Re: Fresh install woes.
On Sun, 2 Sep 1956, Tom Shorock wrote:
> I am a quite experienced UNIX tweaker, so I may be able to kludge this on
> my own, but.
>
> A. I have not the time
> B. I'd like normal users to install hamm reasonably.
>
> Anyway, I am freshly installing a hamm system using the current boot
> disks. I have base2_0.tgz, and the rescue-driver disk images on a
> separate hard drive. I am doing the rest of the install via FTP. That is
> not the problem. The problem is that after the base install, var is
> virtually empty. This includes the directories that dselect needs, utmp,
> and many other important things. dselect fails miserably when it cannot
> find its methods directory and such.
This has not been reported before. Which version of the boot disks are
you using? If it's a version I have not used I can get the files and
try it here, but it may take me a while as getting the big base2 file can
be a problem for me.
You message had an interesting date, BTW.
> Date: Sun, 2 Sep 1956 10:58:30 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Tom Shorock <tom@average.ml.org>
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