From: levin@world.std.com (Levin F Magruder) Subject: Newbies: Lib Update: READ RECENT FAQ Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1993 14:50:14 GMT
This is for newbies - from a fellow newbie. I don't think it's
possibly wrong, but you might wait a day to see if someone who knows
what s/he's talking about says I'm full of it.
Upgrading to the new libraries fixes the random logouts for many
people - it did for me, three days now, no problem (frequent problems
before). (I guess it doesn't work for everyone, they have to live
with it or write a new os that works better for them.)
The FAQ that was posted at the end of March has good instructions for
updating your library files (in part 2, I think.) to the recent
(4.3.3, as of Wednesday) version. I'm talking about the 4 part monthly
posting.
HJs readme's are for people who have some clue what they're doing; the
FAQ instructions are for people like us. But you do have to read
both.
You are likely to regret it if you try to upgrade and don't get that FAQ.
Also, I don't think this is the FAQ or HJs readme: HJ announced that
you need a new mount and a few other things to check before upgrading.
As far as I can see, there's a slight chicken/egg problem if you are
now using 4.3 (don't have 4.3.2), because the new mount needs 4.3.2
(or higher); however I successfully (so far) skipped 4.3.2 by doing
the lib install, cp the old mount to mount.old, and mv the new mount
to replace the old one.
There is a *ton* of other good new stuff in the faq if your
new to the linux scene. Don't skip it just because you read
the faq a couple weeks ago.
If you have any questions or criticisms of this post, send
me mail.
Thank you H.J.; thank you Marc.
levin@world.std.com