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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: Mon, 27 Sep 93 17:13:11 EDT
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Subject: Linux-Activists Digest #267
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Linux-Activists Digest #267, Volume #6 Mon, 27 Sep 93 17:13:11 EDT
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Contents:
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PPP for Linux (Charles B. Martin)
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Re: School Science Club may distribute Linux...interested? (goon)
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Re: Word Processor for Linux (lout) (Jeffrey Wescott '95)
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Re: 1024x768 => Cirrus 5422 freaks out (Dave Clemans)
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Re: El cheapo CD with Linux (Eberhard Moenkeberg)
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Re: School Science Club may distribute Linux...interested? (Mitchell N. Perilstein)
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Re: Linux won't boot from HD (HELP !!) (Dhaliwal Bikram Singh)
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X8514 server (Bao Chau Ha)
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Library 4.4.2 (Bao Chau Ha)
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Re: Word Processor for Linux (lout) (khockenb@vaxc.stevens-tech.edu)
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Re: The smallest Linux? (Donley P'Simer)
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token ring driver wanted (Brian Henry)
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Hard sector floppies. (Stu Donaldson)
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lpc couldn't start lpd daemon (Ransel Yoho)
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WARNING: EXPO computers won't work with TCP/IP, Linux,...
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**WARNING: EXPO computers will NOT work with Linux, TCP/IP,...
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TAMU release comments? (John E. Stump)
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DOS/LINUX partitions do not agree (Alexander Mesin)
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From: cbmartin@whale.st.usm.edu (Charles B. Martin)
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Subject: PPP for Linux
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Date: 27 Sep 1993 15:28:06 GMT
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I am going to be working on a project soon that will require the use of PPP.
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I have asked why not SLIP (since it is built into the Linux kernel, and from
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what I understand, works rather nicely), but it has already been decreed that
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PPP will be used. I am wondering if anyone can tell me if anyone has
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successfully ported PPP to Linux, and if they did, does it require kernel
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hacking. I have gathered some sources for PPP, but the closest I have found
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is Berkeley BSD 4.3 code that requires kernel hacking to get it running. I
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do not look forward to hacking the kernel at all. That is best left to people
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who know what they are doing. I would really appreciate any info anyone
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can spare.
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Thank you.
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Chuck Martin
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<cbmartin@whale.st.usm.edu>
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Crossposted-To: gnu.misc.discuss
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From: quanstro@zeta.eecs.nwu.edu (goon)
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Subject: Re: School Science Club may distribute Linux...interested?
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Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1993 16:31:26 GMT
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In article <CDzHtH.F0o@acsu.buffalo.edu> ferrick@acsu.buffalo.edu (Patrick K. Ferrick) writes:
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might appeal to others in my situation. Incidentally, though my initial
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reaction to all the legal furor was to withdraw my offer, I am starting to
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wonder if it really _is_ forbidden under the GPL. I'm in the process of
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reading it, and if we can go ahead with our plans we probably will.
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pat
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You're renting the disks and not the software, right. So what's the
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problem?
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From: wescott@spectrum.cs.bucknell.edu (Jeffrey Wescott '95)
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Subject: Re: Word Processor for Linux (lout)
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Date: 27 Sep 1993 15:46:52 GMT
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Reply-To: wescott@spectrum.cs.bucknell.edu
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>>>>> On Sat, 25 Sep 1993 23:20:02 GMT, las@whome.uucp (Laszlo Herczeg) said:
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> For really small jobs, I am not using the emacs-like editor called
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> Joe which is absolutely wonderful, and does things like underlining
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> and centering. It suffices for quick jobs, and has support for 7-bit
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> and 8-bit characters.
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Emacs-like!?!? Hahahah! Maybe I am wrong, but isn't JOE ==> "Joe's
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Own Editor" which is distributed w/ SLS? If so, it is HARDLY like
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Emacs and more closely resembles Wordstar for DOS. Sorry, I am just a
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big Emacs fan.
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--
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_/_/_/_/_/ _/ _/ wescott@bucknell.edu
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_/ _/ _/ Jeffrey Wescott (1995)
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_/ _/ _/ Computer Science & Engineering
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_/ _/ _/ _/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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_/ _/ _/_/ _/_/ "Ask not what your country can do for you ...
