I grabbed the SLS .98pl5 distribution.  Had few problems with it.  I just 
grabbed and recompiled linux .99 and lo and behold , I get a) an ioctl error
message stating that an invalid argument was passed.   This was emitted from
the line:
$CONFIG -n $NET -r $ROUTER eth0 $IPADDR
in rc.net

b) The dos emulation do longer works.  It just clears the screen and returns
my prompt.  

Any ideas?
oh, btw, I compiled in TCPIP & NFS and I don't have an ethernet card.
I compiled in NFS in an effort to try to isolate the first problem.

Oh, I got xdm up and running but it kept thrashing the harddisk.  this is 
strange given that it didn't do this before.

ah well..

Daniel

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