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- From: vds7789@aw2.fsl.ca.boeing.com (Vincent D. Skahan)
- Subject: Re: 0.99 Succes!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.145343.18858@aw2.fsl.ca.boeing.com>
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- References: <1992Dec16.175547.20562@mailer.cc.fsu.edu>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 14:53:43 GMT
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- jblaine@garnet.acns.fsu.edu (Jeff Blaine) writes:
-
- >After seeing the post from Linus on Sunday afternoon, I decided to get 0.99
- >and try my hand at compiling the kernel. I had never compiled the kernel
- >before, but had simply always gotten the SLS upgrades which are easy to
- >install.
-
- >make dep barfed on some error about the iso filesystem for CDROM.
- >This problem was cleared up in a file I found under Incoming on Sunsite.
-
- ==> which file. what did you do?
-
- >make was now choking on some problem with tcpip.o. Now, I'm thinking
- >to myself "I told the config script NO CDROM and got an error, then
- >I told it NO TCP/IP and got an error with TCP/IP" Lovely.
- >This was fixed also by help from a few e-mail responses and the above-
- >mentioned file from Sunsite.
-
- ==> which file. what did you do?
-
- >make stopped with an error about a net.o file not found. Nice.
- >This was fixed through suggestions in an e-mail response to a
- >very flustered and annoyed post I made. Thanks.
-
- ==> which response. what did you do?
-
- >Now that I had all the makefiles properly straightened out, I ran
- >a make clean and then recreated the empty tcpip.a archive which was
- >needed.
-
- >Yehaw. It worked. I then moved the Image to a floppy to boot from.
- >Reboot.
- >System hangs.
- >Frown.
- >Boot up DOS, login to account, read news, find fix. This is too much.
-
- >So then I applied yet another miniscule fix to inode.c which Linus
- >posted. I then did a make clean and make dep to make sure.
- >This run of make was fine and a new Image was produced. I moved the
- >Image to a floppy, rebooted, YAY!!!!
-
- ==> which fix? what did you do?
-
- >The moral of the story is, wait a week before deciding to upgrade
- >when a new version comes out.
-
- ==> the moral also is that it you bust your butt and get a solution
- with as much pain as you probably went through, there are
- also probably dozens of us (me included) who don't want to
- feel the same pain and who would be greatly appreciative if
- you post what you did, so we know too.
-
- --
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