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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: Fri, 24 Sep 93 03:13:07 EDT
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Subject: Linux-Activists Digest #256
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Linux-Activists Digest #256, Volume #6 Fri, 24 Sep 93 03:13:07 EDT
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Contents:
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Re: running X appl. by modem ? (Valiant Gough)
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Re: How does Linux compare to SUN IPC? (Valiant Gough)
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Help with mounting dos partition (steven ray)
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A little Linux Humor (Eric Johnfelt)
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Re: X and Slackware 1.0.3 (John Will)
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Problem while starting X (Olaf von Wackerbarth)
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Re: Driver for NE2100 ethernetboard available? (Donald J. Becker)
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Re: NE-2000 Ethernet cards (Paul Gortmaker)
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Re: [Rev.] startx won't start x.. (CHIA CHIEN WEI)
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Re: Anyone Installed Metro-X Motif on SLS 1.03 -> Install sucks!! (Pauline Price)
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Ultrastor & Slackware boot (C.A. Peskin)
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Re: Ultrastor & Slackware boot (Patrick J. Volkerding)
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slackware/smail/uucp don't work! (JL Gomez)
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Re: [Q] Comments on my configuration of PC please... (Mark A. Horton)
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Re: Setting active partition on second hard drive (Lawrence Houston)
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Re: Minicomm not working. Please help. (Mark A. Horton)
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From: vgough@slate.mines.colorado.edu (Valiant Gough)
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Subject: Re: running X appl. by modem ?
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Date: 23 Sep 93 22:52:32 GMT
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William_F._Mitchell (mitchell@cam.nist.gov) wrote:
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: In article <1993Sep22.065902.16859@infodev.cam.ac.uk>, tjrc1@mbfs.bio.cam.ac.uk (Tim Cutts (Zoology)) writes:
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: |> slksp@cc.usu.edu writes:
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: |>
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: |> >In article <1993Sep21.183248.28107@hellgate.utah.edu>, predard%sunset.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Pablo Redard) writes:
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: |> >>
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: |> >> I'm wondering if I can log into my account at the university
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: |> >> from home (through modem) and run an X application?
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: |>
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: |> Look for term 1.07, which allows you to do this. You can get it from (if
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: |> memory serves) ftp.tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Can't remember if that's the right
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: |> machine name, but it's close).
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: |>
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: Does this require making the modem connection with SLIP?
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nope, thats the whole reason for term, you don't need SLIP.
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X-windows runs alright under it on a 9600 baud modem - as long as you don't
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want to view pictures. Not everything is fast enough to be useable, but
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many things are, and don't forget that term can let you have as many
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windows open to the server as you want.
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Valiant Gough
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vgough@mines.colorado.edu
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From: vgough@slate.mines.colorado.edu (Valiant Gough)
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Subject: Re: How does Linux compare to SUN IPC?
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Date: 23 Sep 93 22:58:43 GMT
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Kees Metzger (metzger@cnplss5.cnps.philips.nl) wrote:
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: a228dhal@cdf.toronto.edu (Dhaliwal Bikram Singh) writes:
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: >I was wondering, if anyone has done benchmarks between the two for
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: >various processors. I am not saying that Linux is better, it still
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: >has a ways to go before it can match the all around appeal of the SUN.
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: Although it's not much I can add this:
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: My Gateway 2000 4DX2-66V (running Linux) is about 3 times faster than
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: the SS 1+ on a compilation job of about 100,000 lines (in 150 files).
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Most of the things I do use only integer instructions (compiling, vision
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systems, etc), and my 486dx2-66 is about 2 times the speed of our local
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Sparc IPC/IPX for those things, but for heavy floating point stuff
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(neural networks), the Sparc wins out.
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As a side note, my computer is also faster then the RS/6000's
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(960,540,320, and 220's) that I use - for integer stuff, but not floating
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point. It seems Intel isn't all that good at floating point
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processing.
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Valiant Gough
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vgough@mines.colorado.edu
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From: sray@nyx.cs.du.edu (steven ray)
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Subject: Help with mounting dos partition
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Reply-To: sray@nyx.UUCP (steven ray)
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Date: Fri, 24 Sep 93 02:35:02 GMT
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hi,
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I installed linux recently. When I first installed it I could mount
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dos which I had on /dev/hda1 ( the first hard drive), but now it
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won't mount. If I try lilo and a couple of other programs to get
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to it, I get a bad majic number error. Anyone have any such problems
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and how to correct it.
