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From: gwk@racer.dkrz.de (Georg-W. Koltermann)
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In-Reply-To: <9506011751.aa23766@longvalley.dsg.cs.tcd.ie> (message from Alan Judge on Thu, 01 Jun 1995 17:51:46 +0100)
Subject: Re: Install problem with 2.0.5-ALPHA (UPDATE floppy image)
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> 
> I can't get FTP/other to work at all.  Something seems to corrupt the
> URL that I type before it gets to the FTP stage.  I get a popup dialog
> complaining about some garbage URL (like '', or '^A', or '   ^Gwish
> sd').
>

Same for me.  And I can't get floppy installation to work.  It seems
to try to mount the root.flp floppy, which I have rawritten.  Who's
wrong, the machine or me?  And I can't get NFS installation to work,
something like permission problems.  When the NFS filesystem is
mounted, I cannot even cd into the mountpoint directory, "permission
denied".  And I can't get installation from a DOS partition to work,
some kind of error during mounting, I don't recall exactly what.

The one time that I tricked the system (actually I switched to VT4 and
manually extracted the root.flp, then configured the ethernet, ftp-ed
the bindist to /tmp, switched back to the menu and let it go
installing from UFS), I actually got *something* installed.  But when
I booted from the harddisk, I got tons of "signal 11"s.

Guess it's time to give up for today.  My previous experience with the
installation menu of 2.0R and various snapshots was not this bad.

Georg-W. Koltermann, gwk@cray.com