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- From: madler@cco.caltech.edu (Mark Adler)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs
- Subject: Installer.app command-line launched misses floppy change
- Date: 8 Jan 1993 16:33:31 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- On 3.0, if I launch Installer.app from a Terminal window su'ed to root,
- it does not think that I have changed the floppy when in fact I have
- (and put in the right one). If I log out and log in on the console as
- root, Installer.app works fine.
-
- I've tried this with systems that have both and internal and an external
- floppy.
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- This is definitely a pain, since I like to be able to stay logged in to
- my normal account and still do the occasional system administration
- things, like installing new software. For every other sysadmin thing
- I've done, that is possible.
-
- Mark Adler
- madler@cco.caltech.edu
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