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From: hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Update to 1.5.10 Upgrade Kit
Message-ID: <1990Jul15.094703.28268@math.lsa.umich.edu>
Date: 15 Jul 90 09:47:03 GMT
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In article <5299@plains.UUCP> overby@plains.NoDak.edu (Glen Overby) writes:
>These bits are on ftp.adelaide.edu.au in "pub/minix/upgrades/1.5" and
>plains.nodak.edu [134.129.111.64] in pub/Minix/updates/1.5.  Also look in
>the "upgrades" or "updates" directory for other info.
>
>Archive-server@plains.{nodak.edu, uucp, bitnet} can serve those of you who
>do not have internet access.  See the Minix Information Sheet for details.
>
>If you're in the US, please try using plains first to avoid loading the
>international lines.
>
>Also: The old upgrade kits on Plains are being cleaned out.

Could we please have a recap of what's needed to perform an ST upgrade?
I ftp'd over to plains.nodak.edu tonight, and hunting thru the directories
showed that the ST upgrade files were pretty much the same as before.

I just installed the ST1.1 fixes on my system tonight, and read thru the
1.5.xx upgrades, and noticed that they all say to get such-and-such file
from the PC 1.5.xx upgrade postings. So apparently you need a number of
files. But, this only seems to be the case before 1.5.10. Does the 1.5.10
ST upgrade kit contain all the "missing" files referred to by the previous
upgrade postings?

Meanwhile I'm going to repackage all the ST upgrade files into compressed
tar files. Uudecoding and unshar'ing is for the birds.... The repackaged
upgrade files will be on terminator in ~ftp/atari/Minix Real Soon Now. (I
don't know about anyone else, but it was pretty tedious getting all the
ST1.1 files into usable shape on my system... I'm setting it up as a single
tar file, to just extract in /usr...)
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  -- Howard Chu @ University of Michigan
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	if one of those data bits happens to flip,
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