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Ron Clarke wrote:
> 
> I finally got to make a HD installation of BL2-02, on a '486, 
> 33 MHz with 16 MB RAM. I used the whole 125 MB disk D:.

Did you use a Slack71 CDrom or did you download the packages?

>  But.....  no pkgtool or installpkg - unknown command !

They are in the hdsetup.tgz package (which is one of the 
base packages that is installed when you put BL2 to HD).

> I thought something was not running right when the last 6 
> or 7 lines of the install routine were:
> 
> "something      invalid something magic"

The installation routine should run cleanly.  Any error
message is bad and needs to be fixed.

>  Did I get a corrupted xxx.tgz ?   

Or perhaps a package was truncated by early termination of 
the download?  Have a look in /var/log/packages.  All the 
packages should be there (including hdsetup.tgz).  Check 
the contents to see if files were actually installed. The 
name of an unreadable package could in the list (but it
will have no files).

Cheers,
Steven