[46] in installers
Re: Eudora 3.02 & Tether (further testing)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Vale)
Thu Apr 3 11:15:56 1997
In-Reply-To: <v0302090baf5773076fab@[18.81.0.167]>
Resent-From: mjv@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 11:14:39 -0500
To: Alicia Allen <iggy@MIT.EDU>
From: Marshall Vale <mjv@MIT.EDU>
Cc: installers@MIT.EDU, pragone@MIT.EDU
At 6:35 PM -0500 3/20/97, Alicia Allen wrote:
>Hi,
>I and some of my colleagues on the Help Desk have done some further testing
>of the Eudora 3.0.2 installer over Tether and have continued to run into
>problems.
>
>I used another PB 520, It is System Soft 7.5.1, MacTCP
>I tried it with both MacPPP 2.1.3SDb3 (it was on the computer)
>and with MacPPP 2.1.2SD (what we distribute)
>and they both dropped the connection to Tether immediately
>upon clicking on the "Close all open applications..." window.
I managed to try it several times, with a variety of PPP settings,
on a PB170 with 7.1 and MacPPP 2.1.2SD (via the current classic
Tether installer) and a GV Silver modem. All the installations
performed succesfully.
If the PowerBook 520 continues to have problems then we may
want to take a look at it. With known systems at least, we continue
to not see any problems.
>My coworker tried it on a PM 7600/120, OS 7.6 & OT 1.1.2
>with OT/PPP and a Motorolla Power 28.8.
>His connection did not drop when he clicked on the close
>all open applications window. However, during the installation
>he got the error:
>"An error has occurred. THe install cannot continue.
>MacBinary error -24568
>creating file Toshiba"
This was probably do to line noise corrupting the file transmission.
The file on the server has been verified to be good.
>He's going to put MacPPP on the 7600 tomorrow and try that as well.
A 7600 should be running OT/PPP since it requires OT. At the very least,
it could run with one of the 2.5 PPP variants such as FreePPP 2.5v2 or
MacPPP 2.5 (which the classic Tether should install).
>Also, would it be possible to say in the readme window of the installer
>how long the installation takes over Tether? Clients get frustrated
>when they dont realize that an installation make take as long as a
>half hour or more.
We've added some text to the read me screen covering install times.
Marshall
