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- From: peters@mips2.ma30.bull.com (Dan Peters)
- Subject: SLS Success!
- Organization: Bull HN Informations Systems Inc.
- Distribution: comp
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 15:01:31 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.150131.13171@mips2.ma30.bull.com>
- Summary: Successful changes to SLS install
- Keywords: SLS X Success
- Lines: 91
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- Hi,
- I tried to keep track of the changes I made to the SLS
- distribution to complete the installation of Linux on my 386.
- My HW config is:
-
- 386DX-33 cpu, C&T chipset
- 8MB mem
- Paridise VGA clone (ZPVGA) with 512KB on card
-
- HD1: 100MB Conner IDE drive
- Partitions:
- DOS 41MB
- Linux root 50MB
- Linux swap 9MB
-
- HD2: 200 MB Maxtor IDE drive
-
-
- Here are my notes on what I CHANGEd with my SLS installation based on
- some funny SYMPTOMS (bugs!, say not so!) or CONFIGuration differences
- on my system.
- I hope this helps,
-
- Dan
- ---------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Enquiring mind want to know:
- This is my SLS Linux Distribution Success file. It describes
- small changes I made to my SLS installation to get a very usable Linux system.
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- SYMPTOM: vi won't start (problem with /tmp)
- CHANGE: change permissions (chmod +rw) on /tmp so its writable by all
-
- SYMPTOM: user can't write to it's own home directory (/home/user1)
- CHANGE: change permissions on /home/user1 so its writable by user1
-
- CONFIG: X won't start up (Paradise VGA, 512KB mem on card),
- server won't start, "too less virtual memory"
- CHANGE: change /usr/lib/X11/Xconfig Virtual to 800 600 (matches VGA mem)
- CHANGE: change Displaysize to 800 600
- CHANGE: limit modes to "640x480" "800x600"
-
- SYMPTOM: X won't stay up, gwm keep complaining about "error reading profile",
- "screen not defined", and can't find file "mwm"
- CHANGE: change .xinitrc in home directory to direct gwm to it's files
- with the following:
- exec gwm -p /usr/lib/X11/gwm -qf mwm
-
- CONFIG: mouse (on COM1) won't work under X
- CHANGE: change Xconfig to Microsoft "/dev/ttys1" for COM1 installed mouse
-
- SYMPTOM: emacs warn about no lisp and no docs
- CHANGE: link /usr/emacs/etc to /usr/local/emacs/etc
- CHANGE: link /usr/emacs/lisp to /usr/local/emacs/lisp
-
- CONFIG: for swap t be used each boot
- CHANGE: add swapon /dev/hda3 to /etc/rc.local
-
- CONFIG: personalize hostname
- CHANGE: change /etc/rc.local to hostname danpc2
-
- CONFIG: /.kermrc and $HOME/.kermrc using /dev/ttys1 for COM1
- CHANGE: change to use /dev/ttys2 for modem on COM2
-
- SYMPTOM: passwd can't change /etc/passwd file for non-superuser
- CHANGE: use chmod +s and chown root.root to add set-uid bit
- and change ownership of passwd binary (/bin/passwd it think?)
-
- SYMPTOM: /usr/include/X11 files missing
- CHANGE: ftp to tsx-11.mit.edu in directory /pub/linux/packages/X11/x11v1.1
- and get xprog1.1.T.Z. Copy to DOS formatted diskette
- (renamee to xprog1_1.taz) and perform the following to load the
- missing files.
- mcopy b:xprog1_1.taz /tmp/xprog1_1.tar.Z
- cd /
- tar zxfv /tmp/xprog1_1.tar.Z
- Follow additional instructions in readme files for placement of
- shared libs, etc.
-
-
-
-
-
-
- --
-
- == Dan Peters Bull HN Information Systems Inc.
- == (508) 294-3325 (294-3705) 300 Concord Road MA30/MS850A
- == D.Peters@bull.com Billerica, MA 01821
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