[3043] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: Installer is working
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Thu Oct 5 15:28:03 2000
To: Alex Coventry <alex_c@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Linux-Dev <linux-dev@MIT.EDU>
From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 05 Oct 2000 15:27:50 -0400
In-Reply-To: Alex Coventry's message of "Thu, 5 Oct 2000 14:39:19 -0400"
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Alex Coventry <alex_c@MIT.EDU> writes:
> I repeated the install from sipb-nfs, intending to get the exact error
> message so that I could make a more specific search for the discrepancy
> between the trees (my tree-wide diff was taking forever.) This time,
My diff complained about some dangling absolute symlinks, but nothing
else.
> the install just worked. So either the permissions changes that Sam
> affected did the trick (a bunch of files on the sipb-nfs version were
> unreadable,) or someone else did something. I'm going to hope it's the
Oh, permissions problems would certainly do it.
> former, and release an announcement. Here it is. I'll send it to
> linux-announce when a-w finishes installing and someone with the
> relevant social bits OK's the text (or when if I get impatient <wink>.)
>
> SIPB Athena-Linux is finally beta'ing! Get the install instructions
> from /afs/sipb/project/doc/ilinux/linux-net-install/rh-net-install.dvi
I'd phrase it as
A beta version of SIPB's installer for IS Linux-Athena 8.4 (based on
Red Hat 6.2) is now available. For install instructions, please read
/afs/sipb/project/doc/ilinux/linux-net-install/rh-net-install.dvi.
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Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu)
