On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 11:49:07AM -0500, Justin Honold wrote:
> David Laight wrote:
> 
> > sysinst has a habit of aborting when sets are missing, so doesn't
> > run MAKEDEV (and a couple of other, less important things).
> > (I think the user can continue, but it doesn't make that the default.)
> 
> i did continue and it apparently didn't run it :<

I've a feeling it carries on with the rest of teh sets, but doesn't
do the MAKEDEV and root user stuff.
(I had an install go much teh same way before I started hacking sysinst.)

> so, 3 questions:
> 
> 1) why are man.tgz and misc.tgz in the i386 iso 0-size files?
Dunno - they are built ok under current on my development system.
Maybe something failed in whatever the auto-build stuff does.

> 2) is there anything else except a MAKEDEV all that i need to run?
Not that sysinst would do for you.

> 3) why would the GENERIC kernel see chown/chgrp binaries as shell scripts?

Where did you steal the binaries from?
They might be dynamic and pull in /usr/lib/libc.so.12
Then the 'exec' would fail and the shell treat them as scripts.

	David

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