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- From: tom@bim.itc.univie.ac.at (Tom Kovar)
- Subject: Re: 220 conf'ed for using /usr server
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.184813.13127@newssrv.edvz.univie.ac.at>
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- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 18:48:13 GMT
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- tom@bim.itc.univie.ac.at (Tom Kovar) writes:
- : I'am trying to configure our institute's 220's to use the /usr server, and
- : have nice problems with it. (Running 3.2)
- : I am installing the system over network, as we have no tape stations on the
- : 220's. I used various install images (copied from the original tape, generated
- : using mksysb of a running 3.2 system, generated using mksysb of a running 3.2
- : with applied 3.2 fixes, with applied patches upgrading the 3.2 to 3.2.1, and
- : finaly after applying the patch U401209 and prereq., which should contain
- : 220 corrections).
- : After copying a bunch of /usr files, the typical dd-command message comes
- : (some thousands records in, 0 records out); after that a pax: error message
- : comes, that the following files weren't found in the archive:
- : /usr/lib/microcode/8d77.32.52
- : /usr/lib/microcode/8d77.42.52
- : /usr/lib/microcode/8d77.44.52
- : As these files are not on the original installation machine, the only thing
- : I could do was to require continuation. It tries to generate bos boot file
- : and boot image on the disk, which aborts with the error message, that it
- : cannot find the file
- : /etc//microcode/8d77.32.04
- : This file *is* on the original install machine, but it is of no help,as the
- : installation is aborted and there is no boot image on the disk.
-
- Problem solved thanks to the hints from Bob Shair and Michael E. Fail from
- IBM. Together with it, our old problems with the X11R4 on 220's (mentioned
- already more times here) disappeared.
-
- Many thanks,
- Tom
-