On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Honza Pazdziora wrote:
> > 6. Last, but not least
> > Let us know if it worked!
> Great! It worked. I mean: it worked!
Wuhoo!
> Some comments out of my head:
> The /usr/sbin/timeconfig failed in the menu -- it doesn't seem to be
> present in the installfs -- shall I find and compile it?
I'll fix that right now... thanks.
> I've set up root password in the menu but it wasn't there after
> reboot -- not even /etc/passwd -- I had to boot init=/bin/bash.
Do you mean that /etc/passwd didn't exist at all?
> I had to install gcc from RH 5.0.
Yup. That's because I just forgot to put gcc in there altogether. That'll
be fixed.
> Mkswap failed with segmantation fault -- shall I send the register
> output? I will try to compile my own, but the machine is slow without
> swap, and I need to compile ssh first to get reasonable remote access.
> Once this is done, we might be able to provide ssh*.mips.rpm, if you
> are interested.
Do you mean that mkswap segfaulted during install, or after? I'll have a
closer look. The util-linux we're using is a little old.
> It might be nice to put the notice about this 5.1 on the web, so that
> people are directed to the new stuff -- even this, plain text announce
> and instructions would be nice.
Definitely. I will do that, although I welcome any help with documenting
this.
We actually already have ssh on ftp.replay.com, IIRC. I'm in the US
(sigh...) so I can't export it.
If you were interested, you could have a look at getting a util-linux RPM
up to version 2.8. util-linux is a gross thing.
- Alex
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