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FOLLOWUP: Linux for MSDOS release
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Mon Apr 3 14:29:22 1995
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 1995 17:26:05 +0300
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-activists@niksula.hut.fi, linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
X-Mn-Key: announce
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
From: ecarp@netcom.com (Ed Carp)
Subject: FOLLOWUP: Linux for MSDOS release
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
Keywords: distribution, MS-DOS, small
Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)
Followup-to: comp.os.linux.misc
References: <3k1450$km6@myntti.helsinki.fi>
[Please note the bug list and fizes listed. I will be updating the
release on sunsite shortly.]
Welcome to Linux for MS-DOS! This release does not need a separate Linux
partition to boot from, so you don't have to repartition your disk.
This release supports both SLIP and PLIP connectivity. Scripts 'startslip'
and 'stopslip' are provided in the release to start and stop SLIP; scripts
'startplip' and 'stopplip' are provided to start and stop PLIP.
PLEASE NOTE THAT LINUX WILL **NOT** RUN FROM A COMPRESSED MS-DOS FILE
SYSTEM!
To install:
1. Unzip this in your root directory! This distribution will
NOT work unless it is installed in the root directory! If
you install it anywhere other than your C: drive, edit
install.bat and linux.bat and change "root=C:" to wherever
you unzipped this zip file.
2. Run install.bat. This will boot Linux in single-user mode.
When you are asked for a password, just hit enter. You will
then get a "#" prompt. Type 'inst' and fill in the blanks,
then hit CTRL-D. The install program will configure your
system, then reboot. If the reboot process fails, the system
should come up properly in multiuser mode.
If you need to reconfigure your system, just type 'inst'.
3. After installation, if you wish to bring the system up from
MS-DOS, type '\linux'. This will run linux.bat and bring the
system up multiuser. The only login installed on the system is
"root", and it has no password. It is strongly suggested that
root be given a password.
4. If while installing you get the message "no inittab", you have
booted into multiuser mode instead of singleuser mode - the
system will not run in multiuser mode until it has been properly
installed and configured. Just reboot and run install.bat.
5. I've placed the tinyX compressed tar archive in /install.
If you have any problems with the install, or have any suggestions,
write to me at ecarp@netcom.com. I regret that I am unable to help
with specific or general Linux or UNIX questions.
Have fun!
-- Ed Carp
ecarp@netcom.com
Salt Lake City, Utah
January 12, 1995
Known bugs and problems in this release as of 03/28/95:
1. The /proc filesystem isn't created. To fix this,
do a "mkdir /proc" before running "inst".
2. The file "/.newswap" sometimes isn't created by
the "inst" program. I haven't tracked this one
down, but suspect it's related to sync. To fix,
touch /.newswap and reboot.
3. The permissions are wrong on the files in /sbin.
To fix, do a "chmod 755 /sbin/*".
4. The "startslip" script reports that /etc/gated is
missing. This is just a warning - if you don't need
RIP packets generated from your end, you may not
need gated.
5. The file "/bin/rmail" is missing. To fix, do a
"ln -s /usr/bin/rmail /bin/rmail".
6. The /var hierarchy is missing. To fix, do a "ln -s
/usr /var".
7. The command "/bin/passwd" doesn't support shadow
passwords. To fix, copy over /bin/passwd from
another release. Alternately, you might find that
by the time you see this, the file "linux.passwd"
has appeared on ftp.netcom.com in /pub/ec/ecarp. :)
8. The "Mail" command is missing. To fix, do a "ln -s
/bin/mail /bin/Mail".
9. If you upgrade the kernel, you will probably find that
it is necessary to upgrade umssync (available from
sunsite in /pub/Linux/system/Filesystems/umsdos.
10. There has been sporadic reports of the boot failing, giving
wierd messages like "Erase entry tty1, out of sync with
MsDOS". Haven't tracked this one down yet.
11. There have also been a couple of reports that the files
in /lib or in /usr/lib have been disappearing. I can
only think that this problem and/or the preceding one
are possibly the result of a corrupted .zip file. I've
installed the release on three systems here with very
few problems, and they have been the correctible ones
listed above.
I think that's all the problems that either I or other people have
found so far... <crossing fingers>
--
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