debian user, /etc/mol question (have checked the list archives [some])

[Marcelo A. Ferreira Gomes]

At 19:36 -0400 09/10/2002, K Clark wrote:
>ok, so i have been away from mol awhile. i came back and osx is supported.
>awesome.

We really do have to thank Samuel... THANKS!

>i had problems with startmol -- got an error about unable to open
>/etc/mol/session.map so it did a touch /etc/mol/session.map WAS this wrong?
>is there some config utility?

Well, if it says it did only a touch, it probably wasn't wrong, but 
its last modification time was. The 'touch' operation does just that: 
updates the last modification date/time stamp of a file. It was 
probably complaining about the session map time being prior to the 
binaries' creation times.

>1. any examples for an ibook2 600mhz running GNU/Linux Debian Sid? /etc/mol/
>examples? i have osx on /dev/hda11 and linux on /dev/hda12 and (i think) os9
>on /dev/hda10...

I've been away from mol for a while myself, too, so I have no examples to give.

But I know you can be sure of where your os9 is by doing: pdisk -l 
/dev/hda. That will tell you what every partition contains, and the 
"-l" flag makes it harmless (that's a letter ell, NOT the number one 
in the flag). Just remember: if your /dev/hda device has restricting 
access permissions (as it should), you'll need root privileges to get 
any useful output from pdisk.

>don't be shy about calling my stupidity out. i'm quite frustrated at this
>point and could use it.

If you could fix the kernel module mismatch, you're not all that 
stupid. You only need some hints. Too bad I'm not the right guy to 
give them.

>ken
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