Subject: A new user's comments, part 3
To: None <port-sparc@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Scott L. Burson <gyro@zeta-soft.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 06/02/1995 12:16:25
Okay, a little more progress yet. I added an entry for my Maxtor to the rogue
table, as suggested, and that works fine. However, several things still
aren't working:
-- My SunOS XEmacs executable doesn't come up. Presumably I just have to
rebuild it.
-- More seriously, I still can't run my Franz Allegro Common Lisp
applications. I tried starting one with `ktrace', and get:
ktrace: exec of '/b1/Worlds/sunos-refine-4-0' failed: Cannot allocate memory
Does this just mean the executable is too big? It's 16MB -- tiny, by my
standards! I have some -- "worlds" in Lisp parlance -- over 60MB.
-- And now the most puzzling thing -- my SLIP problem. As I mentioned
previously, I copied in the SLIP configuration files I had been using
under SunOS. When I try to start SLIP, it dials the phone and appears to
log in, but then exits, with the log message:
... login failed: exit status 256 from /etc/sliphome/slip.login
Now the odd thing about this is that `/etc/sliphome/slip.login', an `sh'
script, has a number of `exit' commands with status in the range 0 through
11, but no `exit 256'. Anyone have a clue about this?
-- When I try to add a second swap partition I get:
swapon: /dev/sd3b: device not configured
I don't see any hint in the config file examples as to what I might have
to do to make this work.
Oh yes, one more tidbit:
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 1995 09:35:20 -0400
From: "Charles M. Hannum" <mycroft@ai.mit.edu>
Fortunately, this didn't get in my way too badly -- it
did push one of my other drives up to `sd10', after which I was not able
to mount it (`mount', oddly, complained that the directory I was trying to
mount on did not exist, when it clearly did) --
Are you sure it wasn't complaining because the device node in /dev
didn't exist?
Heh, well, you're right, but the error message from `mount' was:
/dev/sd10c on /u2: No such file or directory
Separate error messages for the device node and the mount point would be
nice.
-- Thanks again, everyone, for all the help.
-- Scott