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- From: vargish@sura.net (Nick Vargish)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: New Linux Install: Summary
- Summary: Thanks all!
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.145636.6862@sura.net>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 14:56:36 GMT
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- Thanks to all the people who had the patience to help me with my
- initial Linux installation. I am running 0.96c-pl2 quite happily now;
- there are a few bumpy spots, but imrryr (my machine's name, now :^) is
- looking more and more like a usable, working system.
-
- Here's a quick summary of my questions, and the answers I found to
- work for them:
-
- -->1. Can't boot from HD.
-
- This is still a problem. I need to find information on boot sectors
- and how to fiddle with them manually. Someone mentioned that a boot
- sector(?) must be on an odd or even cylinder, but could not remember
- which it was supposed to be. Booting with floppies for now...
-
- -->2. Can only log-in as "root".
-
- Duh! "rm -f /etc/nologin" in the /etc/rc helps with this one.
-
- -->3. I remember seeing a clue on how to disable the initial "Hit <ENTER>
- to see SVGA modes, any other key to continue" [sic.] messgae.
-
- I was told, "hack the kernel." Haven't done this yet, but I'm thinking
- about it.
-
- -->4. Mtools sometimes can't initialize my floppies, [..]
-
- /etc/mtools:
- A /dev/fd0 12 0 0 0 # 5.25 1.2 Meg (autodetect)
- B /dev/fd1 12 0 0 0 # 3.5 1.4 Meg (autodetect)
-
- works fine... the autodetect code is a nice touch.
-
- -->5. X doesn't work.
-
- I may give this another stab this weekend (after I get my new HD). A
- new video card would probably help (currently have 256-K Paradise).
-
- -->6. Suspending nethack (the one I got from tsx-11, I believe) and then
- resuming it seemed to disconnect my keyboard.
-
- The terminal just isn't perfect... I have had this happen again,
- though not with nethack (emacs did it). Sometimes output goes away.
- Could this be a disconnected stdin/stdout problem?
-
- -->7. Has anyone seen ghostscript or zsh for Linux?
-
- zsh is at banjo.concert.net in the GCC directory. One has to do a
- "gcc -O zsh -o zsh.a -ltermcap" (the actual, correct, invocation is in
- the Makefile somewhere...) to link an executable, but it seems
- completely stable.
-
- I have the ghostscript source package, but haven't gotten around to
- installing it. I was told "compiles right out of the box." TeX is on
- my list too.
-
- ----- My pl-2 Questions ----
-
- -->1. pl2 won't compile "out-of-the-box"
-
- Yes it will. If you remember to "rm -r /usr/src/linux/*" before
- unpacking the archive into /usr/src/linux. I had some extra stuff left
- in there from the older version. I hate making stupid goofs like that.
-
- -->2. Currently I have a file called "vmlinux.96c+" [..]
-
- Somebody needs to mention that after compiling a new kernel, and if
- using a boot floppy, you must:
-
- imrryr# cp /usr/src/linux/Image /dev/fd0
-
- This makes a boot floppy that will actually boot the new kernel... ps
- now works, for instance.
-
- Thanks again for everyone's time... If anyone would like clarification
- on any of these, just drop me a line.
-
- Nick
-
-
-
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