On Sun, Jan 25, 1998 at 06:28:00PM +0100, Matthias Knauff wrote: > if I want to use dselect from the DEBIAN-LINUX include the German magazine > CHIP I have a serious problem. By choosing the method on CD-ROM (Plextor > SCSI 12/20) I get always the errormessage " broken pipe in ...". When I This is only a warning. Indeed the pipe is broken as only the first line is read (by using "|head -1). This only looks ugly on the screen but is not severe. > ignore this and install the Xserver_SVGA for example I never get a komlete > installation. I have heard from the German distributor JFL that this is a > known problem but I don´t found a solution anywhere. Why do you think you don't get a complete installation? The warning does not only occur by cdrom installations and it's really not harmful. The whole statement is used only to determine if there's a debian directory (binary-$arch, Packages or similar, I don't remember exactly) inside of it. Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * joey@infodrom.north.de * 26129 Oldenburg / / The MS-DOS filesystem is nice for removable media / / -- H. Peter Anvin /
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