Installation problems on 5400

[Mike Bryan]

In article <1989Sep25.015309.27973 at acd4.UUCP> mjb at acd4.UUCP ( Mike Bryan          ) writes:
>
>Has anyone had experience loading a 5400 with Ultrix 3.1?  We are
>having severe problems here this weekend.  Our tape is labeled
>"Ultrix-32 3.1A (RISC)", part number "AQ-NL66A-BE".  Every time it
>gets to the point of installing the software subsets, we get errors.

Well, as an update to the problem, it seems that we have another
corrupt tape from DEC.  The file which should be the BASE subset is in
fact a dump/restore image from god-only-knows-what.  The file which
should be the INET subset is a compressed tar image of *part* of BASE,
but it is corrupted (tar -tv gives 'directory checksum error' after a
few files).  DEC claims other sites do not have this problem, and are
going to get us another tape.  Maybe this one (try #3) will work.

It's just not our month for software distributions.  We've had 3 bad
ORACLE tapes, and 2 bad Ultrix tapes.  Maybe we should just go back to
keying software directly into memory by hand.  :-)


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