SUMMARY: Failure during setld when trying to install off OS disk

From: <Noboom2_at_aol.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 15:58:10 -0400 (EDT)

It turns out that setld is fairly picky about its parameters. Dr. Thomas
Blinn reported:

    setld is a complicated shell script that depends heavily on the directory
    hierarchy in the kit being correct, and there are a few places where it
just
    doesn't figure out paths correctly, and then it passes bad paths to other
    components like pax which then fail miserably.

In fact, Compaq knows about the problem, and I've been informed of the
following revised release notes regarding sys_check:

    4.1.10 Do Not Use Current Directory Character with setld

    Do not specify the current directory "." character as the location
     argument for setld, as shown in in the following example:

     % cd /mnt/ALPHA/BASE
     % setld -l .

    Instead, use the directory path as the location argument, for example:

     % setld -l /mnt/ALPHA/BASE

I specified the full path and I get all my packages successfully installed.

Thanks for the usual quick reponses, especially from
    tpb_at_doctor.zk3.dec.com
    dsr_at_mail.lns.cornell.edu

Release notes can be found at
    http://www.unix.digital.com/faqs/publications/base_doc \
        /DOCUMENTATION/V40F_HTML/AQTLMETE/DOCU_005.HTM#no_id_74

Sue
Received on Sun Sep 26 1999 - 20:00:17 NZST

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