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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: Sun, 3 Oct 93 22:13:07 EDT
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Subject: Linux-Activists Digest #283
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Linux-Activists Digest #283, Volume #6 Sun, 3 Oct 93 22:13:07 EDT
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Contents:
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Re: LILO Default to MSDOS? (Warrior Of Darkness)
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Re: How can one switch between DOS and LINUX? (David Barr)
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Re: Oakdriver for X (Benny Holmgren)
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Telnet hangs FIXED! (Brett Michaels)
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compile problem? trivia.. (Jeff Stern)
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Install Slackware Problem. (Chan Chi Chiu)
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Re: compile problem? trivia.. (JEFF EPLER)
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Brauche Hilfe zu p2c / Linux SLS 1.02 (mookie@nostaki.toppoint.de)
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Re: SoftLanding Message (Xavier Gachon)
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Re: Forward: QIC-80 (Dave Burgess)
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Re: Linux Where, Space? (Hasan Diwan)
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Re: Windows NT, Linux and DOS all together? (Mark A. Davis)
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Re: HARDWARE: Mitsumi LU005S CD-ROM anyone? (Walter Doerr)
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Re: Install Slackware Problem. (Aron Bonar)
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Re: Windows NT, Linux and DOS all together? (Aron Bonar)
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Re: Busmice (Jerome Lacroix)
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Re: compile problem? trivia.. (rich@mulvey.com)
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Re: Oakdriver for X (Steve Goldman)
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precompiled ext2 fs progs v0.3c released (Cameron L. Spitzer)
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Re: SoftLanding Message (Ideas for Brainstorming)
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Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1993 16:26:18 CET
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From: Warrior Of Darkness <K2002E1@ALIJKU11.BITNET>
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Subject: Re: LILO Default to MSDOS?
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Greetings,
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I would also like to do what is needed to setup LILO to boot DOS by default,
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since my system is also used by DOS *puke* users who would prefer booting
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straight DOS without having to specify the OS explicitly on bootup. So if there
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is a possibility to do this, please post it here!
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Thx,
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DrAkHaI
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From: davidb@stein3.u.washington.edu (David Barr)
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Subject: Re: How can one switch between DOS and LINUX?
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Date: 3 Oct 1993 17:05:16 GMT
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q00023@TIGGER.STCLOUD.MSUS.EDU writes:
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>Dear everybody,
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>I would like to know how one can switch from DOS to LINUX at
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>different time. Like if I want to use DOS for one thing, later on I
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>want to use Linux. Do I have to reboot the computer and insert the
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>boot disk to do that? Please help me on that.
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>New to Linux,
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>Gabriel
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No, you can use LILO to rewrite the boot sector on your hard drive
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with a program that is run at boot time and lets you choose which
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partition to boot off of. LILO and it's docs are included with SLS.
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David
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From: bigfoot@astrakan.hgs.se (Benny Holmgren)
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Subject: Re: Oakdriver for X
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Date: 3 Oct 1993 17:33:00 GMT
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Reply-To: bigfoot@astrakan.hgs.se
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In article 28dvmdINNpam@ford.ee.up.ac.za, nthirion@rkw-risc.cs.up.ac.za (OPV 5-51 - THE ORANGE FARM) writes:
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>Hello Linuxers
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>
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>I am looking for a oakdriver so that i can run X in color. Let me state it
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>this way, I have looked for one but could not find one and now I am
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>asking you if you have found one or maybe if you come across one if you
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>could send it to me.
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>
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>Thank you very much. 8-)
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>
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I'm running X in colour with an OAK videoboard. Found an Xfree386 that
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had been hacked to support it somewhere but I can't remember where.
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If you're interested i can send you the binary (dont have any sources).
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/ Benny
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From: brettm@access.digex.net (Brett Michaels)
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Subject: Telnet hangs FIXED!
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Date: 3 Oct 1993 14:10:19 -0400
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Telnet is fixed for me under SLIP. Header compression needs to be turned
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off. It would be nice to have this in DIP/ifconfig :).
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Many Thanks to all those who send me mail!
