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- From: jliddle@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Jean Liddle)
- Subject: Re: SLS
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.032912.27061@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 03:29:12 GMT
- References: <By5CG0.9zK@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
- Organization: Illinois State University
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- In article <By5CG0.9zK@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> varney@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Bruce Varney) writes:
- > I have installed SLS on a 386. Just a couple of questions:
- >
- > Is there a more comphrehensive guide to setting up tcpip
- > than the README's in the /etc/inet directory?
- >
-
- I too would like to know this ...
-
- > Whenever I try to install disk x6, the computer completely
- > hangs - has this happened to anyone else?
- >
-
- The x installation went smoothly for me. As a matter of fact, the whole
- installation did, after I had mounted the root partition manually and "cp -a"ed
- the /dev directory across and unmounted it again. Is your disk corrupt
- perhaps?
-
- > It never asked for the TeX disks - how do I install them?
- >
-
- I use the following command (Typed from / directory)
- mount -t msdos -o defaults /dev/fd0 /user; for n in `ls /user/*.taz`; do \
- tar zxvf /user/$n; done; umount /dev/fd0
-
- The up arrow then installs each successive disk.
-
- TO SLS Folks:
-
- Very nice job on the SLS despite the few glitches! What an easy way
- to get a very complete system! One suggestion - if possible, could you
- perhaps break out the non-standard X clients (those that are not a part of the
- standard X11 distribution) and put them in another directory, with perhaps
- symlinks to /usr/X386/bin and /usr/X386/lib/X11/app-defaults? I put all
- other bins in /usr/bin/X11clients, with its own app-defaults symlinked
- across. This makes upgrading to a knew version of X very painless, without
- my having to worry about loosing binaries from the old distribution. Anyway,
- just a thought ...
-
- Jean.
- --
- Jean Liddle
- Computer Science, Illinois State University
- e-mail: jliddle@ilstu.edu
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