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_/_/_/ _/ _/ Ask how much it will cost!" -- Me
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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From: dclemans@news.wv.mentorg.com (Dave Clemans)
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Subject: Re: 1024x768 => Cirrus 5422 freaks out
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Date: 27 Sep 1993 16:11:51 GMT
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Reply-To: dave_clemans@mentorg.com
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Jesper Honig Spring (spring@diku.dk) wrote:
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: When configuring X for 1024x768 on my CL GD5422 the
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: VGA-card freaks out in the sence that everything is
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: unreadable. I haven't got the same problems in 800x
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: 600.
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: Can anyone help me?
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Is the display you are seeing vertically stable, but looks like it has
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three or so tiny copies of the screen horizontally? That's what I'm
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getting on an IBM PS/1 with a CLGD5426. And again 800x600 words fine
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for me. And 1024x768 definitely works fine in Windows.
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I'm beginning to wonder if the XFree86 cirrus driver is really complete.
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That is, if it needs to set some of the chip mode registers slightly
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differently than it does now; possibly a horizontal clock divisor???
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I've been trying to figure out how Windows gets 1024x768 out of the
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same hardware, and I did find something that looks interesting, but
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I may be reading too much into it. In the system.ini file, there's
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a section at the bottom labeled "CLVGA". For 1024x768, there are
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lines "Mode=96" and "Dots Per Inch=120". (or something like that).
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For smaller resolutions, there's something like "Mode=95" and
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"Dots Per Inch=96".
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dgc
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From: emoenke@gwdu03.gwdg.de (Eberhard Moenkeberg)
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Subject: Re: El cheapo CD with Linux
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Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1993 16:23:15 GMT
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Tony Porczyk (tporczyk@novell.com) wrote:
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> I just saw a rather slow CD that nevertheless supported Kodak
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> multi-session format. It was called Panasonic CR 562. I wonder if
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> anyone used it successfully with Linux?
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What do you mean: "rather slow"?
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It is one of the fastest CDROM drives on the market. It is said to
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be able to read with "double speed", and IT DOES.
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My Linux-driver sbpcd0.4.tar.gz reads from that Matsushita / Kotobuki /
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Panasonic / CreativeLabs drive (regardless which interface you are
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using - "sound" or "no-sound", "SoundBlaster" or "LaserMate") with a
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rate of 300 kB/sec. Anyone seen something better ??? :-)
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With that drive, that driver and a "special" CDROM (that is one which
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is more than a snapshot of any server) - the YGGDRASIL is best-known
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here - you can build a "CDROM dependent" LINUX installation which
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keeps your mass storage devices almost free - and the transfer
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speed with files on that CD is in the range of IDE harddisk transfer
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times.
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> Any other recommendations (money is an object)?
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Spend your money on that drive and a couple of CDs.
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Greetings ... Eberhard
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Eberhard Moenkeberg FIDO: 2:241/3410.27
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Reinholdstr. 14 Internet: emoenke@gwdg.de
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37083 Goettingen, Germany Voice: ++49-551-704325
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Crossposted-To: gnu.misc.discuss
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From: mitch@clsi.COM (Mitchell N. Perilstein)
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Subject: Re: School Science Club may distribute Linux...interested?
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Date: Mon, 27 Sep 93 15:47:09 GMT
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|>Our high school science club may distribute Linux on floppies as a means of
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|>raising money for projects. What we're thinking of is that instead of buying
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|>the floppies from us, people might be interested in renting the disks (in
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|>order to make copies of them) at a low rate. Something like this:
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|I'm not sure this is legal under the GPL. My understanding of the GPL
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I think it is legal. Section 2 says
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You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy,
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and you may at your option offer warranty protection in exchange
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for a fee.
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If you look in magazines, people sell gnu stuff for big dollars on tape
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and cd. They still have to provide source, though. If they don't
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provide source, section 4 lists alternatives. One is
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b. Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three
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years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your
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cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete
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machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be
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...
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I think the two sections are causing the confusion here.
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---
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Mitchell N. Perilstein | mitch@clsi.com | Ask about s/w patents
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Compass Design Automation, Inc. | 410-992-5700 x225 | and interface copyrights.
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From: a228dhal@cdf.toronto.edu (Dhaliwal Bikram Singh)
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Subject: Re: Linux won't boot from HD (HELP !!)
