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- From: pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald)
- Subject: SLS: don't laugh now but...
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.034005.15077@sol.UVic.CA>
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- Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, CANADA
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 03:40:05 GMT
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- My attempt to make available a Linux distribution that even someone
- who has never even used Unix before could install, almost succeeded.
- I just got a call from a neophyte who wanted to know what to type
- at the login prompt, after he had install all 30 Megs of SLS on his
- hard drive. So for the record, login as "root".
-
- A few other questions: If you see login in mincom, maybe you have
- ttys1 turned on for login in /etc/inittab?
-
- When downloading SLS, you *MUST* get the "disk*" files, because
- they ensure that you follow the install sequence :-).
-
- I am trying to upload ghostscript to disk 15 of SLS. No fonts other
- than ugly are supplied. Those are available from prep.ai.mit.edu,
- or on another 6 disks, on which TeX has been collected, but I don't
- know when I will be able to upload those cause I am having modem
- problems or something.
-
- That will bring SLS to 21 disks, but I want to add Interviews
- though not till after the next GCC/X11 release that uses
- jump tables and 3GB procs. Thus SLS will probably settle out at
- 26 or so disks for a total system. That's the bad news. The good
- news is that it will allow DTP with TeX, xdvi, Ghostscript and Idraw.
- And that should be upgradable with just shared libs and a kernel.
- Hopefully, this (and source) will form a core for a CDROM,
- although it is not clear that everyone will want to spend the
- ~$400.00 (??) or so buy a player and the CD. Maybe though.
-
- What is still missing is a simple database package with a commandline
- user interface ala DB3. Any suggestions.
-
- Anyways, in the mean time, I am waiting for the next GCC so that I can
- start building the next (and, with jump tables, hopefully last) system.
- Then efforts can be concentrated upon system shakedown.
-