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From: Digestifier <Linux-Activists-Request@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu>
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To: Linux-Activists@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu
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Reply-To: Linux-Activists@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu
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Date: Wed, 15 Sep 93 18:13:20 EDT
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Subject: Linux-Activists Digest #232
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Linux-Activists Digest #232, Volume #6 Wed, 15 Sep 93 18:13:20 EDT
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Contents:
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Re: Removing Linux (Chan Lap Wah Samson)
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[Q] Errors while compiling NFSD, HELP! (Sohail M. Parekh)
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Quick Question... (Thomas J Bilan)
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Re: weird fdisk on slackware bootdisk (A. V. Le Blanc)
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2 button mouse (how to get third button) (Julie D Cassaidy-1)
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Re: (was: Re: A Word Processor for Linux) (cairnss@ucsu)
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Mouse intermittent in X386 (Stephen J Daly - H600/91)
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Re: Mathmatica like package for linux? (Peter Mutsaers)
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Re: Using ms-dos compression and linux (David C. Niemi)
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Re: Port respawning too fast (Simon J Ferrett)
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Re: running windows pgms under Linux (Mark Galaszkiewicz)
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Support for TrantoSCSI Controller (Paul To)
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Re: FTAPE 0.9.5 problem Please help (MCREYNPA)
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Re: BBS package (Serussi Asher)
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Re: BBS package (Serussi Asher)
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Re: Mathmatica like package for linux? (David Simmons)
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Re: Linux and MS Windows 3.1 (yuck) swap space. (Kristian Ejvind)
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Re: FTAPE 0.9.5 problem Please help (Andy Beck)
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From: h9090166@hkuxb.hku.hk (Chan Lap Wah Samson)
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Subject: Re: Removing Linux
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Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1993 17:39:10 GMT
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ganderson@clark.net (Gary Anderson) writes:
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: : Dear Whoever,
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: : I'm am tring to remove linux off my system. I formated my drive, and
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: : used FDISK to remove the partition. And even after all that, when I boot my
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: : machine it still says, "Uncompressing Linux" Does anyone know why? Does
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: : anyone know how to completely remove linux off my system? If so PLEASE send
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: : e-mail back to me,.. since my school is to cheep to get usenet. Anyway
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: : Thank You,
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:
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: : Brian
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:
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: Brian, if you're trying to go back to dos, try the following:
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: 1.) Boot up from a DOS system diskette.
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: 2.) Do a 'format c: /MBR' to put a new master boot record in the boot sector.
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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That's suppose to be FDISK /MBR, for MessyDOS 5.0 or up only.
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Sams
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From: sohail@trixie (Sohail M. Parekh)
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Subject: [Q] Errors while compiling NFSD, HELP!
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Reply-To: sohail@rhonda.jsc.nasa.gov
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Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1993 14:55:03 GMT
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I am trying to compile NFSD from nfsd-150.tar.z on .99p10 with gcc version
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2.4.3. I already have the NET-2 binaries so I have NFS up and running but
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I am trying to build NFSD from source code so I have a better understanding
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of it and I am getting the following errors
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a) nfs_prot_xdr.c:615: warning: enumeration value `NFSERR_WFLUSH' not handled in
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switch (AND MANY MORE OF SIMILAR ERRORS!)
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b) auth_clnt.c:173: `IPPORT_RESERVED' undeclared (first use this function)
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For b) I looked every header file on the system for IPPORT_RESERVED, but I
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can't find it anywhere!
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Any help would be much appreciated.
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Sincerely,
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Sohail
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--
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Sohail M. Parekh Grumman Data Systems
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sohail@rhonda.jsc.nasa.gov 12000 Aerospace Ave.
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(713) 483-5912 Houston, TX 77034
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From: bilan@cps.msu.edu (Thomas J Bilan)
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Subject: Quick Question...
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Date: 15 Sep 1993 16:25:25 GMT
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If I want to replace my kernel and I have another zImage do I have to
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replace the /zImage file or/and do I have to rerun lilo's install etc..?
