Hi folks,

last weekend I installed the SLS package 0.98 on my computer. It's
marvellous. Many thanks to Linus Torvalds, Peter McDonald, Thomas Roell and
everybody who contributed one thing or more. Guys, you are great. I've
written down my experiences hoping it will help other people, who want
install SLS too.  I tried not to mention things which are covered by the
FAQ.


1. Permissions, ownerships and file locations

First of all I have to say, that I don't like doing everything as root. As
a normal user I protect me from doing fatal things. This way I find some
permissions not setted correctly.  As a normal user you can't read nor
write /dev/fd*. The permissions of /dev/hd* depend on your personal
configuration. I have my MS-DOS partition on /dev/hda1. I decided that it
should be possible for a normal user (me) to read/write on this device.

The next thing are the permissions of the X manuals. As a normal user you
cannot read them.  So you should do a chmod a+r * on /usr/man/catn. If you
are interested in the content of the x11perfcomp manual you should rename
x11perfcomp.1. to x11perfcom.1.Z. If you are running the extended file
system, you don't have the problem.

The posting of Peter McDonald (Does he eat whoppers? Sorry, couldn't
resist.) said to do chown root.mem /dev/kmem. I did this, ps works fine.

Patch doesn't find ed. It searchs ed under /bin. Executing ln -s
/usr/bin/ed /bin/ed helps.


2. Errors

Adduser goes into a loop, asking group name and super user priveleges. So I
edited the /etc/passwd manually with elvis.

x11perf -all did suicide with following error message:

X Error of failed request:  BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) Major
  opcode of failed request:  73 (X_GetImage) Serial number of failed
  request:  16 Current serial number in output stream:  16

I can bear it.

Uudecode in /usr/bin is uuencode. I will ftp it from a */linux/*/usr/bin.

Why had twm trouble to parse AutoRaise in the .twmrc without an argument
list? Manual says that it is allowed. Neither AutoRaise { } nor AutoRaise {
"*" } is a workaround. But Twm parses this without a error message.
AutoRaise { "XTerm" } does what I supposed it to do.


3. Troubles

On the ftp server there were two kernel tazs. You need only one.

My machine had trouble to read MS-DOS-floppies not formatted on my machine
during installation.  Booting DOS, copying the stuff to hard disk,
formating the disk new, copying back helps.

The shutdown presents me some output like #$%ji, but it seems to work
right. I've compiled it new from admutils-1.2.tar.Z. I changed the source
to enable a user halt, who has halt as login shell. So I don't need to go
into super user mode to power down the machine. Here is the ed patch:

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Less is a tough tool, but I never, never used it before. So I tried to
press h, but less complained about not finding the help file. But a manual
is there. I have now compiled 'more'. Some changes of the magic number
treatment of the source were necessary.


4. Badly missed

A kingdom for tcsh. That is the next thing I will install.

Until now I don't know how to use lilo. I don't like trial and error in the
boot block of my hard disk. A manual for lilo, a installation guide or some
more info in the faq would make me happy. So I will do another ftp for the
lilo sources to find there some information.

There is no xload, no xloadimage. I don't need it really, but I like it.


5. fuc... german keyboard

It's real great to be part of a nation, which swaps z and y on the kezboard
and all the /?.><,{[]} stuff. I appended the uuencoded .Xmodmap.Z for a
german keyboard to this posting. Of course I recompiled the kernel to get a
"german" kernel.


6. No fatal errors

I wonder, what happens to me. No system crash, no deleted DOS partition, no
hardware troubles, no troublesome inodes in fsck. It's real magic, it's
LINUX!

Uli Kunitz (kunitz@informatik.hu-berlin.de)


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>>>>    I know that in my heart       <<<< Ulrich Kunitz, Berlin          <<<<
 >>>>   I feel like going home again <<<< kunitz@informatik.hu-berlin.de <<<<
  >>>>  But I know that in my heart <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
   >>>> I'm scared of what I'll find - Johnny McElhone / Sharleen Spiteri