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From: Digestifier <Linux-Misc-Request@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu>
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To: Linux-Misc@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu
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Reply-To: Linux-Misc@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu
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Date: Mon, 17 Oct 94 16:13:38 EDT
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Subject: Linux-Misc Digest #959
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Linux-Misc Digest #959, Volume #2 Mon, 17 Oct 94 16:13:38 EDT
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Contents:
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Re: Commercial X servers: here's one (Fric)
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Options for backups on laptops? (Peter KOVESI)
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Re: Reverse mtools for DOS? (J.J. Paijmans)
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Re: [INFO WANTED] Memory required for 100 terminals? (Klamer Schutte)
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[** URGENT **] e2fsck/mount/partition error (Joerg Fries)
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ppp and GREAT sighups! (Dorwin Shields)
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Re: [INFO WANTED] Memory required for 100 terminals? (Byron A Jeff)
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Re: Wordprocessors (WYSIWYG,Multilingual) for Linux? (Byron A Jeff)
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Yggdrasil & Mach64 don't like each other! (Joe Janakovic)
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Yggdrasil and the SB16 SCSI card? (Joe Janakovic)
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Re: Thinking about Linux... (Byron A Jeff)
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HELP: Linux cannot be installed on 2GB HD ?! (Technology Research Division)
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Yggdrasil Fall 1994: buyers be aware (Jim Duncan)
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Re: Nailed down to 386bsd or linux, now which one? (Noses)
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Re: 540 MB drive problems, anyone? (Todd Day)
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Re: nedit for Linux? (DAVID L. JOHNSON)
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From: frac@ksc.au.ac.th (Fric)
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Subject: Re: Commercial X servers: here's one
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Date: 15 Oct 1994 03:03:00 GMT
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In article <376e5n$fo6@newstand.syr.edu>,
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Shawn M Carey <smcarey@gamera.syr.edu> wrote:
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>In article <CxBG22.BHL@erie.ge.com>,
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>Andrew R. Tefft <teffta@erie.ge.com> wrote:
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>>This may already been well known, but I thought I would post.
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>>The October Uniforum Monthly has an ad for and a blurb about
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>>a server from X-Inside called Accelerated X which runs on Linux,
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>>SCO, Solaris, FreeBSD, and others. It is an X server only.
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>I can confirm this to a degree. I was a beta tester of this server
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>(for FreeBSD), and it's undoubtedly faster than the XFree S3 server:
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>
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>Orchid F1280+ (1MB, ISA):
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>XF86_S3 (XFree-2.1) Xaccel-1.1
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>63k xStones 155k xStones
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That's pretty good. I get this with my Mach32 and DX2/66.
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XFree Accel-X
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8-bit 100k 145k (1280x1024)
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16-bit 40k 84k (1024x768)
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-Fric
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frac@ksc.au.ac.th
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From: pk@cs.uwa.oz.au (Peter KOVESI)
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Subject: Options for backups on laptops?
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Date: 17 Oct 94 02:15:26 GMT
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I am planning to buy a laptop. What options are there for attaching a
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tape drive for taking backups under Linux? I have searched high and
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low through the FAQs and HOW-TOs but find no guidance in this area.
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As I understand it, drives that connect to the parallel port are out
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along with anything that might use a parallel to SCSI adaptor.
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Is attaching a SCSI tape drive via a PCMCIA SCSI card a viable
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option? If so what drivers are available?
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- Or should I be trying a completely different approach to backups
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such as getting a 2nd hard disc?
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I would be grateful for any suggestions and advice that you might have.
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Peter Kovesi
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Department of Computer Science, The University of Western Australia
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From: paai@kub.nl (J.J. Paijmans)
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Subject: Re: Reverse mtools for DOS?
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Date: 17 Oct 1994 14:18:02 GMT
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In article <mmoller.26.782413189@mikomtek.csir.co.za> mmoller@mikomtek.csir.co.za (Michael) writes:
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>I'm in the situation where, by convention, I have to use DOS at work,
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>although I prefer linux - which I use at home. Most of my friends also use
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>DOS... (They've not seen the light ;)
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...
