From: William T. O Connell (wto@cbnewsg.cb.att.com)
Date: 01/06/93


From: wto@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (William T. O Connell)
Subject: Re: [Q's] After SLS installation...
Date: 6 Jan 1993 17:56:32 GMT

In article <1993Jan06.094305.587@donau.et.tudelft.nl> anto@dutetvc.tudelft.nl (Anto Daryanto) writes:
>Hi Linuxer's, as followup of my mail (SLS 0.98pl5):
>
>>[Q2] After doing HALT appears on the screen:
>> "cannot exec /etc/umount, trying umount" but you can shutdown
>> normally.
>
>[NOT YET]

move umount from /bin to /etc -or- create a sym link.

>>[Q3] Can anybody tell me line-by-line how to install LILO with OS/2
>> boot manager? I've compiled LILO 0.7 but don't know how to
>> install it.
>
>Well, I did read LILO Quick Start. It is installed in my /dev/hda2, and
>it boots. But then I got "panic: cannot mount root". Any idea?

Did you tell lilo what partition root is on?

>Another [Q's]
>
>[Q4] Trying to compile kernel got problem with CDROM (inode.c, I have
> not CDROM), even when I told "make config" w/o CDROM. I deleted
> lines about CDROM in inode.c, it compiles until finds error in
> tcpip.c. Any suggestions?

Did you apply linus's patch for inode.c? (not sure what version of
the source your compiling)

>[Q5] ELM 2.3:
> -Got error "can't open folder in /usr/spool/mail/user"
> if I login as user and started ELM. Why?
> -How can you use emacs-15.39 as your ELM editor? I dont like VI.

'user' doesn't have permissions to write to /usr/spool/mail.

>
>[Q6] UUCP: Anybody got UUCP working? Mine's gave segmentation fault.
> And how do you have to configure Dialers? I was using UUCP for
> OS/2, it's different...

get latest source and compile with -fwritable_strings option.

- Bill O'Connell wto@ihlpx.att.com