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- From: zlsiial@uts.mcc.ac.uk (A. V. Le Blanc)
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- Subject: [comp.os.linux] New MCC interim version of Linux
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- Date: 2 Sep 1992 00:20:31 GMT
- Organization: Computing Centre, University of Manchester
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- Archive-name: auto/comp.os.linux/New-MCC-interim-version-of-Linux
-
- The latest MCC interim version of Linux is now available
- by anonymous ftp from ftp.mcc.ac.uk in /pub/linux/mcc-interim/0.97p2.
-
- The various README files are all in the process of being revised,
- and will be going through a fairly continuous editing, and I have
- not yet loaded all of the sources, links, and .a files, but they
- will be there in a few days, perhaps by tomorrow (Saturday).
-
- Among the changes which have taken place:
-
- The full source of the kernel used in this version is included.
- Just type 'make' and you'll recompile the kernel (with a UK
- keyboard, of course). Among the changes already made are that
- include/linux/config.site.h is used instead of config.dist.h,
- so that it is easy to edit out the SCSI drivers if you have no
- SCSI card; this speeds up performance a bit on small machines.
-
- The GNU debugger gdb is included.
-
- Since the two maths libraries are now compatible, the hard maths
- libraries are included as well as the soft.
-
- A number of small utilities and missing man pages are included:
- ldd, w, ctrlaltdel, setfdprm, todos, fromdos, and locate come
- to mind.
-
- The extended file system utilities mkefs and efsck are provided,
- but as a separate 'package' on the comp2 disk, and with the
- warning that this is still experimental.
-
- The boot disk is now getting so large that I imagine people with
- 2 Mb of memory will have problems. I have managed during testing
- to install this system on a machine with only 2 Mb of memory, but
- the initial boot/init sequence halted part way through, and I
- had to kill the shell on Virtual Console 2 (those on VC 3 and 4
- just never appeared). I could then run fdisk, mkswap, and swapon.
-
- The mount command accepts extended file systems and dos file system
- types, as well as all of the options supported by the smount command
- from the dos file system release; therefore that command is not
- included.
-
- Among the changes which have not taken place:
-
- I have been working on a menu-driven, screen oriented installation
- program. It is not ready to go yet.
-
- I have been looking into several programs suggested for taking
- checksums and such for the entire release. These are of some
- interest, and may help to warn people that things are not
- quite right. Unfortunately there are a considerable number of
- files whose checksums must change during installation
- (for example, the kernel, /etc/Image); any sensible procedure
- must try to do something sensible with these, but I'm not sure
- what.
-
-
- WARNING:
-
- Read the instructions before using. Many people have contributed
- suggestions and patches since the last release.
-
- -- Owen
- LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk
-
-