From: Digestifier To: Linux-Activists@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Reply-To: Linux-Activists@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Date: Thu, 30 Sep 93 09:13:17 EDT Subject: Linux-Activists Digest #275 Linux-Activists Digest #275, Volume #6 Thu, 30 Sep 93 09:13:17 EDT Contents: Recap: message #58795 (levinson@vax.sonoma.edu) Tape-Streamer Question (Panayotis Fouliras; TA PhD) HARDWARE: Mitsumi LU005S CD-ROM anyone? (SEAN MICHAEL SCOGGINS) HELP! cannot find font fixed (Bryan E. Glancey Jr) Re: WHAT HAVE I TO DO TO SET UP THE .PROFILE (Bryan E. Glancey Jr) Help with SCSI installation (Alexander The Great) Installing Linux (Wes James) Sound card problem (Oliver Hernandez) Re: Word Processor for Linux (lout) (Peter Mutsaers) Help with Linux Dual Boot system (Brian Hampel) Re: WordProcessor (~=TEX) for Linux (Tom J Parry) Obtaining (Drew Ames) Re: HARDWARE: Mitsumi LU005S CD-ROM anyone? (Charles Hawkins) DOS based GUNZIP? (Chris Wood) Re: SoftLanding Message (Terror on Tape) Re: Colorado streamer (Alexander Zangerl) kermit drop lines on exit (Laurent Chavey) What processors does linux run on? (John Chambers) Re: Word Processor for Linux (lout) (Curt L. Olson (Admin)) Busmice (Tony Cifelli) ps doesn't work (Studenten) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Recap: message #58795 From: levinson@vax.sonoma.edu Date: 29 Sep 93 16:47:53 -0800 Per message 58795 I posted about not being able to get NFS to mount, I also discovered when I boot .99pl13, it does not say anything about getting an interrupt. .99pl9 says GOT IRQ 5. .99pl13 doesnt say anything. -- Eric Levinson rcisnet2!root@moon.nbn.com | Home computer (UUCP) levinson@vax.sonoma.edu | Vax I can also be reached on my BBS system, Color Galaxy Milky Way (415) 883-0696 ------------------------------ From: pef@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Panayotis Fouliras; TA PhD) Subject: Tape-Streamer Question Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1993 01:07:15 GMT I have a Colorado Jumbo 250 (QIC-80) 125Mb Tape-Streamer. My question is: Is there any Linux package system (SLS, etc) that has a suitable script to install the whole LINUX system from a tape *directly* (only using a 'disk1' booting diskette)? Thank you in advance for any information. Panayotis :wq -- UUCP: pef@qmw-dcs.uucp | Computer Science Dept | "H Rwmania kai Internet: pef@dcs.qmw.ac.uk | QMW, Univ. of London | an eperasen Voice: +44 71 975 5220 | Mile End Rd, | anthei kai FAX: +44 81 980 6533 | London E1 4NS | ferei kai allon" ------------------------------ From: smscoggi@eos.ncsu.edu (SEAN MICHAEL SCOGGINS) Subject: HARDWARE: Mitsumi LU005S CD-ROM anyone? Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1993 23:16:37 GMT Is anyone using the Mitsumi LU005S CD-ROM with Linux? I found no mention of it in the hardware list, and don't want to but it without knowing if it is going to work. Do CD-ROM with their own interface cards work in general with Linux? Thanks, Sean smscoggi@eos.ncsu.edu ------------------------------ From: glancebe@omnigate.clarkson.edu (Bryan E. Glancey Jr) Subject: HELP! cannot find font fixed Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1993 01:34:29 GMT x-windows won't start for me. It keeps returning 'font fixed not found'. Now wait a sec - I tried mkfontdir and I looked in the X11 fonts dir and font the font.dir and the font.alias file but it doesn't seem to read it! Help meeeeeeee. Bry ps. what's even more strange is that it work once this morning and then not again since then ------------------------------ Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc.help,comp.os.linux From: glancebe@omnigate.clarkson.edu (Bryan E. Glancey Jr) Subject: Re: WHAT HAVE I TO DO TO SET UP THE .PROFILE Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1993 01:42:22 GMT Rachid BELMOUHOUB (belmouh@idefix.ensmp.fr) wrote: : Hi, : I have succefully now installed the SLS 1.03 release, on my 486DX50 clone, : I went through the Linux user's guide in search of informations about how to : configur my system