Re: Fresh hamm install
On Tue 03 Feb 1998, Ferenc Kiraly wrote:
>
> 1) When the base floppies untar themselves I get a broken pipe.
> I think that line should be written more robust, perhaps
> without using pipes. But then there must be a good reason for
> piping the outpuf of zcat into tar. I'm sure the reason is not
> possible lack of disk space.
The shell gives the error (I first thought gzip, but "strace"ing the
whole process I found that gzip is simply killed by a sigpipe, and the
shell reports that).
Curiously, from a shell prompt this gives a "Broken pipe" message:
$ zcat < /dev/fd0 | tar tf -
but this doesn't:
$ sh -c 'zcat < /dev/fd0 | tar tf -'
This seems like a simple enough workaround...
> 3) various dependency conflicts because xlib6g is missing from
> the debian ftp site. Whee do I get it?
I ran into the same type of problem with the bash-2.01 that's available.
And a couple of libc6 dependencies instead of libc6.1.
BTW, now we're on the subject of installations: has anyone ever looked
into making the installation cdrom (if such a beast exists) directly
bootable? It works for i386 and (Red Hat) sparc, so alpha shouldn't be
left behind. If it should be possible in theory, I'll be willing to have
a go at it (I'm getting pretty dexterious with mkisofs and company).
Paul Slootman
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