Re: UP1000 and SuSE 6.3

[Rich Payne <rdp talisman alphalinux org>]

OR...

set the CMOS clock back 20 years, do the install, create the symbolic link
(ln-s Tsunami /etc/alpha_systype), set the CMOS clock to the correct time.

--rdp


On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Maurice Hilarius wrote:

> Just a note for those people who have recently received a UP1000 
> "Developers Special" computer:
> 
> We have observed that when running the SuSE 6.3 installation from the API 
> supplied boot floppy and the SuSE ramdisk floppies, you will end up with a 
> filesystem system where the hardware clock has not been read at install 
> time, and the entire content gets written to disk with date stamps in the 
> year 2020.
> 
> If so, some problems with compiling will likely plague you..
> 
> Please examine dates on your install, and see what year the files are dated.
> If they are fixed at some "future" date, then please do the following:
> 
> Check that current system time is correct with "date".
> 
> If this shows the correct system date, then:
> 
> Save the following to a file (in this example I call it "set_date", and 
> make it executable:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> now=/tmp/now.$$
> touch $now
> find / -newer $now -print0 | xargs -0 touch
> rm $now
> 
> su to root
> 
> run the script:
> 
> ./set_date
> 
> 
> This will "touch" the contents of your filesystem and change all the files 
> to todays date stamp..
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> We now return you to normal programming...
> 
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Maurice W. Hilarius       Telephone: 01-780-456-9771
> Hard Data Ltd.            FAX:       01-780-456-9772
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