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- From: sreiz@cs.vu.nl (Reiz Steven)
- Subject: Re: Misc. AmigaMINIX questions
- Message-ID: <Btx307.ELF@cs.vu.nl>
- Sender: news@cs.vu.nl
- Organization: Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, VU, Amsterdam
- References: <1992Sep1.062241.5410@cam.compserv.utas.edu.au>
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 20:45:42 GMT
- Lines: 33
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- dbenn@leven.appcomp.utas.edu.au (David Benn) writes:
-
- >Firstly, is there anything special required to get elvis working? I've
- >Also, stterm starts the writer but not the reader, then just hangs. Is
-
- No, both should work ok without any 'tricks'.
-
- >su has given me problems. Ideally I want to be able to su to root from my
- >user account. However, su never seems to give me root privileges. Any
- >suggestions?
-
- Again, just running su without arguments, then typing the root password
- should work.
-
- These problems (specially Elvis crashing with exceptions), sound like the
- binaries may be corrupted. Have you tried the original binaries from floppy?
-
- >Lastly, when moving from 1.5.10 to 1.5.10.1 and 1.5.10.2, is it NECESSARY
- >to apply all the patches? In other words can JUST the boot disks be used
- >without applying any patches? I extracted Makedev and format from the
- >1.5.10.1 src.tar.Z file, but are the other patches only source file patches
-
- For 1.5.10.1 you just need the boot disk. The patch tarfile contains, besides
- Makedev and format, only source patches.
-
- >for the 1.5.10.2 src.tar.Z patch archive?
-
- For 1.5.10.2 you can also just use the new boot disk, but to have full use of
- the virtual consoles you'll have to edit a file on the root filesystem
- (/etc/ttys, I think). You don't have to recompile, because the binaries
- are included (actually just minix.img).
-
- Steven
-