but haven't found lot of things about the file .profile : I tryed to set the PATH environment variable to run X11, I did like in my : .cshrc file on a sun at work but after sourcing the .profile, I have run : printenv and none of the changes I've made was taken, I tryed unset PATH : and I had an answer that the systen can't unset PATH. Is there any document : that explains how to do this, or any one here that could help me. : Thanx : Rachid : ME TO!! Also, any information anyone can give me on which are the auto running shell files (I am used to the .cshrc and .login) would be apreciated. Bryan Glancey bry@craft.camp.clarkson.edu ------------------------------ From: schnoebe@icaen.uiowa.edu (Alexander The Great) Subject: Help with SCSI installation Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1993 01:32:06 GMT Hey, can you help me I have a 386dx40 with 4 megs of ram (will be upgrading to 8 meg of ram). I have a ISApport guide and when I boot off of a1 and try to run fdisk it reports that I don't have a hard drive. I have a seagate 323 meg drive with 217 or so for msdos and 100 for linux. I have dos partioned to the above mentioned. Suggestions? -- ---Alexander The Great--- Today is born the seventh one, born of woman seventh Jay Anthony Schnoebelen son. He has the power to heal, he has the power of schnoebe@icaen.uiowa.edu the second sight. So it shall be written so it shall Diku Implementor be done. --IRON MAIDEN ------------------------------ Subject: Installing Linux From: wesj@extsparc.usu.edu (Wes James) Date: 29 Sep 93 15:38:02 MDT Reply-To: wesj@extsparc.usu.edu --- I am trying to install Linux, but it gets stuck on the line: Detecting soundcard: AdLib (type 1) What is going on? I got the distribution from tsx-11.mit.edu Wed, Sept 29. I would appreciate any help. Thanks. ******************************************************************* Wes James Email: wesj@extsparc.usu.edu Systems Specialist Utah State University Cooperative Extension Voice: (801)750-2229 Logan, UT 84322-4900 FAX: (801)750-3268 ******************************************************************* ------------------------------ From: hernande@cs.tulane.edu (Oliver Hernandez) Subject: Sound card problem Date: 30 Sep 1993 02:32:53 GMT Hi, I have been running Linux for a while, and it runs great on my 486SX-33 w/ 4Meg of RAM. But I can't run X because my sound card conflicts w/ my serial mouse. I have an 8-bit Thunderboard sound card and a Logitech serial mouse in my system. I know that the problem is w/ the sound card because when I took it out, X-windows came up fine. Also, when I boot Linux, it says that it has found a network card when it does an ethernet probe. It didn't do this when the card was removed (I don't have an ethernet card). I've tried changing the IRQ address and I/O address, and even inserting the card into another slot, but with no avail. I've heard that I have to re-compile the kernel for Linux to properly recognize my sound board. I would greatly appreciate anyone out there that could tell me exactly how to solve my problem, as I have no idea how to re-compile the Linux kernel. Please email me replies, as I don't read this group often enough, and the files on our news server aren't kept that long due to tight disk space. Thanks in advance. -- =>och **************************************************************************** * E-Mail: hernande@rex.cs.tulane.edu | "Who's the more foolish, the fool * * | or the fool who follows it?" * * | * * | -Ben "Obi-Wan" Kenobi * **************************************************************************** ------------------------------ From: muts@compi.hobby.nl (Peter Mutsaers) Subject: Re: Word Processor for Linux (lout) Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1993 17:53:13 GMT >> On 28 Sep 93 12:47:08 GMT, ellis@nova.gmi.edu (R. Stewart Ellis) >> said: RSE> Since joe, jove and emacs are all insert-mode editors that understand RSE> ^F,^B,^N,^P,^A and ^E, I would arrange them like: RSE> vi--elvis-----vile-----------------------joe-------------jove---------emacs