I tried to install the `hamm' distribution today on a fresh installation. Is that not possible yet? Anyway, I encountered the following problems during installation which might be of value to someone:
* The disk partitioning program did not work. When I created a maximum size partition it said it was 1 MB large. It also said that the previous partition (which I deleted) was 1 MB (it was not). The disk is 500 MB. I used the original `fdisk' program in another console and it worked. * The `adduser' program doesn't work. When I specify a user name and hit enter it responds with an error message that no user name was specified, and asks me for user name again. I had to kill the script. * Install by FTP did not work. It says "Perl 5.002 required--this is only version 5.00404" ... "stopped /usr/lib/perl5/vars.pm line 3" ... "BEGIN failed"..."FTP.pm line 14" ... "exit status 2". NFS seems to work though (tried ftp.leidenuniv.nl). * Gives me some error messages about "broken pipe" when I have specified the NFS server and directory, but I don't think they are serious because installation continues. * There are very strange dependencies. "libc5 depends on libc6 (>=2.0.4-1)" and "libc6 conflicts with libc5 (<<5.4.33-7)". Does this mean that it's impossible to install libc5? However, many programs depends on libc5. Installation aborts at the "[I]nstall" stage from dselect because of this (I believe). * dselect is weird. Sometimes it unmounts the NFS-directory, sometimes not. If it is already mounted, "[I]nstall" compains that the directory already is mounted and won't continue. After trying a few times and getting stuck on the libc5 depencies, now it gives me "internal error - no filename at -e line 12, <P> chunk 16.". Is hamm installable or should I stick to that old version? // Jonas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2:201/262.37] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
