On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, Robert Malcolm Speed wrote:

> 
> I've now got linux to work properly on my Pentiyuk, but being stupid
> created a user with sod all priviliages, now root cannot create users
> anymore, still.....
> 
> My 386 now runs mini-linux which is ok....ish....
> 
> But I still can't get the RPC to work with BSD, I've included a copy of
> the message I sent you before, JIC.
> 
> 
> >From iq2j9367@lmu.ac.uk Sun Dec  8 13:48:11 1996
> Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 11:33:43 +0000 (GMT)
> From: Robert Malcolm Speed <iq2j9367@lmu.ac.uk>
> To: Mark Brinicombe <amb@physig4.ph.kcl.ac.uk>
> Subject: Help - Return of the ....
> 
> Morning......
> 
> I'm still having problems....
> someone sent me a uuencoded version of the 1.2 bootloader and that
> de-archived fine (weird!), I downloaded the inst-12.fs from the 1.2
> release directory (the 1.44MB version) which I presume does not need
> de-archiving (I looked at it in ZAP and there is readable text in a
> similar vain to the 1.1 installer, so.....).
> 
> The 1.2 booter works fine, with the 1.1 installer it moans about not being
> able to find something in the rc directory which is ok as I presume the
> 1.2 installer has other scripts, etc.

Are you booting single user? (check that the 'single user' icon is ticked
in the booter dialoge box)  Do you mean not being able to find the rc file
in the /etc directory?

> The 1.2 installer with the 1.2 booter simply hangs just before it would
> normally (I assume) go into the 'do you wish to install ?' blurb.
> 
> 1.1 booter and 1.1 installer still run ok but I still get all the error
> messages with it trying to copy all the stuff to the ramdisk.
> 
> ALL OF THE ABOVE is done with the 3598 kernel as later ones (4444 & 4554)
> give me a grey scrolling brick screen after it reports the various virtual
> terminals on vt220VIDC whatever, both of these kernels are over the 1MB
> size and look similar to the working kernel (text layout within the file,
> etc).

[snip disklabel]

> the only thing I can think of is that the type is set to ST506 rather than
> IDE but I may be jumping to incorrect conclusions....

mine says that too - I don't think it's a problem.

> I have run the bbs programs till it comes out of my ears, but to no avail,
> the system still will not recognise the drive - Conner IDE 850MB with ~350
> given over to BSD.

do you have anything else on the ide bus?

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