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From: Digestifier <Linux-Admin-Request@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu>
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To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu
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Reply-To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu
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Date: Fri, 16 Sep 94 00:15:30 EDT
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Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #69
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Linux-Admin Digest #69, Volume #2 Fri, 16 Sep 94 00:15:30 EDT
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Contents:
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SLIP hangups? (Bill Gribble)
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Re: Help!: RC2 Upgrade problems (Alan Cox)
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Re: Price/Performance of Overdrive versus Pentium (Mark A. Horton KA4YBR)
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COF & ELF running under Linux (Gorostidi Pulgar Andres)
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kernel/ftape BUG (Oz Dror)
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PAS 16 problem with CDROM (Luciano Pavarotti)
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UUCP via Ethernet (Thomas Rose)
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Re: PPP is lagging shit protocol ? (Matthew S. Crocker)
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Re: Everyone's MOUNT - WARNING! (Scott Barker)
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Re: *** Why can't Linux access partitions with Linux FDISK? *** (Jeff Kesselman)
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Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!! (Joseph W. DeVincentis)
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Re: Mitsumi IRQ (Mark A. Horton KA4YBR)
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Re: Yggdrasil Install Prob. (Jeff Kesselman)
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Gopher for linux? (Dennis Duffner)
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Mitsumi IRQ (Jake Pusey)
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Re: HELP - printcap for DJ520, NFS, save kernel (Michael James Porter)
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Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!! (Eric J. Schwertfeger)
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From: bgribble@jarthur.cs.hmc.edu (Bill Gribble)
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Subject: SLIP hangups?
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Date: 14 Sep 1994 20:13:27 GMT
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My SLIP connections (via dip 3.3.7-strauss) hang up afer a random amount
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of time from 3 minutes to several hours. The hangups seem to be
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independent of traffic amount.
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What actually happens is that dip spews several error messages to
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the console, then drops the connection. I remember seeing
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dip: tty: set_disc() : I/O error
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dip: tty: set_state() : I/O error
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dip: tty: hangup(DROP) : I/O error
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usually all at the same time. [as a side note, the first time I
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tried to post this I was trying to remember the error messages
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and my emacs cursor was right after the ``seeing'' in the above
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paragraph when the bug occurred: I heard the modem relay click
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and the errors appeared on my screen right where I wanted to type
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them! How helpful of the computer. I cursed loudly.]
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If I set the modem to ignore DTR, the line will stay connected after
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dip spews and exits. This leads me to believe that the problem is
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with dip, not with the modem or the phone line.
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Has anyone else seen this behavior? If so, is there a fix?
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Thanks for any info --
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Bill Gribble
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From: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox)
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Subject: Re: Help!: RC2 Upgrade problems
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Date: Thu, 15 Sep 1994 17:26:54 GMT
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In article <afaber.5.00AAB48F@lestat.tiac.net> afaber@lestat.tiac.net (Alan Faber) writes:
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>Recently when upgrading from NTAS 3.5 RC1 to RC2 setup failed leaving my test
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>server dead with the usual Microsoft cryptic message of:
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>
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>"A kernel file is missing from the disk.
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> insert a system diskette and restart
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> the system."
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>
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>Oh boy...however the problem will not go away,...and I cannot go back to a
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>previous version because when I try I get the same message...
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>no matter what I do I get the same message...I. B. Stuck!
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Wrong group I think, unless I've missed something in your message.
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Alan
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..-----------,,----------------------------,,----------------------------,,
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// Alan Cox // iialan@www.linux.org.uk // GW4PTS@GB7SWN.#45.GBR.EU //
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From: mah@ka4ybr.com (Mark A. Horton KA4YBR)
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Subject: Re: Price/Performance of Overdrive versus Pentium
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Date: Thu, 15 Sep 1994 22:10:04 GMT
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jon marcus madison (icqo409@iupui.edu) wrote:
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: overdrive on the chip, i believe, and i'm definitely sure it has that
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: latch thingy that you can just pop it out & put another in, ZIF socket
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: i think it's called...)
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: which reminds me, where's that pentium p24t thing that they've been
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: promising for ages????
