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From: koenig@nova.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de (Harald Koenig)
Subject: how to boot a second "primary" DOS partition using LILO?
Organization: TAT (Theoretical Astrophysics Tuebingen), U. of Tuebingen, FRG
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 10:09:18 GMT

At the moment, I have 3 primary DOS partitions (part 1..3, type 6,
>32MB) and one LINUX efs partition (part 4) on my harddisk.
Partition number order and order on disk (cylinders) are same, so DOS1
(part 1) starts at cyl. 1 and LINUX (part 4) goes to end of disk (cyl 622).

Booting linux and the first DOS partition works with both lilo-0.6 and 0.7.

Booting the 2nd and 3rd DOS partition via activating in the partiton
table works also.

Trying to boot part. 2 or 3 using LILO (0.6 and 0.7) won't work.

Why? Any hint?

Harald


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From: delman@mipg.upenn.edu (Delman Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: xdm -nodaemon: OK from command line, not rc.local
Date: 19 Dec 92 18:23:48 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania, USA.
In-reply-to: mlo@Bonnie.ICS.UCI.EDU's message of 19 Dec 92 05:30:51 GMT

In article <9212182130.aa05024@Bonnie.ics.uci.edu> mlo@Bonnie.ICS.UCI.EDU (--) writes:

   I'm running SLS .98p5.  Everything works OK when I run xdm -nodaemon
   from the command line.

   I then tried xdm -nodaemon at the bottom of rc.local.  I first
   commented out the first getty in /etc/inittab.  After rebooting,
   the xlogin window comes up, and I log in as root.  Cool.
   [...]

Read in the FAQ of comp.windows.x.i386unix that you need to provide a
tty to xdm when running from /etc/rc.local. e.g. "xdm < /dev/console &"

Delman.
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From: tfoley@camaro (Tim Foley)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: [Q] Backspace Broken/different in 0.99
Date: 19 Dec 92 19:22:14 GMT
Organization: camaro

Has anyone else had any problems with the backspace in 0.99?  I find that
it no longer works, even with terminals and with stty erase '^H' set...but 
CTRL H manually works fine.
  As an example, try using TRN and 'g news.testr<-BACKSPACE' or some such 
thing and see if it says can't find news group news.test^H....
 
  If anyone has any ideas?  Drop a line.  
 
P.S. I am using getty/uugetty 2.04 with 0.99 and all patches.
 

 

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From: operjsl@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: SLS package problem at sunsite.unc.edu
Date: 14 Dec 1992 01:36:14 GMT
Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
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In article <62813@mimsy.umd.edu>, bob@cs.umd.edu (Bahman Adeli) writes:
>If someone already hasn't noticed this:
>
>SLS package at sunsite.unc.edu has a synlink problem with lx98p5.taz in
>disk b4.  I think this is the reason many people (including me) have problems
>-- 
>Spoken: Bahman Adeli   UUCP: uunet!tove!bob   INTERNET:bob@cs.umd.edu

I noticed this as well.  However, I did the installation, and the 0.98.5 source
got installed, which is what that symlink was pointing to.  I believe that
lx985.taz has been replaced in the installation by lxpatches, but I wouldn't
swear to it.  Anyway, I'm using SLS 0.98.5 and it seems to be working for me,
so far, except for the shadow password crap! :)

Jeff Little
operjsl@rosevc.rose-hulman.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds)
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE]: linux version 0.99
Keywords: kernel linux 0.99
Organization: University of Helsinki
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 23:32:02 GMT

In article <1992Dec13.193812.6958@tc.cornell.edu> torvalds@cc.helsinki.fi (Linus Torvalds) writes:
>Linux version 0.99 is now available at nic.funet.fi, in the directory
>pub/OS/Linux/PEOPLE/Linus as both full source and patches against
>0.98.6.  It will probably show up on the other major sites soon. 
[ rest deleted ]

Ok, there seem to be a couple of problems with the configuration stuff:
they are minor, but they can get a new user pretty confused. Here is how
to fix them:

 1) fs/isofs/inode.c tells you that it needs CDROM support when you
    pre-process it during running "make dep". 

    this one has two different solutions:

    - remove the '#ifndef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR ...  #error ...  #endif'
      test in fs/isofs/inode.c
or
    - use "make config" to include all the SCSI support: you can remove
      it later by doing another "make config" after you have your
      dependencies up-to-date. It's a problem only for "make dep", as
      a real make won't even enter the isofs subdirectory unless you
      have asked for the isofs filesystem (and then you do indeed need
      the CDROM support, so the error is valid)

 2) linking the net/ subdirectory gives a "tcp/tcpip.a: no such file or
    directory" if you don't include the networking stuff in the config.

    simple solutions:

    - do a "ar cvs net/tcp/tcpip.a" to create an empty archive to get
      the linker happy (alternatively you can once more reconfigure with
      the tcp/ip support to get the archive created, and then configure
      it out again and re-making the kernel. That's essentially how I
      never saw this error when I tested the configs out..)
or
    - edit the net/Makefile and just dike out the 'tcp/tcpip.a' (or put
      it behind a "ifdef" like the NET_SUBDIRECTORY..)

