From: Dave Safford (Dave.Safford@sc.tamu.edu)
Date: 02/02/93


From: Dave.Safford@sc.tamu.edu (Dave Safford)
Subject: Re: TAMU: has anyone tried it?
Date: 2 Feb 1993 17:56:27 GMT

In article 93Feb2095446@rcx1.ssd.csd.harris.com, rrusk@ssd.csd.harris.com (Bob Rusk) writes:
>In article <98JXB6PW@cc.swarthmore.edu>, rbrown1@cc.swarthmore.edu (Randolph Gregory Brown) writes:

>On the down side, the instructions are rather incomplete and sometimes
>wrong. They don't mention that you can't use lilo to boot from a
>logical partition, the instructions for manually mounting your newly-
>created file system are wrong, and the instructions for setting up
>/etc/fstab are wrong/incomplete.

These problems in the TAMU.99p4 instructions/boot disk have been fixed.
I have created an ERRATA file which will keep a list of fixes and their
upload times, so users can easily determine if a given bug has been
fixed, and if they need to re-download a file. Currently ERRATA contains:

==========================================================================
ERRATA list for TAMU.99p4

This is a list of major bugs which have been fixed, with the time
the fix was uploaded to sc.tamu.edu

1. 2/2/93 10:08 AM - updated boot.Z.
     The original boot image defaulted to vga mode 1, which caused
     some users problems. The new image asks for the mode at boot time.

2. 2/2/93 11:30 AM - updated boot.Z
     The boot disk automated installation program was not able to
     install BOOTACTV when asked. (This can be done manually after
     installation with "cp /etc/lilo/bootactv.bin /dev/hda"
     (modify "hda" if your boot drive is different))
     In addition, the install program did not build the new
     /etc/fstab correctly, although this should not have affected
     normal booting.

dave safford