From: umthom61@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Adam Thompson) Subject: Problem with UNCOMPRESS Date: 27 Feb 1992 03:25:47 GMT
I've installed Linux (v.0.12, no patches yet - read on to see why)
on my second HD (40Meg, Connors IDE somethingorother), and leave my first
40M HD as DOS. I boot linux off floppy. (I can diable speed switching, so
it's acceptably fast)
I d/l (using kermit - when will serial I/O work properly?) all the compiler
binaries, as86, bison, flex, gcc, and stuck them into /tmp.
Then I try 'uncompress as86.tar.Z' ... it works for a little while, then
hangs the machine. I can type for about ~15-25 seconds after I execute
(fg or bg - doesn't matter except in timing) and then the whole machine just
sits there ... a nice-looking paperweight.
I have 4M RAM, no swap space. No error messages. It'll sync until it dies,
so it seems there's a specific point at which uncompress stops...
the same thing happens no matter which file I try to uncompress.
I didn't have this problem with the tar.Z that came on the root image.
I don't have this problem when I 'compress' something and then 'uncompress'
again.
Any ideas, people?
BTW: when will 0.13 be released? 2) what is the secondary v#(0.95) that I keep
seeing ?
-Adam Thompson
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