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Any help appreciated,
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Steven
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From: ejohnfel@ic.sunysb.edu (Eric Johnfelt)
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Subject: A little Linux Humor
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Date: 24 Sep 1993 02:55:55 GMT
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Hey all,
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Tired of unsuccessfully installing Linux?
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Here... have a laugh, after all you deserve it.
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And BTW Bill man, REAL funny!!!
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Bill Reilly (aka wreillyi coyote "Super Genius", and Monkey Spanker
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extrodinaire) wrote in a message to me after discussing my beef with
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the man pages in SLS's distribution....
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I wrote <other crap deleted, and paraphrased for brevity>
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> True, Bash is my shell, but since 'sh' is on the system, it
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>should be documented! If Bash is so close to 'sh' that they are virtually
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>indistingiushable in the respect that Bash consists of 'sh' plus a
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>whole lot more... then 'ln bash.1 sh.1' would be sufficient. So the BIG
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>question is..., IS IT?
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Bill writes....
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>Probably not (That's SLS for you), but remember, you can be root, you have
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>the power, abuse it well. (And Linus spake to the masses and said "With my
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>Linux on thy PC thingie, I giveth thee the power to become the most highest
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>and mightiest of all the powers over machine, the title of the superious
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>userorious, root. With thy powers, which I have decreed in my most high and
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>holiest wisdom, being me, thou canst do ANYTHING thy wantest to thy silly
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>system. First and foremost among thy powers, which I alone have decreed that
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>thee shalt have in my most infinite wisdom, be the power to really fuck up thy
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>system..." [The Book of Linux according to Bill, Genesis 2.15-2.23])
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Truer words have never been spoken.
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Oh, BTW Bill, If you read this, someone came up to me in school and told
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me to look at my 'kwho' byline.
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STOP F*CKING WITH MY STUFF!!!!!!!!! (Damn Monkey Spanker! ee ee ;)
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---
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+------------------------------+----->> Disclaimer <<--*Read*----------------+
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| Name : Eric G. Johnfelt | *The opinions expressed here come direct |
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| Rank : President Weenie Inc. | from Elvis & the aliens who kidnapped him! |
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| Ser.#: ejohnfel@ic.sunysb.edu| |
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+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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| errare humanum est : ne cede malis : vea victis : ULTIMA RATIO REGUM |
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From: john.will@satalink.com (John Will)
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Subject: Re: X and Slackware 1.0.3
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Date: 24 Sep 93 00:50:00 GMT
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JW>C > So far everyone with problems with XFree 1.3 has had
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JW>C > a Tseng chip, either ET4000/ET3000 and pl12.
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JW>C >
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JW>C > Is there anyone who has it working reliably with these
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JW>C > video chips??
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JW>
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JW>I've been running for months with a local bus ET4000 and XFree86, I'm
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JW>currently running a pl12 kernel. My major bitch is networking, I still
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JW>have some problems there, but X works just fine.
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From: konradin@knipp.en.open.de (Olaf von Wackerbarth)
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Subject: Problem while starting X
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Date: Thu, 23 Sep 93 20:49:30 GMT
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i have installed Linux 0.98 with SLS. Now I have the Problem that
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i can not start X. When I type 'startx' the X-Server (X386 or XMono)
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tries to open a TCP-Socket an fails with the following error-message:
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Creating TCP-Socket: invalid argument
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The File /tmp/.X11-unix/X0= exists!!!
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Can anyone help about this Problem?
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Please Mail to konradin@knipp.en.open.de
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Thanks!
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From: becker@super.org (Donald J. Becker)
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Subject: Re: Driver for NE2100 ethernetboard available?
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Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1993 02:43:33 GMT
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In article <1993Sep23.171337.16602@knipp.en.open.de>,
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Georg Strolka <georg@knipp.en.open.de> wrote:
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>Is there any Linux support for Novell's NE2100 ethernetboard?
