Re: [slackware-alphadevel] Update for the INSTALL document

From: Chris Lumens (chris@slackware.com)
Date: Wed Nov 29 2000 - 15:50:54 PST


> I'm just going through the installation of Alpha-Slack on my AlphaServer
> 400 4/233, and I noticed one small problem with the INSTALL document that
> is provided. It says ”Just explode that
> package and copy installpkg and removepkg over to /sbin” and then tells
> you to run ”ROOT=/dest installpkg *.tgz”. This does not work as
> installpkg will be looking for the /var/log/setup/tmp directory which
> does not exist (at least not on the version of Debian that I'm using for
> installation purposes).
> The fix is simple, just create the directory on your Slackware partition
> and then edit /sbin/installpkg and change the line
>
> TMP=/var/log/setup/tmp
>
> to read
>
> TMP=/dest/var/log/setup/tmp
>
> assuming your Slack partition is mounted as /dest

I'm on it! Thanks for the bug report. I'll have that fixed up in time
for whenever I sync out next.

-- 
Chris Lumens - chris@slackware.com - KG6CIH
@n=(-42,-85,-83,-19,65,2,-10,-10,-15,-3,2,-10,73,-4,8,-4,2,79,8,17,15,7,14,2);
print map{chr(-$n[$i++]+ord)} sort(split(//,'place random string here')),"\n";



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