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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!mucs!mccuts!zlsiial
- From: zlsiial@uts.mcc.ac.uk (A. V. Le Blanc)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Installation
- Message-ID: <5472@mccuts.uts.mcc.ac.uk>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 12:22:45 GMT
- References: <Fu2ioB2w165w@bluemoon.rn.com> <3yNooB2w164w@cellar.org>
- Reply-To: LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk
- Organization: Computing Centre, University of Manchester
- Lines: 23
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- In article <3yNooB2w164w@cellar.org> sailor@cellar.org (Rick Emerson) writes:
- >cmb@bluemoon.rn.com (Chris Bugosh) writes:
- >Do mkfs -c [/dev/hdxx] [size] and the -c will check the partition. At the
- >end it writes .badblocks. The mcc-interim installation removes this file
- >(or did previously). Try the mcc-interim version on sc.tamu.edu which
- >doesn't do this.
- >
- >Owen: has this "feature" been removed?
-
- The MCC interim version does not delete the .badblocks file unless you
- answer yes to the question about deleting all your files. The README
- file contains a warning not to do this. The option will not be available
- in the next MCC interim version.
-
- The version of Linux on sc.tamu.edu is NOT the MCC interim version, but
- a different version containing many files taken from the MCC interim
- version. Please do not confuse the two of them. I am getting quite a
- few messages from people having installed from the sc.tamu.edu version
- and having some problem or other which does not occur with the MCC version.
- It would be better if the sc.tamu.edu version had a name of its own.
-
- -- Owen
- LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk
-