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I think it's a cruel joke on those of us dumb enough to fall for
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it :( I've got two motherboards with these beautiful white ZIF
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sockets on them...... Although it does make it easy to get the
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chip out to put the fan on it.
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-- Mark
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--
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"Linux! Guerrilla UNIX Development Venimus, Vidimus, Dolavimus."
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============================================================
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Mark A. Horton ka4ybr mah@ka4ybr.atl.ga.us
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P.O. Box 747 Decatur GA US 30031-0747 mah@ka4ybr.com
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+1.404.371.0291 33 45 31 N / 084 16 59 W
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From: simgopua@sisb00 (Gorostidi Pulgar Andres)
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Subject: COF & ELF running under Linux
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Date: 15 Sep 1994 19:02:38 GMT
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have heard that Linux can run COFF and ELF headers, so I think that it is possible to run programs that were compiled for SCO UNIX.
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My question is: is this true? Really you can run programs compiled for SCO
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over Linux? What are the steps you need to do it. Where can I find documentationon it?. What about dosemu?
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Please, answer to my e-mail system. I am not sure of getting of the answers
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over this conference.
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Thanks.
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Andres Gorostidi.
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simgopua@si.ehu.es
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From: dror@netcom.com (Oz Dror)
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Subject: kernel/ftape BUG
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Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1994 02:10:02 GMT
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Software: ftape 1.13b (with io_fdc patche)
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linux 1.1.49
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Hardware: 486dx1,50MHz, AHA1542CF, JUMBO 120
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Floppy A: 5 1/4"
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Floppy B: 3 1/2"
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I was able to better define the problem that Iam having with ftape.
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this is CLEARLY a kernel/ftape BUG.
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when I type:
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mt -f /dev/rft1 rewind
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I get the following message in /usr/adm/messages:
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Sep 13 18:17:22 OZ kernel: [005] fdc-io.c (fdc_config) - Using fdc
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controller
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at alternate address.
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Sep 13 18:18:38 OZ kernel: Trying to free nonexitent swap-page
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Sep 13 18:18:38 OZ last message repeated 2 times
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Sep 13 18:18:38 OZ kernel: swap_free: swap-space map bad (entry 00402000)
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Sep 13 18:18:38 OZ kernel: Trying to free nonexistent swap-page
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Sep 13 18:18:38 OZ last message repeated 12 times
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Sep13 18:18:38 OZ kernel: swap_free: swap-space map bad (entry 00402000)
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Sep 13 18:18:38 OZ kernel: Trying to free nonexistent swap-page
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Sep 13 18:18:38 OZ last message repeated 2 times
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Sep 13 18:18:38 OZ kernel: Trying to free free memory (00007000):
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memoryprobably corrupted
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Sep 13 18:18:38 OZ kernel: PC = 00119f4d
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Sep 13 18:18:38 OZ kernel: Trying to free nonexistent swap-page
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Sep 13 18:18:38 OZ last message repeated 8 times
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Sep 13 18:18:38 OZ kernel: swap_free: swap-space map bad (entry 00402000)
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Sep 13 1:18:38 OZ kernel: Trying to free nonexistent swap-page
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Sep 13 18:18:38 OZ last message repeated 2 times
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Sep 13 18:18:38 OZ kernel: Trying to free free memory (00007000): memory
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probably corrupted
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ly corrupted
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Sep 13 18:18:38 OZ kernel: PC = 00119f4d
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Sep 13 18:18:38 OZ kernel: Oops: 0000
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Sep 13 18:18:38 OZ kernel: EIP: 0010:00000000
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Sep 13 18:18:38 OZ kernel: EFLAGS: 00010246
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Sep 13 18:18:38 OZ kernel: eax: 00402000 ebx: 00000000 ecx: 0040200 edx:
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fffffc18
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Sep 13 18:18:38 OZ kernel: esi: 00000000 edi: 00000000 ebp: 00000000 esp:
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00958ef8
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Sep 13 18:18:38 OZ kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018
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Sep 13 18:18:38 OZ kernel: Corrupted stack page
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Sep 13 18:18:38 OZ kernel: Process mt (pid: 1165, process nr: 13,
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stackpage=0095a000)
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Sep 13 18:18:38 OZ kernel: Stack: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
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Sep 13 18:18:38 OZ kernel: Code: 01 00 00 00 97 ea 00 f0 c3 e2 00 f0 97 ea 00
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f0 97 ea 00 f0
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Sep 13 18:18:38OZ kernel: [006]*
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kernel-interface.c (ftape_close) - failed: not busy or wrong unit.
