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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!jobone!lynx.unm.edu!mack.einet.com!alb.asctmd.com!mmitchel From: mmitchel@alb.asctmd.com (Mike Mitchell) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: 1.1-RELEASE Install Difficulty Date: Fri, 13 May 1994 09:46:38 Organization: AMTECH Systems Corporation Lines: 20 Message-ID: <mmitchel.16.0009C73F@alb.asctmd.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.59.170.129 X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev A] I performed an install of the 1.1-RELEASE on a fresh machine that had never seen 1.0. During the extraction of the files bin_tgz.??, there was a core dump when tar attempted to write the file /usr/lib/libc.so.1.0. The file in /usr/lib was incomplete, so utilities which require it would not run. I reinstalled from the three floppies; and this time, I extracted the bin_tgz.?? files by hand. I included the command line option '--exclude usr/lib/libc.so.1.0' to tar so that it would skip this file on extraction. Everything came together, there was no core dump, and things appear to be working quite fine. Suggestion: Remove libc.so.1.0 from the bin_tgz distribution set, or include a tar which is statically linked on the filesystem or cpio floppies... FreeBSD Team: Thanks for the great work. This has come a long way from 386BSD 0.0... I am looking forward to your future releases... Mike Mitchell AMTECH Systems Corporation, 505.856.8000