syntax error in dselect

[Jim McCloskey <mcclosk@ling.ucsc.edu>]

Hello. I'm trying to install 2.0 on a laptop. The base install (from
floppies) seemed to go fine.

When I try to choose the FTP access method in dselect, though, I get
the following error-message:

   perl: syntax error
   query/setup script returned error exit status 2

I ran dselect with the --debug option, but there was no more detail
about the source of the error in the debug file (as far as I could see
anyway). 

I've tried this both with the FTP process running and with it not
running---doesn't make any difference.

Any ideas where I could start to hunt down the problem?

Jim