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Re: nfs installer trouble

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Camilla R Fox)
Tue Oct 31 15:40:27 2000

Message-Id: <200010312040.PAA10649@myxomycete.mit.edu>
To: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "31 Oct 2000 12:39:39 EST."
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Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 15:40:23 -0500
From: Camilla R Fox <cfox@MIT.EDU>


> For the record, I downloaded Ted's packages..  I can attempt to build
> a boot disk using that kernel (I've got most of the code necessary, I
> think, to actually update the kernel).  However, I really don't want
> to lose my current build environment, in case I want to back out the
> changes.  I can either go ahead and lose my current environment, or I
> can make yet another copy of the bootdisk tree.
> 
> Also, many things depend upon being able to find "../../../RedHat/instimage"
> which doesn't exist in my tree (for obvious reasons).  I haven't fixed
> all of these, yet, so it probably wont work out-of-the-box.

If you don't like the current arrangement of build trees, do remember
that I recently solicited suggestions for fixing the situation.

There's a full tree under /afs/sipb/system/rhlinux.  Making yet another
directory in the linux locker is also a possibility.

-Camilla

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