It turns out that the snapshot on Aarnet failed to match its checksum
for a blindingly obvious reason. It was corrupt.
I installed a snapshot from another mirror, started X, and crashed the
kernel. I'll try to post the details to bugs@ in a day or two, but
some hand holding would be appreciated.
Thanks Stuart
> Better to test sooner, if it still fails, if you can get a good report
> written up there's still some chance of a fix before release.
The machine is a cheap Dell laptop that's about 10 years old. It's
possible that an innocent change in the software triggered a latent
hardware f
On 2018-03-18, Rodney Polkinghorne wrote:
> Thanks for the replies. I suspect this is the answer I needed: don't
> try to install a 6.2 snapshot just before version 6.3 is released,
> instead wait for the release and install that.
The only adaptations regarding it approaching release you need sh
On 2018-03-17, Rodney Polkinghorne wrote:
> Hi
>
> This is my first post here, I appreciate how much work you all do, please
> be gentle. :-)
>
> Could someone please tell me how to install the latest snapshot, or point
> me at some instructions that work? I tried the following:
>
> 1. Download b
Thanks for the replies. I suspect this is the answer I needed: don't
try to install a 6.2 snapshot just before version 6.3 is released,
instead wait for the release and install that.
> You need to be sure to use the bsd.rd from the snapshot!
I'm pretty sure that's what I booted. Does any other
On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 03:59:01AM +, Rodney Polkinghorne wrote:
> Hi
>
> This is my first post here, I appreciate how much work you all do, please
> be gentle. :-)
>
> Could someone please tell me how to install the latest snapshot, or point
> me at some instructions that work? I tried the
On 17 Mar 2018, at 4:59, Rodney Polkinghorne wrote:
Hi
This is my first post here, I appreciate how much work you all do,
please
be gentle. :-)
Could someone please tell me how to install the latest snapshot, or
point
me at some instructions that work? I tried the following:
1. Download
Hi
This is my first post here, I appreciate how much work you all do, please
be gentle. :-)
Could someone please tell me how to install the latest snapshot, or point
me at some instructions that work? I tried the following:
1. Download bsd.rd and SHA256.sig from
http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/
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