Murphy is at it again...

[utzoo!decvax!duke!cincy!chris]

Well, I have just spent the last eight hours trying to get 2.8bsd up.
I ran into a number of bugs, they are as follows:

	512restor will NOT read my Bell v7 tape. This leaves me in
quite a quandary, because I am missing just about everything.'
(I even tried recompiling...see below...it still didn't work.)

	ps refuses to work. Always says 'no namelist'. However, w
will work, even when it uses exactly the same algorithm for detecting
processes.

	I had to build ovas2 and as2 for the kernel to compile.
This was difficult, because you can't assemble the second pass of
the as without the as. I kept getting the message '/usr/ucb/lib/as2?'.
I finally found the binary, after much effort, and put it into place.

	Trying to compile a C program led to a slew of undefineds;
all the system call interfaces were not there. This one took a while.
It seems that the compall file that builds all of them tries to do
so via
	cc -s sys/*.s
which neglects to include the /usr/include/sys.s file, so all the magic
numbers are undefined. I finally changed all of them to
	as -o *.o /usr/include/sys.s *.s
This one is inexcusable, guys! The .o files that had undefineds in
them had been stuffed into the archive. In the same swoop, the mklib
shell script calls for ranlib, which is not there.
(Why isn't this a makefile??????)

	The passwd program is not around. (BOO)

	There are some garbage lines in the above compall file.

	None of the bootstraps seem to work. At least, I am assembling
the file in /usr/mdec with the appropriate drive, copying it to block
0, and trying to reboot, with no results. The CPU runs, but nothing
is printed or echoed on the console.

	My biggest problem right now is getting the Bell tape read.
I would really appreciate getting help with this.

		Chris Kent