Re: Which directories must be present to boot?

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From: M Gordon
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 1990 08:23

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(sorry to post this but our mailer can't cope with the return address)

In article <hclausen.2859@adspdk.CBMNET> hclausen@adspdk.CBMNET (Henrik Clausen) writes:
#>In article <5962@castle.ed.ac.uk> mfg@castle.ed.ac.uk (M Gordon) writes:
#>If sys:c and sys:libs are not present the boot will start
#>the drive motor and then hang. If I create sys:c and sys:libs as empty 
#>directories my startup file is read and I can assign libs: and c: to their
#>correct places.
#
#   You don't happen to use BindNames or a similar program to do the assigns?
#BindNames has a bug that will cause it to hang the machine under these
#circumstances.
#
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Yes, I am using Bindnames to set things up. Since I really don't want to switch
back to explicit assigns, until the bug is fixed I'll just leave things as they
now - sys:c and sys:libs empty with the hidden bit on. I'm using SKsh so I never
see them.

Thanks
Michael
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From: mfg@castle.ed.ac.uk (M Gordon)
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Subject: Re: Which directories must be present to boot?
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Date: 4 Sep 90 08:23:03 GMT
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