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Thanks,
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Tom
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--
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/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
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$ Department of Death by Engineering ^ Surgeon General's Warning: $
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$ Michigan State University ^ Graduate School may cause brain $
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$ bilan@cps.msu.edu ^ damage and sporadic loss of hair $
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From: zlsiial@uts.mcc.ac.uk (A. V. Le Blanc)
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Subject: Re: weird fdisk on slackware bootdisk
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Reply-To: LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk
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Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1993 16:02:53 GMT
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In article <1993Sep15.131236.2976@bmerh85.bnr.ca> mlord@bnr.ca (Mark Lord) writes:
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>My drive pretends to have 2034 cylinders, and fdisk 1.4 gives repeated
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>warnings about logical.ne.physical parameters for partitions above the
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>invisible 1024cyl "barrier". If I didn't know better (and I do), I'd panic
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>and wonder what to do to use a disk over 1024cyl. Perhaps we should get
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>the maintainer of fdisk1.4 to add a check to remove those warnings for linux
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>native partitions, possibly replacing them by a more sensible "note" about
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>bootable kernel images having to reside within the first 1024cyls.
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The problem is that there is no 'standard' way of handling partitions above
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the 1024 cylinder limit in the partition table. Thus any partition
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extending above this limit may possibly be a source of difficulty
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on a machine which adopts a solution different from that adopted in
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the Linux fdisk. Still, I may be able to change the message to
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be more helpful in the next revision.
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-- Owen
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LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk
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From: cassa002@maroon.tc.umn.edu (Julie D Cassaidy-1)
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Subject: 2 button mouse (how to get third button)
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Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1993 17:42:47 GMT
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My apologies if this is a faq, but I haven't been able to find it anywhere.
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I have a MS mouse (read two button) and want to know how to emulate the
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middle button. I have heard of using the two buttons together can do
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this if set up properly. I don't know how to do this. Any help will be
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appreciated.
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From: cairnss@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (cairnss@ucsu)
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Subject: Re: (was: Re: A Word Processor for Linux)
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Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1993 22:46:07 GMT
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jrp@widcat.Widener.EDU (Joshua R. Poulson) writes:
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>In article <26aulc$ier@news.bu.edu>, heiser@bumetb.bu.edu (Bill Heiser) writes:
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>|> In article <WEASEL.93Aug5160625@mecom.oulu.fi> weasel@mecom.oulu.fi (Kari T. Salmela) writes:
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>|> > By the way, I have noticed that old UNIX farts are absolutely
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>|> >most conservative persons I've ever met. Not even IBM<tm> :) mainframe
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>|> [...]
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>|> >It's kinda sad to see 25 year old people who are totally fixed to
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>|> >their old customs, unable and unwilling to learn & use anything which
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>|> >has been coded in the 80's or 90's..
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>|>
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>|> 25-year old people are "old unix farts"????
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>Yeah, really. Looks like I'm getting grief for liking "TeX" here too. :)
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This is a LINUX news group, take your discussion to comp.os.unix-observations.
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:):):):):)
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--
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Proud owner of one of the first Hell Credit Cards.
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"Spend all you want. You'll pay later."
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From: u1sjd@ohm.york.ac.uk (Stephen J Daly - H600/91)
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Subject: Mouse intermittent in X386
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Date: Wed, 15 Sep 93 15:33:29 GMT
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Hi,
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I am having a teensy bit of trouble running X386 under Linux. I
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installed the latest SLS release yesterday and everthing works fine,
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I even managed to configure X-windows to give me 1024x730
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non-interlaced from my rather cheap monitor which has never done
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anything like that before, well anyway back to the plot, I am having
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some trouble with my mouse. About 3 out of 4 times that I run X the
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mouse refuses to work properly, the pointer jumps all over the
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screen randomly as I move the mouse and it thinks I am pressing
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buttons when I am not, it basically looks as if it is getting the
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data from the mouse but making a mess of interpreting it. However i
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can generally cure the problem by switching to another virtual
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console ( by pressing <ALT><CTRL><F1> e.g.) and then switching back
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to the console with X on. If i do this a few times, the mouse
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starts working, and stays working as long as I dont switch consoles
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again.
