[1880] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: [ksrt@dec.net: [linux-security] KSR[T] Advisory #004: printfilter / groff / lpd]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Wed Oct 29 14:23:15 1997
To: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Cc: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU>, linux-dev@MIT.EDU
From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 29 Oct 1997 14:22:47 -0500
In-Reply-To: Derek Atkins's message of "29 Oct 1997 13:28:40 -0500"
Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU> writes:
> amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko) writes:
>
> > A user came into the office yesterday with a laptop he wanted to
> > install Linux on. Fresh RH-A 4.0 images didn't like the 3c589D he was
> > using, and fresh 4.2 images (from
> > /mit/linux/devel/redhat/install/bootdisks/images/{boot,supp}.img) gave
> > "Exec format error" on install2.
>
> Umm... I just made bootdisks from this location and they worked fine
> for me. I don't see the error you're reporting. What did you do to
> get that error, and at what point did the error occur?
After I selected NFS, entered the network setup, etc., the screen
stayed solid blue, and the last message on tty4 was what I mentioned.
> Are you sure the disks are good? Can you try them on another machine?
No other machine was available at the time, and I think the user took
the disks.
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Aaron M. Ucko <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu) [Stark raving sane]
