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From: lidl@rodan.UU.NET (Kurt J. Lidl)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Beginner's problems with 386BSD
Date: 26 Jul 1992 09:30:22 -0400
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In article <712169547snx@rama.demon.co.uk> steve@rama.demon.co.uk (Steve Entwistle) writes:
>1) How do I talk to my printer ? A /dev/lp device was not created when
>   I installed the binary distribution. Is it just a simple matter of
>   doing a mknod ? If so, what are the relevant major and minor devices
>   numbers ?

I don't think that an unpatched 0.1 release will work for you.
Someone has posted a parallel port driver for 0.0 that most likely
will work for 0.1 also.  (I have not tried this, so I have no *real*
idea if it works with 0.1)

>2) Should Mtools work straight out of the box ? If for example I issue
>   mdir a:  it produces the message init: open: No such file or directory.
>   Most of the other mtools commands produce similar messages.

Due to a couple of niggling things, it will not work.  Remove the
/dev/rfd0a and /dev/fd0a devices, then MAKEDEV fd0.  As it turns
out, mtools wants /dev/rfd0c, not the "a" partition on the floppy
drives.  Alturnatively, you can re-compile mtools to use
/dev/rfd0a instead of /dev/rfd0c (I found that creating the correct
devices was more expediante.)

>3) When I try and use ktrace, it just says Bad System call - core dumped.

Don't know.

>4) How do I configure the system for UK local time ? I tried symlinking
>   /etc/localtime to /usr/share/zoneinfo/GB-Eire, but this puts the clock
>   about 8 hours ahead.

Well, to configure the system for Eastern daylight time, I just
made /etc/localtime a sym-link to /usr/share/zoneinfo/localtime,
which I then hardlinked to /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern.
It seems to work for me.  (I also changed the timezone in the
kernel I built, but did not see any obvious change from that
alone.  I forget exactly what that value is used for -- it predates
the zoneinfo way of doing things, I think...)

Good luck.

-Kurt
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