Re: FAQ ??

["M.C. Vernon" <mcv21@cus.cam.ac.uk>]

On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, mil Thomas MANGIN wrote:

> 1-
> 
> No bash is automaticly lauch on boot and some system environment values
> are not set ($HOME) How to do this ..

It is the default shell in multi-user mode. In single user mode, you would
not expect $HOME to be set, as this is meaningless in the single-user
context.
 
> 2-
> 
> I tryed to set swap for my Hurd system. I uncommented the line in
> /etc/servers.boot and setted it to my linux swap file. Is this enought
> ??

Note that this will screw your linux swap partition, so you have to run
mkswap in your boot scripts before swapon
 
> 4- (and last for today)
> 
> how to create virtual screen like under Linux. which device must be
> created as a tty already exist an the creation of a tty0 and tty1
> introduced problems

Port screen :)

Matthew

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