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Conference csc32::consolemanager

Title:	POLYCENTER Console Manager
Notice:	Kits, Scans, Docs on CSC32:: as PCM$KITS:,PCM$DOCS:, PCM$SCANS:
Moderator:	CSC32::BUTTERWORTH

Created:	Thu Aug 06 1992
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1541
Total number of notes:	6564

24.0. "Installation problems, questions, quirks, etc" by VINO::DBIGELOW (Innovate, Integrate, Evaporate) Tue Sep 29 1992 21:34

        " The Console Manager base subset has successfully installed. In
        order for the system to be used the MIPS  optional binaries
        subset should have been installed as well. If this has
        also been done the Console Manager subsystem is ready for use.

        Depending on what type of connections will be used for the
        remote systems ( LAT TELNET or DIRECT) it may be necessary to
        make changes to the system kernel and to make additional device
        special files."

        What does the following sentence mean?

        "In order for the system to be used the MIPS  optional binaries
        subset should have been installed as well."

        This was confusing and perplexing to another installer as well as 
        myself.

    
    Dave

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
24.1	rewording Necessary	OPG::SIMON		`Tue Oct 06 1992 11:46`	14
	Dave, thanks for pointing this out. It is always difficult to know whether something you have written is clear to others. It was really there as a reminder to the installer that the base subset on it's own does not contain ALL the CM files. It also used to say that either the Vax or MIPS binary subset should be installed ( before the Vax support was dropped). It will in future releases probably say something about Ultrix or OSF. The base subset contains no Binaries at all making it fairly architecture independant. I shall update this. Look on the next FT release for differenet message. Cheers Simon....
24.2	man pages?	VINO::DBIGELOW	Innovate, Integrate, Evaporate	`Wed Oct 07 1992 20:31`	16
	Simon, The man on my system are DFS mounted and as a result, the CM man pages will not install. Is this normal behavior? Also, the error message didn't seem quite correct, as it complained about there not being enough file system space. Here's a cutout of what I saw: "Enter your choice(s): 4 fitset: file system /usr/man is not writable There is not enough file system space to install all of the software subsets that you have selected. Make another selection" Dave
24.3	Yes this is a setld feature.	OPG::SIMON		`Thu Oct 08 1992 09:17`	12
	Dave, I think you mean NFS mounted for the man pages. Yes that is correct. The setld process checks that each subset will fit into the filesystem, but as the man pages are mounted either read only or exported without client root priv you cannot write to the /usr/man directory. That is the function of fitset which is the facility which returned the error. You need to install the man page subset on the NFS server system and not specify that subset on your machine. Cheers Simon.....