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Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1993 16:35:35 GMT
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In article <1993Sep27.090158.6855@odin.diku.dk> spring@diku.dk (Jesper Honig Spring) writes:
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>Hello,
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>I've just installed Linux for the first time. When I try to
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>boot Linux from my HD (214 Mb allocated for Linux) the
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>system halts with the following message printed in CGA-mode:
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> "NO ROM BASIC - SYSTEM HALTED"
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>When I try to boot from the boot-up floppy everything seems
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>to work fine - very weird, indeed.
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>Can anyone help me to get rid of this problem.
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>Thanks in advance
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>Please (also) email me.
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>
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The problem is that your PC's BIOS cannot find an operating system
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so it has to revert to an old quirk, boot rom-basic. Rom basic
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was included on the first PC's sold by IBM. You have to install
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Lilo, which I think places it self at the top of the disk where the
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Master Boot Record is (MBR). From there it tells BIOS to boot the
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Kernel or another option that you can specify.
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--
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a228dhal@cdf.toronto.edu
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Bikram Dhaliwal
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(416) 845-4567
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From: habaoch@eng.auburn.edu (Bao Chau Ha)
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Subject: X8514 server
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Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1993 17:02:05 GMT
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What is the most current 8514/A server that works with XFree86 1.3
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in SLS 1.03? I got the x8514scale.tar from sunsite and it is used
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to work with SLS 1.02. Upgrading to SLS 1.03 broke it. I keep
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getting not enough I/O privilige error. The ATI Wonder SVGA server
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works however.
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Thanks
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Bao
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From: habaoch@eng.auburn.edu (Bao Chau Ha)
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Subject: Library 4.4.2
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Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1993 17:05:27 GMT
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Where is the additional library for 4.4.2? The library included
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in SLS 1.03 is 4.4.2, but I could only find 4.4.1 on sunsite and
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tsx-11. I need the libgmon to get AKCL compiled. Could I use
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libgmon in extra-4.4.1.tar.gz instead?
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Thanks
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Bao
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From: khockenb@vaxc.stevens-tech.edu
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Subject: Re: Word Processor for Linux (lout)
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Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1993 19:24:46 GMT
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In article <WESCOTT.93Sep27114652@spectrum.cs.bucknell.edu>, wescott@spectrum.cs.bucknell.edu (Jeffrey Wescott '95) writes:
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>>>>>> On Sat, 25 Sep 1993 23:20:02 GMT, las@whome.uucp (Laszlo Herczeg) said:
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>
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>> For really small jobs, I am not using the emacs-like editor called
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>> Joe which is absolutely wonderful, and does things like underlining
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>> and centering. It suffices for quick jobs, and has support for 7-bit
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>> and 8-bit characters.
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>
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> Emacs-like!?!? Hahahah! Maybe I am wrong, but isn't JOE ==> "Joe's
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> Own Editor" which is distributed w/ SLS? If so, it is HARDLY like
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> Emacs and more closely resembles Wordstar for DOS. Sorry, I am just a
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> big Emacs fan.
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Maybe he meant "jove", which is an emacs-like editor.
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From: donley@cscns.com (Donley P'Simer)
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Subject: Re: The smallest Linux?
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Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1993 19:38:51 GMT
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I was able to install Linux 0.99pl12 SLS 1.03 on a 20MB laptop. I used the
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base installation with prompts and answered no to the stuff I didn't need.
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Basically the system includes everything but Emacs, UUCP, GhostScript, News,
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and the kernel source. The source would be neccessary if you ever wanted
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to update or customize the kernel, but if you've got a friend with the
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full system, they could compile a zImage for you.
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--
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{-| Donley R. P'Simer |-}
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Internet: donley@cscns.com
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CompuServe: 75540,263
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Voice/FAX: 719-535-8955
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Address: 4730 Rusina Road Apt 305
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Colorado Springs, CO. 80907
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From: brianhe@eve.atm.com (Brian Henry)
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Subject: token ring driver wanted
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Date: 27 Sep 1993 12:01:34 -0700
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The title really says it all.
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brianhe@atm.com Brian L. Henry
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Software Engineer, Attachmate Corp., Bellevue WA
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From: stu@mav.com (Stu Donaldson)
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Subject: Hard sector floppies.
