From: martin@cs.UAlberta.CA (Tim Martin; FSO; Soil Sciences) Subject: Some Questions ... Date: 23 Jan 1992 17:59:41 GMT
I got LINUX installed, and I got shoelace working, and I have a swap
partition. GCC works, kermit works, uemacs works. Great Stuff!
But now I have lots of "beginner" questions.
Question #1: What I would like now is to install
init/getty/login (or whatever) to have real logins. What is the state
of these developments? Is qpl-init.tar.Z the way to go, or does someone
have a more complete implementation? And can someone give me some fairly
careful guidance on the installation: I'm a UNIX novice, I'm afraid.
Question #2: I get the man.tar.Z, and installed it. But when it runs,
it wants nroff (or one of the ?roffs anyway). Is nroff available, or
should I edit the man.c file so it just uses "less" without pre-formatting
the man pages?
Question #3: Patching is a new art, to me. If I do the fd patch and the lp
patch and the login patch, can I be fairly confident the subsequent patches
will work, and that the resultant binary will actually work? I guess this
is a general Patch question: is patch fussy about the initial state of
the code it is patching?
Tim.
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Tim Martin *
Soil Science * These opinions are my own:
University of Alberta * My employer has none!
martin@cs.ualberta.ca *
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