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Subject: Re: Installation: still not perfect
In-Reply-To: <4929.849755388@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Dec 4, 96 07:09:48 pm"
To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
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Jordan K. Hubbard writes:
>>     support.  If this is the case, it would be nice (a) for the driver
>>     to notice the fact and not pretend that everything's working, and
>>     (b) to have a boot diskette which does support notebooks.
>
> That's called the PAO floppy and something the BSD Nomads currently
> provide.  Ask Nate about the status of this support in -current; I
> know he's been liasing with the Nomads.  This was also described
> somewhere in one of our HTML pages but darned if I can find it now.
> This would be a good one for the FAQ if that document weren't dead.

I found something about it somewhere.  But wouldn't it make sense to
put it in the standard distribution somewhere?

>> 4.  So, I thought, let's try using lp0 as the interface.  Doesn't
>>     work: it looks as if the setup scripts aren't expecting a
>>     point-to-point connection, and they don't specify the address of
>>     the other end of the link, so ifconfig fails.  Is there a trick
>>     here?
>
> It's in the "extra args to ifconfig" area and if you'd RTFM'd (hit F1 or ?)
> you'd have seen:

Well, I did RTFM, but it must have been the wrong FM.

>>     it shows that it succeeded in mounting the disks (I tried both
>>     MS-DOG and ufs formats) on /dist, and then went looking for
>>     /dist/bin/bin.tgz and /dist/bin/bin.inf, which it didn't find.
>
> It needs either one, not both.  This is all described now in the
> ABOUT.TXT file which you will find in the 2.1.6 release.  I saw the
> need for describing the distribution layout, so I did.

=== root@freebie (/dev/ttyp1) ~ 13 -> locate about.txt
=== root@freebie (/dev/ttyp1) ~ 14 -> locate ABOUT.TXT
=== root@freebie (/dev/ttyp1) ~ 15 -> 

Where do I find that?  Recall that we're on -current here, and you'd
expect something that important to be in /usr/share/doc somewhere.  It
doesn't seem to be in the CVS tree, either.  I don't have any
intention to install 2.1.6 (I've now installed -current on the box).

Greg