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agreen@wumpus.its.uow.edu.au (Anthony Green) writes:

>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.
I bought the walnu creek version of slackware96
I have had no problems at all to date.
Xwindows works OK but the ADDSWAP routine listed in the small manual
does not exist in the first setup screen.
so i wrote it into fstab myself. hi!

jonathan