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After these messages the kernel crash with segmentation fault.
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-Any Ideas?
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-Any Ideas how I can debug this?
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-Thanks
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-Oz
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--
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NAME Oz Dror, Los Angeles, California
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SMAIL dror@netcom.com
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PHONE (213) 874-7978 Fax (213) 874-7965
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From: bogus@u.washington.edu (Luciano Pavarotti)
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Subject: PAS 16 problem with CDROM
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Date: 14 Sep 1994 02:46:28 GMT
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It seems that I'm not the only one who is having problem with the
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PAS 16 SCSI. I've got the Yggdrasil Summer release and a NEC 3x.
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Almost every time I boot the machine I get this:
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SCSI host 0 timed out - aborting command
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SCSI host 0 abort ( ) timed out - reseting
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and hangs. The door on the CDROM don't even open. I have to shut
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off the machine before it'll work. It work just fine under DOS.
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I think there is something wrong with the drivers? I've tried to slow
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the mahcine down but no luck. For some reason I got it to work once
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and I installed the CD just fine. After I shut it off, it don't work
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again. What's going on?
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-Peter
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From: tom@vulcan.owl.de (Thomas Rose)
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Subject: UUCP via Ethernet
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Date: Thu, 15 Sep 1994 13:17:58 GMT
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Hi !
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I like to connect to another LINUX System via UUCP/Ethernet and not serial.
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What have i to do, if i like to set up my system with hdb-uucp ?
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Tom
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--
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=====
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Thomas Rose Jakbo-Kneip-Strasse 92 40595 Duesseldorf Germany
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Telefon: +49 5251 370231 | +49 211 707484
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E-Mail : tom@vulcan.owl.de
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From: matthew@crocker.com (Matthew S. Crocker)
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Subject: Re: PPP is lagging shit protocol ?
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Date: 15 Sep 1994 16:26:36 GMT
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Mika Napari (mina@clinet.fi) wrote:
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: Hmm.. I'm not sure, but can someone tell me is there something wrong
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: in my PPP-configs, or is that PPP so lagging 'shit' when you are using
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: ftp or mosaic or something else.
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: TERMftp was fast, and it didn't lag link, but PPP will lag that link,
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: and it's not fun.. I don't know, how well that Mosaic work under term,
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: i have tested it with only PPP (and it LAG :()..
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check out the setting you are using for your MTU
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MTU = Maximum Transmission Unit
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If MTU is big (>1024) you will get higher ftp rates but, when you are
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ftp'ing you will get slow response times..
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if MTU is small (<1024) you will get lower ftp rates but things will
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be more responsive...
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Hope this helps..
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-Matt/2
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--
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-Matthew S Crocker "The mask, given time, comes
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mcrocker@crocker.com to be the face itself." -anonymous
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*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*
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*linux*linux*linux*linux*linux*linux*linux*linux*linux*linux*linux*linux*
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From: scott@galileo.cuug.ab.ca (Scott Barker)
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Subject: Re: Everyone's MOUNT - WARNING!
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Date: Thu, 15 Sep 1994 21:02:53 GMT
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Jay Ashworth (jra@zeus.IntNet.net) wrote:
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> >>/dev/fd0 /dos-a msdos user,noauto
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> The option you _meant_ to give him was "nosuid", not noauto. :-)
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The 'user' option automatically implies the 'nosuid' option. 'noauto' means
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the file system won't be mounted with 'mount -a' (which is typically in
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/etc/rc)
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--
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Scott Barker
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scott@galileo.cuug.ab.ca
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"Things are more like they are now than they ever were before."