Judging by insert-mode and some keybindings (which can be completely changed anyways in GNU emacs) I think this view is rather simplistic. A better arrangement is: -------GNU-emacs------- joe-------------jove--- vi--elvis-----vile----- GNU-emacs is of an other order than the rest, with its M-x compile, the Grand Unified Debugger, tags, ange-ftp, complete configurability and reprogrammability, so that you can emulate any of the editors that are more down to earth. Some may think it is nonsense to read mail and news from within an 'editor', but the same set of keybindings everywhere, and complete integration with the editor is a great blessing. -- _______________________________________________________________ Peter Mutsaers, Bunnik (Ut), the Netherlands. ------------------------------ From: Brian Hampel Subject: Help with Linux Dual Boot system Date: 30 Sep 1993 01:17:55 -0400 Reply-To: STBH%MARIST.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu I have installed linux in the past and was never able to get it to boot up with another OS. I am once again trying to install Linux and would like to try to get it to boot up with Dos. If anyone has any Tech Notes on making Linux Dual Boot can you please send them over. Also, any tips or helpfull hints would be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks, Brian W. Hampel STBH@VM.MARIST.EDU ------------------------------ From: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry) Subject: Re: WordProcessor (~=TEX) for Linux Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1993 04:07:15 GMT I hestitate to even stick my head out too far, b/c this doesn't seem to be a terribly civiklised discussion, but there is a smallish group working (slowly) on a WP for linux - (and any other platoform you care to port it to I suppose) - we have aimed (in my opinion) fairly high - in that we want to write a WP based on the Standard Generic Markup Language - what yu would call a structured word processor. There are a lot of issues, and we are tackling them slowly - there will be much noise if/when this thing gets working, but this year isn't a likely release date. If you wiosh to stir things up (the mail list has been a bit slow lately) - you can join the linux-activists channel word to hear any mail. Otherwise, I suggest you start reading the Tex Book - flames will be unread or dumped in the nearest dev null, -- Tom J Parry. Your reality is a figment of my imagination. ------------------------------ From: dames@is-devl-1.mmal.oz.au (Drew Ames) Subject: Obtaining Date: 30 Sep 1993 12:24:32 +1000 I am interested in obtaining a copy of linux. Where can I get it? Drew. ______________________________________________________________________________ Drew Ames dames@mmal.oz.au Mitsubishi Motors Aust. Ltd. Systems Programmer +61 8 275 7594 G.P.O. Box 1851 Mid-Range Systems +61 8 275 7750 Adelaide Technical Support South Australia 5001 -- ______________________________________________________________________________ Drew Ames dames@mmal.oz.au Mitsubishi Motors Aust. Ltd. Systems Programmer +61 8 275 7594 G.P.O. Box 1851 Mid-Range Systems +61 8 275 7750 Adelaide Technical Support South Australia 5001 ------------------------------ From: ceh@nero.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Charles Hawkins) Subject: Re: HARDWARE: Mitsumi LU005S CD-ROM anyone? Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1993 10:38:07 GMT In article <1993Sep29.231637.29354@ncsu.edu>, smscoggi@eos.ncsu.edu (SEAN MICHAEL SCOGGINS) writes: |> Is anyone using the Mitsumi LU005S CD-ROM with Linux? I found no |> mention of it in the hardware list, and don't want to but it without knowing if it is going to work. |> |> Do CD-ROM with their own interface cards work in general with Linux? |> |> Thanks, |> Sean |> smscoggi@eos.ncsu.edu |> I am using such a drive with 99pl13 kernel. The driver is included in the kernel distribution as standard. Charles Hawkins +--------------------------------+ +-----------------------------------+ + Cambridge University + + Telephone : (44) 223 332765 + + Engineering Department + + Fax : (44) 223 332662 + + Trumpington Street + + E-mail : ceh@eng.cam.ac.uk + + Cambridge CB2 1PZ + + + +--------------------------------+ +-----------------------------------+ ------------------------------ From: cwood@gst-soft.demon.co.uk (Chris Wood) Subject: DOS based GUNZIP? Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1993 10:31:20 +0000 I'd like to test all the .tgz files after ftp'ing before going ahead with the installation to make sure they all ftp'ed correctly, is there a DOS based gzip/gunzip around I could use? Thanks, CW. ============================================================================== Chris Wood. "You Screwy Rabbit" - Yosemite Sam cwood@gst-soft.demon.co.uk GST Software Products (R&D) Tel: (+44) 0480 496789. Meadow Lane, St Ives, Cambridgeshire, PE17 4LG. Fax: (+44) 0480 496189. ============================================================================== ------------------------------ From: jmadison@etsun.tech.iupui.edu (Terror on Tape) Subject: Re: SoftLanding Message Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1993 04:55:18 GMT In article person@plains.NoDak.edu (Brett Person) writes: > >Yeah. Its easy. UPGRADE to Slackware. oh no. bickering about different dists. now. bad enough we got people comin' in talkin' about _Linux Sux_, etc. >-- >Brett Person >Guest Account >North Dakota State University >person@plains.nodak.edu || person@plains.bitnet -jonM (posting for no good reason. either it's late, or Seyon's giving me a faster 2400 EC connection than i've gotten w/any other comm. program.. it _couldn't_ be the program, huh?) -- jmadison@etsun.tech.iupui.edu <>< DJ.AllStar get Linux OS, it's dope! it's free! it's UNIX! ------------------------------ From: fs_zange@rcvie.co.at (Alexander Zangerl) Subject: Re: Colorado streamer Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1993 11:09:09 GMT olle_n@argon.epita.fr (nicolas olle) writes: : : Hello : : I would like to obtain informations on the following : subject: I have a 250 Mb streamer (Colorado) connected : on my pc (IDE). And i would like to use it under Linux. : Then i would like to know : : : 1- If it's possible. : : 2- Then how to proceed.....etc. hi! i dont know whether yoe read de.comp.os.linux (since its german), but the subject has been discussed there: it works take linux0.99pl12 or newer and get ftape-9.6 from any of the major linux ftp-server (i believe its in a BETA dir.....) but as i am only citing from d.c.o.l (i dont have a streamer), i cant guarantee for exactness. you'll have to try... so long --- alex ------------------------------ From: chavey@bifur.cis.udel.edu (Laurent Chavey) Subject: kermit drop lines on exit Date: 30 Sep 1993 11:51:34 GMT I am trying to connect to the Univ net through the modem, and then use term on both ends to establish multiple connect. steps taken. linux> kermit kermit>dial xxxxxxx kermit>c login udelnet> passwd udelnet> udelnet>term escape sequence back to kermit on linux kermit>!term /dev/modem & kermit> exit here is the problem, my connection is dropped. I do not know if it is the linux side or the udel net side. any ideas. ------------------------------ From: jc@minya.UUCP (John Chambers) Subject: What processors does linux run on? Date: 30 Sep 93 10:52:35 GMT Reply-To: jc%minya.uucp@eddie.mit.edu Well, I finally found the newsgroup, and digging around via rn didn't enlighten me, so I thought I'd up and ask ... A couple of friends are looking at a project that needs a reasonably small kernel that they can hack with their own real-time stuff, and box for some customers. They'd like to have as much Unix stuff on it so as to make their own lives not too horrible, and they're looking around at available kernels. They are, of course, horrified by such things as Sys/V and BSD, but they've heard some rave reviews of Linux, along with a comment that "It only runs on Intel 80-whatevers". So the question is: Is this true, or has it been ported to other processors? If so, which processors (and how might one go about getting in touch with the