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- From: clk@ernie.Princeton.EDU (Christopher Kranz)
- Subject: diskless installation woes, help needed
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.195638.10797@Princeton.EDU>
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- Organization: Princeton University
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 19:56:38 GMT
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-
- I am in the process of converting our disk-poor Iris 4D/25s and 4D/35s to
- diskless machines. I am planning to use the local disk for paging and
- scratch space. I have run into a couple of problems in the process of
- installing the diskless share trees and diskless client tress.
-
- The exit commands from installing the share tree for the 4D/35s produced the
- following errors:
-
- idev: dependent driver shmiq is EXCLUDED
- idev: dependent driver shmiq is EXCLUDED
- bsd: dependent driver socket is EXCLUDED
- uds: dependent driver socket is EXCLUDED
- gr1_dev: dependent driver gfx is EXCLUDED
- rrm: dependent driver gfx is EXCLUDED
- Warning: no object file for sgi
- Warning: no object file for bsd
- Warning: no object file for dbg
- Warning: no object file for mem
- /usr/sysgen/root/usr/bin/ld:
- Undefined:
- dcachefast
- kern_malloc
- kern_free
- strcmp
- kern_calloc
- .
- .
- .
- soisdisconnected
- sonewconn
- soisconnected
- socantrcvmore
- sofree
- lboot: ld returned 256--failed
-
- Does anyone know if this indeed a problem or just a side effect of building a
- generic kernel for a given diskless class?
-
-
- Assuming the above was not a problem, I went ahead and attempted to install a
- client tree. During the installation I got the following error messages:
-
- Installing new versions of selected eoe2.sw subsystems
- sh: /usr/diskless/client/4D35/client1/bin/rm: not found
- [Aux Cmd] cd $rbase/usr/lib/fmfonts ; $rbase/bin/rm -f ChBlIc08.pcf.Z
- ChBlIc11.pcf.Z ChBlIc12.pcf.Z ChBlIc14.pcf.Z ChBlIc15.pcf.Z
- ChBlIc17.pcf.Z ChBlIc25.pcf.Z ChBlIc33.pcf.Z ChrBlk08.pcf.Z
- ChrBlk11.pcf.Z ChrBlk12.pcf.Z ChrBlk14.pcf.Z ChrBlk15.pcf.Z
- ChrBlk17.pcf.Z ChrBlk25.pcf.Z ChrBlk33.pcf.Z ChrtrI08.pcf.Z
- ChrtrI11.pcf.Z ChrtrI12.pcf.Z ChrtrI14.pcf.Z ChrtrI15.pcf.Z
- ChrtrI17.pcf.Z ChrtrI25.pcf.Z ChrtrI33.pcf.Z ChrtrR08.pcf.Z
- ChrtrR11.pcf.Z ChrtrR12.pcf.Z ChrtrR14.pcf.Z ChrtrR15.pcf.Z
- ChrtrR17.pcf.Z ChrtrR25.pcf.Z ChrtrR33.pcf.Z ChBlIc.ff ChrBlk.ff
- ChrtrI.ff ChrtrR.ff
-
- I checked for myself and the file /usr/diskless/client/4D35/client1/bin/rm
- did not exist. I tried to figure out why. After poking around a little I
- discovered there are two eoe1.sw.cpp and eoe1.sw.lboot subsystems. One set
- is from the IRIX 4.0.5 CD and is referred to as "eoe1 4.0.5 A" on the CD ROM
- label. The other set is on the IDO 4.1 CD and is referred to as "eoe1 4.0.5"
- on the CD ROM label. The eoe1.idb from the IRIX 4.0.5 CD that contains the
- commands to install rm, as well as other files, got clobbered when the second
- eoe1 subsystem from the IDO 4.1 disk was installed during the share tree
- installation.
-
- Now for the questions. Was it a mistake to install both of them? How do I
- keep $DISKLESS/$SHARE/usr/lib/inst/eoe1.idb from getting over written by the
- one on the IDO disk? Which version of eoe1.sw.cpp and eoe1.sw.lboot do I
- need to have installed, the ones from the IRIX 4.0.5 A CD or the one from IDO
- 4.1 CD? Can I safely merge the two eoe1.idb files by hand?
-
-
- BTW, for some reason clinst needs to be able to create a symbolic link in /
- called share that points to $DISKLESS/$SHARE/$CLASS. I had a directory in /
- called share and could not get things to work until I renamed it to something
- else. I wish there had been some error message telling me that, I just
- happened to stumble upon it.
-
- Any and all pointers are welcome at this point. Thanks.
-
- Christopher Kranz
- clk@princeton.edu
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