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Article #57456Re: Help: Install Slackware Linux 2.0.0?
From: Scott Yang
Date: Sat, 05 Oct 1996 00:00
Date: Sat, 05 Oct 1996 00:00
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On Fri, 4 Oct 1996, Derek Tak Keung CHENG wrote: > I just installed the new release Linux 2.0.0 from the Sepembter > CD rom. Evereyting is fine except, when I try to run X. > First I use xf86config to setup as my old one (work for 1.3.20), > then I type startx to run. It complain can't find /dev/console.... > I go in the /dev and check it....well it's missing....... > I try installed the everthing, well still got the same thing. It happens on my new installation, too. It sounds like Slackware96 forgets to link the /dev/console. You just have to link tty0 to console, and hopefully it will work. ln -s /dev/tty0 /dev/console +-------------------------------------------------------+ | Scott Yang - School of Computer Science & Engineering | _--_|\ | University of New South Wales, Australia | / OS/2 \ | | \_.--._* | Internet - http://www.cse.unsw.EDU.AU/~s2170607/ | v +-------------------------------------------------------+
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