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>I could then have, say ext2fs on my floppies, and on ocasion, when I need to
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>copy a file to DOS, I'll not have a problem...
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>
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>At the moment most of my floppies are DOS formatted. When I get something
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>interesting by FTP (at work), I have to copy it onto a DOS disk. At home I
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>then have to transfer everything back to linux, renaming truncated filenames
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>as I go along!
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...
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Can't you make an UMSDos filesystem on the floppies and use some of those
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UMStools I've seen for copying? Never tried it myself, but it looks as
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if it *should* work...?
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Paai.
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From: klamer@ph.tn.tudelft.nl (Klamer Schutte)
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Subject: Re: [INFO WANTED] Memory required for 100 terminals?
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Date: Mon, 17 Oct 1994 13:59:13 GMT
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In <$irliqUp41PQ073yn@nyx.cs.du.edu> hseaver@nyx.cs.du.edu (Harmon Seaver) writes:
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: I'm doing a class project to try to convince various grade and high
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: school officials that they would be much smarter to buy a 586 and 100
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: dumb terminals and run Linux/Xwindows/Motif than buying 100 macs. Or even
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: just running Linux in text mode, since mostly what school computers are
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: used for is just word processing anyway, and have a few macs or whatever
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: for the other stuff.
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: So here's my question: How much RAM and how much swap space does a 586
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: need (or a 486 even) to run 100 terminals, either in text mode or Xwin
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: mode? And can I even run Xwin on dumb terminals? Also, does anyone know
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: of any good cheap vga res terminals w/color? Last time I looked, a few
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: years ago, the cheapest was about $800. Also, what would you use for
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: ports for that many terminals?
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This depends very much on the applications which are run on those 100
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terminals. 100 people reading mail will need 100 * 0.5 - 1 Mb.
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A class of 100 people compiling big C++ programs will need about 5 Mb per
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user.
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But having 100 users on one 586 host is a bit much -- this might lead to
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very high respons times. A better apporach might be to have a couple of
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computer servers (say one for every ten users -- depending on the type
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of applications) and some file servers. Or you could go for placing simple
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machines at every work place (a 386 sx with 4-8 Mb, for easy applications)
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with a few file servers in a network. so that you have X access everywhere.
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Ordinary terminals can't be used to run X windows.
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Klamer
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--
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Klamer Schutte -- +31-15-786054 / +31-15-692000
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klamer@ph.tn.tudelft.nl / schutte@tpd.tno.nl
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http://www.ph.tn.tudelft.nl:2000/People/klamer/Klamer.html
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From: fries@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Joerg Fries)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.admin
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Subject: [** URGENT **] e2fsck/mount/partition error
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Date: 17 Oct 1994 15:03:34 GMT
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This is an urgent call for help, because I have probs to repair my
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var-partition! (Yes, there is all my configuration ... >>:o
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My system broke down (HD hangs, X down) and I had to reboot. After
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that, e2fsck finds an error in my partition /dev/hdb1 (using e2fsck
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and fs version 0.5a):
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"Block bitmap 0 for group 0 not in group"
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All other partitions were mounted correctly. When I tried to fix the
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problem with "e2fsck -v -r -b 8193 /dev/hdb1" and then mount the
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partition, (other values like 16385 didn't worked either...)
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"EXT2-fs error (device 3/65): ext2_check_descriptors:
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Block bitmap 0 for group 0 not in group (block 0)
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EXT2-fs: group descriptors corrupted!"
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appears. When I make fdisk for this HD, verifying tells me
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"Warning: bad start-of-data in partition 1
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271 unallocated sectors"
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WHAT CAN I DO? Is there a new e2fsck which could repair that fault?
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What kind of fault is that (fs,partition,HD)?
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Any help via email would be greatly appreciated..
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Thanx in advance, Joerg
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PS. Please excuse the crosspostings but I'm in great trouble because I
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can't proceed in my thesis.
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Joerg Fries
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Department of Computer Science
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Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
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email: fries@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de
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From: parprods@mailhost.ecn.uoknor.edu (Dorwin Shields)
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Subject: ppp and GREAT sighups!
