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- From: a080700@hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk (Stephen Wong S M)
- Subject: Re: Installing SLS on my Gateway Nomad
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.022336.19205@hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk>
- Organization: The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- References: <CLOOS.92Dec29015300@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU> <CLOOS.92Dec31011120@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU>
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- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 02:23:36 GMT
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- In article <CLOOS.92Dec31011120@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU> cloos@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (James H. Cloos Jr.) writes:
- >I re-installed my sls disks, after dl'ing the c series, too. I did a
- >385 cyl root partition (65450 Ko) as a minix fs, and a 200 cyl (34000
- >Ko) /home partition as an extfs. As I still do not have my ram
- >upgrade, I set up a 8500 Ko swap partition and the rest of the disk
- >(100 cyl = 17000 Ko) will be for my dos needs--would that they were
- >not in fact *needs*.
-
- Your configuration should be okay!
-
- >Anyway, it all seems to be running OK, though I am stuck in 80x25 text
- >mode. Looking thru the kernal src (99.1, from sunsite's incomming
- >dir) I didn't find what I need to change to get 80x50 text mode. I
-
- do the following:-
-
- 1) login as root
- 2) rdev -v <bootImage> [-1|-2|-3]
- 3) reboot
-
- replace <bootImage> by your kernel (ie. if you're using boot floppy, it's
- /dev/fd0), choose -1 if you want 80x25, choose -2 if you want VGA (80x50?),
- choose -3 if you want to be asked every time you boot!
-
- >also cannot get /proc to show up. Do I need an entry in /etc/fstab
- >or something???
-
- You either use the command
-
- mount -t proc /proc /proc
-
- or add a line to the /etc/fstab like the following
-
- /proc proc /proc defaults
-
- >I just have to make sure that I have the latest versions of the extfs
- >utilities, dl term-0.7 to let me do background dl's, and get the t and
- >x series installed, not to mention all those recently announced fsf
- >packages, etc. Thanks in advance to whomever did them--I'm quite
- >short for disk space here until I get the desktop system to backup the
- >Nomad.
- >
- >Again: Vielen Kudos to Linus, Softlanding, and every other contributor!
- >Man is it great to be the sysadmin for a change!
- >
- >P.S. Almost forgot: HOW do I add users such that the shadow files get
- > updated. Using the routines in the SLS distrib, even passwd(1),
- > I only see changes to /etc/passwd & /etc/groups. Because I used
- > passwd(1) to set my root passwd, I get "no shadow entry for root's
- > password" (or some such) errors whenever I log in....
-
- The commands in SLS should be okay to use shadow password, except you have
- to set permissions correctly.
-
- >
- >-JimC
- >--
- >James H. Cloos, Jr. include <std/qotd>
- >Cloos@TC.Cornell.EDU include <std/disclaimers.h>
- >Cloos@Batcomputer.UUCP Snail: POBox 1111, Amherst, NY 14226-1111
- >Cloos@CrnlThry.BITNET Phone: +1 716 673-1250 (voice only, for now)
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