From: zlsiial@uts.mcc.ac.uk (A. V. Le Blanc) Subject: Re: Questions from a novice Date: 3 May 1992 17:46:02 GMT
In article <1992May3.130024.17085@uvm.edu> lhanson@moose.uvm.edu (lhanson) writes:
>I'm very new (circa 1 week) to the Unix OS and have Linux running on
>my 386sx 20 (2 MB + w/4 MB swap file). Due to the 2 MB RAM limitation I
>couldn't use the MCC release and installed the 0.95c+ rootimage. Once I
>had the system running I used the MCC releases comp.image and comp2.image
>install files to install GCC 2.1.
It is for this reason that I provided the image xdisk.Z in
mcc-interim/0.95c+/images (available by anonymous ftp from either
ftp.mcc.ac.uk or banjo.concert.net). This image together with a
conventional boot image for 0.95c+ (not the mcc-interim boot) can be used
to install the MCC 'interim' version. Instructions for doing this can be
found in the README file in the images directory. Incidentally, the
'standard' MCC version has been installed (with some problems) on some
2mb systems; this suggests that the size of RAMDISK used brings memory
usage to very near the limit. Perhaps next time I'll be able to get the
root ramdisk a little smaller.
>2) All my attempts to complie "Hello world." result in a segmentation
>error. When I attempt to compile the port : ps095c+ it results in a
>memory fault; However, the compilation process appears to abort.
This is probably because compilation by default links with the shared
library. These files cannot execute without the /lib/lib92.04.06 file,
which is installed from the MCC 'interim' root disk (ramdisk). The
'interim' version of Linux is not designed for this kind of use; if
you have not installed Linux using its boot and utilities disk, you
are likely to have trouble with the software on its other disks.
The utilities currently available on the comp and comp2 disks are all
taken from elsewhere (and the sources acknowledged in various README
files).
-- Owen
LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk