Re: running install in pmconsole (fwd)

Christian Nielsen (cnielsen@ut.rockymt.net)
Thu, 5 Oct 1995 11:17:42 -0600 (MDT)

I did this on a sun and yes, I now have a hosed PM2ER, Luckly I had a
spare in the back room. What do I do with this thing now.

On Thu, 5 Oct 1995, Brian 'MegaZone' Bikowicz wrote:

> Once upon a time Matthew Zahorik shaped the electrons to say...
> >I've used pminstall on 2.4 before. (pm2_3.1_sun4.tar)
>
> You got lucky.
>
> Don't use it in 2.4, it eats Portmasters. Corrupts them and the you have a
> down unit you can't recover from 2.4. If you have another OS you're ok, if
> not, trouble.
>
> If you do an upgrade, it wipes the flash in preparation to load the new
> image - but it fails on the load, so you have a blank PM.
>
> -MZ
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Christian

Yes, I know. If I only had 26 hours in a day... ;-0