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Amiga UNIX 2.1 "patchable" image...anybody tried it?
« on: May 29, 2005, 05:42:23 PM »
A while ago I posted a HD hack version of the AMIX 2.1 install media, that should allow the patch disk and packaging system to work.  I've got a guy who emailed me saying it doesn't work, and I know he has successfully installed 2.03 before.  Has anybody tried this archive successfully?

located at: http://amix.failsure.net/tiki-list_file_gallery.php?galleryId=1

amix_2.1.cpio_fixed.bz2

If so, please let me know so I can change the "untested" status, and tell this guy that it does work for other people.  It unpacks correctly for me here on my Linux machine but I'm not going to blow away my AMIX install to test it.  Thanks!  :-)
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Re: Amiga UNIX 2.1 "patchable" image...anybody tried it?
« Reply #1 on: May 31, 2005, 03:25:55 PM »
Great, I look forward to hearing about it.  Good to hear you're still playing with AMIX too :-)
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Re: Amiga UNIX 2.1 "patchable" image...anybody tried it?
« Reply #2 on: August 03, 2005, 02:17:43 PM »
@Matt_H

Cool, I hope that it works/worked for you :-)  If it doesn't, feel free to let us know...not sure what I can do about it though.  I don't have any other ideas to make it work with the HD hack at the moment.

Unrelated to this, I've been reworking some stuff on the wiki site lately...next is going through the now slightly crusty dd install doc.  I'm trying to make everything more modular so I'm not duplicating so much information in the various documentation.
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Re: Amiga UNIX 2.1 "patchable" image...anybody tried it?
« Reply #3 on: August 19, 2005, 03:49:21 AM »
Do you recall the failure message?  Did it fail on compilation?  Hmm.  If it didn't bomb out saying no packages were installed, I at least managed to fix part of the problem :-)

Do you have a /var/sadm/install/contents file?  Should be a couple meg in size.  Also, what is the result of pkginfo -x conf and pkgchk conf?  The latter command may take some time to run.

If anything's causing it to fail, it probably would be that it is using gcc > 1.x to compile, or the conf package is installed incorrectly.  Thanks a lot for giving this a shot, hopefully from here we can get it working...
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