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>I know that this board is not compatible to the NE2000 board,
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>which is already supported. Any information is highly
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>appreciated.
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You are right, the NE2100 is nothing at all like the NE2000.
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The LANCE driver in pl13 was written for an AT1500, but I tried to make it
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general enough to work with the NE1500 and NE2100. It should work without
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changes, including autoprobe in {0x300, 0x320, 0x340, 0x360} and autoIRQ. The
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default DMA channel is DMA5 -- I haven't yet decided if autoDMA is a good
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idea.
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Please post a followup article detailing your experience.
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--
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Donald Becker becker@super.org
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IDA Supercomputing Research Center
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17100 Science Drive, Bowie MD 20715 301-805-7482
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From: rcopg@minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU (Paul Gortmaker)
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Subject: Re: NE-2000 Ethernet cards
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Date: 24 Sep 1993 03:55:58 GMT
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wgutz@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Wolfgang Utz) writes:
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>I started to look around for Ethernet-Cards, too. And what I found out is the
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>following:
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>On the one hand there are NE2000-cards available and on the other hand they sell
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>what is called NE2000-compatible-cards. The first difference one sees is the price:
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>The later ones only cost about 100 Marks here in Germany, while the first cost up
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>to 600 Marks.
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>Now my question: Will those chaep cards really work with Linux? Has anyone any
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>experiences?
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...from the Ethernet-HOWTO, which nobody bothers to read. Perhaps you should
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get the full document, as it has a recomendation for cheap cards as well.
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[...]
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6 Possible Problems, Questions and Troubleshooting.
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This section tries to answer any unresolved questions, and not so
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common solutions to common problems.
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6.01 Problem with NE2000 Clones -- "DMA address mismatch"
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Is the chip a real NatSemi 8390? (DP8390, DP83901, DP83902 or DP83905)?
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If not, some clone chips don't correctly implement the transfer
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verification register. MS-DOS drivers never do error checking,
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so it doesn't matter to them.
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Are most of the messages off by a factor of 2?
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If so: Are you using the NE2000 in a 16 bit slot?
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Is it jumpered to use only 8 bit transfers?
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The Linux driver expects a NE2000 to be a 16 bit slot. A NE1000 can
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be in either size slot. This problem can also occur with some clones,
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notably D-Link 16 bit cards, that don't have the correct ID bytes
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in the station address PROM. [[ This should be fixed in pl12.]]
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Are you running the bus faster than 8Mhz?
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If you can change the speed (faster or slower), see if that
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makes a difference. Most NE2000 clones will run at 16Mhz, but
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some may not. Changing speed can also mask a noisy bus.
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What other devices are on the bus?
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If moving the devices around changes the reliability, then you
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have a bus noise problem -- just what that error message was
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designed to detect. Congratulations, you've probably found the
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source of other problems as well.
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6.02 Problem with NE2000 Clones -- Machine Hangs during Boot.
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Problem: The machine hangs during boot right after the "8390..." or
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"WD...." message. Removing the NE2000 fixes the problem.
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Solution: Change your NE2000 base address to 0x360 (or 0x340 for
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pl12 or later kernels.)
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Reason: Your NE2000 clone isn't a good enough clone. An active
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NE2000 is a bottomless pit that will trap any driver
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autoprobing in its space. The other ethercard drivers take
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great pain to reset the NE2000 so that it's safe, but some
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clones cannot be reset. Clone chips to watch out for:
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Winbond 83C901. Changing the NE2000 to a less-popular
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address will move it out of the way of other autoprobes,
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allowing your machine to boot.
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Problem: The machine hangs during the SCSI probe at boot.
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Solution: It's the same problem as above, change the
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ethercard's address.
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Problem: The machine hangs during the soundcard probe at boot.
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Solution: No, that's really during the silent SCSI probe, and it's
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the same problem as above.
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[...]
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Paul.
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--
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Paul Gortmaker c/o Microelectronics and Materials Technology Centre.
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Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, GPO Box 2476V, Melbourne 3001,
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Victoria, Australia. Ph (61) 3 660 2601. FAX (61) 3 662 1921.
