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From: venkates@frith.msu.edu ()
Subject: 386bsd success (almost) and some questions
Message-ID: <1992Aug3.171421.9969@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
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Organization: Michigan State University, College of Engineering, East Lansing
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 92 17:14:21 GMT
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I succeeded in installing bin01 dist on a partition of a gateway 486/25,
8mb ram, 200mb hd etc.
Some questions (if some of these are trivial, please don't flame me!).

1) The machine has a WD ethernet card on irq 10, irq 2 being currently 
occupied by svga card. Is there a patch or a version of dist.fs which
will recognise ethernet on irq 10?. (I know that the other soln is to get
the source and make a new OS, BUT!, I want to use the ethernet to get the
rest of the stuff!).

2) What does the etc01 dist contain?

3) Why is the passwd field in the file /etc/master.passwd unencrypted?. I 
created a couple of new accounts using vipw and the new "accountees" gave 
themselves new passwd which are stored in plain text in the file. (readable 
when I do vipw). Granted that the file /etc/master.passwd is rw only by
root, but it is still highly irregular to have even root this type of privilege.

4) Has anyone used "tip" successfully?, I managed to dial out to our campus
network but the blessed thing refuesed to return control to the keyboard after
normal exit. Upon termination of a session, the keyboard is unusable (I tried
to kill tip or whatever was left of it by using ^C, ^Z (and then kill) etc. but
all I saw were some nice "heart" and strange chars on the screen i.e. something
went haywire) suggestions anyone?
Also does any one have a number for one of the sites I can get 386bsd from.
I hope to have gotten a solution to either problem 1 or 4 soon!

5) Shutdown seems to have been overwritten with the bsd version of shutdown as 
a result shutdown -todos does net exist anymore. (or am I missing something?).

6) what is the equivalent of SunOS' "catman" to make the whereis.db to be used
by the "whereis" command.


Thank you
Venkatesh Gopinath
Electrical Engineering Department
Michigan State University
East Lansing 
MI 48824