I just installed a machine from the large tarball, and I've got the following to report:
The machine wouldn't boot. The error was "panic: cannot load user-bootstrap image: error code 6000". I gunzipped /boot/gnumach.gz and /boot/serverboot.gz and lo!, it came up in single-user mode. Running native-install turned up the problem that /usr/info/dir was an empty file and thus the install-info processes would hang. I killed them off one after the other, and when everything seemed to be running I fetched a dir file from somewhere else. After that, "dpkg --configure --pending" did Good Things. "dpkg -l" seems to tell me about an inconsistency, though. It says that a number of Perl 5.005 packages are installed, but it also mentions `perl-base' which has version 5.004. This seems to be strange. Now, I need to fetch a compiler and cvs and a working man-db, and then I can see how it works with the newest sources :-) kai -- I like BOTH kinds of music.
