Re: modules.tgz in buzz-fixed/.../special-kernels/boot1440*.bin are corrupt
|"Hello.
|"
|"Yesterday I tried to install a buzz-fixed system. As the disk I wanted to
|"install onto, was a SCSI disk connected to a ncr810, I had to use one of
|"the special kernels - number 5 in buzz-fixed/.../disks-i386/special-kernels.
|"
|"At the time of the part of installation where the kernel is installed I got
|"an error saying something of type of "error in archive".
Yes, the modules.tgz file is corrupted (truncated). There is a bigger
problem here: the standard boot-disk has a 2.0.6 kernel, de special-kernels
have a 2.0.5 kernel. This means that you can't use the modules.tgz from the
boot-disk (which is uncorrupted) with the other kernels. This means that all
the people in need of a special kernel who have the Debian-distribution from
the latest Infomagic CDs (which I used Saturday) have a problem. Worse, the
problem persists.
I think it is of the utmost importance to keep the bootdisks in sync. After
all, it's just a matter of a 6-fold compile. This can even be automated...
Ronald van Loon (ronald@and.nl)
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