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PFS3 Does Not Install - Error
« on: August 13, 2011, 08:09:49 PM »
The archive from Aminet has a bug, missing file not included in the archive or that the script needs to be updated and corrected. Not impressed.

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Re: PFS3 Does Not Install - Error
« Reply #1 on: August 13, 2011, 08:16:11 PM »
If you've got SnoopDos try running that just to make sure the installer is looking in the right place, it could for example in a badly written install script be looking in DH0: and not the current place where you have the archive... (it can & does happen)... ;)

Failing that install SFS (it's much better anyway)... :)

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Re: PFS3 Does Not Install - Error
« Reply #2 on: August 13, 2011, 10:00:49 PM »
I know Franko, but I grow weary of this kind of laziness from developers. I was a software tester for about 5 years and I know they never try anything they just compiled / packaged. And make gross assumptions about what "users" should know or do.

Not my job. And does not inspire much confidence about the other thousand lines of code to follow...
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Re: PFS3 Does Not Install - Error
« Reply #3 on: August 13, 2011, 10:17:02 PM »
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I know Franko, but I grow weary of this kind of laziness from developers. I was a software tester for about 5 years and I know they never try anything they just compiled / packaged. And make gross assumptions about what "users" should know or do.

Not my job. And does not inspire much confidence about the other thousand lines of code to follow...


Agreed, but it could just be something (dare I say it) you are doing wrong, whichever the case, it's crap when something like this gets released and something as basic as the installer doesn't work properly, like you say it doesn't inspire confidence... :(
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Re: PFS3 Does Not Install - Error
« Reply #4 on: August 13, 2011, 10:21:01 PM »
It appears that the release archive is missing the DirectSCSI version of the filesystem for 68000/68010 (PFS3/data/#?/fs/#?PFS3ds). If you install on 68020, 68030, 68040 or 68060 system it should work just fine.

Assuming you're running on 68000 or 68010 and want to install you can select the expert mode where you get to choose the CPU type (choosing for example 68020 will bypass the problem). After the installer has completed you can manually copy over the existing 68000/68010 filesystem versions.

Of course this doesn't help the fact that 68000/68010 directscsi version is missing.
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Re: PFS3 Does Not Install - Error
« Reply #5 on: August 13, 2011, 10:23:14 PM »
Yeah it happens, but PFS is considerably better than SFS in some areas. I just wish SFS was updated more often.
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Re: PFS3 Does Not Install - Error
« Reply #6 on: August 13, 2011, 10:28:23 PM »
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Yeah it happens, but PFS is considerably better than SFS in some areas. I just wish SFS was updated more often.


It hasn't been updated since 2007 as far as I'm aware and I don't think the guy who took over from the original author bothers with it anymore... :(

Mind you having said that I've been using SFS for many years now and am very happy with it... :)

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Re: PFS3 Does Not Install - Error
« Reply #7 on: August 13, 2011, 10:41:34 PM »
What I would use, if it was available would be HFS+ or XFS, both systems are pretty stable and organized.
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Re: PFS3 Does Not Install - Error
« Reply #8 on: August 13, 2011, 10:52:43 PM »
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It appears that the release archive is missing the DirectSCSI version of the filesystem for 68000/68010 (PFS3/data/#?/fs/#?PFS3ds). If you install on 68020, 68030, 68040 or 68060 system it should work just fine.

Assuming you're running on 68000 or 68010 and want to install you can select the expert mode where you get to choose the CPU type (choosing for example 68020 will bypass the problem). After the installer has completed you can manually copy over the existing 68000/68010 filesystem versions.

Of course this doesn't help the fact that 68000/68010 directscsi version is missing.


I switched from intermediate install to expert. This got me around the problem and got to choose the 030 version.

Then hit another missing file:


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Re: PFS3 Does Not Install - Error
« Reply #9 on: August 13, 2011, 11:00:15 PM »
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I switched from intermediate install to expert. This got me around the problem and got to choose the 030 version.

Then hit another missing file:


You really need multiuser support? If not, don't select them at install ("Multiuser version" and "DirectScsi Multiuser version"). If you select multiuser versions the installer attempts to patch the *existing* multiuser installation.
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Re: PFS3 Does Not Install - Error
« Reply #10 on: August 13, 2011, 11:14:29 PM »
I don't Piru, I'm just making a point; at this point.

I did get it installed and all my enthusiasm for it is now extinguished.

QA was never a strong point of Amiga I suppose. At least it's in Aminet now where it belongs.
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Re: PFS3 Does Not Install - Error
« Reply #11 on: August 13, 2011, 11:21:29 PM »
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I did get it installed and all my enthusiasm for it is now extinguished.

Well too bad. The filesystem really is the best there is.
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Re: PFS3 Does Not Install - Error
« Reply #12 on: August 14, 2011, 12:23:45 AM »
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Well too bad. The filesystem really is the best there is.


Not true... SFS is much better (as I've argued before)... ;)
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Re: PFS3 Does Not Install - Error
« Reply #13 on: August 14, 2011, 12:46:30 AM »
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Not true... SFS is much better
  • PFS3 is faster than SFS (easy to benchmark and verify as a fact)
  • PFS3 fragments less than SFS over time (easy to verify as a fact)
  • PFS3 has a repair tool, SFS doesn't (except MorphOS SFSDoctor)
  • PFS3 is more reliable than SFS (somewhat subjective and harder to verify)

What SFS has going for it is the support for larger partitions than PFS3 (SFS: 128GB PFS3: 107GB)
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Re: PFS3 Does Not Install - Error
« Reply #14 on: August 14, 2011, 01:05:25 AM »
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  • PFS3 is faster than SFS (easy to benchmark and verify as a fact)
  • PFS3 fragments less than SFS over time (easy to verify as a fact)
  • PFS3 has a repair tool, SFS doesn't (except MorphOS SFSDoctor)
  • PFS3 is more reliable than SFS (somewhat subjective and harder to verify)


What SFS has going for it is the support for larger partitions than PFS3.


You answered that one yourself... ;)

But not one to miss an opportunity then in reply...

1. Cobblers
2. Bollock$
3. Tripe
4. All Of The Above

Oh... and of course the correct answer you so kindly gave yourself... :)
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