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[Adam Clark <adamsgl AT dhbit.ca>]

This isn't really an ISO issue... after a fresh install you should do these
steps (after the passwd change and other recommended things in the install
guide):

sorcery update
scribe update
sorcery rebuild

And then start building away.

On Thu, 16 Jan 2003 19:45:10 -0800 (PST)
The Well-Beloved Bard <dezmond AT bardicgrove.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Adam Clark wrote:
> > Hi there John,
> > 
> > Well, it works for me when I test it, otherwise I don't release it.  I
> > generally only take one test install path, though, so sometimes annoying
> > little bugs will pop up like the one I just corrected.
> > 
> > However, I would say that the ISO is being testing "somewhat" as people
> > are downloading and using it as need be.  It seems that I am getting the
> > appropriate complaints/bugs within a reasonable amount of time after
> > releasing an ISO, too.
> > 
> > So, I would say that "for most people", the ISO is okay.  There are some
> > people who are asking for things like grub, pcmcia support, etc., and
> > those features will probably be worked into the ISO in the near future.
> > 
> > <snip>
> 
> Haven't had a chance to try the ISO posted on the 15th yet (pulled it down
> 
> today, burn & install tomorrow), but I've run into a problem with the 
> previous ISO (posted the 8th? I can't remember).
> 
> Once I've installed and reboot, I took the following steps:
> 1) set root password
> 2) set http_proxy and ftp_proxy (I'm trying to bring up my new dev box at 
> work - behind a firewall)
> 3) run sorcery to select system optimizations, set email addy, and set 
> prompt delay
> 4) scribe remove test
> 5) scribe add devel
> 6) sorcery update
> 7) cast xfree86 vlock NVIDIA_GLX NVIDIA_kernel mozilla Eterm
> 
> I get back an error on xfree86 & vlock (haven't had time to check the 
> others yet) that there isn't an MD5 sum, so the spell is aborting.  With 
> vlock, I checked and the DETAILS file didn't have an MD5[*] entry, so I 
> ran the md5sum and updated the DETAILS file -- worked fine.  With xfree86,
> 
> things aren't so simple.  The spell is aborting with a complaint that 
> there is not an MD5sum for the first tgz (X420-1-src.tgz, I think...), so 
> I checked the DETAILS file for xfree86, and found that not only was the 
> MD5sum there, but it matched the md5sum I ran on the ungzipped file.
> 
> Anyone have any thoughts/comments/seen this before?  As noted, I'm going 
> to be trying with the 15-jan-2003 ISO tomorrow, but thought I'd bring this
> 
> up.  I'd run on the test tree, but it's lagging behind development on a 
> couple of key apps (mozilla being the one I care most about right now...).
>  
> 
> Related question to this last - does cast support multiple grimoires yet? 
> (i.e., if I didn't scribe remove test, but did a scribe add devel, would I
> 
> be able to cast devel mozilla, and cast xfree86 (from the test grimoire)?)
> 
> Thanks,
> steve
> -- 
>   I remain, as always,
> In service to His dream.
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>  --dez AT bardicgrove.org--
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