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- Subject: New installation woes
- Message-ID: <93009.063853PINHC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
- From: David Pincus <PINHC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
- Date: Saturday, 9 Jan 1993 06:38:53 EST
- Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center
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- Hi all, I finally got around to installing linux. here's my stats:
- 80386/33 AMD
- 80387 Cyrix
- AMI bios
- 1.44, 1.2 meg floppy
- WD2200 210 meg IDE on generic adapter
- Realtek vga w/256k
- Zenith ZCM-1490-Z vga monitor (I get only 640x420 bbecause of 256k in dos)
- Colorado jumbo 250 internal tape drive (off floppy cable)
- Mitsumi CD-ROM
- 8megs ram
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- Linux 0.98 pl5 SLS release, full system installed
-
- While installing (I made one huge exfs) all went fine until disk b5, where
- I got the following error:
- tar:Could not create symlink to /user/bin/smaildone
- the installation was not interrupted though, It continued to completion.
- How do I add a user? I've followed the FAQ and although I edit /etc/passwd
- with vi and save itand then create a home directory, I can't chown the
- directory. I get a "mynewuser is not a valid user"????
-
- Also: can I run X with my setup? (ie my 256k realtek vga card and zenith
- monitor which maxes out at 800x600 if I had more vga memory)
- And if so how do I go about doing it? I can't figure it out from
- the FAQ.
-
- Thanx in advance. pinhc@cunyvm.cuny.edu
-