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Re: xlogin
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Fri Mar 4 13:37:23 1994
To: guardian@MIT.EDU
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU, linux-help@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 04 Mar 94 13:30:11 -0500.
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Date: Fri, 04 Mar 94 13:36:56 EST
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
First, please send questions about the Linux port to linux-help,
rather than linux-dev.
Second, there is no AFS client for Linux. By mounting the translator
on atalanta, you can access your Athena home directory, but this is a
very bad idea, since it will be slow and unreliable and will lose
(erase) files fairly often when you try to write through it.
This means that you should create a local home directory for yourself.
Use 'hesinfo guardian passwd' to get an /etc/passwd line, add that
line to /etc/passwd, and then edit the home directory to be something
like /home/guardian. Create /home/guardian, do "chown guardian
/home/guardian", and put a few dotfiles in that directory (owned by
guardian, again) before you log in for the first time. From then on,
everything should be fine. (You will not be able to easily access
your Athena files from your Linux box. There may be better options in
the future.)
Third, your friend should be using Slackware, not SLS. SLS is a very
old distribution, and wasn't good when it was new. We mirror
Slackware in /mit/linux/slackware, and you can do an NFS install from
ninja.mit.edu:/var/slckware.
The kernel on the Slackware boot disk has an Etherlink III driver that
works fine for me.
--GBH
