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- From: stern@amath.washington.edu (L.G. "Ted" Stern)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Just when I thought I was catching up ...
- Keywords: 0.98pl5, SLS
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.195626.21694@u.washington.edu>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 19:56:26 GMT
- Article-I.D.: u.1992Nov18.195626.21694
- Sender: news@u.washington.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: University of Washington, Applied Mathematics, Seattle
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-
- Sigh... In the time allowed me by my busy research schedule and computer-
- jealous girlfriend, I have been attempting to get a working configuration
- of Linux on my home PC, mainly to run fortran programs, and do word
- processing in LaTeX, under X. After figuring out a lot about this very
- nice system over the last two weeks with SLS (containing 0.98pl1), I notice
- that the new SLS with 0.98pl5 is out and there are a whole bunch of changes
- over there. And supposedly Linus going to bring out 0.99 in two weeks?!!
- How do I catch up?
-
- Specifically...
- Is it better to
- a) apply 0.98-patch1, -patch2, -patch3, -patch4, -patch5 and remake
- my kernel,
-
- b) get the tsx-11.mit.edu:pub/linux/sources/system/linux-0.98.5.tar.Z
- and make that
- (and having done either (a) or (b), where do I put this stuff.
- Is there an appropriately named README on this?),
-
- c) after updating the kernel using either a) or b), then pulling in
- all the patches for t1-5, x4-8, assorted a's, b's, and c's, and
- trying to get them all installed one by one,
-
- or
-
- d) get the entire SLS dist. again and reinstall (with the
- corrections just mentioned by pmacdona@sanjuan.uvic.ca, of course).
-
- Being something of a non-computer-science person, it is a little frightening
- to change one thing at a time, since I am never quite sure if I am doing
- something that will break the system.
-
- While I am baring my soul, I have some other questions:
-
- 1) Can LILO allow the option of choosing either a DOS or Linux boot _during_
- the boot process, or do I have to use BOOTLIN? How do I actually make BOOTLIN
- work (that would be tolerable)? Do I have to put more options on the line
- in my CONFIG.SYS? E.g.
-
- DEVICE=C:\BIN\BOOTLIN.COM C:\BIN\LINUX098.PL1 [more options?]
-
- What should I be starting BOOTLIN with... a copy of the Linux Image, or what?
- And why is it that the BOOTLIN documentation sometimes mention BOOTLIN.SYS,
- but the ZIPfile actually comes with BOOTLIN.COM? Isn't the DOS (gag) convention
- to have a .SYS file in the CONFIG.SYS file?
-
- 2) Does the latest SLS emacs now come with at least /usr/emacs/info/dir, so that
- even though the main online documentation is missing, other info files can be
- read through emacs (they *do* come with SLS, after all :-> ) ?.
-
- 3) Should I just go with what I have for now, and wait for Linux 1.00 to come
- out?
-
- My sincere thanks to those who choose to answer this and those who have been
- helping me so far. What a great system -- Linux *and* comp.os.linux!
- --
- ==========================================================================
- L.G. 'Ted' Stern --- Mostly a Grad Student Peon . . .
- stern@amath.washington.edu
- lstern@orville.nas.nasa.gov
-