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e-mail: paul@cain.mmtc.rmit.oz.au rcopg@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au
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From: isc10411@leonis.nus.sg (CHIA CHIEN WEI)
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Subject: Re: [Rev.] startx won't start x..
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Date: 24 Sep 1993 02:50:37 GMT
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James F Hall (ph9991ha@uwrf.edu) wrote:
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: I seem to have forgotten to mention the error messages that I got when
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: asking for help in getting XWindows to run (please note the address
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: has changed.)
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: I am using the 1.03 of SLS release. I followed what docs I could find
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: and wrote a .initrc file, which contains the lines shown in the man
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: page on startx.
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: I did try to answer my question on my own using the docs and faq's,
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: but I am getting lost.
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: FYI - Getting X to run is the next-to-last item on my "to-do" list
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: before I declare my system completely tailored to my needs. Thanks
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: for the help for this newbie. :-)
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Hi
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I am also having a problem while doing startx. I have a ET4000 board
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386DX-33 with 4M ram. I have tried what the install text instructs,
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changing the Xconfig and doing a symbolic link to X.
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When I do a startx, problem occurs and here is what I got:
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PEXExtensionINit: Couldn't open default PEX font file Roman_M
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failed to set default font path '/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,
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/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,
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/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/'
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Fatal server error: Could not open default font 'fixed' because FontPath
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is invalid.
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xinit: No such file or directory (error 2): unexpected signal 13
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I would be very grateful to anyone who can provide any help. Getting
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X up is the only reason why I install linux SLS.
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Thanks in advance
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Nam
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sig under construction
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From: pprice@panix.com (Pauline Price)
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Subject: Re: Anyone Installed Metro-X Motif on SLS 1.03 -> Install sucks!!
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Date: 24 Sep 1993 00:35:48 -0400
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In <CDrrzC.H2C@unix.portal.com> wwright@shell.portal.com (Bradly William Wright) writes:
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>Has anyone been able to get Metro-X Motif to work with
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>SLS 1.03? Linux Systems Laboratory claims that it will work
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>with SLS 1.03. When trying to run mwm, I
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>get an error message saying that the system can't exec:
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>libXm.so.1 improper format.
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>Has anyone been able to make it work?
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I got it to work directly out of the install -- no problems. Of course I
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got X to run with tab - or whatever the default window manager was before
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I changed it to mwm. Did you untar it from the exact directory specified
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in the docs so that everything ends up where it is supposed to?
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--Pauli
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From: cap2624@ultb.isc.rit.edu (C.A. Peskin)
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Subject: Ultrastor & Slackware boot
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Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1993 04:48:25 GMT
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OK, I have just set up a system. I am running a 486DX2 66. It's got a
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Western Digital 1003 MFM controller for the floppys and two MFM drives.
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I also have an UltraStor 34F VLB with a Maxtor 340S. I have finaly
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configured both cards to co-exist in the same machine, and it works
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smootly under MS-DOS. Now, When I boot the new SLS install/boot, it
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recognizes my two MFMs, but says I have no SCSI devices. I though
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Slackware supported Ultrastor? WHat should I do?!
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Thanks
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| Rochester Institute of Technology Chris A. Peskin |
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| Electrical Engineering |
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From: bf703@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Patrick J. Volkerding)
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Subject: Re: Ultrastor & Slackware boot
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Date: 24 Sep 1993 05:27:11 GMT
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Reply-To: bf703@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Patrick J. Volkerding)
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In a previous article, cap2624@ultb.isc.rit.edu (C.A. Peskin) says:
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>OK, I have just set up a system. I am running a 486DX2 66. It's got a
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>Western Digital 1003 MFM controller for the floppys and two MFM drives.
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>I also have an UltraStor 34F VLB with a Maxtor 340S. I have finaly
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>configured both cards to co-exist in the same machine, and it works
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>smootly under MS-DOS. Now, When I boot the new SLS install/boot, it
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>recognizes my two MFMs, but says I have no SCSI devices. I though
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>Slackware supported Ultrastor? WHat should I do?!
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Assuming the 34F is one of the supported UltraStor cards (and I don't
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think all of them are), I'd say to play with any IRQs or other hardware
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settings you can change. You might, for instance, want to temporarily
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pull the MFM controller and see if that makes any difference.
