Subject: Re: Changes between 1.5.3 & 1.6...
To: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
From: Lubomir Sedlacik <salo@Xtrmntr.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 10/12/2002 02:23:51
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hi,

On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 02:17:23AM +0200, Brad Knowles wrote:
>=20
> Hmm.  Well, I can't use the floppy images from 1.6, because they're
> broken.  And I just found out that there was a change between 1.5.3
> and 1.6, where sparc/binary/sets/kern.tgz is now gone and replaced by
> three separate files named kern-GENERIC*.tgz.
>=20
> Which means that you can't use the floppy images from 1.5.2 (and
> presumably 1.5.3) to install 1.6, because kern.tgz doesn't exist
> anymore (not even as a symlink to one of the other three files).

easy workaround: don't select kernel set in sysinst and unpack it
manually.  or install it whithout sysinst at all.

also consider netbooting, using floppy on sparc looks a bit weird
to me :)


regards,

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