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From: jlu@cs.umr.edu (Eric Jui-Lin Lu)
Subject: Some questions right after installation ....
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 00:18:28 GMT
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Greetings *,

First of all, thanks to William Jolitz and all the contributors to the
success of 386bsd.

With the newly arrived 200MB IDE HD, I have successfully installed
386bsd into my HD, though my old WD 40MB IDE still have trouble
to boot up correctly.  After playing with it for 2 nights, I need
help to solve the following problems:

1. How to create pseudo ttys'?  What are their major and minor numbers
   ? And how many will be sufficient to run X window?
2. I couldn't make "screen" run?  Is this related to (1)?  When I ran
   screen, it came up a kinda new screen and hang.
3. I can use kermit when I'm a su, but not when I'm a regular user.
   In other words, it was installed incorrectly.  Something need to
   set.  The error message I got is:
            Error opening /dev/tty
            congm: permission denied
            /var/spool/lock: permission denied

  BTW, there is only one tty in my /dev dir.  How to create more?
  (the major, minor numbers and how many are suff? )
4. Is it possible to have vt100 emulation when I login?  If I remembered
   coorectly, I didn't see any vt100 entry in /etc/termcap.

I'll halt here. I have more to come.  Thanks in advance!  You can
either post here or email me at jlu@cs.umr.edu.  Since I didn't
see any of these problems in FAQ (may be too trivial), it may be
helpful to post your suggestions here.  If there are sufficient
interests, I'll post a summary.

   --jlu

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