From: astoker@nyx.cs.du.edu (Andrew Stoker) Subject: SLS 0.99 Installation Problems/Errors Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 03:35:22 GMT
Well, I decided to bite the bullet and put the latest version of SLS on my PC,
spent the weekend and Monday afternoon downloading the disks. I get home,
fdisk ok, mkfs ok, start off doinstall...so far so good. Alas, during the
installation, I get one or other of the following messages:
installing package...stdin is not in gzip format
done
installing package
read error on stdin: unknown error
done
The really odd thing is that it doesn't do this for every package on every
disk, ie. some packages install with no error message. So, what's going on
here? As far as I know, the downloading went ok, and as far as I can tell,
the installation went ok too, but I think I need more time to check that,
after all, there's a lot there :-) Can anyone shed any light on these error
messages and how to fix them.
One thing, I downloaded SLS by ftping the disk files to my local site, and the
using kermit (no funny comments) to get the files to PC, I don't trust the
local network and kermit to download binaries safely, so I converted them into
an ASCII format using a program called `makeboo' (might be more familiar to UK
users than others) because it produces smaller files than uuencode. On the
PC, I run another program called `deboo' to get the binaries back before
copying to floppy disk. I can't see that this would introduce any problems
though.
Andy
P.S. "smart" alec replies saying RTFM can goto /dev/null, I have a pile of
printed FM which says nothing about this.