jonathan@cs.kl.ac.uk (Jonathan Knight) (11/09/88)
Reply-to: jonathan@cs.kl.ac.uk (Jonathan Knight)
We are trying to install Ultrix 2.2 on a Dec MicroVax II. As those
of you who have done this will know, the installation program assumes
you have all DEC equipment and makes assumptions about your disks
from this. We don't have standard DEC disks and so the installation
manages to get itself really messed up when the heads run off the
end of the disk. The last version we installed was 1.2 and that
could be halted and fixed while the installaton was in progress. This
version doesn't let you stop. The problems we find are that some
programs segment dump, the getlogin() system call keeps returning
a zero length character array and /usr/games/zork has an illegal
instaruction in it. I know that these features could be explained by other
means but the fact that the installation that copied them thought
the disk was larger than it actually was seemed to be an indication
that this was the problem.
If anyone has done the installation on non-DEC disks I would be very pleased
to hear how. Many Thanks.
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