[1769] in NetBSD-Development
Re: NetBSD-Athena sucks, again!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sat Sep 5 11:13:59 1998
To: "Nathan J. Williams" <nathanw@MIT.EDU>
Cc: "Charles M. Hannum" <mycroft@MIT.EDU>, netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 05 Sep 1998 11:03:22 EDT."
<199809051503.LAA11428@road-runner.mit.edu>
Date: Sat, 05 Sep 1998 11:13:54 EDT
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> If you're going to flame the install into the ground, then at least
> get the facts right first.
This is mostly my fault; I was out of date (I didn't know that you had
modified the install flopy, or that it didn't fix the problem for
everyone), and Charles was operating on the information I gave him
(although the speculation that every user was going to run into his
problem was sheer pessimism, as far as I can tell). I also forgot
that simply retrying acts as a workaround for many people.
As Charles pointed out last night, if we had a procedure for
Athenizing a stock NetBSD machine, then we would at least have a
workaround for cases where AFS breaks the install (e.g. on low-memory
machines, as well as machine which run into this bug). There's no
Athena analog here, but I don't think it would be terribly difficult.
