Re: Installation guide updated
On Sun, 7 Mar 1999, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 07, 1999 at 08:28:00PM +0000, M.C. Vernon wrote:
> > On Sat, 6 Mar 1999, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> >
> > > * alpha.gnu.org/pub/gnu/hurd/contrib/marcus/cross-install.Z
> > > * alpha.gnu.org/pub/gnu/hurd/contrib/marcus/native-install.Z
> > > * alpha.gnu.org/pub/gnu/hurd/contrib/marcus/dpkg-hurd.Z
> > >
> > > My scripts are not compressed, especially not with a non-free compression
> > > algorithm!
> > >
> > > Same for this one:
> > > ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gnu-0.2/grub-boot.image.Z
> >
> > According to my sunsite mirror they are....strange. They don't appear to
> > be compressed on the original site tho - perhaps the sunsite mirroring
> > program compresses scripts by default?
>
> Maybe it supports compression on the fly? Can you access the files without
> the suffix, too?
No. I have sunsite NFS-mounted, and trying to do anything with foo (for
foo.Z above) gets a no such file or directory error
> > > "Eventually, you will get a prompt. First, get that nice Bourne again shell:
> > > bash"
> > >
> > > Why? The prompt already is a bash shell.
> >
> > Ah. Last time I single-user booted I got sh. Is that bash in disguise, or
> > am I just out of date (slink CDs are taking up lots of time atm)?
>
> sh is bash in disguise :) It's a symlink. On a Debian system, policy says
> that sh must be a link to any POSIX shell. Currently, there is only bash and
> probably ash. However, if you use bash specific features in your shell, you
> should start it with "#!/bin/bash" and not "#!/bin/sh".
OK. I've corrected the guide.
Matthew
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