From: Alfred Breull (puma@hannover.sgh-net.de)
Date: Sun Jun 18 2000 - 11:13:40 CEST
In fact, it's a pleasure to use mulinux !
Additionally, there are some observations and comments resulting from
installing muLinux in a 486 SX notebook (Thinkpad). However, some of
them may be of general importance:
Please note, that
- you need to install also EXT if you want to run GCC,
because libm.so.5 is in EXT (not in GCC);
- current DOSTOOLS don't install previous muLinux bases (i.e. v6r4);
- current GCC doesn't install with previous muLinux (i.e. v6r4);
An additional observation:
- there is an unusual 70 sec delay between 'bye' in 'TOPICS' and the
return of the PS1 sign '/#' which didn't exist in versions before
'Peter Pan';
Specific for IBM Thinkpad (tested in a 340CSE, 12 MB RAM, 340 MB HD)
and v9r4:
A. In file 'loadlin.cfg', the line 'floppy=thinkpad' has to show
after the line 'ramdisk_size=4600'.
Uncommenting the last line (#floppy=thinkpad) does _not_ work and
results in segmetation faults when creating swap space and keymap
(tested with de.map, 850).
Further, there are some additional problems resulting from the
above mentioned segmentation errors:
1. Instead of:
c:\linux\tmp\modules\preferred\net\
it shows a directory
c:\linux\tmp\modules\preferre.{__\net\
whose files are not recognized, neither in mulinux nor in MS-DOS.
2. You cannot delete c:\linux after segmentation faults, neither by
'rm -r .../*' nor in MS-DOS (del *.*, erase *.*).
For clearing you need to first run c:\dos\scandisk.exe, remove
lost clusters, and delete c:\linux afterwards.
Then re-install mulinux.
B. A small note for 640x480 screen users:
In file/-s 'boot.bat' (and in pre-v9* versions additionally in
install.bat) you may want remove the part 'vga=extended' which
switches the screen from 24 to 50 lines.
Alf
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