Re: Mac Install Problems with Slink
>Did you use the mac/install.txt from the 2.1 distribution? That ought to
>be
>up to date. The versioon on the Mac68l web site isn't; I'll have to work
>on that yet. If you have suggestions for the install guide, please write
>something up, by all means.
Yes, I used the 2.1 distribution version. The problems that I had were
small things, such as figuring out that the modem port corresponds to S0
and the printer port to S1. I never did manage to get mac-fdisk or
disktool to make a partition that would be recognized as a swap
partition. After install is complete, /root/pkgsel disappears forever,
which seems kinda lame if installation gets interrupted.
The portion of install.txt dealing with what needs to be placed on the
Mac harddrive prior to installing does not adequately differentiate
between installation from floppy and installation from harddrive.
A how-to on 'dselect' geared to people that have never used it certainly
wouldn't hurt, either. Using a PPP connection to install and running out
of disk space along the way makes one become proficient with dselect
rather more quickly than one might think.
Including the 'man' command in the base install would be _really_ nice.
Not having it sucked as I was trying to figure things out.
As I said, small things that can be figured out pretty easily, but for a
first time installer (like me), they complicate the issue.
Anyway, I'm up and running now, and trying to figure out how to use
ifconfig and route to get my LAN going, and trying to figure out how to
write my xf86Config file (don't need help yet, though). Everything seems
smooth and stable, and I'm feeling pretty comfortable with slink-m68k.
jason
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