[258] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: Greg
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (svalente@MIT.EDU)
Sat Dec 11 03:39:59 1993
From: svalente@MIT.EDU
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 93 03:39:26 -0500
To: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
> There has been a lot of corruption on /dev/sda3, probably as a result
> of my using sash's -mount and -umount and writing to it. I'm going to
> have to restore from the backup we made before reinstalling quiche
> from tamu.
Damn damn damn. The xlogin sources in /usr/athena/src were mildly
broken in some places that I fixed after installing tamu. If I ever
get back to the Sipb office, I'll try to refix them.
> In other news, I successfully installed Debian, and will pick up X
> server packages and work on bringing the machine back up to its
> original functionality as fast as possible.
It might be too late to mention this, but I created
/mit/linux/xfree-2.0 with all the stock binary packages, so people
dont have to keep ftping a zillion megs from tsx-11.
> There were a few minor
> nitty things wrong with it (e.g. 'sync' and 'shutdown' have
> passwords--maybe 'shutdown' should, but 'sync'?), but on the whole, it
> looks pretty good.
'sync' has a password!? Eww!!!!!!!!!
> /usr/athena/src is not /usr/src/athena, and there's no src
> subdirectory.
Why? (Getting rid of the second src is good, but it should go in
/usr/athena...)
> I'm using vmlinuz.complete as the kernel; I'll build a vmlinuz.quiche
> and install it at some point.
Again, why? How about just /vmlinuz ?
> X doesn't work. Something to do with the mouse. I'll look into it
> later.
It should be noted that after installing xfree-2.0 (from /mit/linux)
(over the tamu distribution), I just copied Xconfig.sample to Xconfig
and it worked. Not a single character has to be changed. Yay.
> When there's a Debian source distribution, I may blow away /usr/src
> and replace it with that, since the file system layout is now
> different from what /usr/src will install into.
Yay.
> I'm currently building gcc 2.5.5.
At least 2.5.6 is public. (It may be higher by now, I haven't read
gnu.announce in over an hour.)
> I'm going to write up some notes on installing things for SAL machines
> in /afs/sipb/project/linux.
I've tried to do that a lot. I still plan to write Inessential
Linux-Athena someday. Maybe not this year, maybe not next year, but
someday.
> A lot of makefiles are broken because the source dir is no longer
> /usr/athena/src/src. I've been fixing them as I go, but I don't have
> "xmkmf /usr/src/athena" working properly, so I'm doing it by hand with
> imake. This is sometimes tedious.
This is extremely trivial to fix. I'll do that next time I'm in the
office.
> I had problems with discuss and lpr; I'll look into them them.
What's the problem with discuss?
> I've been taking notes on the things I've had to do manually; in
> particular, /usr/athena/lib/X11 and /usr/athena/include/X11 don't get
> created by hand when you install dash
Ouch. I worked a lot after installing tamu to get dash to install
correctly, I guess those changes were also lost with /usr/athena/src.
Damn damn damn. Oh well.
Have a nice day.
-Sal.
