Hey, guys. First off, you seem to have done a great job with the Slink install: within two hours, we took a 10-year old Sparc1 from formatting the drives all the way to a base system, X, and ssh (inside of 65MB of disk space, too). With any luck, another 20-something similar machines will follow along.
Couple of glitches, though, that might have alrady been addressed: 1) /dev/mouse was not symlinked to /dev/sunmouse when I first tried X. Does some package that everybody else installs take care of that? As I didn't even touch dselect, and used apt to get whatever other packages were needed, I may very well have left out something. 2) /etc/rc.boot/0setserial croaked with "Cannot autoconfigure port: Invalid argument" -- extremely minor, as those serial ports are not likely to be used for anything. If this is the same init script as in the i386 version, perhaps there should be a differnt one for Sparc? Overwhelmingly, though, Sparc Slink kicks much tail. I hope to have one at home shortly. Thanks again. -- Mike Renfro / Instructor, Basic Engineering Program 931 372-3601 / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