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From: jstern@aris.ss.uci.edu (Jeff Stern)
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Subject: compile problem? trivia..
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Date: 3 Oct 93 18:30:03 GMT
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main(v,c)char**c;{for(v[c++]="Hello, world!\n)";
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(!!c)[*c]&&(v--||--c&&execlp(*c,*c,c[!!c]+!!c,!c));
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**c=!c)write(!!*c,*c,!!**c);}
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=====
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FYI: Anyone want to try compiling this on Linux0.99.12 with gcc 2.4.5?
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It only gets segmentation faults, but I know it works fine on other
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machines (decmips, for instance). When I call the input file "hello.c"
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and type "gcc hello.c -o hello", the problems are twofold:
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1) First, if you just try to execute the executable (which has
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rwx permissions in all fields) it says "hello: command not found"
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so you have to say: ./hello. Isn't this kind of disadvantageous?
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2) Secondly, even when you type ./hello, you get:
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HSegmentation fault (core dumped)
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which looks like it started to print this out, and then had problems.
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Comments, anyone?
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===========================================================================
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Jeff Stern <jstern@aris.ss.uci.edu>
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"Timex Sinclair UNIX.. coming soon to a dealer near you."
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===========================================================================
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From: ccchan@cs.cuhk.hk (Chan Chi Chiu)
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Subject: Install Slackware Problem.
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Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1993 04:40:00 GMT
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I've tried to install slackware but failed, here's detail.
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I've used fdisk in Linux to define Linux Native, Swap partition, then
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tried 'setup'.
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After a lot of questions, it seems that it starts copying files, but I
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always see 'Not enough spaces', 'Directory not exist' something like
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that.
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I don't know whether the problem comes from formatting harddisk in the
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setup process, as it seems that an error messages appear in the process.
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Can anyone tell me what I should do?
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thanks in advance.
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cheers,
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Charles Chan
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(ccchan@cs.cuhk.hk)
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From: jepler@herbie.unl.edu (JEFF EPLER)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.lang.c.misc
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Subject: Re: compile problem? trivia..
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Date: 3 Oct 1993 19:32:06 GMT
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Please do not use the comp.os.linux group -- It is scheduled to go
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away soon.
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jstern@aris.ss.uci.edu (Jeff Stern) writes:
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>=====
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>main(v,c)char**c;{for(v[c++]="Hello, world!\n)";
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>(!!c)[*c]&&(v--||--c&&execlp(*c,*c,c[!!c]+!!c,!c));
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>**c=!c)write(!!*c,*c,!!**c);}
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>=====
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>FYI: Anyone want to try compiling this on Linux0.99.12 with gcc 2.4.5?
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>It only gets segmentation faults, but I know it works fine on other
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>machines (decmips, for instance). When I call the input file "hello.c"
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>and type "gcc hello.c -o hello", the problems are twofold:
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>1) First, if you just try to execute the executable (which has
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> rwx permissions in all fields) it says "hello: command not found"
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> so you have to say: ./hello. Isn't this kind of disadvantageous?
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This is deliberate: It is a dos-ism to include the current directory
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in the path searched for executable files. There was a recent thread
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about this (misplaced) in some col group -- The issue is probably
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addressed in the FAQs of comp.unix.questions and/or comp.unix.shells
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>2) Secondly, even when you type ./hello, you get:
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>HSegmentation fault (core dumped)
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> which looks like it started to print this out, and then had problems.
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This can be compiled by
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gcc -fwritable-strings -o foo foo.c
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I didn't try to read the obfuscated code, but this appears to indicate
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that the program tried to write to the string "Hello, world!" which
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can apparently be forbidden. (By the ANSI standard? Or is
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-fwritable-strings needed to make GCC ansi-compliant? I don't know.)
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Please note that the question was originally asked about Linux, and I
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just tested the above on a sunOS with 2.4.5 GCC. I doubt that I've
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made a fool of myself in any signifigant manner, however. gcc without
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the -fwritable-strings on the sun failed just like it's supposed to
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under Linux.
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On the MIPS did you use GCC? The same version of GCC? Or did you use
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the vendor's cc?
