Hi Allen, Benni and Leo,

Some of the things I noticed last night:

- on the ramdisk fs image:
  in .profile: TERM=pc3  =>  TERM=vt200
  in .instutils: if [ -e /mnt/sendmail.cf ]  =>  if [ -e /mnt/etc/sendmail.cf ]
  Configure runs MAKEDEV; MAKEDEV tries to run printf; printf is not included;
  as a consequence the pty/tty entries are not created.

- /proc and /kern seem to be missing in base.tar.gz (or is that intentional?)

- the system clock is initialised two years off (1997); probably Leo is still
  running an old version of TOS. Benni, can you remember the full story from
  maus.sys.linux68k? (each TOS version a different bug?)

- date does not just alter the system clock, it also changes the hardware clock;
  evil, evil, evil. :-)  It's OK for primitive TOS to do something like that,
  but I believe a real OS should differentiate between hardware and system clock.

- while mounting an msdos fs on floppy:
  `mountmsdosfs(): root directory is not a multiple of the clustersize in length'
  It's just a warning, but it's the wrong check: the root directory must be a
  multiple of the logical sectorsize, which is often not the same as the
  clustersize. Under GEMDOG a FAT fs on a floppy never has a rootdirectory
  that is a multiple of the clustersize, as there's only one boot sector, the
  total number of FAT sectors is allways an even number (2 FATS), and the total
  number of data sectors is also an even number (2 sectors per cluster), so the
  number of rootdir. sectors will inevitably be an odd number.

- /usr/share/zoneinfo leaves no doubt that BSD was made in USA; never heard of
  Europe, never heard of Amsterdam, Berlin, Paris, etc. Quick fix: take the
  stuff from a well known European system, which is more world-orientated.

Some silly questions:

- Is there a raw device for rd0? If so what are the major/minor of rrd0?

- What's the reload device?


Waldi