From: a080700@hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk (Stephen Wong S M) Subject: Re: Installing SLS on my Gateway Nomad Date: 2 Jan 1993 02:23:36 GMT
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
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