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Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 11:18:48 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: SETUP: new setup.ini with md5 sums crashes setup 2.192.2.24 on W98SE
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On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 10:38:42AM +0200, Ton van Overbeek wrote:
>This started happening today.
>
>When I try to 'Install from Internet' from my normal mirror
>(http://ftp-stud.fth-esslingen.de) Setup starts downloading
>setup.ini and then crashes with the following error:
>  SETUP caused a general protection fault
>  in module USER.EXE at: 0004:00005ff0.
>
>Tried with some other mirrors: same crash.
>One mirror succeeded (ftp://ftp.easynet.be).
>Investigating the differences it turned out that the setup.ini
>from ftp.easynet.be does not have the md5sums yet, the other
>crashing mirrors have setup.ini with md5sums included.
>
>Is this W9x specific or is it also happening on NT/2K/XP ?

Use the newest version of setup.exe.

cgf