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  • From: "M.L." <m.l AT compaqnet.fr>
  • To: Eric Womack <eric AT lasvegasdata.com>
  • Cc: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Total install failure
  • Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 19:33:16 +0200

On Jeudi 12 Septembre 2002 19:23, Eric Womack wrote:
> Since I was knocked out of commission, I have been through 6 re-installs on
> two seperate machines.
>
> On one, I consistently get the vc spawning too fast error which I am unable
> to fix (even using the CD as a boot device).

I've encountered this issue.
As far as I remember, it's because /devices/vc* are missing, or something is
wrong with /proc... I don't remember precisely what's wrong, but I had to
create /dev/* and /devices/* and /proc/* (!) myself to get out of this
sh...t.



>
> On the other, I now have this weird complaint about egrep -m not being an
> option everytime I cast and half of the things I cast fail.
>
> Is an updated ISO being worked up (because right now I am a perfect
> canidate for a test install from scratch) or do I just keep trying hoping
> that something magical will change?
>
> This all started at the gcc 3.2 change-over. I didn't make it through the
> change over and have not been able to get back since.
>

I never succeeded updating to gcc3.2
Now I use gcc3.1.1 !

>
> Grrrrrrrrr................
>
>
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> Eric Womack
> System Administrator
> Las Vegas Data LLC
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