Re: Comments and questions

[Paul Johnson]

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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