paul@ukpoit.co.uk (Paul Wood) (12/03/90)
I received my MacMinix last Friday and got it working ok. The ten easy steps posted on the net were very useful, so I had very few problems. I did however have problems with cron and lpr. cron appears to work ok when started from a root login, but when I inserted it into the rc script I had a system crash some five minutes after booting. This was preceeded by some regular (once per second) disk access on my internal floppy drive (/dev/fd0) although there was no disk inserted in the drive. lpr, and other methods of printing (eg: cat file > /dev/lp) prints out on my Imagewriter II ok, except that it seems to print about a page and a half, and then throw a new page. My guess is that the Imagewriter is throwing the page automatically, and not MacMinix. If so, then how do I disable the page throws? Has anybody else had these problems? BTW: where is "mdb"? The manual says that it is a 68000 debugger, but I cannot find it anywhere on MacMinix. Thanks in advance. Paul Wood | UUCP Mail: paul@ukpoit.co.uk | 31 Buttermere Drive | Bang-Style: ...!ukc!ukpoit!paul | Dronfield Woodhouse | Voice: +44 246 214256 | Sheffield | FAX: +44 246 214353 | England S18 5PX | Postline: 5403 4256 |
ramsey@rbdc (Ramsey Dow) (12/06/90)
paul@ukpoit.co.uk (Paul Wood) writes: >I received my MacMinix last Friday and got it working ok. The ten easy steps >posted on the net were very useful[...]. Could someone please repost this list of ten easy steps for setting up MacMinix? Moreover, could some MacMinix folk send me a mail or two describing their thoughts on MacMinix, etc.? I am seriously considering purchasing MacMinix and would like to obtain all info regarding installs, thoughts, etc. Thanks. -- "My damnable, reddening vision | Ramsey Dow, starving undergraduate That build a new world for my seeing; | A new world of reddness and darkness, | UUCP: ...!gatech!kd4nc!rbdc!ramsey A horrible coma called living." --HPL | Internet: woodward@phs.bgsm.wfu.edu
archetyp@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Joseph R Pickert) (12/09/90)
paul@ukpoit.co.uk (Paul Wood) writes: >cron appears to work ok when started from a root login, but when I inserted it >into the rc script I had a system crash some five minutes after booting. This >was preceeded by some regular (once per second) disk access on my internal >floppy drive (/dev/fd0) although there was no disk inserted in the drive. Cron has some problems that are universal to the 68K versions I think. There have been a couple of posted fixes. >lpr, and other methods of printing (eg: cat file > /dev/lp) prints out on my >Imagewriter II ok, except that it seems to print about a page and a half, and >then throw a new page. My guess is that the Imagewriter is throwing the page >automatically, and not MacMinix. If so, then how do I disable the page throws? The line printer driver stores up a page at a time, and printing 1.5 pages will result in only one page being printed. Use pr(1) which pads the file to a multiple of a page when printing (e.g., pr file | lpr). Joe Pickert