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- Path: sparky!uunet!mnemosyne.cs.du.edu!nyx!astoker
- From: astoker@nyx.cs.du.edu (Andrew Stoker)
- Subject: SLS 0.99 Installation Problems/Errors
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.033522.27368@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Sender: usenet@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu (netnews admin account)
- Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 03:35:22 GMT
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- Well, I decided to bite the bullet and put the latest version of SLS on my PC,
- spent the weekend and Monday afternoon downloading the disks. I get home,
- fdisk ok, mkfs ok, start off doinstall...so far so good. Alas, during the
- installation, I get one or other of the following messages:
-
- installing package...stdin is not in gzip format
- done
-
- installing package
- read error on stdin: unknown error
- done
-
- The really odd thing is that it doesn't do this for every package on every
- disk, ie. some packages install with no error message. So, what's going on
- here? As far as I know, the downloading went ok, and as far as I can tell,
- the installation went ok too, but I think I need more time to check that,
- after all, there's a lot there :-) Can anyone shed any light on these error
- messages and how to fix them.
-
- One thing, I downloaded SLS by ftping the disk files to my local site, and the
- using kermit (no funny comments) to get the files to PC, I don't trust the
- local network and kermit to download binaries safely, so I converted them into
- an ASCII format using a program called `makeboo' (might be more familiar to UK
- users than others) because it produces smaller files than uuencode. On the
- PC, I run another program called `deboo' to get the binaries back before
- copying to floppy disk. I can't see that this would introduce any problems
- though.
-
- Andy
-
- P.S. "smart" alec replies saying RTFM can goto /dev/null, I have a pile of
- printed FM which says nothing about this.
- --
- Andrew J. Stoker | "My lord, I cannot ride!"
- Leicester Uni. | "Capital, we shall give you a horse that can't be ridden."
- ajs6@leicester.ac.uk | ``Wyrd Sisters'', Terry Pratchett
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