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--
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Patrick Volkerding
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volkerdi@mhd1.moorhead.msus.edu
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bf703@cleveland.freenet.edu
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin.help,comp.os.linux
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From: gomez@enuxsa.eas.asu.edu (JL Gomez)
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Subject: slackware/smail/uucp don't work!
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Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1993 06:01:49 GMT
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I've upgraded to Slackware 1.03 and have TCP/IP, UUCP, ELM, and SMAIL
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installed.
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This combo of tcp/ip-uucp-smail-elm worked fine under 1.02 of slackware
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for calling my uucp smart host.
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Now under 1.03 of slackware no outgoing mail is sent at all.
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I've read all the FAQ's and changed every occurence of smtp to uucp
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but still no go.
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Thanks for the help!
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gomez@enuxsa.eas.asu.edu
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From: mahmha@crl.com (Mark A. Horton)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
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Subject: Re: [Q] Comments on my configuration of PC please...
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Date: 23 Sep 1993 23:19:15 -0700
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Rusty Carruth (rusty@anasazi.com) wrote:
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: In article <27n1fq$hf4@crl.crl.com> mahmha@crl.com (Mark A. Horton) writes:
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: >Taek-Soo Kim (tkim@zonker.ecs.umass.edu) wrote:
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: >: After some survey and recommendation, I decided to purchase
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: >: the following PC. Any comments would be very helpful.
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: >
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: >: 486-DX2 66 (Comtrade)
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: >: EISA
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: >: 16MB RAM
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: >: Adaptec 1742 scsi-2 controller
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: >: 545MB HD
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: >: Orchid Fahrenheit 1280+ or VA (32bit VLB) with 1MB.
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: >: 17" Monitor (MAG or CTX).
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: >
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: > WOW! what a box! How many users are you going to support?
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: I've got a very similar machine, except for the controller is ide
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: and the motherboard is EISA/VESA/ISA (oh, and a different VGA board).
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: Actually, I assume that the above system is ALSO VESA since the
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: quoted SVGA board is "(32bit VLB)" :-)
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: Anyway, I'm the only user, and its WONDERFUL ;-)
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: >: As you can see, I have not fixed the monitor and the video card.
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: Don't let anybody talk you down from your 17" monitor, that's what
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: I've got and its GREAT.
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: >: Any suggestion is welcome.
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: >
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: > Get a bigger SCSI disk -- prices being what they are, you can
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: > pick up a Toshiba 1.2GB 9ms. SCSI-2 drive for around $900. (us)
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: > it's worth spending a little more from the price of the 545 MB
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: > drive to get more storage. And it looks like you're sparing no
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: > expense in setting up a killer system!
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: I'd agree completely. My only "real" sorrow with my system is that I did
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: not get a bigger drive - mine is ALREADy completely full...
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: >: I plan to attach scsi tape drive in the future, any recommendation
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: >: on this would also be appreciated.
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: >
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: > ... I am STILL trying to figure
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: > out where they put all that data on those tiny little tapes!
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: They use maxwell's daemon ;-) ;-)
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ARF! ARF! (gotme!) ;-)
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BTW - my dog's name is Rusty!
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73, Mark
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: Rusty
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: 73 de Rusty Carruth, N7IKQ P.O. Box 27001, Tempe, AZ 85285
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: (602) 870-3330 @'s: rusty@anasazi.com or rusty@descomp.com
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: !'s:{ncar!noao!asuvax,mcdphx}!anasaz!rusty ^^^^broken!!!^^^^
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: The Phoenix Linux Users Group has formed! Email: rusty@anasazi.com
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Mark A. Horton | Email: mah@ka4ybr.com (soon)
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Mark Horton Associates | Voice: +1 (404) 371 0291 (office)
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Strategic Planning | Fax: +1 (404) 371 0291 (office)
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"We may note that, for the purposes of these experiments, the symbol
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"=" has the meaning "may be confused with."
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- Anon.
