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Re: Comments and questions
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Paul Johnson |
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Re: Comments and questions |
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Fri, 23 Aug 2002 15:04:52 -0500 |
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An wrote:
*(a) Should I unzip or untar everything in the "testing" directory
into a local folder (say, C:\Swarm)? There are three sub-folders
under "testing," i.e., OSF5-Tru64, old, and COM--how to deal with them?*
I worry that we are wasting your time. Installing/building out of
testing is something for people who have unix experience and understand
the idea of a "source code" distribution in contrast to a "binary
distribution". Compiling Swarm itself it is not a thing for people who
are "regular windows" users. OSF5-Tru64 is a unix variant on
DEC/Digital/compac systems. If you take swarm from testing, all you
want is the 1 tarball, swarm-2002-05-10.tar.gz or something like that.
Generally, you can put that any where you like, but just remember all
you have there is the source code that is used to build the program, not
a functioning Swarm installation.
From there, you have to learn how to compile it, which will take you a
while to understand. If you have some experience with building GNU
software, then it is quite an easy job, but for the new user, it could
be tough.
On the other hand, the binaries/latest things, you choose one of the
prerelease packages, which you untar anywhere you want, and just do the
setup described in the SwarmFAQ. Then you do have an installed,
functioning Swarm distribution.
(2) In addition, when I was trying to unzip the zipped file
"Swarm-2.2-pretest-2.tar.gz" from
ftp://ftp.swarm.org/pub/swarm/binaries/w32/latest, the unzipping
process failed after 5 minutes, and the computer went cracked--I got
a warning message, "A problem has been detected and Windows has been
shut down to prevent damage to your computer.
IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL,...***STOP: 0X0000000A (0XC0000000,
0X00000002, 0X00000000,0X804FA688) Beginning dump of physical
memory, physical memory dump comlete, ...". What is wrong?
Looks like a windows XP problem. This error happens inside a cygwin
shell? I would not trust any windows tool to do your unzipping and
untarring.
*(b) Are you suggesting to do unzipping and untarring in cygwin shell?
*
YES, we always suggest (insist) you use the Cygwin shell for jobs like
that. As you have seen first hand, the native windows tools are not very
good. SO learn to use tar.
*
*Thanks,
Li An
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