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Re: Linux-Athena installer problems

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Wed Nov 1 18:49:06 2000

To: "Thomas H. Grayson" <thg@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU, alex_c@MIT.EDU
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Date: 01 Nov 2000 18:48:50 -0500
In-Reply-To: "Thomas H. Grayson"'s message of "Wed, 01 Nov 2000 18:41:26 -0500"
Message-Id: <sjmy9z3p82l.fsf@rcn.ihtfp.org>

"Thomas H. Grayson" <thg@MIT.EDU> writes:

> I've run into what appears to be an insurmountable problem with the
> network SIPB Linux-Athena installer.  I get as far as the SIPB-Red Hat
> screen in X, then it hangs.  After hitting Ctrl-Alt-F1, I can see these
> error messages:

> Exception in thread Thread-2:
[snip]

This is certainly a python installer error.  Alex?

> If you can help me out, I'd appreciate it.  I created the boot floppy
> today; it is apparently revised from those I've used previously (more
> defaults are filled in).

Which boot floppy did you make (and where did you get the image?)

> Thanks,
> Tom Grayson

-derek
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