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Re: My Colgate story (longish)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik Troan)
Thu Oct 24 14:59:38 1996

Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 14:54:59 -0400 (EDT)
From: Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
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On Wed, 23 Oct 1996, Matt Nelson wrote:

>   lilo:         "end_request:  I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0
>                  open /dev/fd0: No such device or address
>                  execution of script failed"
>                 when i put a floppy in the drive and tried again,
>                 it worked fine.  i assume this is because i asked
>                 for a lilo floppy during the upgrade.  how come
>                 you guys wont let us install the package without a floppy
>                 in the drive? 

When you upgrade versions of lilo, it reruns /sbin/lilo. Perhaps this
isn't such a good idea :-(

>   zip:         ditto.

This is a known version number problem.

Erik

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