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Followups to comp.lang.c -- This isn't really too appropriate to a
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comp.os.linux group.
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From: mookie@nostaki.toppoint.de
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Subject: Brauche Hilfe zu p2c / Linux SLS 1.02
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Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1993 05:04:10 GMT
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Hi !
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Kann mir mal jemand einige kommentierte Programme mailen, die per
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p2c uebersetzbar sind ? (am Besten mit 'ner Zeile, wie man
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p2c und danach den Gnu aufzurufen hat...)
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Thanks, Andy Pohl
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[mookie@nostaki.toppoint.de]
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From: shagshag@shagshag.frmug.fr.net (Xavier Gachon)
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Subject: Re: SoftLanding Message
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Date: 3 Oct 1993 18:30:13 +0100
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Brett Michaels (brettm@access.digex.net) wrote:
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: Anyone know how to get rid of the softlanding message that appears just
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: before the login prompt?
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modify your /etc/issue
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... one more but this respons help me to test my news package.
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--
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shagshag@shagshag.frmug.fr.net shagshag:(1).40.30.04.68
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login : new
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nuucp : no password ouverture d'un compte
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(ACTUELMENT EN TRAVAUX donc pas 24h/24, plutot 10h/24 )
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From: burgess@hrd769.brooks.af.mil (Dave Burgess)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
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Subject: Re: Forward: QIC-80
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Date: 3 Oct 1993 15:51:41 -0500
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By the way, about two weeks ago, there was an announcement for a
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QIC-40/80 device driver that would let DOS back up the 386BSD partition
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using an image backup format. I have just used it to back my drive up,
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and I am please to say that version 1.1 (which is the most recent
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version) works at least as well as advertised.
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While this does not get a native *BSD driver for the tapes written, it
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does allow us to at leat back up the hard drive while we get it going.
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The program is available from ftp.uni-duisberg.de (I think). I have put
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version 1.1 up for anonymous FTP here in the pub directory. It is
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called rawdsk11.zip and is a DOS zip file.
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--
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======
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TSgt Dave Burgess
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NCOIC AL/Management Information Systems Office
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Brooks AFB, TX
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From: diwan@delphi.com (Hasan Diwan)
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Subject: Re: Linux Where, Space?
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Date: 3 Oct 1993 20:59:46 GMT
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Kerry J. Parson > Hasan Diwan Re: Linux Where, Space
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>1. This newsgroup is going away. Use one of
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comp.os.linux.help/announce/admin/misc/development.<
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Thank you for this information.
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>2. In c.o.l.help (at least), read the regularly posted article entitled
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(something like) READ THIS BEFORE POSTING. It will either tell you what
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you want to know, or tell you how to find out.<
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I've done that.
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--+Hasan+--
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Fido: 1:109/349.9000
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Internet: diwan@delphi.com
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72704.1640@compuserve.com
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hasan_diwan@permanet.org
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Prodigy: nrsm79b (Beta-testing Mail Manager)
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From: mark@taylor.uucp (Mark A. Davis)
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Subject: Re: Windows NT, Linux and DOS all together?
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Date: Fri, 01 Oct 1993 20:51:33 GMT
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snail@lsl.co.uk writes:
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>Anyone know if you can or cannot have MSDOS/DRDOS, Windows NT and Linux all
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>on one PC?
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Why? Wait a few and you will be able to run Unix with Linux, MS-"DOS" under
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dosemu (or a separate partition), & MS-"Windows" under WINE (or under the
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MS-"DOS" partition). NT has almost 0 software which isn't just MS-"Windows"
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software....
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/--------------------------------------------------------------------------\
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| Mark A. Davis | Lake Taylor Hospital | Norfolk, VA (804)-461-5001x431 |
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| Sys.Administrator| Computer Services | mark@taylor.wyvern.com .uucp |
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From: hikaru@infodn.rmi.de (Walter Doerr)
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Subject: Re: HARDWARE: Mitsumi LU005S CD-ROM anyone?
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Date: 3 Oct 93 17:44:25 GMT
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grant@nepahwin.cs.laurentian.ca (Grant R. Guenther) writes:
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[...]
