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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!news.adelaide.edu.au!basser.cs.su.oz.au!tom From: tom@cs.su.oz.au (Thomas James Jones) Subject: Installation of etc01 distribution Reply-To: tom@cs.su.oz.au Organization: Basser Department of Computer Science Date: Thu, 13 May 1993 00:44:48 GMT Message-ID: <1993May13.004448.255@cs.su.oz.au> Sender: news@cs.su.oz.au (News) Lines: 53 I have read all the faqs I can, but I would appreciate any help with regard to getting the distribution loaded successfully. Are there any helpful notes on installing all the etc software? Firstly, the unpacking program (extract) which is compiled for some reason, puts all the dist. in a directory /usr/othersrc/ (with subdirectories from there) which seemed a bit strange, but anyway. At the end of the unpacking the message `cannot find shell script: install.etc01 unpacking failed' or something equally depressing appears. Everything seems reasonbly ok, but there seem to be a few bizarre things such as in the games directories, there are links to directories that haven't been created (obj@ is the local name). Being soft links, this seems ok -> I just create the dir the links point to, but again seems a little dodgy. Just two more things a) floating point failure (or something like that) occurs sometimes in executing things I have compiled (which do use fp arithmetic). Being a 486 I assumed the co-processor was automatically used, but should I compile with some 486 specific options? b) The library libcompat.a is needed my quite a few of the distributed source programs. Such a library seems to exist in the directory /usr/othersrc/contrib/isode/compat in uncompiled form, and I have messed around trying to compile this (it has strange dependencies). My question is basically -> this seems a strange place for a library needed by programs such as nethack (:->) to be created. I could probably go on, but... Any response or pointers to faqs relevent to etc distribution (or just general information on getting 386bsd going) A hopeful new 386bsd user tom p.s. my pc is a 486DX2 with (only) 4M main memory. 386bsd seems quite happy with my screen and disk drives although some of the m utilities (mdir etc) don't work, but I found a posting suggesting recompiling them, so that should be ok.