Re: slackware probmem... please help!

["marc groeneveld" <mgroeneveld@wacs.svb.nl>]

Hi,

Do you have, enough memory? At least 8 Mb RAM  I would say. And a 
swap partition? At least 16 Mb. Because of memory problems a lot of 
programs won't be able to function normally.

Succes,

Marc.

> Date:          Sun, 27 Jul 1997 14:06:24 -0500 (CDT)
> From:          "Chris Peterson, KG0BP" <chrisp@citilink.com>
> To:            blinux-list@redhat.com
> Subject:       slackware probmem... please help!
> Reply-to:      blinux-list@redhat.com

> I just installed Slackware 3.3 on my system using a dos terminal on
> /dev/ttyS0.  The instalation went fine until I rebooted the system.  At
> that point, although I was able to log in as root, I the system would hang
> when adding a user.  More spacifically, it would hang at the very end of
> the adduser process when, I think, it whould have returned to bash.
> Ctrl-c resuccessfully exited adduser, but I can't log in as that user.
> When it should give me a password prompt, the system hangs.
> 
> Also, now when I try to log in as root, I get an error that says ``Unable
> to change to tty /dev/ttyS0 bad file number''.  Having little practical
> experical experience with unix and no experience with linux, what should I
> do now?
> 
> thanks in advance,
> Chris
> 
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