Subject: Re: ftp.wasabi.com install disks fail
To: Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
From: dennis <dennis@etinc.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 11/02/1995 18:20:33
>Hallo.
>
>I tried installing the 1.1_ALPHA install floppies from ftp.wasabi.com, and
>they failed the same way as I reported on current-users.  That is to say,
>init dies with a SIGBUS.
>
>It's very strange; init doesn't die at the same place each time.  Sometimes
>it gets far enough to run /etc/rc (which also gets a SIGBUS).
>
>Anyone else see this problem?  Do the install floppies from ftp.wasabi.com
>work for anybody else?  (I'm talking about the ones announced yesterday).
>
>This is the same problem I had when I updated to -current, so my first
>guess is some strange bug in -current.
>
>Oh, this is on an old 386/16, 8Mb, two floppy drives, 540 Mb IDE drive.

I had exactly  the same problem with the wasabi distribution, and I think
that when
 I untarred the files with --unlink option it went away. It doesn't seem to
be documented
anywhere....it certainly should be.

Dennis
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