[unix-pc.general] Installing FIXDISK

lenny@icus.islp.ny.us (Lenny Tropiano) (02/01/90)

In article <19926@ditka.UUCP> kls@ditka.UUCP (Karl Swartz) writes:
|>In article <1074@icus.islp.ny.us> lenny@icus.islp.ny.us I write:
|>>Trust me folks, the FIXDISK2.0+IN that appears in the osu-cis archives is
|>>fine.  It was send to me from the person at AT&T pretty much reponsible for
|>>the majority of the fixes (at least the kernel ones).
|>
|>Lenny, was this the early release we both got in early December?  If
|>so, it may not be exactly the same as the floppy version coming from
|>the Hotline.  It may only be a minor difference, but somebody said
[...]
Nope, I got mine from uucp (directly from AT&T) 3.51m, 3 days after it
was released.  It's the official one.

|>and not replace uucico.  The pre-release we got (well, the one I got)
|>quite happily nuked my HDB uucico.
|>
I would have preferred the *option* to install a "fix" but at least it was
_smart_ enough to save the old in file.OLD.   For the most part I installed
it by hand ... forget the UA.

-Lenny
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kdb@chinet.chi.il.us (Karl Botts) (02/04/90)

Does the new fixdisk depend on previous fixdisks?

Karl Botts
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rjg@sialis.mn.org (Robert J. Granvin) (02/06/90)

In article <1990Feb4.082854.16123@chinet.chi.il.us> kdb@chinet.chi.il.us (Karl Botts) writes:
>Does the new fixdisk depend on previous fixdisks?

No.

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