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|Watch out, though, the patches on tsx-11 DO NOT support the LU005S. The
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|code in pl13 does. I'm using pl10, so I used the kernel patches from
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|mcd-0.3 and modified them for the mcd.c and mcd.h that are in the pl13
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|source kit.
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What about support for the new Mitsumi FX001 doublespeed drive?
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Is the FX001 compatible to the LU005?
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What significance has the letter "S" anyway? Is this some kind of version
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"number" that is relevant (to the kernel software perhaps)?
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-Walter
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--
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Walter Doerr =*= hikaru@infodn.rmi.de =*= FAX: +49 2421 66910
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"The poor folks who only have 100MBytes of RAM five years
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from now may not be able to buffer a 16MB packet, but that's their
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tough luck." (John Gilmore on Mon, 10 Oct 88 18:10:21 PDT)
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From: aron@tikal.ced.berkeley.edu (Aron Bonar)
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Subject: Re: Install Slackware Problem.
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Date: 3 Oct 1993 23:27:29 GMT
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In article <CE96Ao.6DH@sparc15.cs.cuhk.hk>, ccchan@cs.cuhk.hk (Chan Chi Chiu) writes:
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|>
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|> I've tried to install slackware but failed, here's detail.
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|>
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|> I've used fdisk in Linux to define Linux Native, Swap partition, then
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|> tried 'setup'.
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|> After a lot of questions, it seems that it starts copying files, but I
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|> always see 'Not enough spaces', 'Directory not exist' something like
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|> that.
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|> I don't know whether the problem comes from formatting harddisk in the
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|> setup process, as it seems that an error messages appear in the process.
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|>
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|> Can anyone tell me what I should do?
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|>
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First off...you have to format your swap partition before you run "setup".
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Use "mkswap" or something of that nature. It tells you on the screen what
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you use. Then run "setup"... and remember you have to have about 90 megs
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of space for the complete install.
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From: aron@tikal.ced.berkeley.edu (Aron Bonar)
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Subject: Re: Windows NT, Linux and DOS all together?
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Date: 3 Oct 1993 23:32:09 GMT
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In article <1993Oct01.205133.28852@taylor.uucp>, mark@taylor.uucp (Mark A. Davis) writes:
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|> snail@lsl.co.uk writes:
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|>
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|> >Anyone know if you can or cannot have MSDOS/DRDOS, Windows NT and Linux all
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|> >on one PC?
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|>
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You can use LILO to boot different partitions of your hard drive that have
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different OS's on them. OS/2 Boot manager also works well. (Its the only part
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of OS/2 that I kept. )
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From: ah379@Freenet.carleton.ca (Jerome Lacroix)
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Subject: Re: Busmice
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Reply-To: ah379@Freenet.carleton.ca (Jerome Lacroix)
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Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1993 00:29:51 GMT
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In a previous article, ag794@Freenet.carleton.ca (Tony Cifelli) says:
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>Has anyone got the busmouse that comes with the ATI Graphics Ultra Plus
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>(NOT the Pro), to work with X on Linux? It uses IRQ2. This can be
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>changed if necessary. Right now the mouse pointer sits in the middle
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>of the screen, and is locked up.
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>Once this is figured out, I will publish my Xconfig and the magic
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>formula to make this work for all others in the same predicament.
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>
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>regards,
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>Tony.
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>--
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>[ Tony Cifelli, B.C.S., M.Math. ag794@freenet.carleton.ca ]
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>[ President Bus: 613-723-7218 ]
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>[ cifelli systems & software inc. Fax: 613-723-7472 ]
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>[ 6 Gurdwara Rd. Suite 200 - Nepean, Ontario - K2E 8A3 - CANADA ]
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>
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From what I encountered with my Logitech mouse on a Microsoft Inport, the
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Linux kernel expects the bus mouse to be configured for IRQ 5 by default.
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You seem to have two choices. Switch your mouse IRQ to 5, or as in my
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situation, modify the file busmouse.h in the /linux/kernel/char_drv
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directory to reflect your current IRQ and recompile the kernel. It worked
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for me. Good Luck!
