On Nov 6, 2007 5:34 AM, Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx> wrote: > Other than that, "jam install-haiku" does indeed only copy the new over the > old file, thus leaving obsolete files and attributes. It wouldn't be a > problem to "rm -rf" at least the beos/ directory, though it would cost > additional time. It had been probably a month or two before I last jam'd Haiku on that machine, so likely it was just cluttered with cruft that caused an error :) Thanks for the insights!