `/large/mirror/debian/contrib/binary-i386' as contrib binary dir.
Using `/large/mirror/debian/contrib/binary-i386/Packages.gz' for
contrib.
/usr/lib/dpkg/methods/disk/setup: line 8: 15792 Broken pipe            
find "$mountpoint$2" -follow -name '*.deb' -print 2>/dev/null
     15793 Done                    | head -1
     15794 Done                    | grep . >/dev/null
Using `/large/mirror/debian/non-free/binary-i386' as non-free binary
dir.
Using `/large/mirror/debian/non-free/binary-i386/Packages.gz' for
non-free.
`/large/mirror/debian/local/binary-i386' does not exist.


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