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- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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From: jeffpk@netcom.com (Jeff Kesselman)
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Subject: Re: *** Why can't Linux access partitions with Linux FDISK? ***
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Date: Thu, 15 Sep 1994 02:50:21 GMT
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In article <35712n$25mu@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> ferrellw@lamar.ColoState.EDU (William Ferrell) writes:
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>Albert So (so@markov.commerce.ubc.ca) wrote:
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>
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>: Hello one and all...
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>: In setting up the partitions of my 540 MB hard disk,
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>: I have created only one partition on this disk - a 380 MB
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>: MS-DOS partition.
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>: Question: am I correct in assuming that one (and only one)
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>: MS-DOS (primary) partition is required on the entire hard disk?
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>
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>: Correct me if I'm wrong... you don't create a Linux partition using
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>: MS-DOS' FDISK utility. The Install Documentation is a little vague
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>: to me on this.
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>
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>: After creating the boot and root disks with bare.gz and
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>: color144.gz, and after having booted my PCI Pentium PC into
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>: Linux, I run into the following problems...
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>
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>: I run SETUP, and it tells me that I do not have Linux
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>: partitions set up. Next I enter
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>
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>: fdisk /dev/hda2
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>
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>: and then I get the message
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>
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>: Cannot read /dev/hda2
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>
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>: or any other /dev for that matter. Is there something that
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>: I am missing here?
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>MY GOD you're coming close to screwing something up... be careful here.
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>Whatever you do, if you have DOS data on the first partition NEVER run
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>MKSWAP on /dev/hda1!!! I did this last Saturday and Linux promptly
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>over-wrote the first eight megs of my DOS drive, including the FAT and
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>directory structures...! *sniff* 240 megs and 8 months worth of tweeking
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>and collecting DOWN THE TUBES! *sniff*
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Well, I hate to say this, but if you haven't made a back-up for 8 months,
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you were kind of asking for it. Unless your data is worth nothing to
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you, Ild suggest you invest $100 in a Colorado Tape unit and make regular
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backups...
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>Unless I'm wrong you should be able to use DOS fdisk to make the next
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>partition but use Linux to format it.
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>
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Uh Uh. Linux needs linux partitions. FDISk doesn't know how to make
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these (there's an ID numebr that identifies what kind of parition you
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have.) The thing to do is make your DOS parition under DOS fdisk, and
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your Linux partitions under Linux fdisk or cfdisk.
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>For future reference: anyone know if DOS "fdisk /mbr" will recover from
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>what I did to my hard drive with Linux? It's too late for my drive now; I
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>reformatted it Sunday, and Linux is never seeing my computer again, but
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>just for the info...
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Uh uh again, sorry. All fdisk /MBR will do is install a DOS boot over
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your LILO in your boot sector. If you reformatted a partition for Linux,
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its history in terms of DOS data. (Actually, thats not 100% true. There
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are data recovery services out there that can generally recover part of
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your data after a re-format, but they're very expensive and there is no
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gaurantee of what you will get back. Also, the more you used the drive
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after you did this, the less data will be available for recovery...)
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From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu (Joseph W. DeVincentis)
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Subject: Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!!
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Date: 14 Sep 1994 02:55:12 GMT
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In article <354lmc$s84@csnews.cs.colorado.edu>,
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Drew Eckhardt <drew@frisbee.cs.Colorado.EDU> wrote:
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}In article <354bmh$8jh@nic.lth.se>, Mikael Nordqvist <d91mn@efd.lth.se> wrote:
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}>The correct way to measure FPS (that's comparable with the
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}>DOS-version) is to start linuxxdom like this:
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}> linuxxdoom -devparm -timedemo demo?
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}>where ? is a number between 1 and 3 (these are the three prerecorded demos).
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}>The game will start and you will see the demo (played in "slow-motion").
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}>After a while the guy dies and the game exits. You will get two numbers.
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}>Divide the first by the second and multiply by 35. This is your FPS.
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}>
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}>On a 486 AMD/40 with 20MB ram and the wad on my dos-partition I get
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}>(with sound enabled) 8.5 FPS.
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}
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}On a 486-66DX2 with 32MB ram and a s-l-o-w Trident 8900B video
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}board, I get 8.5 FPS without sound enabled.
