On Sun, 2 Sep 1956, Tom Shorock wrote: > I am a quite experienced UNIX tweaker, so I may be able to kludge this on > my own, but. > > A. I have not the time > B. I'd like normal users to install hamm reasonably. > > Anyway, I am freshly installing a hamm system using the current boot > disks. I have base2_0.tgz, and the rescue-driver disk images on a > separate hard drive. I am doing the rest of the install via FTP. That is > not the problem. The problem is that after the base install, var is > virtually empty. This includes the directories that dselect needs, utmp, > and many other important things. dselect fails miserably when it cannot > find its methods directory and such.
This has not been reported before. Which version of the boot disks are you using? If it's a version I have not used I can get the files and try it here, but it may take me a while as getting the big base2 file can be a problem for me. You message had an interesting date, BTW. > Date: Sun, 2 Sep 1956 10:58:30 -0700 (PDT) > From: Tom Shorock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lindsay Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Perth, Western Australia voice +61 8 9316 2486 32.0125S 115.8445E vk6lj Debian Unix =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]