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Re: Infomagic Linux Nov 95 (5 CD) here!

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From: Timothy Potter
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 1995 00:00
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skeeve@skeeve.net (Skeeve Stevens) writes:

>: So what's it like?  I bought the March 1995 edition and the permissions
>: on the root directory of CDs 2, 3 and 4 were broken (root only) and the
>: live filesystem on the August 1995 edition was also broken.  I certainly
>: hope they have an index of the entire 5 disc set on each disc - in the
>: August edition the only complete index was on disc 1.

>: Apart from those few whinges it's actually a really handy resource.

>urmm... my march one was fine... no permission errors :(

Hmm...  I thought it was a known bug that you either had to mount some
of the discs as root or patch the iso-9660 filesystem and harwire an
appropriate permissions mask.

>the Nov 5CD is awesome... im going all the way and installing RedHat
>on monday on a test machine on monday..... i just wanna play with installing
>different installations (for clients)...

Unfortunately the Debian distribution is the wrong one!  Doh!  See the
recent message in c.o.l.a for details.


Tim.

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From: timbo@discworld.anu.edu.au (Timothy Potter)
Subject: Re: Infomagic Linux Nov 95 (5 CD) here!
Date: 1995/12/16
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