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On a 486-DX2/66 with 8MB of RAM, cirrus logic 5426 local bus video,
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without sound enabled, I got only 4.7 FPS.
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I didn't notice any swapping at any time during the game, however.
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From: mah@ka4ybr.com (Mark A. Horton KA4YBR)
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Subject: Re: Mitsumi IRQ
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Date: Thu, 15 Sep 1994 22:20:50 GMT
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Jake Pusey (jake@clark.net) wrote:
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: Does anyone know how to force the Mitsumi IRQ to 10 during
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: install with bootdisk? My install keeps coming up with IRQ 11 which
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: is the IRQ of my Adaptec card.
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: Jake
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Sure Jake,
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At the first boot prompt (from the boot disk of the boot/root
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pair) type in:
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ramdisk mcd=0x300,10
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(this assumes that 300 is the port address you've plugged on the
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card - if not, change it to whatever reflects reality.)
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- Mark
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--
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"Linux! Guerrilla UNIX Development Venimus, Vidimus, Dolavimus."
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============================================================
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Mark A. Horton ka4ybr mah@ka4ybr.atl.ga.us
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P.O. Box 747 Decatur GA US 30031-0747 mah@ka4ybr.com
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+1.404.371.0291 33 45 31 N / 084 16 59 W
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From: jeffpk@netcom.com (Jeff Kesselman)
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Subject: Re: Yggdrasil Install Prob.
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Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1994 02:29:09 GMT
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In article <deuelpm.54.2E74EB84@craft.camp.clarkson.edu> deuelpm@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Pete Deuel) writes:
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>In article <350qjc$nf4@ccnet.ccnet.com> laguilar@ccnet.com (Luis E. Aguilar)
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>writes:
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>
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>>I give up, I just bought the Fall release of Yggdrasil Linux and I am not able
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>>to install anything, I am able to use Linux with /usr linked to the cd, but
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>>my intention is to install everything on the Hard Drive, it is very slow to use
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>>/usr on the CD. When I tried to install the other packages nothing
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>>happened because /usr was linked to /system_cd. Anyone out there with a work
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>>around for this?
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>
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>The install_package script should do it, but I think you'll need to reboot
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>from the install floppy, log in as root, and do it (this should be in the FM;
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>you may have to dig--last I knew, the book was a little unreadable).
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Even easier, if you RTFM. Boot from the install floppy, log in as
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install, and follow the on-screen directions.
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>
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>The second option is to call these people. Each distribution seems to have
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>some sort of install problem (plug-and-play--Phooey!). Of course, you'll have
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>to find some number that doesn't cost $$$. They should at least support new
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>customers minimally, especially when they can't get the install right (Oh, I
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>just figured it out--if the install went flawlessly, their 900 lines would be
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>dead). If they do do this, then I'd like to be corrected.
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No, actually there are plenty of legitimate sys-admin type questions to
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keep their lines busy. I've called them at their office in sunnyvale
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about my one installtion problem (the Fall94 sony interface problem) and
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they were quite helpful. I was also courteous, organized, and recognized
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that in a very real way their time is money. i made it easy for them to
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tell me what was up, and they in turn were nice enough(or reasonable
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enough, if you prefer) not to charge me for it. In fact, one of my 2
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questions WAS a sysadmin question, and I offered them my credit card, but
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it only took a minute so they told me not to bother.
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Cut them some slack. I think you're assuming they are just like the big
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OS makers (such as that one in Washington.) I've found them to be
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reasonable, helpful people.
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>
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>The next option is to get slackware elsewhere... I liked Trans-Ameritech when
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>I tried it; it was much more "plug-n-play" even though they only had a sheet
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>of paper instead of a book (which do you think is most current?).
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Why? Thsi person already has the yygdrasil, and unless he tells us more
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details, it sounds liek his problem is just not cracking the binder.
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If you read their docs, the getting started instructions are about half a
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page.