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Date: 17 Oct 1994 14:57:11 GMT
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I'm having trouble getting ppp to work. The chat calls, I get logged
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in and as soon as the ppp says connection made it dies of a sighup.
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The same thing happens when I run great. The system starts but just as
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it's about to finish I get a sighup. ppp works fine under windows. I'd
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much rather run Mosaic on linux.--I also get a lot of errors using zmodem
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under linux that I don't get under dos...I'm using a kind of old system--
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Slackware 1.2 that I've upgraded to a 1.1.49 kernel. I upgraded bdflush
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too.---Is there something else I should do--I think I still got the
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bad routing request error even after upgrading bdflush.
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Thanks,
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Dorwin
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From: byron@gemini.cc.gatech.edu (Byron A Jeff)
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Subject: Re: [INFO WANTED] Memory required for 100 terminals?
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Date: 17 Oct 1994 15:06:25 GMT
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In article <klamer.782402353@galaxy.ph.tn.tudelft.nl>,
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Klamer Schutte <klamer@ph.tn.tudelft.nl> wrote:
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-In <$irliqUp41PQ073yn@nyx.cs.du.edu> hseaver@nyx.cs.du.edu (Harmon Seaver) writes:
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-
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-: I'm doing a class project to try to convince various grade and high
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-: school officials that they would be much smarter to buy a 586 and 100
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-: dumb terminals and run Linux/Xwindows/Motif than buying 100 macs. Or even
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-: just running Linux in text mode, since mostly what school computers are
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-: used for is just word processing anyway, and have a few macs or whatever
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-: for the other stuff.
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Problem one. How exactly are you going to connect 100 terminals to a PC?
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Terminal servers cost more than the machines themselves.
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Putting serial lines on the PC will limit the number of terminal connections.
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Bet on 32 ports per machine.
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-: So here's my question: How much RAM and how much swap space does a 586
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-: need (or a 486 even) to run 100 terminals, either in text mode or Xwin
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-: mode?
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-: And can I even run Xwin on dumb terminals?
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No you cannot. However a cheaply speced 386/486 can. And probably not even
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double the price of a terminal.
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-: Also, does anyone know
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-: of any good cheap vga res terminals w/color?
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-: Last time I looked, a few
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-: years ago, the cheapest was about $800.
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That's still in the right price range. Consider:
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- Low end 486 $130
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- 8 Meg RAM $330
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- ethernet card $40
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- Video card $50
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- Monitor $115 (VGA monochrome. Cost sensitive here.)
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- Floppy $40
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$705
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This station could load Linux over the network and could support additional
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terminals connected via a 4 port serial card (another $110). So you could have
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an Xterminal and 4 dumb terminals in each group.
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-: Also, what would you use for
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-: ports for that many terminals?
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Serial ports - Few ports (4-16) . Needs a PC. cheap.
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terminal servers - More ports (16-32). No PC needed. Expensive.
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That's about it.
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-This depends very much on the applications which are run on those 100
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-terminals. 100 people reading mail will need 100 * 0.5 - 1 Mb.
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-A class of 100 people compiling big C++ programs will need about 5 Mb per
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-user.
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I'm not so sure about these numbers. I have a 486-66 with 20 Megs of ram and
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16 Meg of swap for student use. I've seen as mant as 23 people doing
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simultaneous edits and compiles and the machine didn't even go into swap.
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Linux's shared memory and buffer cache system is truly awesome.
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-But having 100 users on one 586 host is a bit much -- this might lead to
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-very high respons times. A better apporach might be to have a couple of
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-computer servers (say one for every ten users -- depending on the type
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-of applications) and some file servers. Or you could go for placing simple
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-machines at every work place (a 386 sx with 4-8 Mb, for easy applications)
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-with a few file servers in a network. so that you have X access everywhere.
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Agreed. You may even wish to look into low end Xterminals and a few servers.
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The servers won't need a keyboard or video system which can save quite a few
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bucks.
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Keep us posted. This is an interesting problem.
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BAJ
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Another random extraction from the mental bit stream of...
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Byron A. Jeff - PhD student operating in parallel - And Using Linux!
