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- From: pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald)
- Subject: Re: A little linux xmas success story
- Message-ID: <1992Dec12.195027.5890@sol.UVic.CA>
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- Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria B.C. CANADA
- References: <1992Dec12.170202.496@anl433.uucp>
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 92 19:50:27 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec12.170202.496@anl433.uucp> Iain.Lea@anl433.uucp writes:
- >The season of goodwill is almost upon us so I thought I would share a
- >little something to warm your hearts (sure as hell beats the recent
- >linux vs. 386bsd BS).
- >
-
- [...Light hearted story mostly omitted]
-
- >I rebooted with the a1 boot disk, created 55MB primary partition (type 81),
- >a 5M swap partition (type 82), rebooted & put the a1 boot disk back in.
-
- From the readme:
- ] to boot from your harddrive. Note that if you have less than 4 Meg of RAM,
- ] you will need to make and activate a 4 Meg swap partition, prior to installation.
- ] For example, using /dev/hda3 for swap: "mkswap /dev/hda3 4096; swapon /dev/hda3"
-
- You neglect to say if you did this or not!
-
- >When I tried to mkfs /dev/hda1 it churned away for a few seconds and then
- >core dumped. I had heard that linux would install with only 2MB of Ram but
- >I now had doubts. Anyway I nobbled another 2MB from a friends notebook
- >(probably now an ex-friend - sorry Uwe) and installed it.
- >
-
- ...
-
- >My initial impressions, conclusions or whatever you want to call them follow:
- >
- >o /user/README did not *explicitly* state that I had to put the a1 boot
- > disk back in when I reset the computer after making a linux partition.
- >o It does not *explicitly* state that one has to make a swap area. Both
- > this and the above point could do with better documentation.
-
- I am really just replying to this to stress one point: If people are using
- SLS, and can post to this newsgroup, I assume that they can find out what the
- current version of SLS is (.98p5 for the uninformed). Just get the README
- from tsx-11 if not.
-
- It is rather pointless for people to post bug reports for previous releases.
- Most often, the reported bugs are already fixed.
-
- As for *explicitly* stating every step in installing SLS, well I don't think
- Linux has quite recieved certification for toddlers. Certainly the documentation
- is not quite up to it, but I doubt that it will ever waste space stressing things
- like "make sure the boot disk is in, when you boot your computer!".
-
- On the other hand, I am seriously :) considering collecting the years 10 funniest
- bug reports. For courtesies sake, flame via email please.
-
- Peter
- pmacdona@sanjuan.uvic.ca
-