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Date: Mon, 27 Sep 93 16:36:51 GMT
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Does anyone know of a way to read hard sectored floppies? I have
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some data on some hard sectored disks, and don't even know what
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the original hardware was. I need to recover this information.
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I don't have a problem modifying low level drivers if necessary,
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but I also don't even know if it's possible with the Pc hardware.
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Thanks...
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-- Stu --
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=======================================================================
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Stu Donaldson "Can't you understand what I'm saying?"
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stu@mav.com "What happened? Did you Fail Telepathy?"
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From: ransel@mcs.kent.edu (Ransel Yoho)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
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Subject: lpc couldn't start lpd daemon
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Date: 27 Sep 1993 20:34:26 GMT
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I'm having trouble with lpr from the linux:.99pl12. The following commands
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show my configuration of lpd and the errors, each command is preceded by [#]:
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[1]$ cat /etc/printcap
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lp|laser|HPlaser in Library:\
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:lp=/dev/ttyS1:sd=/usr/spool/laser:br#9600:\
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:pl#66:pw#96:sh:lf=/usr/adm/lpd-errs:fs#021:fc#0300:
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[2]$ ls -l /usr/spool/laser/*
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-rw-r--r-- 1 root daemon 3 Sep 27 14:11 /usr/spool/laser/lock
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-rw-r--r-- 1 root daemon 0 Sep 24 07:48 /usr/spool/laser/status
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[3]$ grep lp rc rc.local
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rc.local:/etc/lpd &
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[4]$ ps -aux | grep lpd
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root 37 0.0 7.0 68 212 ? S 14:11 0:00 /etc/lpd
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[5]$ ls /bin | lpr -P laser
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[6]$ lpq
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Warning: no daemon present
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Rank Owner Job Files Total Size
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1st ransel 10 (standard input) 629 bytes
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[7]$ ls -l /usr/spool/laser/*
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-rw-rw---- 1 daemon daemon 70 Sep 27 14:54 /usr/spool/laser/cfA010jigger
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-rw-rw---- 1 ransel daemon 629 Sep 27 14:54 /usr/spool/laser/dfA010jigger
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-rw-r--r-- 1 root daemon 4 Sep 27 14:54 /usr/spool/laser/lock
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-rw-r--r-- 1 root daemon 0 Sep 24 07:48 /usr/spool/laser/status
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[8]$ lpc
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lpc> start laser
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laser:
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printing enabled
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lpc: connect: No such file or directory
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couldn't start daemon
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lpc>
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[9]$ ls -l /etc/lpd /usr/bin/lpc /usr/bin/lpr /usr/bin/lpq /usr/etc/lpd
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lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Sep 24 08:45 /etc/lpd -> /usr/etc/lpd
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-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 21508 Aug 12 21:06 /usr/bin/lpc
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-r-sr-sr-x 1 daemon daemon 12328 Aug 12 20:58 /usr/bin/lpq
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-r-sr-sr-x 1 root daemon 14048 Aug 12 20:58 /usr/bin/lpr
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-r-sr-x--- 1 daemon daemon 39696 Aug 12 16:44 /usr/etc/lpd
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TCP/IP stuff on this old 386sx machine works fine, it has a 3C503 etherlink II
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card; telnet, ftp, & rlogin all work fine. The requests get spooled, but
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a daemon does not get spawned to print the file.
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Please advise!!!
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Thanks,
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Ransel (ransel@mcs.kent.edu)
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Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1993 13:50:25 MST
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From: <ASHZJ@ASUACAD.BITNET>
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Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,
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Subject: WARNING: EXPO computers won't work with TCP/IP, Linux,...
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A few netters reported networking problems with EXPO computers. It
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seems that Expo Computers Inc. is not committed to making their computers
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compatible with LINUX, TCP/IP, etc. Here is a summary of my telephone
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conversation with one of their Tech-Support people:
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1. Expo Computers are not guaranteed to work with Linux, TCP/IP,
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NCSA software. The only network software they tested are:
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NOVELL, Windows/NT
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2. Expo computers uses 8-bit SIMM and 8-bit Cache. They will NOT
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exchange 9-bit SIMM and 9-bit Cache for you even if this is
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highly suspected to be causing the problems.
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**NOTE** 8-bit SIMMs are usually used in MACs. Very few 486
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PCs use them.
