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- From: marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier)
- Subject: Re: List of Broken Bins under 0.99 [v1.2]
- Message-ID: <1992Dec27.191424.22308@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca>
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- Organization: York University, CS Dept. Toronto
- References: <1992Dec26.120724.535@camaro.uucp>
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 19:14:24 GMT
- Lines: 26
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- In article <1992Dec26.120724.535@camaro.uucp> tfoley@camaro.uucp (Tim Foley) writes:
- >
- >
- >Below is an un-official list of programs which break under 0.99 (or 0.98.6)
- >and the method to get them running again. I felt there was a great need
- >for such a thing.
- >
- > Any Changes/Suggestions/Fixes, tfoley@camaro.uucp
- >
- >
- > NOTE: ENSURE YOU GET THE NEW LIBC 4.2 FILE FROM YOUR LOCAL SITE
- >
- >To Upgrade to 4.2:
- >
- > Make sure you don't remove the sym-link to 4.0 or the old 4.1, unless
- >you have a boot diskette. The easiest method that I have found is use
- >either HLU's bootdisk or Disks 1 and 2 of the SLS series, reboot your
- >machine using either combination and exit from the SLS install, then
- >manually mount your partition with /lib on it. Then just kill the link
- >and relink using 4.2, reboot and voila...4.2
- >
- >
- Even easier...'ln -fs libc.so.4.2 libc.so.4', then you don't even
- have to powerdown the system. (trust me...I did it *smile*)
-
- Marcc
-