Re: Help: Install Slackware Linux 2.0.0?

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From: Anthony Green
Date: Sat, 05 Oct 1996 00:00

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Scott Yang <s2170607@cse.unsw.EDU.AU> writes:

>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

yup this will work, and it is a bug with slakware.

Just one of the many bugs brought to you by slakware '96

Anthony.

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From: agreen@wumpus.its.uow.edu.au (Anthony Green)
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Date: 1996/10/05
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