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I am using a Microsoft Two button serial mouse in COM1 and
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it has worked perfectly with everything in the past. The mouse test
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programs hidden in the X386 directory somewhere work fine, (
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although they do tend to play up a bit if I already have X386
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running in a different console when I run them)...
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Unplugging my mouse and plugging it back in doesn't do any
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good.....I have been fiddling with all the parameters in the Xconfig
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file that I can think of but nothing does any good., I get the
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feeling that something else is trying to talk to my serial port and
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screwing up the settings for the mouse driver, but I can't find
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anything remotely suspicious....
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Has anyone seen anything like this before? All suggestions will be
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greatly recieved as this is beginning to get annoying.
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I wanted to try someone elses mouse but I won't be able to borrow
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one for a while and am completely stuck in the meantime. I would
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like to try COM2 instead of COM1 but that is 25 way instead of 9 way
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and I will have to try and scrounge an adaptor from someone which
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may take a while.....Anyway if anyone has any ideas mail me at
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sjd8@tower.york.ac.uk
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Oh...Just another thing...ghostscript complains about IO permissions
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from VGAlib and I can't figure out what it is having trouble writing
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to , this doesn't cause me too many problems as I just
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run Ghostscript as root which cures it , but it would be nice find
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out what the problem was...
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Anyway, apart from that everthing works fine, ( and a lot
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faster that DOS..)
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Byeeee
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Steve
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--
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******************************************************************************
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* Stephen J Daly * Department of Electronic Engineering *
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* U1SJD@OHM.YORK.AC.UK * University of York. York YO1 5DD. England *
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******************************************************************************
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------------------------------
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
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From: muts@compi.hobby.nl (Peter Mutsaers)
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Subject: Re: Mathmatica like package for linux?
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Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1993 23:42:47 GMT
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>> On Tue, 14 Sep 1993 14:55:43 GMT, jimr@world.std.com (James A Robinson) said:
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JAR> has anyone got calc-2.02 to work under emacs v19.19-A? I am
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JAR> having all sorts of problems with Info files and calc. I tried
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JAR> compiling the calc.el files after I had installed emacs19-19,
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Get calc-2.02a or b from prep.ai.mit.edu. It's patched to run with
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emacs 19.
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--
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_______________________________________________________________
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Peter Mutsaers, Bunnik (Ut), the Netherlands.
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From: niemidc@oasis.gtefsd.com (David C. Niemi)
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Subject: Re: Using ms-dos compression and linux
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Date: 15 Sep 1993 18:37:15 GMT
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Reply-To: niemidc@oasis.gtefsd.com
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In article 28573@hellgate.utah.edu, jensen%peruvian.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (travis jensen) writes:
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>I have a question regarding compressing my dos partition
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>and using linux. Can it be done? Of course, I realize
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>that I would lose access to the dos files from linux, but
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>other than that, would it work?
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Sure, why not? I have been using a couple of compressed DR-DOS 6 partitions
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with Linux for months, and it is quite true that Linux can't read them
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(directly). I still recommend booting your Messy-Dos off of a small
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uncompressed partition, particularly if Double-Trouble is involved.
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You should be able to access your compressed partition from Linux via
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dosemu, but that won't come any where near the speed of Linux access
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to a normal DOS partition (which I have timed as being 2-3 times as
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fast as native DOS accesses!).
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---
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David C. Niemi The U.S. Constitution may be flawed, but it's
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David.Niemi@oasis.gtegsc.com a whole lot better than what we have now.
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From: c9108932@peach.newcastle.edu.au (Simon J Ferrett)
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Subject: Re: Port respawning too fast
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Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1993 18:33:24 GMT
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levinson@vax.sonoma.edu writes:
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>I have created an entry in my inittab for my com1 port on which I have another
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>terminal with a null modem cable.
