copy errors in Toaster 4.1-4.3 install

[Will-i-am]

Here's a curious thing... I'm installing my Toaster4000 into the Beast('060 Tower) and I seem to be done(using the Newtek install script) so when I click on a couple of icons I get a brief flash and then nothing. I check quite a few and get nothing. So I boot up Dopus and examine the CD and HD and find that although I have the entire directory tree as what's on the CD, I have no files. Just the directories. So I started copying all the files through Dopus, one directory at a time. At several points I get "error 11 file not copied", which I took to maybe be the original problem. Then, for some odd reason I had this distant memory of a similar problem and I try copying the files not copied by using the 'copy' command in a shell. Same error, and file not copied. Then that distant memory nags me some more and I try using Dopus to copy the file into Ram: and it copies just fine. Then I copy that file into the correct directory on the HD and it copies just fine as well. So that's how I will get them all installed, but what is happening here? The files appear to copy with all the bits and bytes in the right place, but whycum the installer script is not able to do the job? The Beast is running OS 3.9 and has that unique '060 but otherwise is just a Tower, nothing very fancy and I have BB1&2 on board. I am confused.... :-?

[Will-i-am]

Icon colors on my machine are also not right. Here's more problems: I started the project of moving files thru ram: to the HD and found that I was getting that "error 11" again from time to time even though some files make the move. The odd thing is the inconsistancy: if I try the copy command several times occasionally one of the files which would not copy, does! In one case all the files in a directory started with the error message and then copied just fine. The CD doesn't seem to be scratched, although parts look a tad cloudy. I'm going to see about cleaning it carefully and trying again. The Beast has a scsi HD for the OS but uses an IDE CD and HD for programs and data files. Yeah, that might be strange enough to be the problem, as might the libs issue. I had some problems originally finding the right '060 lib for the one of a kind '060 board. Finally, one consistancy is that the files which make the move are 'filename.i' files and the ones which do not are the 'filename' type with no extension. Except occasionally the 'filename' files get copied after a few tries. I'm not savy enough to know about changing settings and such. I have always just done a straight install and then used the program, so I'll have to educate myself. About the only thing I do in that area is raise a stack size, but of course I don't know what a stack is or why they tell me to raise it. I was always able to drop Larry a line and he's explain it but with him gone I'm floating free and confused. sigh.

[Will-i-am]

I have a feeling that the Beast is going to have to be dropped down to 3.1 as it just seems to have a lot of problems with 3.9.... ya know?