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.msdos,comp.os.msdos.misc
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From: houston@norton.geog.mcgill.ca (Lawrence Houston)
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Subject: Re: Setting active partition on second hard drive
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Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1993 06:44:56 GMT
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From article <CDu5EL.qG@acsu.buffalo.edu>, by reczek@acsu.buffalo.edu (Tim Reczek):
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> Hi everyone,
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>
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> I have two hard drives: Westen Digital 340MB as master, Maxtor 130MB
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> as slave. I was considering using the 130MB dive to run linux on while
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> leaving the 340MB drive solely DOS.
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>
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> Question: Can I make the linux partion on the 2nd drive the active partition?
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>
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> I tried to do this with fdisk (with both drives having DOS partitions) and
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> it said that only partions on the first drive can be made active.
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There are only few of the "fancier" Boot Managers which allow booting from
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Active Partitions on a Second Hard Drive (I do not believe Linux's fdisk
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has the potential). What I have successfully done on my system (with its two
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SCSI Hard Drives), is install Linux (Slackware 1.0.3) on the second drive
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(leaving the DOS and Interactive Partitions on the first drive untouched)!
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I am restricted to booting from the LILO Boot disk which Slackware's
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Setup Program generated for me. Sounds like your's are IDE Drives, I do not
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know if the same will work (but we are planning to attempt the same thing
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on an IDE based based machine next week).
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> Does this mean that I am unable to run linux on the 130MB drive because
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> I can't make it the active partion (short of physically swapping the drives).
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>
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> Admittedly I haven't delved much into linux, so I don't even know if this
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> makes a difference. But if I have to have the linux partition on the first
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> drive (the 340MB), I'll have to backup and repartion the whole thing (yuck!).
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> I'd really prefer to keep my O.S's on separate drives if possible.
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>
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> Any info is appreciated.
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If you try the LILO Boot Disk "trick" can you let me know your results. We are
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planning to do the same with a 210 Meg WD and a 200 Meg Maxtor (both IDE, the
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Maxtor will be the slave, DOS is already on the WD)?
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> Thanks,
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>
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> Tim
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Lawrence Houston,
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McGill University.
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From: mahmha@crl.com (Mark A. Horton)
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Subject: Re: Minicomm not working. Please help.
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Date: 22 Sep 1993 21:51:01 -0700
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levinson@vax.sonoma.edu wrote:
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: I have just ftp'd the source for MINICOM off of sunsite.unc.edu.
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: I have linux .99pl12 and all the up to date libraries and compiler.
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: After I make all, and try to run the program, I get the following error
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: message:
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: Segmentation fault (core dumped)
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If you ran it without installing it, results will be unpredictable
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since the headers tell it where to find stuff. It probably went
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after runscript (in usr/local/bin by default or keyserv (in usr/
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local/etc and came up empty-handed.
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: What does this mean? I checked the config.h and makefile to make sure
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: everything was set properly for Linux.
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: Also I noticed that the make install places the files in /usr/local/bin. I
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: don't have a usr/local/bin, just a usr/bin. Should I just make it a symlink to
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: usr/bin?
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NO! go ahead and create a /usr/local/bin as well as a /usr/local/lib
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and a /usr/local/etc if you don't already have them! You're gonna
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need 'em in the future anyhow, and it'll make life a lot easier to
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have them around. Also, from an aesthertics point of view, it
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is nicer to keep application stuff away from systems stuff - upgrades
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then become far less annoying. ;-)
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Hope this explains some things. - Mark
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: Any help would be appreaciated.
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: --
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: Eric Levinson
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: rcisnet2!root@moon.nbn.com | Home computer (UUCP)
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: levinson@vax.sonoma.edu | Vax
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: I can also be reached on my BBS system, Color Galaxy Milky Way (415) 883-0696
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Mark A. Horton | Email: mah@ka4ybr.com (soon)
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Mark Horton Associates | Voice: +1 (404) 371 0291 (office)
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Strategic Planning | Fax: +1 (404) 371 0291 (office)
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Performance Tuning | Data: +1 (404) 378 7046 (Linux bbs)
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"The opionions expressed here | Snail: P.O.Box 747, Decatur, GA US 30031-0747
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DO represent those of myself." | ICBM: 33 45 N / 084 16 W
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| Cruise: 33 45 30 N / 084 16 50 W
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"We may note that, for the purposes of these experiments, the symbol
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"=" has the meaning "may be confused with."
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- Anon.
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