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>I can log on, work, then log off, however on my consople I get the message:
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>Respawning too fast. Port disabled for 5 minutes
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>And then 5 minutes later it says the same thine.
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>Anyone know how I can fix this? I am using .99pl12.
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yes I had this exact problem, which is caused when the serial port
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is hung up by getty, it drops the DTR (which, since its a null modem),
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drops carrier) and gived getty a HUP causing it to quit.
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I got around this my slightly modifying serial.c so that it didnt ever
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hang up a serial port. (no hardware of mine needs it)
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the modifcation in serial.c is as follows:
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(about line 583)
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}
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if (clear_bit(RS_EVENT_HANGUP, &info->event)) {
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/* simonf Sun Aug 29 17:43:13 EST 1993 tty_hangup(info->tty);*/
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wake_up_interruptible(&info->open_wait);
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info->flags &= ~(ASYNC_NORMAL_ACTIVE|
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ASYNC_CALLOUT_ACTIVE);
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}
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ie: comment out the tty_hangup call.
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hope this works as well for you as it did for me...
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--
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c9108932@cs.newcastle.edu.au - Simon Ferrett
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Due to technical difficuties, we are unable to bring you your
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regularly scheduled .signature - normal transmission will resume
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as soon as possible...
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From: galaszki@maccs.mcmaster.ca (Mark Galaszkiewicz)
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Subject: Re: running windows pgms under Linux
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Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1993 19:02:28 GMT
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At Softeach 93, The Sun booth was showing SunSoft's version of
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Wabi, a program running under Unix which supposedly will run Windows pgms as
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fast if not faster, then a similarily equipped 486 with MSDOS and Windows 3.1
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It was a supposed project of a few Unix vendor's but Sun is the first one
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out to market it with it's version of Unix for PCs.
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Unfortunatly, I got no information whether Wabi will ever be sold as a
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separate package, although other Unix vendors will introduce it shortly.
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The only doc they gave me sez it is not software emulation, but replaces the
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calls to the Windows API to Unix's API and any system calls are passed through.
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================================
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Mark Galaszkiewicz
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galaszki@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca
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Signiture file? I don't need any STINKING signiture file. Byte me.
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Subject: Support for TrantoSCSI Controller
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From: paul.to@canrem.com (Paul To)
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Date: Wed, 15 Sep 93 15:27:00 -0400
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I am looking for an economical SCSI CD-ROM setup so that I can get
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started with Linux. Does Linux support the Trantor T-130 SCSI
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controller? If yes, does it support the controller right of the bat or
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do I have to recompile the kernel? Also, will the proprietary SCSI
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controller from NEC, SONY, etc. work?
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Thank you in advance for any help.
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Paul To
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From: mcreynpa@ctrvx1.vanderbilt.edu (MCREYNPA)
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Subject: Re: FTAPE 0.9.5 problem Please help
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Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1993 19:49:00 GMT
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In article <CD304I.C87@uni-essen.de>, nils@hertha.exp-math.uni-essen.de (Nils Rennebarth) writes...
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>levinson@vax.sonoma.edu wrote:
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>: I have ftp'd the .99pl12 kernel source in its entirety and have gotten the
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>: ftape0.9.5. I patched the .99pl12 source and re-built the kernel. On bootup,
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>Get ftape-0.9.6 please.
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>
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>: What is the problem? Am I supposed to have an ftape device in my /dev
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>: directory? I have a Conner Archive 250MQT QIC80 tape drive hooked to my
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>: floppy.
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>Yes. (The documentation is a bit sparse. It's still pre-alpha software,
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>so you should maybe wait a little)
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>
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Does ftape work for QIC-40 drives? I've got a Mountain TD-4000 which, at
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present, is just gathering dust (and DOS files under DOS -- same thing).
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---
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Phillip McReynolds
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MCREYNPA@CTRVAX.VANDERBILT.EDU
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From: etoasse@etn.ericsson.se (Serussi Asher)
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Subject: Re: BBS package
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Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1993 11:06:06 GMT
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Testing atp/1st
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Asher Serussi
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---
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<20> 1st 1.11 <20> "640k should be enough for anybody" - Bill Gates, 1981.
