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- From: pfr@psun2.hmi.de (Fritsch_Wolfgang)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: new SLS - few comments (tcpip, size)
- Date: 12 Jan 1993 15:25:10 +0100
- Organization: Hahn-Meitner-Institut Berlin
- Lines: 33
- Message-ID: <1iukc6INN2iv@psun2.hmi.de>
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-
- (be warned, I *am* one of those dreaded newbies...)
-
- I downloaded the new version of SLS (Jan 11, 1993). These are the first
- problems that I encountered.
-
- (1) I installed the a-c disks but apparently that was too much. I have 36 Mb
- free space on the disk and the docs say that a-c take 25 Mb. Believe it or not,
- my installation dies at about disk c4 because space has gone. (I do not need
- special swap space with my 16 Mb RAM).
-
- (2) The installation of tcpip seems much easier now, according to the docs,
- but I cannot get it up though. I get 'network not reachable' (or similar)
- when I try to ftp or telnet from the PC. From another (Sun) machine to the
- PC, ftp hangs.
-
- In this connection it strikes me that after running Linux and the attempted
- ftp/telnet, a subsequent Dos run of ezsetup (setup software of the Elite16
- ethernet card) shows that the ram address is now FD0000 rather than 0D0000.
- Has Linux messed with the card's setup?
-
- Another question: when configuring ftpip, one is asked for the "net address"
- and the docs tell us to simply use the host's address but with the last bit
- changed to 0. I did that. But I find in the NCSA Telnet configuration another
- entry, the "netmask" parameter that reads differently (255.255.0.0). Just
- wonder, would this be the proper "net address"?
-
- Again, here is a newbie, but I *thought* this is the kind of user that needs
- protection against hard landing...
-
- Wolfgang Fritsch
- pfr@psun2.hmi.de
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