> I had these same "broken loop" messages on a UDB and an SX, and it didn't > seem to be more than a warning; the installation completed > successfully, and nearly everything works OK. A few things (elm, nn, I had the same message installing slink on a sparc. I still have hamm on my alpha, though I will soon upgrade. On the sparc, I was using NFS to get the base files. Andrew Lenharth