In message <9609081241.ZM14105@physig4.ph.kcl.ac.uk> Mark wrote:

[lots of helpful info about the bootloader snipped]

OK, I'll come clean. I forgot to unzip the kernel.

Many thanks to Mark and to Simon Proven for tactfully showing me the error
of my ways. I now have 1.2-beta up and running.

Undeterred by this public revelation of my incompetence, I think I have
found a problem with /usr/local/sbin/inst when installing from scratch.
When I ran it, it reported 'whoami: not found' and then complained that
'inst should be run as root'. I couldn't find 'whoami' either, and eventually
got inst working by hacking the script about with ed. Is it me being daft
again, or have I found a real buglet?

Another minor problem is that I copied all the sets into /usr/distrib using
unixfs and then tried to install them all at once. Inst declined to install
fvwm and nedit since it hadn't dealt with x11base, so I had to add them
afterwards. Maybe they could be reordered or even respelled?

> PS. Does anyone know of any good checksum programs for RiscOS ? Even better if
> they were compat with unix checksums (e.g. cksum) That way I code post
> checksums for the decompressed kernels along with each kernel.

How about cksum? I have cksum in my library directory and it seems to work.
I think it's on HENSA somewhere, as part of one of the Unix utility ports,
but I can email a copy if you wish.

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