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3. EXPO computers are designed for the general public ONLY, NOT for
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scientific/computing people.
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4. EXPO Computers Inc. will not do any exchange if the machine is
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not working with TCP/IP, LINUX, NCSA. In other words, they
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will not do any exchange if you are running into problems with
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software which is not tested by their lab.
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If you don't consider the above appropriate, please either email me or
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call Dan Swanson at (800)-288-3243 (Tech Support). I will forward any
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comments from the network community to EXPO Tech and post their response
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later.
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Thank you very much for your support. If you are also having problems
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with an EXPO computer, please send me your name, phone number.
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Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1993 13:52:38 MST
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From: <ASHZJ@ASUACAD.BITNET>
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Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
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Subject: **WARNING: EXPO computers will NOT work with Linux, TCP/IP,...
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A few netters reported networking problems with EXPO computers. It
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seems that Expo Computers Inc. is not committed to making their computers
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compatible with LINUX, TCP/IP, etc. Here is a summary of my telephone
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conversation with one of their Tech-Support people:
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1. Expo Computers are not guaranteed to work with Linux, TCP/IP,
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NCSA software. The only network software they tested are:
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NOVELL, Windows/NT
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2. Expo computers uses 8-bit SIMM and 8-bit Cache. They will NOT
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exchange 9-bit SIMM and 9-bit Cache for you even if this is
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highly suspected to be causing the problems.
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**NOTE** 8-bit SIMMs are usually used in MACs. Very few 486
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PCs use them.
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3. EXPO computers are designed for the general public ONLY, NOT for
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scientific/computing people.
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4. EXPO Computers Inc. will not do any exchange if the machine is
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not working with TCP/IP, LINUX, NCSA. In other words, they
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will not do any exchange if you are running into problems with
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software which is not tested by their lab.
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If you don't consider the above appropriate, please either email me or
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call Dan Swanson at (800)-288-3243 (Tech Support). I will forward any
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comments from the network community to EXPO Tech and post their response
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later.
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Thank you very much for your support. If you are also having problems
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with an EXPO computer, please send me your name, phone number.
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From: jstump@mstu41.intel.com (John E. Stump)
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Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,
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Subject: TAMU release comments?
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Date: 27 Sep 1993 20:53:29 GMT
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Does anyone have any comments about the latest TAMU release (other than
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the author)? How does it compare to SLS and Slackware and MCC?
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Thanks
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john
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--
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--
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john stump (jstump@mstu41.intel.com)
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"Is it too much to ask for perfection?"
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From: am49469@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Alexander Mesin )
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Subject: DOS/LINUX partitions do not agree
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Date: 27 Sep 1993 21:00:51 GMT
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I ran into problems partitioning my drives for linux. I was running
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FDISK from DRDOS 6.0, partitioned 2 drives for DOS, and listed them to
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be sure I had it right. It said the first drive was C, and the second
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drive was D (loical drive). That was all fine, but when I ran FDISK
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for Linux, it said that drives C and D were /dev/hda3 and /dev/hda4,
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respectively. So I figured, "OK, I'll make /dev/hda1 and dev/hda2 as then
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Linux partitions, so I did. When I rebooted, DOS didn't see its partitions (it
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would not boot up to DOS) It seems that DOS thinks partitions 1 and 2 are
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DOS (but according to linux, they are 3 and 4). I got around this by
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making four partitions using the DOS fdisk, and then changing the
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characteristics of /dev/hda3 and /dev/hda4 to Linux partitions. I read that
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this is not advides, so I was wondering if I did something wrong using FDISK
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or something weird is going on. I never read anything on this group
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about DOS partitions "moving" in Linux. Can anyone enlighten me?
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SASHA
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to be added to or deleted from it should be directed, is:
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Internet: Linux-Activists-Request@NEWS-DIGESTS.MIT.EDU
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You can send mail to the entire list (and comp.os.linux) via:
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Internet: Linux-Activists@NEWS-DIGESTS.MIT.EDU
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Linux may be obtained via one of these FTP sites:
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nic.funet.fi pub/OS/Linux
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tsx-11.mit.edu pub/linux
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tupac-amaru.informatik.rwth-aachen.de pub/msdos/replace
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The current version of Linux is 0.99pl9 released on April 23, 1993
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