Hello again, 1) INSTALLATION WOES ===================
yesterday I installed 2 more sparcstation 5 (image 2.2.15-2000-06-10, taken from sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch), and encountered the following problems: a) when selecting the keyboard (the topmost, SUN US, SUN keymap) error message: "unable to extract sunkeymap.gz from /etc/keymaps.gz" b) when I formatted the disk, I was asked whether I wanted to retain kernel 2.0 compatibility. If I select "no" there, the system will later be unable to make linux dirtectly bootable from disk (ie. install SILO) (".. was unable to make linux bootable form disk, please create a boot floppy") or to create a boot-floppy ("the system was unable to create a boot floppy, please make sure the medium isnt write protected" (which it wasnt)). When I enable kernel 2.0 compatibility the errors disappear. c) the following error I cannot explain: There's the option to get network settings using dhcp, on one of the machines it was later impossible to mount an NFS volume to get the disk images or base system from, the other worked fine. When setting the values (own ip, netmask, gateway) manually, it worked though. On the dhcp server the two machines are configured identically. 2) SECURITY ISSUE ================ On machines installed using the slink image, and upgraded (dist-upgrade) to potato, and on machines installed using the potato image (version see above), "man /etc/passwd" will return the contents of said file. I did a cross-check with a solaris (sunos 5.7) machine, which did not exhibit this behavior. Potato on i386 exhibits the same behavior (kernel in use there: 2.2.16)