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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!uunet!not-for-mail 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 Organization: AlterNet -- Falls Church, Virginia, USA Lines: 45 Distribution: world Message-ID: <14u9deINNoa5@rodan.UU.NET> References: <712169547snx@rama.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: rodan.uu.net 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 -- /* Kurt J. Lidl (lidl@uunet.uu.net) | Unix is the answer, but only if you */ /* | phrase the question very carefully. */ /* Don't even think of confusing my opinions with my employer's opinions! */