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Jerome Lacroix
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ah379@freenet.carleton.ca
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From: rich@mulvey.com
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Subject: Re: compile problem? trivia..
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Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1993 00:28:32 GMT
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Jeff Stern (jstern@aris.ss.uci.edu) wrote:
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: =====
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: main(v,c)char**c;{for(v[c++]="Hello, world!\n)";
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: (!!c)[*c]&&(v--||--c&&execlp(*c,*c,c[!!c]+!!c,!c));
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: **c=!c)write(!!*c,*c,!!**c);}
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: =====
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: FYI: Anyone want to try compiling this on Linux0.99.12 with gcc 2.4.5?
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: It only gets segmentation faults, but I know it works fine on other
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: machines (decmips, for instance). When I call the input file "hello.c"
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: and type "gcc hello.c -o hello", the problems are twofold:
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: 1) First, if you just try to execute the executable (which has
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: rwx permissions in all fields) it says "hello: command not found"
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: so you have to say: ./hello. Isn't this kind of disadvantageous?
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It hasn't got the *slightest* thing to do with GCC or the program. You
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have to use ./ because . isn't in your current path. This is usually
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considered to be a security feature.
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: 2) Secondly, even when you type ./hello, you get:
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: HSegmentation fault (core dumped)
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: which looks like it started to print this out, and then had problems.
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Secondly, the code, as you posted it, cannot compile under *any*
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correct C compiler. Where is your declaration/definition for v? Please
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post an accurate copy. Though it appears that you've taken an example
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from the obsfucated C contest.
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- Rich
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--
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Rich Mulvey Amateur Radio: N2VDS Rochester, NY
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rich@mulvey.com "Ignorance should be painful."
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From: sgoldman@encore.com (Steve Goldman)
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Subject: Re: Oakdriver for X
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Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1993 01:18:56 GMT
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I contributed sources that will be included with Xfree86 2.0
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for supporting oak 67/77 chipsets. Until that is public you can get
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my latest version of the server (and sources) via anonymous ftp.
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Compressed binaries of the oak driver for linux on the machine
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ns.encore.com and the files are in the directory /pub/development/languages/C
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and should be obvious. The sources and a readme history are there also.
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Four people, that I know of, have gotten copies of it. One user is reporting
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problems which I haven't looked into yet. The others haven't reported problems
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other than one report of not being able to get a properly sized/positioned
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color 800x600 screen. I've been using it pretty extensively and haven't
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had any problems. I'm interested in other users reports.
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One of the problems that the first user reported is that the server doesn't
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get the clocks correctly. I've noticed that startup can be touchy and if
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there is some other activity on the machine that the clocks come out wrong.
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I've avoided this by adding a clocks line to my Xconfig. The clocks you can
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expect for an OTI-67/77 are:
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25 28 65 45 14 18 40 36
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Steve Goldman, Encore Computer Corp (919) 481-3730
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901 Kildaire Farm Rd., bldg D Cary, NC 27511 USA
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internet: sgoldman@encore.com
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help.misc,comp.os.linux
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From: cls@truffula.sj.ca.us (Cameron L. Spitzer)
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Subject: precompiled ext2 fs progs v0.3c released
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Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1993 23:03:56 GMT
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You'll know your mke2fs is old if it complains:
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>"Unable to find a block for ...".
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or you might have the older "Cannot allocate i-node..." problem.
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In 28kbtk$b4s@samba.oit.unc.edu (in c.o.l.announce), Remy Card announced:
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> The new release of the second extended file system support programs
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>[...] should soon be moved to [sunsite.unc.edu:]
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/pub/Linux/system/Filesystems/ext2.
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To help out folks installing Linux for the first time, I grabbed
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e2fsprogs-0.3c.tar.gz from sunsite, compiled it (with gcc-2.4.5
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and libc-4.4.1), and made a little floppy using the new binaries.
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Then I copied the new binaries, man-pages, and the README onto it.
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You may want to use this mke2fs and e2fsck instead of the older ones
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which are probably in the SLS or MCC you grabbed a week or more ago.