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Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332 Internet: byron@cc.gatech.edu
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From: byron@gemini.cc.gatech.edu (Byron A Jeff)
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Crossposted-To: comp.unix.questions
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Subject: Re: Wordprocessors (WYSIWYG,Multilingual) for Linux?
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Date: 17 Oct 1994 14:53:28 GMT
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In article <1994Oct17.142501.1962@midway.uchicago.edu>,
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Richard L. Goerwitz <goer@midway.uchicago.edu> wrote:
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-byron@gemini.cc.gatech.edu (Byron A Jeff) writes:
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->
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->And we all have our pet peeves. Richard demands multilingualness while mine
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->is that if all I have is a VT100 terminal and modem I should still be able to
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->WordProcess (not format. The interface is the real difference) without having
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->to resort to buying an ISDN line and an Xterminal.
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-It's not so much a matter of what capabilities are included as what
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-capabilities are *pre*cluded by sloppy or narrow design. The multi-
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-lingual "problem"
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It's not a "problem" quotes or not. It's a valid issue that has been
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inadeqately address by current systems. By peeve I mean that it's the
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issue that you trumpet. It's not a bad thing. Just like my text only
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wish is not a bad thing.
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-is really only a problem because so many packages
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-have been designed without any thought that anyone would be using
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-them with up-down or right-left languages, and without any thought
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-that millions (billions?) of people on the planet are multilingual.
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Agreed. Now the question becomes "How to design with multilingual support?"
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Do you have any clues, Richard?
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Also we need to discuss if the complexities of multilingual support
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precludes building a simple WordProcessor. Even to the point of maybe having
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a UniLingual and a MultiLingal application, each which is different, as a
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better way to attack the problem. This is my current inclination. However
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I honestly don't know enough about the process to make a solid judgement
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on this.
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Note that I'm adding the WYSIWYG and multilingual tags to the subject.
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Anyone replying to this please change the tags to reflect the type of
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discussion. In fact start a new thread. Use (Text/WYSIWYG,English/Multilingual)
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so we can distinguish which application we're talking about.
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But let's get beyond the lack of Multilingual support. It's needed. Linux
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could be a leader in the area. Let talk about how to do it.
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BAJ
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--
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Another random extraction from the mental bit stream of...
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Byron A. Jeff - PhD student operating in parallel - And Using Linux!
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Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332 Internet: byron@cc.gatech.edu
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From: redgt@io.org (Joe Janakovic)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
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Subject: Yggdrasil & Mach64 don't like each other!
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Date: 16 Oct 1994 19:45:26 -0400
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I finally got yggdrasil Fall '94 installed on my machine (thank's to the
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erratta sheet!). Now I'm having problems with X and the Mach64 card (ATI
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GPT). When I startx and the card goes into 1024x768 all I get is monitor
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pops and fizzles; the image is there but it appears four times (ie. I get 4
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screens; two on top and two on the bottom; if you move the mouse there are
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four arrow cursors that move with it)...
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Somebody told me to pick up the Mach64 X-server from sunsite. This file is
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dated 06/94 (quite a bit older than the fall '94 Yggdrasil package) and it
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didn't make any difference anyway.
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So what do I need to do to get my Nec3d/Mach64 combo working under X? I've
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tried different clock settings and toggling around with ctrl-alt-+/- but all
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that gives me are different squealing sounds from the monitor...
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Thanks...
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--
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Joe Janakovic Internet: joej@golddisk.com
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Software Developer redgt@io.org
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Gold Disk, Inc.
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Toronto, Ont., Canada "ASCII stupid question, get a stupid ANSI!"
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From: redgt@io.org (Joe Janakovic)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
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Subject: Yggdrasil and the SB16 SCSI card?
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Date: 16 Oct 1994 19:56:06 -0400
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I'm using the SoundBlaster SCSI-II card to control a CD-ROM and Syquest
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removable drive. All work well under Linux except that I've got to type the
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following at the LILO boot: prompt:
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linux aha152x=0x340,11,7,1
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Is there anyway of automating this? I really hate to have to type all this
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whenever I want to boot Linux. BTW, the Yggdrasil manual says that you can
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add an "append=" entry to your lilo.conf file; I did this but it still
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doesn't recognize my SCSI card.
