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Re: SGI ProPack 1.3 for Linux (BETA)

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Subject: Re: SGI ProPack 1.3 for Linux (BETA)
From: Jari Perttunen <Jari.Perttunen@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 13:13:53 +0300 (EEST)
Cc: tduffy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0008210835240.9210-100000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-to: jari.perttunen@xxxxxxxx
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Hi,

I don't know if this is any use for you but I tried to 
install Linux ProPack 1.3 on my Dell Laptop using INSTALL installer.
Attached in the  file ProPackError.txt are the error 
messages produced by the INSTALL installer.

Hardware: Dell Latitude XPi CD 
Operating System:  RedHat Linux 6.2 (KDE desktop)

Commands used:

     (Download ProPack1.3.iso from SGI download area) 
     root# mount -t iso9660 -o loop ProPack1.3.iso  propack
     root# cd propack
     propack# ./INSTALL

     I can select the Language but the installation then 
     fails right after that.  

Yours,


==============================
Jari Perttunen      
Metla             
email: jari.perttunen@xxxxxxxx
tel: +358-9-85705362
fax: +358-9-85705361
==============================

On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Thomas Duffy wrote:

> There are some clashes and this is natural.  For instance, we replace
> /etc/securetty so that it can handle the new devfs names for the virtual
> consoles.  But this file is owned by a package in RedHat.  In our
> installer, (if you run INSTALL), it will handle the clashes for you.
> 
> The ProPAck is meant to install on top of any system.  It has a superset
> of hardware support in RedHAT.  That being said, we have not tested every
> piece of hardware.  For instance, the Buslogic SCSI driver has been
> reported to be broken in 1.3 (BTW, this is fixed in 1.4 as of the ALPHA).
> 
> THe 1.3 website is out of date and should be updated.  We are no longer in
> BETA for 1.3 and we released 1.3 over a month ago.  In fact, we are in the
> midst of working on releasing 1.4.  I should really update the website if
> I can get a chance.
> 
> Thanks for your feedback and I encourage you to keep up the testing. We
> can use as much help as we can get.
> 
> later,
> 
> -tduffy
> 

         SGI ProPack 1.3 for Linux (C) 2000 Silicon Graphics, Inc.         
Package GroupsRed Hat Linu Exception Occured

             Traceback (innermost last):                        #
               File
             "/root/propack/SGI/instimage/usr/bin/anaconda",
             line 237, in ?
                 intf.run(todo, test = test)
               File "/root/propack/SGI/sgi-packages/text.py",
             line 1092, in run
                 rc = apply (step[1](), step[2])
               File
             "/root/propack/SGI/instimage/usr/lib/python1.5/si
             te-packages/textw/packages.py", line 11, in
             __call__
                 todo.getCompsList()
               File "/root/propack/SGI/sgi-packages/todo.py",   #
             line 939, in getCompsList
                 self.comps =
             self.method.readComps(self.hdList)
               File "/root/propack/SGI/sgi-packages/image.py",
             line 8, in readComps
                  return ComponentSet(self.tree +
             '/SGI/base/comps', hdlist)
               File "/root/propack/SGI/sgi-packages/comps.py",
             line 284, in __init__
                 raise RuntimeError, msg % (str
             (missingPackages), file)
             RuntimeError: Missing RPM's for packages           #
             <['kernel-smp-bigmem']> listed in comps file
              </root/propack/SGI/base/comps>

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