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I'm packing the files two ways. There's a gzipped tar
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and a gzipped 360KB image of the little floppy.
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If you don't have room to "untar" the tar.gz,
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you can gunzip the little floppy onto a floppy (any size :-),
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mount -t ext2 it in your second floppy drive,
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and execute mke2fs directly from there. This may be easier and
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safer than trying to make room on your ramdisk or boot/root floppy.
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After fdisk, you might make a 100 MB filesystem on partition 2 this way:
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mkdir /zlor
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mount -t ext2 /dev/fd1h360 /zlor
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/zlor/mke2fs -tv /dev/hda2 100000
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umount /zlor
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The files are
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e2bin3c.tgz (the gzipped tarfile) and
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e2bin3c.egz (the gzipped file system image)
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in /pub/Linux/Incoming on sunsite and will move to
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system/Filesystems/ext2 soon.
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These files replace e2bbin.tgz and e2bbinfs.gz.
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LSM entry follows.
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Cameron in San Jose California
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Begin2
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Title = The ext 2 fs support programs, precompiled
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Version = 0.3c
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Desc1 = dirdump displays a directory structure
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Desc2 = e2fsck checks a file system consistency
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Desc3 = mke2fs creates a file system
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Desc4 = mklost+found re-creates the directory lost+found
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Desc5 = tune2fs changes the parameters of a file system
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Desc6 = The kit of 5 tools are compiled and packed 2 ways
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Desc7 = for use during initial installs when compiler
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Desc8 = is not yet available.
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Desc9 = e2bin3c.tgz is a gzipped tarfile with executables and manpages.
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Desc9 = e2bin3c.egz is a gzipped 360K ext2 file system image.
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Desc10 = with the same files, for use with 2nd floppy drive etc.
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Author = Remy Card
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AuthorEmail = card@masi.ibp.fr
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Maintainer = Cameron Spitzer
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MaintEmail = cls@truffula.sj.ca.us
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Site1 = sunsite.unc.edu
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Path1 = /pub/Linux/system/Filesystems/ext2
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File1 = e2bin3c.egz
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FileSize3 = 33262 bytes
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File1 = e2bin3c.tgz
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FileSize3 = 32290 bytes
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Required1 = should work with GCC or SLS boot/root diskette
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Required2 = e2bin3c.egz requires 2nd floppy drive
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CopyPolicy1 = Freely Restributable, Copyright by Remy Card
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Keywords = Filesystem e2fs efs2 ext2 install precompiled
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Entered = 03OCT93
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EnteredBy = Cameron Spitzer
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CheckedEmail = cls@truffula.sj.ca.us
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End
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From: idea@dynamic.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Ideas for Brainstorming)
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Subject: Re: SoftLanding Message
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Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1993 02:08:31 GMT
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My system:
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485-50
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ATI Ultra Pro 2 meg
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PAS 16 sound card
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32 meg of RAM
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Adaptec 1542B
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Segate 4385N 315 meg
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Quantum 200S 200 meg
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Quantum 120S 120 meg
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Sony 541 CD-ROM
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My system is mainly used as a DOS/Windows system. I am trying to set up
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the Quantum 120 for a Linux system. When I boot the Linux A1 disk it ID's
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all 3 drives, the CD and sound card correctly. However when I try to issue
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the command "fdisk /dev/sdc" it tells me that it cannot open that device.
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From the docs I assume that the system will support more than 2 SCSI drives.
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ie:
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Hard drive device names are:
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/dev/hda First IDE drive
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/dev/hdb Second IDE drive
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/dev/sda First SCSI drive
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/dev/sdb Second SCSI drive
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...and so on.
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Where am I going wrong? I am able to partition the 3rd drive for DOS
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using Adaptec's software. All of the SCSI ID's are set correctly.
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Everything appears to be correct with the exception that to Linux the
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3rd drive does not exist.
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Please Email response to idea@dynamic.heart.rri.uwo.ca
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Thank You,
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Harvey
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--
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=============================================================
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Harvey MacKenzie idea@dynamic.heart.rri.uwo.ca
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=============================================================
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|
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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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