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Subject: Using the Source (Luke :)
Message-ID: <92244.002140AI4CPHYW@MIAMIU.BITNET>
From: <AI4CPHYW@MIAMIU.BITNET>
Date: Monday, 31 Aug 1992 00:21:40 EDT
Organization: Miami University - Academic Computer Service
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I have a couple of kinda newbie questions about the source distribution of
386bsd 0.1, so please bear with me and don't roll your eyes _too_ much :)
I can make the binary distribution fly with no problems, but I haven't had
too much experience with source distributions of any OS, let alone Unix . .
I can get the source distribution unpacked fine (except I got an error along
the lines of "can't find script source.install, install failed" or something
like that) and I carefully read the file /usr/src/ROADMAP but when I try to
run config or make all I get is command not found errors. Does this mean
that I have to first install the binary distribution? (i.e. the source distrib
doesn't come with the executables I need to compile the OS). If I don't need
to first install the binary distrib, then what am I doing wrong.
(For that matter, where can I get a good discussion of make, other than the
man pages, I'm not that much of a tyro :) :)
If I need both distributions installed, is there any way I can do it on an
80MB hard drive. I tried installing first the binary and rebooting to delete
the bin01.* files, then installing the source distribution, but the filesystem
got full.
In another vein, where should I look for more instructions on how to enable
incomming telnet and ftp connections. The boot sequence "sees" my 3c503 and
ifconfig makes the thing work (I can ping, ftp, and telnet other hosts) but
if I try to ping, ftp or telnet my 386BSD machine from another machine,
I get no response.
Thanks for you help in advance, and thanks to Bill and Lynne and everyone
else who made this wonderful OS.
-Alec D. Isaacson
AI4CPHYW @ miamiu.acs.muohio.edu
isaacson @ rogue.acs.muohio.edu (NeXt Mail)
Miami University, Oxford, OH
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