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From: mcgrew@topaz.rutgers.edu (Charles)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: Help with 4.0 upgrade on Sun 3/260
Keywords: SunOS
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Date: 6 May 89 16:39:13 GMT
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Original-Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1989 17:32:32 EDT
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Hi,
	gwl@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Gerry Lawrence) writes:
	> ... I can get all the way through the suninstall forms up
	> until the "Installation" menu item, which immediately gives:
	>
        	>Bus error: core dumped

	> Ulch!  I've tried different disk partitions, different
	> options, to no avail.  Has anyone had this problem?

Your 'bus error' problem may be due to (believe it or not) a termcap
error.  We used a v200 for setups on one of our servers, and due to a
missing termcap value (for some function that is performed only at
install-start), we'd get that result.  Our solution was to either use a
terminal whose termcap existed (vt100, for instance), or rcp a 'real'
termcap file from somewhere else before running suninstall.

Hope that helps,

Charles