Right People)? If not, well, suppose someone were to take on the job of porting it to, say, a Motorola or MIPS or Alpha, would this likely be a 3-month project, or a 10-year project? Where would the portability problem likely lie? As usual, please respond via email; if I get queries of the "me too" sort, I'll post a summary... -- If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure. -- Dan Quayle ------------------------------ From: clolson@me.umn.edu (Curt L. Olson (Admin)) Subject: Re: Word Processor for Linux (lout) Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1993 12:44:45 GMT muts@compi.hobby.nl (Peter Mutsaers) writes: >>> On 28 Sep 93 12:47:08 GMT, ellis@nova.gmi.edu (R. Stewart Ellis) >>> said: > RSE> Since joe, jove and emacs are all insert-mode editors that understand > RSE> ^F,^B,^N,^P,^A and ^E, I would arrange them like: > RSE> vi--elvis-----vile-----------------------joe-------------jove---------emacs >Judging by insert-mode and some keybindings (which can be completely >changed anyways in GNU emacs) I think this view is rather simplistic. >A better arrangement is: > -------GNU-emacs------- > joe-------------jove--- > vi--elvis-----vile----- >GNU-emacs is of an other order than the rest, with its M-x compile, >the Grand Unified Debugger, tags, ange-ftp, complete configurability >and reprogrammability, so that you can emulate any of the editors that >are more down to earth. >Some may think it is nonsense to read mail and news from within an >'editor', but the same set of keybindings everywhere, and complete >integration with the editor is a great blessing. I prefer the following arrangement: Operating Systems: ------Linux------- ------Emacs------- ... ... Editors: -joe-jove-vi-elvis-vile-- :) Curt. -- Curtis Olson clolson@me.umn.edu Eliminate theft: the government can't stand the competition. . Try Linux ... if you own a [34]86. If you own a mac ... :( \__[0]__/ ------------------------------ From: ag794@Freenet.carleton.ca (Tony Cifelli) Subject: Busmice Reply-To: ag794@Freenet.carleton.ca (Tony Cifelli) Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1993 12:42:07 GMT Has anyone got the busmouse that comes with the ATI Graphics Ultra Plus (NOT the Pro), to work with X on Linux? It uses IRQ2. This can be changed if necessary. Right now the mouse pointer sits in the middle of the screen, and is locked up. Once this is figured out, I will publish my Xconfig and the magic formula to make this work for all others in the same predicament. regards, Tony. -- [ Tony Cifelli, B.C.S., M.Math. ag794@freenet.carleton.ca ] [ President Bus: 613-723-7218 ] [ cifelli systems & software inc. Fax: 613-723-7472 ] [ 6 Gurdwara Rd. Suite 200 - Nepean, Ontario - K2E 8A3 - CANADA ] ------------------------------ From: prk1158a@ecx.tuwien.ac.at (Studenten) Subject: ps doesn't work Date: 30 Sep 1993 12:57:46 GMT I have installed SLS on a 486DX/33 8MB 75MBHD everything worked fine (except at bootup the computer hang after reporting that I have no wd80XXX, but after changing my NE2000-card from another computer and changing the IRQ from 5 to 12 the install worked correctly (a bug ?)) Now my problem: When I used ps it said, I need the directory /proc and the line "/proc /proc proc defaults" in /etc/fstub (or something like that). After doing so and rebooting (after shutdown) everything was the same. I still get the above message. Can anybody help me? Alex prk1158a@ecx.tuwien.ac.at ------------------------------ ** FOR YOUR REFERENCE ** The service address, to which questions about the list itself and requests to be added to or deleted from it should be directed, is: Internet: Linux-Activists-Request@NEWS-DIGESTS.MIT.EDU You can send mail to the entire list (and comp.os.linux) via: Internet: Linux-Activists@NEWS-DIGESTS.MIT.EDU Linux may be obtained via one of these FTP sites: nic.funet.fi pub/OS/Linux tsx-11.mit.edu pub/linux tupac-amaru.informatik.rwth-aachen.de pub/msdos/replace The current version of Linux is 0.99pl9 released on April 23, 1993 End of Linux-Activists Digest ******************************