From: pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: SLS: don't laugh now but...
Date: 26 Aug 92 03:40:05 GMT
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, CANADA
Nntp-Posting-Host: sanjuan.uvic.ca

My attempt to make available a Linux distribution that even someone
who has never even used Unix before could install, almost succeeded.
I just got a call from a neophyte who wanted to know what to type
at the login prompt, after he had install all 30 Megs of SLS on his
hard drive.  So for the record, login as "root".

A few other questions:  If you see login in mincom, maybe you have
ttys1 turned on for login in /etc/inittab?

When downloading SLS, you *MUST* get the "disk*" files, because
they ensure that you follow the install sequence :-).

I am trying to upload ghostscript to disk 15 of SLS.  No fonts other
than ugly are supplied.  Those are available from prep.ai.mit.edu,
or on another 6 disks, on which TeX has been collected, but I don't 
know when I will be able to upload those cause I am having modem 
problems or something. 

That will bring SLS to 21 disks, but I want to add Interviews 
though not till after the next GCC/X11 release that uses
jump tables and 3GB procs.   Thus SLS will probably settle out at
26 or so disks for a total system.  That's the bad news.  The good
news is that it will allow DTP with TeX, xdvi, Ghostscript and Idraw.
And that should be upgradable with just shared libs and a kernel.
Hopefully, this (and source) will form a core for a CDROM,
although it is not clear that everyone will want to spend the 
~$400.00 (??) or so buy a player and the CD.  Maybe though.

What is still missing is a simple database package with a commandline
user interface ala DB3.  Any suggestions.

Anyways, in the mean time, I am waiting for the next GCC so that I can
start building the next (and, with jump tables,  hopefully last) system.
Then efforts can be concentrated upon system shakedown.

From: hlu@fili.eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: SLS: don't laugh now but...
Date: 26 Aug 92 04:41:52 GMT
Organization: Washington State University

In article <1992Aug26.034005.15077@sol.UVic.CA>, pmacdona@sanjuan 
(Peter MacDonald) writes:


|> That will bring SLS to 21 disks, but I want to add Interviews 
|> though not till after the next GCC/X11 release that uses
|> jump tables and 3GB procs.   Thus SLS will probably settle out at
|> 26 or so disks for a total system.  That's the bad news.  The good
|> news is that it will allow DTP with TeX, xdvi, Ghostscript and Idraw.
|> And that should be upgradable with just shared libs and a kernel.
|> Hopefully, this (and source) will form a core for a CDROM,
|> although it is not clear that everyone will want to spend the 
|> ~$400.00 (??) or so buy a player and the CD.  Maybe though.
|> 
|> What is still missing is a simple database package with a commandline
|> user interface ala DB3.  Any suggestions.
|> 
|> Anyways, in the mean time, I am waiting for the next GCC so that I can
|> start building the next (and, with jump tables,  hopefully last) system.
|> Then efforts can be concentrated upon system shakedown.

We have taken a look at the jump table for X11R5. We found out it is
very hard to build a jump table for X11R5 without totally rearranging
the files in mit/lib/Xaw and mit/lib/Xt. What we are going to do is
build a classical shared lib for X11 with the jump table version of
libc.a and libm.a. That means you can update libc without worring
about X11R5.

The next release of shared lib will start at 0x60000000 (1.5GM) and
we have plenty of spaces for InterView

H.J.