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- From: schoo@cs.rulimburg.nl (Patrick Schoo)
- Subject: Installing SR10.3 on a small disk
- Message-ID: <schoo.721933448@cs.rulimburg.nl>
- Sender: news@rlmix1.rulimburg.nl (USENET News System)
- Organization: University of Limburg, Maastricht
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 17:04:08 GMT
- Lines: 44
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- Q: Is it possible to install SR10.3 on a small disk (80Mb)?
-
- At our department we had one Apollo DN-4000 and one DN-3000. A few weeks
- ago the DN-4000 crashed. The remaining DN-3000, which relied on the DN-4000
- for its OS, could not be used either. Still I want to use the DN-3000 in
- our network as a print server. The problem is now that I have to put the
- complete OS on (what Apollo used to call) a small disk (80 Mb).
-
- Since the disk is too small to contain even the smallest distribution
- (Aegis small), during the installation I removed some directories using
- a second window. I removed the following directories:
- /sau[2..12] (except sau8)
- /sys/debug
- /sys/dm/fonts
- /sys/hardcopy
- /usr/apollo/ada
- /usr/lib.uucp
-
- After the installation the system will not reboot. It starts the phase
- II shell, but from there the Display Manager doesn't start with the GO
- command. After approximately half a minute the system returns to the
- phase II shell with the status OK.
-
- Then I tried to start the SPM. From there it is possible to start a
- shell by casting the SH command. Now I can login as user.none.none but
- I have no root permission. To become root it is necessary to start the
- llbd, glbd and rgyd. The last daemon causes the problem, because I need
- root privileges to start it. In the normal startup this is solved by
- creating an empty file /etc/daemons/rgyd. During the startup phase in
- the /etc/rc* files there is a built-in check for existence of files in
- /etc/daemons. The corresponding daemons are started with the right
- privileges. However, the SPM does not run the rc files.
-
- I had a second go, reading an old registry from a DN-4000's backup
- tape. With /install/tools/rbak_sr10 (which has the uid bit set) it is
- possible to read a tape and restore /sys/registry/rgy_local.
- Unfortunately, after I try to login as root with the password I used on
- the DN-4000 the systems tells me this account is blocked for login.
-
- I'm out of ideas. Does anyone have a suggestion?
-
- = Patrick Schoo (schoo@cs.rulimburg.nl) =
- = Department of Computer Science =
- = University of Limburg =
-