hamm bugs
I tried to install the `hamm' distribution today on a fresh installation.
Is that not possible yet? Anyway, I encountered the following problems
during installation which might be of value to someone:
* The disk partitioning program did not work. When I created a maximum
size partition it said it was 1 MB large. It also said that the previous
partition (which I deleted) was 1 MB (it was not). The disk is 500 MB.
I used the original `fdisk' program in another console and it worked.
* The `adduser' program doesn't work. When I specify a user name and
hit enter it responds with an error message that no user name was
specified, and asks me for user name again. I had to kill the script.
* Install by FTP did not work. It says "Perl 5.002 required--this is
only version 5.00404" ... "stopped /usr/lib/perl5/vars.pm line 3"
... "BEGIN failed"..."FTP.pm line 14" ... "exit status 2".
NFS seems to work though (tried ftp.leidenuniv.nl).
* Gives me some error messages about "broken pipe" when I have specified
the NFS server and directory, but I don't think they are serious
because installation continues.
* There are very strange dependencies. "libc5 depends on libc6
(>=2.0.4-1)" and "libc6 conflicts with libc5 (<<5.4.33-7)". Does this
mean that it's impossible to install libc5? However, many programs
depends on libc5. Installation aborts at the "[I]nstall" stage from
dselect because of this (I believe).
* dselect is weird. Sometimes it unmounts the NFS-directory, sometimes
not. If it is already mounted, "[I]nstall" compains that the directory
already is mounted and won't continue. After trying a few times and
getting stuck on the libc5 depencies, now it gives me
"internal error - no filename at -e line 12, <P> chunk 16.".
Is hamm installable or should I stick to that old version?
// Jonas <job@abc.se> [2:201/262.37]
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