schemers@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Roland Schemers III) (08/24/90)
Hello! I'm trying to install 4.0 on our 5820, but have run into a snag. I am doing an advanced install, and selected "all of the above" for the support subsets. Everything loads fine up to the RAND mail handler, which is at the end of the first tape. It says please mount volume 2, and when I do I get: Please remove tape volume 1 and place it with volume 2. Are you ready (y/n)? y stdin: not in compressed format tar: blocksize = 0 Verifying RAND Mail Handler (UDTMH400) setld: There were verifications errors.... ... Then from then on all of the subsets get verify errors. Has anyone encountered this problem? We have about 6 different copies of 4.0, and I'm on the third. I decided to just let the install finish, and now I'm trying to use setld to load the ones that failed first. E-Mail would be nice. I'm also putting a call into DEC. Thanx, Roland (schemers@vela.acs.oakland.edu) -- Roland J. Schemers III Systems Programmer schemers@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Ultrix) Oakland University schemers@argo.acs.oakland.edu (VMS) Rochester, MI 48309-4401 "Get off your LEF and do something!" (313)-370-4323
goldberg@davidsys.com (Seth Goldberg) (08/27/90)
In article <2712@vela.acs.oakland.edu>, schemers@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Roland Schemers III) writes: > Hello! I'm trying to install 4.0 on our 5820, but have run into a snag. > I am doing an advanced install, and selected "all of the above" for the > support subsets. Everything loads fine up to the RAND mail handler, which > is at the end of the first tape. It says please mount volume 2, and when > I do I get: > > Please remove tape volume 1 and place it with volume 2. > Are you ready (y/n)? y > stdin: not in compressed format > tar: blocksize = 0 > Verifying RAND Mail Handler (UDTMH400) > setld: > There were verifications errors.... > ... > Then from then on all of the subsets get verify errors. > > Has anyone encountered this problem? We have about 6 different copies > of 4.0, and I'm on the third. I decided to just let the install finish, > and now I'm trying to use setld to load the ones that failed first. > > E-Mail would be nice. I'm also putting a call into DEC. > > Thanx, > Roland (schemers@vela.acs.oakland.edu) > I strongly suspect the problem is that you were using TK50 tapes and did not wait for the tape to come ready before typing yes. One important thing to note (this happened to me which is how I know) is that at least on the DECStation 5000 SCSI bus, the TK50 actually appears to be ready and then about 5 seconds later it starts to blink the green light again. If you are too quick on the draw to type return, you fail to notice that part and get just the error you get above. -- Seth Goldberg Manager, Computer Resources David Systems Internet: goldberg@davidsys.com UUCP: ...!uunet!sam!goldberg