swade@ocf.berkeley.edu (Wade Shen) (10/10/90)
For the past few days I've been frntically trying to install SCO's Open Desktop on a machine at my workplace... IT DOESN'T WANT TO INSTALL! Here are a series of problems. I hope that someone out there will be able to help. 1. When I was asked to insert the N4 floppy I got the folowing: "NOTICE: SALLOC04 out of inodes" This seems strange to me because I had set up the unix partition With over 100 megs.. 2. I get tar extraction errors and lists of files that can't link themselves tmp. (the files vary from installation to installation 3. Sometimes I get a "wrong volume" message after these errors occur even when the correct volume is in the drive 4. I get periodic errors after the HD is initialized which throw me into a shell with a prompt of "<installation>" at which point I can do nothing. 5. many times I get the following message: "/bin/-sh : can't make pipe" (it isn't always /bin/-sh sometimes its /etc/labelinstall) 6. Strangly enough SCO Unix System V installs and runs properly but I can't seem to be able to get ODT to install anything beyond the runtime system. (most of the time I can't even get to that point) Could it be that my disks are bad (I'm installing from the originals)? Any help on the matter would be appreciated Thank You
rogerk@sco.COM (Roger Knopf 5502) (10/12/90)
In article <1990Oct9.185956.29044@agate.berkeley.edu> swade@ocf.berkeley.edu (Wade Shen) writes: >For the past few days I've been frntically trying to install SCO's Open Desktop >on a machine at my workplace... > >IT DOESN'T WANT TO INSTALL! You have a serious case of anthropomorphic software on your hands. >Here are a series of problems. I hope that someone out there will be able to >help. Have you tried SCO Tech Support? They are rumored to know how to do this kind of thing. What is your machine configuration? Omit no detail.... (scads of nasty problems deleted) >Could it be that my disks are bad (I'm installing from the originals)? Its a definite possibility but I wonder first if you have enough memory and what motherboard you are using. In any case, call our Tech Support department, they know about many anomalies. -- Roger Knopf "Alas, poor Schoenberg; whose SCO Consulting Services aesthetic is perhaps too fine to be uunet!sco!rogerk or rogerk@sco.com caught in the gross colander of mass 408-425-7222 (voice) 408-458-4227 (fax) appreciation." --Karl P. Henning