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- From: lidl@rodan.UU.NET (Kurt J. Lidl)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: Beginner's problems with 386BSD
- Date: 26 Jul 1992 09:30:22 -0400
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- In article <712169547snx@rama.demon.co.uk> steve@rama.demon.co.uk (Steve Entwistle) writes:
- >1) How do I talk to my printer ? A /dev/lp device was not created when
- > I installed the binary distribution. Is it just a simple matter of
- > doing a mknod ? If so, what are the relevant major and minor devices
- > numbers ?
-
- I don't think that an unpatched 0.1 release will work for you.
- Someone has posted a parallel port driver for 0.0 that most likely
- will work for 0.1 also. (I have not tried this, so I have no *real*
- idea if it works with 0.1)
-
- >2) Should Mtools work straight out of the box ? If for example I issue
- > mdir a: it produces the message init: open: No such file or directory.
- > Most of the other mtools commands produce similar messages.
-
- Due to a couple of niggling things, it will not work. Remove the
- /dev/rfd0a and /dev/fd0a devices, then MAKEDEV fd0. As it turns
- out, mtools wants /dev/rfd0c, not the "a" partition on the floppy
- drives. Alturnatively, you can re-compile mtools to use
- /dev/rfd0a instead of /dev/rfd0c (I found that creating the correct
- devices was more expediante.)
-
- >3) When I try and use ktrace, it just says Bad System call - core dumped.
-
- Don't know.
-
- >4) How do I configure the system for UK local time ? I tried symlinking
- > /etc/localtime to /usr/share/zoneinfo/GB-Eire, but this puts the clock
- > about 8 hours ahead.
-
- Well, to configure the system for Eastern daylight time, I just
- made /etc/localtime a sym-link to /usr/share/zoneinfo/localtime,
- which I then hardlinked to /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern.
- It seems to work for me. (I also changed the timezone in the
- kernel I built, but did not see any obvious change from that
- alone. I forget exactly what that value is used for -- it predates
- the zoneinfo way of doing things, I think...)
-
- Good luck.
-
- -Kurt
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