Subject: Re: SLS 1.03: Installation and configuration [with fixes] (long) From: jgeorge@whiffer.mese.com (Joe George) Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1993 09:09:11 EST
andreas@knobel.gun.de (Andreas Klemm) writes:
> iain.lea@anl433.erlm.siemens.de (Iain Lea) writes:
>
>>This article lists the problems I encountered installing and
>>configuring SLS 1.03 and the fixes I made (when possible).
Allow me to throw in a few small (and one BIG) gotcha from my
installation of SLS 1.03 yesterday. I do not (did not) have much in my
older Minix partition, so I decided to start from scratch on an install.
Disks were obtained from sunsite.
1. The doinstall script drops csh in / instead of /bin, so once you
finish the install and reboot you cannot log on (without going back and
tweaking)
2. SLS 1.03 happily set up a swapfile for me on boot, and I thought that
was just peachy until I noticed that the distribution came with
/dev/swap linked to /dev/hda1, and in the process of giving me a little
swap space, Linux happily trashed over 100MB in my MSDOS partition.
Thanks, guys.
It is worth popping into another virt console and watching the 1.03
install to make sure that these things dont hose your machine as badly
as it hosed mine.
Joe