jfjr@mbunix.mitre.org (Jerome Freedman) (01/20/89)
Hi, its me again - a new user - I have 3 dn3500s, two with cartridge and 170 meg disk, one with nothing - running sr10.1. I have one up successfully (whew) running bsd_large. Here are my questions 1) I want to conserve some disk space (I have NFS, uninstalled but probably today). I would like to boot the other disked apollo as well as the undisked from the machine I already have up, then have the disked, but remote booting apollo mount its own disk. It should be possible but its not really clear how this may be done. 2) I have NIDL and am trying to install it. It barfs immediately but thats a problem I will take up with Apollo software support when I can get a response. The NIDL instructions say that /bsd4.2 must not be a link. My bsd4.3 large installation (untouched by human or my hands) has /bsd4.2 as a link to /bsd4.3. Now I didn't put it there but NIDL doesn't like it and as long as its there I can't install NIDL. I am hesitant to play with the configuration Apollo handed me. If I do remove the link what happens?. What should be in /bsd4.2 to make the NIDL installation happy? My insinct is to remove the link, make a /bsd4.2 directory and have that directory just consist of links to the directories directly under /bsd4.3 (there are only about 4 there). Will This work? will it mess up the magic? Jerry Freedman, Jr "Why did jfjr@mbunix.mitre.org Unix come from the east?" (617)271-8398