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--
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Asher Serussi Tel : +47 370 51487
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Ericsson Telecom AS E-mail : etoasse@etn.ericsson.se
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Tangen Alle 39 P.O.Box 44 Memo : eto.etoasse
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N-4817 His
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From: etoasse@etn.ericsson.se (Serussi Asher)
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Subject: Re: BBS package
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Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1993 11:18:44 GMT
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Testing atp/1st
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Asher Serussi
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---
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<20> 1st 1.11 <20> "640k should be enough for anybody" - Bill Gates, 1981.
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--
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Asher Serussi Tel : +47 370 51487
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Ericsson Telecom AS E-mail : etoasse@etn.ericsson.se
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Tangen Alle 39 P.O.Box 44 Memo : eto.etoasse
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N-4817 His
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From: simmons@EE.MsState.Edu (David Simmons)
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Subject: Re: Mathmatica like package for linux?
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Date: 15 Sep 1993 21:16:53 GMT
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Reply-To: simmons@EE.MsState.Edu
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Does anybody know of a "simple", small program that can handle
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simplifying algebraic expressions and calculating derivatives
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and integrals, like MET or DERIVE?
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I really don't have much of a need for an extensive, programmable
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math system; i just need something to help me with calculus and
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engineering classes.
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Thanks,
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David Simmons
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------------------------------
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From: krej@electrum.kth.se (Kristian Ejvind)
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Subject: Re: Linux and MS Windows 3.1 (yuck) swap space.
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Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1993 22:20:16 GMT
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In article <CDCEr7.1BB@bt-sys.bt.co.uk> cbeauch@xenon (Chris Beauchamp) writes:
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> I am about to install SLS (latest version) on a Dell 486sx25, but I'm
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> only using half the hard disk,the other half being used for DOS and Windows.
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>
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> I have a 12Mb Linux swap partition - is this possible to be used as both a
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> Linux and a Windows swapfile? What does Linux do to this partition? Does it
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> put anything corruptable on it?
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OK, here we go again: 'windows-linux swap in common?'. Perhaps time for
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moving this into the FAQ (I assume it's not there already, havn't checked...)?
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A swap *file* cannot be shared inbetween, as dos can't access the linux file
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system and linux can't swap on the dos file system. However a linux swap
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partion can be made into a swap file for windows at the cost of a few
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seconds longer time to reboot. If you want to do things the same way as I
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have done then follow these steps: (remember to subtitute the sizes and
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partions to match your computer, else.... bad luck!)
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1) Decide how much swap space you need and create a partion to swap on with
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fdisk (or any other disk partioning program). I chose to make it about 6M or
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to be exact 5967 blocks large and on /dev/hda4. Make the partion a DOS
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partion. Mine is a primary 12-bit-fat (id 1) partion.
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2) Erase the partion completely so that it will compress to the smallest
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possible size. This can be done with :
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dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda4
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while running linux. If you want you can use norton's wipeinfo to
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'Wipe the entire drive' but this must be done after step 3). Neither
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'format f:' or 'del f:*.*' will erase the data on the disk, they just
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delete the information in the directory block(s) and wont work.
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3) (Re)Boot dos. The swap partion will show up as a new 'disk letter' in
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dos, which dos wont be able to read (dos says something like 'Invalid
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media error on drive F'). My swap partion shows up as F:. Format
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the new drive:
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c:\>format f:
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4) Start windows (if you are running windows 3.0 you must start it in
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real mode: c:\>win /r) and create a permanent swap file as large as the new
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partion. Ignore the warning that windows won't use more than the recommended
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size, it will. In windows 3.0 this is done by closing ALL active applications
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excluding the program manager, selecting File/Run and run 'system/swapfile'.
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In windows 3.1 it's in the control panel under '386 Enh' and 'virtual memory'.
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5) Reboot your computer into linux immediately after creating the
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swapfile. DO NOT start windows.
