Setting the date during installation

[roman songdog eskimo com (Bill Roman)]

Robb Romans wrote:
> 
> As a side note, RH 5.2 installed fine, with the updated ramdisk, and the
> existing MILO installed from 5.1. Only problem was the fscking date got
> set to 2018 on lots of files, even though I started the install from a
> running 5.1 system.  The cool little script to fix that posted here didn't
> work on the symlinks.
> 
> Can someone tell me what point to bail out to a VC to change the date
> during the install, and exactly what command to use?
> 
I put the 'date' binary on a floppy, mounted the floppy as soon as
the shell on the second virtual console was started, and set the date
correctly.  In this way, I installed 5.1 with all the time stamps correct.

Unfortunately, I was so excited to have found 5.2 in the local bookstore
that I forgot to do this on the upgrade.

-- 
Bill Roman  (roman@songdog.eskimo.com / roman@songdog.uucp)   running linux