Merge Installation/Configuration Problem on OpenServer 5.0.7

[Transpower]

Merge (itself) seemed to install OK. When I log in as a user (not root) and
run /usr/bin/installwindows, I get the following messages:

Install Windows 9x from /usr/merge/dosroot/wincabs
Internal error - can't read configuration
Internal error - can't read configuration
Error 10: The personal drive directory in the win configuration is not valid
Cannot continue. Exiting ...

Whew. Anybody here know what to do?

Transpower

[Transpower]

I then attempted to go into the Help to find an answer. I got the message that
I had to index the documentation....well, OK, I guess. I ran this program:

/usr/lib/docview/conf/rundig -i -v

It seemed to finish. But when I went back into Help I got the message "Unable
to read word database file '/usr/lib/docview/db/dbwords.db'". Did you run
htmerge? Well, no. If I try to run /usr/bin/htmerge, I get the message
"Unable to find configuration file '/opt/www/htdig/conf/htdig.conf'

Whew. I love 5.0.4's Help system. What the hell has SCO done now? The same
thing with the online version of TA. The old method was much, much better.

Has anyone on this list gotten Merge to work on 5.0.7?

Transpower

[tony@aplawrence.com]

Transpower <transpower@aol.com> wrote:

>I then attempted to go into the Help to find an answer. I got the message that
>I had to index the documentation....well, OK, I guess. I ran this program:

>/usr/lib/docview/conf/rundig -i -v

>It seemed to finish. But when I went back into Help I got the message "Unable
>to read word database file '/usr/lib/docview/db/dbwords.db'". Did you run
>htmerge? Well, no. If I try to run /usr/bin/htmerge, I get the message
>"Unable to find configuration file '/opt/www/htdig/conf/htdig.conf'

>Whew. I love 5.0.4's Help system. What the hell has SCO done now? The same
>thing with the online version of TA. The old method was much, much better.

I had similar problems; from [url]http://aplawrence.com/Reviews/osr507.html[/url]

DocView



Docview is the new SCO help system. One of the first things you need to
do is run /usr/lib/docview/conf/rundig to build its indexes. Be prepared
for that to take a LONG time: on this admittedly weak machine, the
process took an amazing 5.5 hours! But then everything was painfully
slow with this. I finally got impatient and threw in some more memory,
which helped a lot. For the heck of it, I reindexed (using -i to make
it do the whole thing) after bumping the ram up to 384MB; that took just
about as long. Reindexing isn't particularly healthy for the rest of
your system either: my sar %idle was at 0 throughout this process.

But the indexing wasn't complete at all. For example, while there is a
"usb" man page, Docview search turned up absolutely nothing for "usb".
I did notice that at SCO's web site, a Docview search for "usb" did
turn up the appropriate pages, so it had to be something silly that
interfered with indexing on my machine. So, I did it a third time.
This took an incredible 10 hours, but when it finished, Docview could find
"usb" in a search.

You cannot index if you have used dhcp to get an address for this box.
The supposed reason is that the machine doesn't have a fixed ip address
(see /usr/lib/docview/conf/README). Pretty silly, I think.

You may recall that in previous versions, "man" wouldn't work if scohttp
wasn't running. In 5.0.7, "man" does not depend on Docview (/etc/docview
stop|start|restart if you care).


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[Transpower]

I tried again following the correct procedure (running from an X-window, etc.).
I still get a "configuration" error when I attempt to install a personal copy
of Windows 98. I believe there is a bug in the install script. I'm going to
wait until I get an updated CD.

Transpower

[Jean-Pierre Radley]

Transpower typed (on Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 06:57:36PM +0000):
| I then attempted to go into the Help to find an answer. I got the message that
| I had to index the documentation....well, OK, I guess. I ran this program:
|
| /usr/lib/docview/conf/rundig -i -v

Don't try to second-guess the instructions, which are to run

/usr/lib/conf/rundig

without any options.

| It seemed to finish. But when I went back into Help I got the message "Unable
| to read word database file '/usr/lib/docview/db/dbwords.db'". Did you run
| htmerge? Well, no. If I try to run /usr/bin/htmerge, I get the message
| "Unable to find configuration file '/opt/www/htdig/conf/htdig.conf'
|
| Whew. I love 5.0.4's Help system. What the hell has SCO done now? The same
| thing with the online version of TA. The old method was much, much better.
|
| Has anyone on this list gotten Merge to work on 5.0.7?

Certainly.

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[Jean-Pierre Radley]

Transpower typed (on Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 08:20:22PM +0000):
| I tried again following the correct procedure (running from an X-window, etc.).
| I still get a "configuration" error when I attempt to install a personal copy
| of Windows 98. I believe there is a bug in the install script. I'm going to
| wait until I get an updated CD.
|

Please stop posting messages with absolutely no context -- you're just
wasting our time, we have no idea *what* you tried again...


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JP

[Transpower]

JP:

I don't have /usr/lib/conf/rundig on my system. Maybe you mistyped?

As for the procedure to install Windows 98:

In root, I ran Merge Tools --> Merge Setup --> System-Wide Administration -->
Load Windows CD. This prompted for a Start Disk, which fortunately I had (but
really Merge should use a switch on Windows setup to avoid this, because it's
not appropriate in this environment). Then I logged in as a regular user and
ran Merge Tools --> Merge Setup --> Personal Windows Setup. This is where I
get the "configuration" problem. I believe there is a bug in the script
installwindows.sh. How's that for content?

Regards,
RWS
[email]transpower@aol.com[/email]

[tony@aplawrence.com]

Transpower <transpower@aol.com> wrote:

>Thanks, Bob.

>I went to download Merge revision 23 and found that it was in CPIO format. On
>AOL, this just displays as text on the screen--it doesn't FTP properly to a
>file. Besides, why would this file be in CPIO format and not in VOL format?
>What should I do now--call SCO on Monday?