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6) Save and compress the swap partion to a file:
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dd if=/dev/hda4 | gzip -9 > /.winswap
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Since you erased the whole partion the compressed file will become
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very small; from my computer:
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23:27-oden:/>ls -l .winswap
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-r-------- 1 root root 9431 Apr 10 20:23 .winswap
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7) Place the following commands in your /etc/rc:
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/bin/mkswap /dev/hda4 5967
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/bin/swapon -a
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and a line in /etc/fstab describing your swap partion:
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/dev/hda4 none swap defaults
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8) These commands will destroy the dos partion and the windows swap
|
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file and must be restored before windows can be used. I do this when I
|
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reboot linux automatically with this script which I have named
|
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/etc/reboot and with a link to it from /etc/halt:
|
||
|
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----/etc/reboot-----snip-----8<--------
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#!/bin/sh -
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||
if [ "root" != "`whoami`" ]
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then
|
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echo "Sorry "`whoami`. You must be root to reboot!. Exiting.
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||
exit 1
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||
fi
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||
echo `basename $0` in progress. Please standby
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||
swapoff /dev/hda4
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||
/usr/local/bin/gunzip < /.winswap > /dev/hda4
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||
exec /etc/.hidden/`basename $0` $*
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||
----end /etc/reboot-----snip-----8<----
|
||
|
||
and I have moved the original /etc/reboot and /etc/halt to
|
||
/etc/.hidden/reboot and /etc/.hidden/halt
|
||
|
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9) Enjoy.
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|
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10) Realize that 6M swap isn't enough. Sigh :-(
|
||
|
||
I have seen some peolpe suggesting that it is possible to just save
|
||
the beginning of the partion (just enough to hold the boot block, the
|
||
fat and the root directory), and others saying that you must save the
|
||
whole partion but I havn't bothered to investigate this matter, the
|
||
solution above works just perfect.
|
||
|
||
|
||
/Kristian
|
||
|
||
p.s. I hope I havn't mistyped anything but anyway: Be careful when
|
||
dealing with the disk partions as you will blame yourself to death
|
||
when you have erased your whole dos partion with your five years worth
|
||
of work on just because you typed /dev/hda4 instead of /dev/hda3 ;-)
|
||
--
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||
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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||
Kristian Ejvind - krej@it.kth.se I The best way of accelerating
|
||
The Royal Institute of Technology, KTH I a macintosh is by 9.82 m/(s*s)
|
||
Stockholm, Sweden I
|
||
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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||
|
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------------------------------
|
||
|
||
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 93 02:19:00 +0200
|
||
From: Andy_Beck@deds-home.fido.de (Andy Beck)
|
||
Subject: Re: FTAPE 0.9.5 problem Please help
|
||
|
||
Hi there !
|
||
|
||
NR> levinson@vax.sonoma.edu wrote:
|
||
NR> : I have ftp'd the .99pl12 kernel source in its entirety and have
|
||
NR> gotten the : ftape0.9.5. I patched the .99pl12 source and re-built the
|
||
NR> kernel. On bootup,
|
||
Get ftape-0.9.6 please.
|
||
Not really necessary - you'll just need to do the patching by hand,if you
|
||
have the kernel version with built-in KLMs.Otherwise this seems to be done
|
||
twice in a that strange manner,that it will cause a Kernel Panic.
|
||
Some minor patching of kernel-interface.c is also needed - but that's no
|
||
big deal.
|
||
|
||
NR> : What is the problem? Am I supposed to have an ftape device in my
|
||
NR> /dev : directory? I have a Conner Archive 250MQT QIC80 tape drive
|
||
NR> hooked to my : floppy.
|
||
Yes,you are supposed to have the char-device /dev/ftape.
|
||
It should have major 27 and minor ?? (bit 2 means rewind on close - 0 and
|
||
1 don't seem to be used now) .
|
||
|
||
CU,Andy
|
||
|
||
Available on Internet as Andy_Beck@deds-home.fido.de :-)
|
||
|
||
... Documentation - The worst part of programming.
|
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