Installing VP/ix on an ESIX system

[Timothy A. Melten]

In article <1025 at xroads.UUCP> chandler at xroads.UUCP (Jim Chandler) writes:
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>I am trying to install the ISC VP/ix Rev 2.0.0 version on my ESIX Rev. C
>system.  I get an error that says the file management system is not installed
>and so it fails to install VP/ix.  Any ideas?  I would like to talk to
>someone who has done it.  ESIX claims that VP/ix will work with ESIX.  Thanks
>for the help.
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The problem is that VP/ix is looking for the File Management Utilities
package that comes with 386/ix.  There is a simple solution:  create
the following files which should contain some type of note that they were
created as dummy files or something.  They cannot be empty, I've been told.
Create:
	/usr/lib/installed/Files/fm.name
 	/usr/options/fm.name
to install the basic disks, and:
	/usr/lib/installed/Files/kc.name
 	/usr/options/kc.name
to install the second package (it wants the 386/ix Kernal Config. stuff).
After you have created these files, everthing should install fine; it did for
me.

Hope this helps,

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Tim Melton
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