Re: new installation disks
On Sun, Nov 01, 1998 at 12:17:46AM +0100, Loic Prylli wrote:
> > > So now there should be a working installation set (...)
> > I got it to
> > work until now, but there were a couple of minor problems
>
> I did something quite misleading, I first put a draft version on the
> web server, and finally I got some more time to improve it, so I
> updated the files the same day without changing the names. If you
> download the files before my announcement on the lists, you propably
> got the intermediate version. The first two problems you described are
> corrected in the current version.
Yes, I indeed got it before your announcement. I'll try again with the new
and improved floppies.
Thanks for your clarifications!
> > * the "year 2018 problem" is still present :)
>
> I cannot reproduce here, the date is correct when booting with SRM.
Yes, this is because SRM uses the "right" epoch. ARC and AlphaBIOS (which
I have to use) use the other epoch and thus have the problem.
I remember someone having a patched hwclock binary or even a debian
package, but can't find it anymore. Does anyone of the list know about it?
> I guess, we need to forward the right hwclock to the util-linux
> maintainer.
That's a good idea.
--
Andreas Trottmann <andreas.trottmann@werft22.com>
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