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And while I'm on the topic, does anyone know how to setup LILO to accept
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something shorter than "hda3" for the partition to boot? I'd like to just
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type "1" for example to boot DOS and "2" to boot Linux...
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Also is there a way to change the default boot partition? Right now if I
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hit enter at the boot: prompt, it will boot /dev/hda1 (my Linux partition).
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What do I need to do to change this so that it boots a different partition
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by default?
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--
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Joe Janakovic Internet: joej@golddisk.com
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Software Developer redgt@io.org
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Gold Disk, Inc.
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Toronto, Ont., Canada "ASCII stupid question, get a stupid ANSI!"
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From: byron@gemini.cc.gatech.edu (Byron A Jeff)
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Subject: Re: Thinking about Linux...
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Date: 17 Oct 1994 14:14:21 GMT
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In my extremely biased opinion SLS is really out. Slackware in all of its
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Ultra-Cool forms is in the in Crowd. So I'll substitute Slackware for SLS.
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In article <CxsLp5.CB8@dorsai.org>, Feinstein <aelj@dorsai.org> wrote:
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>I have a few questions, which probably wouldn't be answered in manuals:
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>1) In order to use Slackware, it REQUIRES 4 MB RAM, how much is *really* needed?
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It's real tough to use anything less than 4 MB. The way to do it if it's
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absolutely necessary is to get a kernel that doesn't build a RAMDISK, mount
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the floppy, and create a swap partition/swap file as quickly as possible.
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>2) What is the latest version of Slackware (I tried the announce newsgroup,
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> but there were no announcements) - I am currently downloading v1.02?
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2.0.1. The latest version always exist on ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/linux/slackware
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>3) I have a DOS system with plenty of DOS apps. Can I get the DOS emulator
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>up & running w/o installing Slackware on my hard drive?
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Well you can but it's really like kissing your sister. If you're not going to
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actually install and use Linux on your system, then for now you'd be better
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off using actual DOS.
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How about you tell us about your system (CPU type and speed, RAM size, Disk
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size and amount available) and then we could better help you determine how
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to proceed.
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If you're really working on SLS 1.02 then we desparately need to pull you from
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what's essentially the Linux Dark Ages. Almost like reading Gutenburg ;-)
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Later,
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BAJ
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Another random extraction from the mental bit stream of...
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Byron A. Jeff - PhD student operating in parallel - And Using Linux!
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Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332 Internet: byron@cc.gatech.edu
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From: llr@iiidns.iii.org.tw (Technology Research Division)
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Subject: HELP: Linux cannot be installed on 2GB HD ?!
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Date: 15 Oct 1994 03:04:42 GMT
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Hi :
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We try to install the Slackware Linux 2.0.1 (1.1.1)
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on a 80486 pc with the AHA1542CF SCSI card and 2 GB
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hard disk.
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During the installation, somethings happened:
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# fdisk /dev/sda
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The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 2006
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This is larger than 1024 , and may cause problems with
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some software.
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command (m for help) : p
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Disk /dev/sda : 64 heads, 32 sectors, 2006 cylinders
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Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 bytes
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Device boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
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/dev/sda1 * 1 1 200 204784 6 Dos 16-bit >= 32M
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/dev/sda2 201 201 2006 1849344 83 Linux native
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Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings :
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phys = (1023, 63, 32) logical = (2005, 63, 32)
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Can anybody suggest me how to solve this problem?
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Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for
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your help.
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Lawrence Lu
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llr@iiidns.iii.org.tw
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From: duncan@bolero.okay.com (Jim Duncan)
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Subject: Yggdrasil Fall 1994: buyers be aware
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Date: Fri, 14 Oct 1994 21:57:38 GMT
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In article <crawford-121094134337@stonehenge.think.com>,
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Lee Crawford <crawford@think.com> wrote:
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>In article <YXIAO.94Oct7163816@umabnet.ab.umd.edu>,
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>yxiao@umabnet.ab.umd.edu (Yan Xiao) wrote:
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>
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>> The current yggdrasil CD is our second buy, and I can
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>> see the decline in quality.
