On Thu, 13 May 1999, Dave Schmitt wrote:

> I tried to install emacs from the pkgsrc today and bad stuff happened; got a
> couple of questions for everyone. Running 1.3.3 on a Mac IIci.
> 
> 1) Does fsck check for media errors (i.e. physical problems w/ the disk)? I
> was getting some odd messages during make install and when I looked at the
> console the screen was full of messages about "medium errors" on sd0. If it
> doesn't (I didn't see anything on the man page), what can I use to check the
> integrity of the disk?

I'm not sure what tools will do it, but it sounds like your disk is dying.

> 2) How does one fool the packages system into thinking something is
> installed? The 'make install' failed after running into the disk issues and
> 'make deinstall' won't happen because the install never registered d:(

Why do you want to fool it into thinking it installed?

Take care,

Bill