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Date:	Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:52:44 -0700
From:	J R FOX <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: RC-5 install: note to Steven

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Hi Steven,

Hope you had a productive time at Warpstock.

I just had occasion to install RC-5 -- on the 4 yr. old Shuttle box -- replacing a farkled, much older Beta-4 partition on a drive that got more than partly hosed. It was a fairly quick and relatively uneventful install (Standard, not Custom), and I had these observations.

PEER seems to have gone on completely, in the first pass. This may be a first -- without your intervention through Command Line "magic" via the Management Console. The Internet Folder stuff all seems to be there. (But I did not search out *all* of those app.s & util.s.) So, the dual-NIC business does not seem to have fatally confused the installer, this time around. Some changes on their part ? Progress ? Evidently.

OTOH, the installer put in GenMac (for Intel, I think), which did _not_ work. Probably it is the Custom or Advanced install that asks you first ? I removed GenMac from MPTS, replacing it with the Intel Pro 100 from the dropdown list (which had long been the designated choice on the production hard drive), set it up in the TCP notebook, and all worked as it should.

Some hard drives got messed up here, and -- since it was looking like the IDE controllers on the MB were to blame -- I replaced the MB with a new one from Shuttle, and changed to a new set of cables. Very shortly I should find out if the "production" hard drive was also toast. (I had disconnected it at the first sign of trouble.)

Oh yeah -- whatever happened to that blue-themed desktop ? I don't recall if you just mentioned it, or if I actually saw it at a meeting, but RC-5 still defaults to the red one.

Regards,

Jordan

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