From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 18 19:57:09 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id TAA27793 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 18 Sep 1995 19:57:09 -0700 Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA27786 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 1995 19:57:04 -0700 Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id TAA09103; Mon, 18 Sep 1995 19:52:50 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199509190252.TAA09103@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD To: chuckr@eng.umd.edu (Chuck Robey) Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 19:52:50 -0700 (MST) Cc: cofie@pluto.ee.cua.edu, questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Chuck Robey" at Sep 18, 95 04:47:23 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1387 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > On Mon, 18 Sep 1995, Emmanuel Cofie wrote: > > > I installed FreeBSD on a PC, followed the installation instructions, > > but cannot get my mouse to work. When I execute "xinit" I get the > > error message " too many levels of symbolic links". The max path name length in BSD is 1024 characters. You will either get the message "file name too long" if it's a non-terminal link that's the problem because you'll overflow the namei() buffer, or the message "too many levels of symbolic links" if you have a link loop. Probably you have a link loop. You get one of these when you do something like: ln -s /tmp/foo /tmp/fee ln -s /tmp/fee /tmp/foo cat /tmp/fee Probably you are either installing X itself incorrectly (ie: /usr/lib/X11 and /usr/bin/X11 point to the wrong things) or you are trying to play games to name your mouse device /dev/mouse instead of leaving it alone and putting the real device name in XF86Config (or something similar). > > I also wanted to know I could mount my floppy drives (1.2M and 1.44Mb) > > on the unix oprtsing system. Yes. man mount_msdos. > > Finally it is possibly to mount the DOS section od the Hard on the > > unix system. ? If so what is the procedure involved? Yes. man mount_msdos. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.