Re: running install in pmconsole (fwd)

Matthew Zahorik (maz@albany.net)
Thu, 5 Oct 1995 00:48:36 -0400 (EDT)

On Wed, 4 Oct 1995, Brian 'MegaZone' Bikowicz wrote:

> Kernel bug in 2.4 broke pminstall. We haven't been able to work around it
> yet and Sun hasn't fixed it.

I've used pminstall on 2.4 before. (pm2_3.1_sun4.tar)

It gets stuck on the password prompt. I hit control-Z to stop it, "fg"
it, and type in the password. Annoying, but it works. I've only tried
using it to upgrade a Portmaster's flash.

% uname -sr
SunOS 5.4

- Matt

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