Many VOL. files are just cpio archives - there's nothing unusual about
that.

Why on earth would you use AOL???

But even if you have to, you can still use IE once AOL connects, and
then simply SHIFT-CLICK to download.

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[Jean-Pierre Radley]

Transpower typed (on Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 04:53:26PM +0000):
| Thanks, Bob.
|
| I went to download Merge revision 23 and found that it was in CPIO format. On
| AOL, this just displays as text on the screen--it doesn't FTP properly to a
| file. Besides, why would this file be in CPIO format and not in VOL format?
| What should I do now--call SCO on Monday?

Instead of just clicking on that file (or on the release_notes files),
use Shift-Click instead.

The cpio archive conatins VOL files, as expected.

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JP

[Transpower]

OK, JP, I downloaded the file and saved it as a "text" file (the only other
choice was HTML, which wouldn't do). I then attempted to extract the VOL files
using cpio -i. Didn't work. What command am I supposed to use? I thought
cpio was marked for obsolescense years ago.

RWS
[email]transpower@aol.com[/email]

[Jean-Pierre Radley]

Transpower typed (on Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 01:26:15AM +0000):

| OK, JP, I downloaded the file and saved it as a "text" file (the
| only other choice was HTML, which wouldn't do). I then attempted to
| extract the VOL files using cpio -i. Didn't work. What command am
| I supposed to use? I thought cpio was marked for obsolescense years
| ago.

Saved it as a "text" file? What stupid client are you using? It isn't a
text file, it's a binary.


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JP

[Transpower]

JP:

Obviously it's a binary file. But AOL and Explorer just give the two choices
of HTML or text. OK, so now what? Can someone just send me a normal tar.Z
file of this patch?

Regards,
RWS
[email]transpower@aol.com[/email]

[Jean-Pierre Radley]

Transpower typed (on Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 12:37:06PM +0000):
| JP:
|
| Obviously it's a binary file. But AOL and Explorer just give the two choices
| of HTML or text. OK, so now what? Can someone just send me a normal tar.Z
| file of this patch?

Then install Netscape or Mozilla. Or don't use Windoze at all, use the
OSR 5 box itelf.


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[tony@aplawrence.com]

Transpower <transpower@aol.com> wrote:

>OK, JP, I downloaded the file and saved it as a "text" file (the only other
>choice was HTML, which wouldn't do). I then attempted to extract the VOL files
>using cpio -i. Didn't work. What command am I supposed to use? I thought
>cpio was marked for obsolescense years ago.

Huh??

What on earth gave you THAT idea?

Certtainly pax has started to replace it and tar, but I don't
think it will be "obsolete" for many a year.

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[Transpower]

Tony:

Just do a man on cpio.

RWS
[email]transpower@aol.com[/email]

[Nachman Yaakov Ziskind]

[email]tony@aplawrence.com[/email] wrote (on Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 04:18:30PM +0000):

> Transpower <transpower@aol.com> wrote:

> >OK, JP, I downloaded the file and saved it as a "text" file (the only other
> >choice was HTML, which wouldn't do). I then attempted to extract the VOL
> > files using cpio -i. Didn't work. What command am I supposed to use? I
> > thought cpio was marked for obsolescense years ago.

Actually, you're supposed to tell custom where the VOL.* files live ("Media
Device: Media Images" option), and custom handles the heavy lifting.

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[Transpower]

Using Netscape 4.7 I successfully downloaded the cpio file and extracted it. I
then installed the latest revision, 23. But, alas, to no avail. I still get
the same configuration errors (see below) when I attempt to create or use a
personal copy of Windows ME. The problem could be the Start Disk; I still
don't know why this is required. How does one go about creating this disk
without an ME machine available?

Exact statements of error messages:

CONFIGUNR: Win: Error: The configuation win is not readable.

CONFIG_READ_FAIL: dos: ERROR: Failed to read config <NIL>: 268870008 Error 4,5,
unable to continue

RWS
[email]transpower@aol.com[/email]

[Transpower]

I broke down and went to my local CompUSA store and had the service tech make
me three Start Disks: ME, 98 SE, 98. Cost me $10.70. Came back and tried the
Merge install again. No luck. Still the same configuation error messages when
I go in as non-root to install/use Personal copy of Windows or DOS. Has anyone
here actually used this version of Merge (rev. 23) under OpenServer 5.0.7?

RWS
[email]transpower@aol.com[/email]

[Transpower]

Huh? I've presented here the exact context and content of the error messages.
See message #20 in this thread. I'm saying that I get the same error messages
with the correct Start Disks using both Windows ME and Windows 98. So that
rules out the Start Disks as being the problem. So, any other ideas to try?

RWS
[email]transpower@aol.com[/email]

[Jean-Pierre Radley]

Transpower typed (on Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 10:17:13PM +0000):
| Huh? I've presented here the exact context and content of the error messages.
| See message #20 in this thread. I'm saying that I get the same error messages
| with the correct Start Disks using both Windows ME and Windows 98. So that
| rules out the Start Disks as being the problem. So, any other ideas to try?

Context, as I've invoked it here, has zilch to do with your error
messages. I am talking about having some minimal quoting of prior
messages in your new postings.

I happen to read this newsgroup as email, so I save just what I choose.
I have not found this particular thread so entrancing that I would have
saved each and every part of it,

Nor do I know how anyone else, using any newsreading method, would find
"No. 20". Newsgroups aren't numbered that way.

In any case, whatever help you get here is given freely by people who
care to do so. We are not required to be able to summon your No. 20.
If you want folks to follow the discussion, provide some context. We're
not at your beck and call to backtrack through some archive.

I'm done with this thread.

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JP