From: yseeley@leland.Stanford.EDU (Yonik Christopher Seeley) Subject: Re: IMPORTANT: SLS status Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1993 18:16:37 GMT
In article <134030@netnews.upenn.edu> botelle@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Justin Botelle) writes:
>In article <C9FL7J.HE4@nocusuhs.nnmc.navy.mil) SSB1PZP@imcvms.med.navy.mil (PERUCCI, PHILIP A.) writes:
>
>)Installing SLS is *trivial* for me to achieve:
>)
>) 1) X11R5 (with choice of twm/olwm)
>) 2) gcc/gdb
>) 3) tcp/ip
>
>Then maybe you can help me. I've had a hard time getting tcp/ip to work.
>I can ping myself, but everyone else is unreachable. Also the configuration
>is HARDER because there is no install.net script, and the NET-FAQ says to
>use install.net (and notes that SLS doens't have it, so you'll just have to
>modify the resolv.conf, hosts, and rc.net files by hand.. of course it
>doesn't give any documentation whatsoever on these).
>
SLS networking was a snap for me to get working. I was about to get
the NET-FAQ, and sit down and read it, but I never needed it! I
figured that I had to start with the /etc/hosts file, but when I went
to edit it, I found that it had a list of instructions on installation.
I followed those and everything worked fine the first time. I about
fell out if my chair when I was able to telnet out within 15 minutes
of when I decided to get networking working. The only thing left to
do was edit resolv.conf so I could get some better name service.
BTW, this was SLS1.02
note: networking was easy, but uucp/mail is still not working for me. Had to
read the FAQ for that one, but I still don't have it working. I
try to mail something to a remote site and it drops it in a dead.letter
immediately.
- Yonik Seeley
yseeley@cs.stanford.edu