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>
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>Just as a point, you newbies (that is, even more newbie than me!) should be
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>sure and get some of the HOWTOs and make sure you have some sort of knowledge
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>of this before you dive in! Also, Matt Welsh's manual (even though it covers
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>SLS rather than slackware) is a great newbie reference (I think it's
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>titled "Linux Install Guide," but I don't have it here--sorry Matt!). Check
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>out the /pub/Linux/docs directory on sunsite.unc.edu
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>
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as has been mentioned before, the big tree also seels a Linux Bible that
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has most of the How-Tos, along with other useful docs.
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No, i don't work for them. I have just found their products to be
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reasonable and their attitude helpful. Thats soemthing tht aught to be
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encouraged in the world of software.
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From: duffy@dduff@dduff.ppci.com (Dennis Duffner)
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Subject: Gopher for linux?
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Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1994 02:55:05 GMT
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Is there a version of gopher for Linux? I'm not too well versed in what
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is needed to change in makefiles, so I'd be happy with a binary.
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Thanks in advance!
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--
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/-------------------------------------------------\
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| Dennis Duffner "No matter where |
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| duffy@dduff.pr.mcs.net you go, there |
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| dduff@golden.ripco.com you are." |
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| #include disclaimer.h Buckaroo Bonzai |
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\-------------------------------------------------/
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From: jake@clark.net (Jake Pusey)
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Subject: Mitsumi IRQ
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Date: 14 Sep 1994 01:36:07 GMT
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Does anyone know how to force the Mitsumi IRQ to 10 during
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install with bootdisk? My install keeps coming up with IRQ 11 which
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is the IRQ of my Adaptec card.
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Jake
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From: mike@strauss.udel.edu (Michael James Porter)
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Subject: Re: HELP - printcap for DJ520, NFS, save kernel
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Date: 15 Sep 1994 00:20:04 -0400
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In article <kilr.28.2E779699@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu>,
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Kevin Guinn <kilr@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu> wrote:
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=> I need help with the following "problems":
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=>
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=> I need a printcap entry for a Hewlett Packard DeskJet 520
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A general printcap goes like this:
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in /etc/printcap:
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lp|TheDog:lp=/dev/lp2:sd=/var/spool/lpd:sh:mx#0:\
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:if=/usr/local/lib/lpd/magic-filter:
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Makes a printer called 'lp', alias 'thedog'. It's on lpt2, no banner
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pages and all prints that are printed without any filtering options
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are filtered by 'magic-filter'.
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Magic filter runs ghostscript if it gets postscript, else it just copies
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the output. Change the DEVICE= statement to whatever is appr. for
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your printer.
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Mike
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#!/bin/bash
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# This is based on a script I received from Scott Doty and which was
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# written by Keith Walker. Keith's script made use of the fact that
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# lpd passes options to if:
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#
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# <if> -w<width> -l<length> -i<indent> -n <user> -h <host> <accountingfile>
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#
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# to print text out well at any size. This one does not. These options
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# are also handy if you want to do your own snazzy header page, much
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# like NeWSPrint from Sun does (although running PostScript through
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# the display server to get it interpreted is a bit much :)
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#
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# This is untested, but bits of it came from working programs, so it
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# should work.
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#
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# gs will reset the printer anyway, so the this text setup doesn't matter
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# setup should include the escape code for \n conversion, if applicable
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#
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#printf "<printer setup for text printing (escape codes, etc)>"
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read first_line
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first_two_chars=`expr substr "$first_line" 1 2`
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if [ "$first_two_chars" = "%!" ]; then # it's postscript
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/usr/bin/gs -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=bj200 -sOutputFile=- -
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else # it's plain text
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echo -n $first_line
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cat
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printf "\014"
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fi
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From: eric@pandora.Las-Vegas.NV.US (Eric J. Schwertfeger)
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Subject: Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!!
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Date: 14 Sep 1994 05:26:00 GMT
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Jason Aaron Fager (jafager@chopin.udel.edu) wrote:
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: Anybody got feedback on how much memory is required for "decent" play?
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: (I.E., as fast as running it on DOS?)
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An update to my situation, I found that if I deleted/renamed the sound
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server, my performance in 8 Meg of ram improved *drastically*. Since I
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don't have a sound card, this is fine for me.
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