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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Fri, 27 Jan 2006, sindi keesan wrote:

> Unzipped bl3-40.zip and booted on a Compaq Presario 300MHz (AMD K6-2).
> Himem.sys prevented booting (but we may have the wrong version for DOS
> standalone 7.10).  Attempt to access beyond end of drive.  We deleted
> config.sys and it boots.  DOS is only for installing linux from.

We have 2K cluster size on this drive (also tried 1K).  The other 
computers have 4K.

> I copied to c:\baslin
>
> kermit for glibc 2.2.5
> opera*.tgz for glibc 2.2.5
> glibc 2.2.5 so
>
>
> then booted into BL.
>
> I copied kermit from DOS\baslin to /usr/local/bin
> I attempted to install glibc from DOS\baslin with pkg, and then with tar.
> In both cases I see (or it copied) 6 lib files in /lib/incoming and then
> tar: invalid tar magic

>  tar -ztvf works on the opera*.tar.gz, not on glibc, in 3.40.


> I can use tar -ztvf in BL2 to view this same file, and the file size is
> the same on both computers.  In BL3.40 I only see the list of six library
> files in /lib/incoming, which is also as far as pkg gets unpacking the
> tgz.

There should be a lot more files going into /lib/incoming.

> I have not confirmed this problem yet on another computer.

Problem is only on the Compaq so far.  The Compaq was until recently our 
main linux computer.

I will try installing to hd anyway - maybe that will cure the problem that 
is occurring with the loop version.

I could if pkg fails simply copy over whatever dependencies kermit and 
opera have (libc libm and ld-linux?).  The kermit I made for BL1 does not 
require ncurses.

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