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Re: Linux-Athena installer problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas H. Grayson)
Wed Nov 1 19:16:50 2000
Message-Id: <200011020016.TAA17548@mansard.mit.edu>
To: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU, alex_c@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "01 Nov 2000 18:48:50 EST."
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Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 19:16:43 -0500
From: "Thomas H. Grayson" <thg@MIT.EDU>
I made the floppy using the script /mit/linux/rh-6.2/linux-install-floppy
and told it that I did not need PCMCIA support.
Tom
> From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
> Date: 01 Nov 2000 18:48:50 -0500
> Subject: Re: Linux-Athena installer problems
>
> "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
> --
> Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
> Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB)
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