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I noticed this also. The file system rearrangement was sloppy. Some
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scripts don't run without complaints about missing files and
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directories. I was never sure whether there was a problem with the
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CD-ROM install, my machine, or me. The Fall '94 is half-baked.
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I used the Fall '94 for a whole day - Columbus Day, which I had off.
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Then, giving up on this possibly bogus product, I blew up the install
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and went back to Summer '94, which, in my opinion, seems to be a better
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quality package. Next time I go to my favorite UNIX reseller, Promox
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Systems in Sunnyvale, I'm going to bitch about it. I have two Linux
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machines which were supposed to be Summer and Fall, respectively; at
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this point, they're now both Summer '94.
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--
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K-FOX| w ["] | WA6MBV
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94.5 |... |___|_____..duncan@bolero.okay.com | Jim Duncan
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KUFX | H | 408.297.5977
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******** \_____I_____/ 37 3 10N/121 59 10W **************
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From: noses@flinx.RoBIN.de (Noses)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.386bsd.misc
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Subject: Re: Nailed down to 386bsd or linux, now which one?
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Date: 16 Oct 1994 13:19:48 GMT
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Peter da Silva (peter@bonkers.taronga.com) wrote:
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: LINUS IS NOT SYSTEM V BASED.
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Of course not. He's made of C, not of Si...
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Noses.
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From: today@coyote.rain.org (Todd Day)
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Subject: Re: 540 MB drive problems, anyone?
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Date: 16 Oct 1994 17:15:50 -0700
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I have a Quantum LPS540AT IDE drive. It has 1120 cyl, 16heads,
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and 53 sectors. I initially lied to the BIOS and said it only had
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48 cyl. I was able to use DOS fdisk to make a first partion of
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48 cyl. Then I used Linux fdisk and went into expert mode and changed
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the number of cylinders to 1120. Apparently, this trick is only good
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for each time you run Linux fdisk, because it always comes up with
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48 cyl initially. I proceeded to make 3 Linux partitions.
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LILO was not happy with this. It wouldn't deal with the fact that
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the first Linux partition was beyond what the BIOS said was the
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end of the disk.
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So, I went into my BIOS config and said the drive had 1023 cyl.
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This did nothing to upset the DOS partition, as it still booted.
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I went back to Linux and was then able to get LILO to install.
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In conclusion, the trick for drives that have more than 1023 cyl
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is to tell the BIOS there is only 1023. Do your DOS partitioning
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(if needed) and then when you set up Linux partitions, make sure the
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one you plan to boot from is completely containted within the first
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1023 cyl. Use the expert mode in Linux fdisk to change the
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number of cyl to what they are in reality and you can recover
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all the the hard disk that you paid for.
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-todd-
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--
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Todd Day
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todd@di.com
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today@rain.org
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From: dlj0@Lehigh.EDU (DAVID L. JOHNSON)
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Subject: Re: nedit for Linux?
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Date: 17 Oct 1994 15:48:54 GMT
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In article <1994Oct16.195222.12795@belvedere.sbay.org>, root@belvedere.sbay.org (David E. Fox) writes:
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>Brian Lane (blane@seanet.com) wrote:
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>
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>: in the contrib directory is a Makefile.linux, so it's already been
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>: done(pretty trivial).
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>
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>: The catch is that it needs Motif, which isn't free. Anyone want to
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>: tackle a free Motif compatible X library?
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>
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>It should be easy enough for someone with Motif to build a static binary
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>of this (hint hint) :).
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>
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Is there anyone else willing to do this? If not, I will. But I have to
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re-install all my static lib's, so may not do it for a couple days.
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>--
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>David Fox root@belvedere.sbay.org
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>5479 Castle Manor Drive
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>San Jose, CA 95129 Thanks for letting me change
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>408/253-7992 magnetic patterns on your hard disk.
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--
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David L. Johnson dlj0@lehigh.edu or
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Department of Mathematics dlj0@chern.math.lehigh.edu
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Lehigh University
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14 E. Packer Avenue (610) 758-3759
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Bethlehem, PA 18015-3174 (610) 828-3708
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