Also, if you get the "unable to make cdefs.h" or similar, it probably
means you haven't done a "make dep".  Alternatively your installation
has some problems. 

Sorry for the silly problems with the config stuff and hope that's the
biggest problem with this release,

		Linus
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: joel@wam.umd.edu (Joel M. Hoffman)
Subject: How many disks are in SLS?  Does SLS include source?
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 16:57:54 GMT

Please reply by e-mail.  Thanks.

-Joel
(joel@wam.umd.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: buckel@winx06.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de (bernhard buckel)
Subject: Re: (Q) Xconfig for PVGA1B, anyone ?
Organization: University of Wuerzburg, Germany
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 15:24:06 GMT

Since i have the same problems, i would appreciate very much if you could mail me the answers you got!
Thanx in progress,
                                   Bernhard
From: jon@robots.ox.ac.uk (Jon Tombs)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: additional features for linux
Keywords: virtual serial consoles, tcpip bootrom, streams, isdn-driver
Date: 16 Dec 92 13:45:04 GMT
Organization: Robotics Research Group, Engineering Science Dept, Oxford, UK.
Originator: jon@diomedes.robots

In article <1992Dec3.192455.1325@xfswob.han.de> to-pse@xfswob.han.de (Tobias Erichsen) writes:
>Hi there everyone,
>
>I'm really delighted about how well linux works on my system at home.
>Everything runs pretty stable as far as I can see.
>
>I have some suggestions of things I'm still missing:
>
>1) Virtual consoles for the serial ports
>
>    It would be very nice if someone could use more than one console
>    on a remote terminal.  I don't know if that is possible to imple-
>    ment.

Use screen, it should be on the archive sites, I picked up a copy some time
ago.


>5) X-Support for the ATI Ultra Pro 2
>
>    Is there anybody working on an X-server which uses the special features of
>    this new generation of ATI-cards?

ATI is a stupid as Diamond, so you won't see support for the extended features
of the Ultra as the information is not available. The only documentation is
for the 8514 commands that the Ultra uses, but not the faster special comands
it has.

Jon.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: opium@hardy.u.washington.edu (Just dance and move your body)
Subject: Nec 3fgx vs. 4fg (looking for good/affordable multi-sync 1024) HELP!!
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 20:44:38 GMT

I have been thinking seriously about mail ordering the Nec 4fg from USA Flex
at about 729 + shipping and handling.  I heard the 3fgx might have a bit of
a flicker at 1024 res. since its scanning freq is 50mhz (not sure on the
units, but that the 4fg is 60mghz and is less likely to be noticeable.
Are there any 15" FS monitors out there other than Nec that would be worth 
taking a look at?  I live in the boonies, and haven't seen many of them.
Somebody told me the ViewSonic 15FS was pretty nice picture and scans at 70mghz
But the pice is not sufficently lower than the Nec 4fg (which I've only heard
raves about) to consider.  Please any coments or reviews + prices and where
to get a 1024 multi-sync, I like the Idea of 15"FS but I know there are some
good 14" that expand out nearly as large as the 15s, please mail me
<opium@hardy.u.washington.euu>     Thanx for your time!!!!    8-)
 
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: ammo@cc.gatech.edu (Ammo Goettsch)
Subject: Newbie questions -- C++, PS printer 
Reply-To: ammo@cc.gatech.edu (Ammo Goettsch)
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 00:31:02 GMT

Hi, I have been hacking on Linux for just a few days, trying to get my
work ported to my PC.

Here are 2 newbie questions, to be answered by the knowing in email or
on the group, by preference.

1) I have a post script printer. I have the /dev/lp1 working. I would like
   to have "lpr textfile" make post script out of a straight text file and
   dump it to my printer. This is like the "enscript" program we have on our
   UNIX boxes. What program do I need to do this?

2) I compiled tons of C code and some C++ code from work, by using g++. 
   Everything works fine except C++ program which use cout for standard output
   cannot find "cout" or operator<<(various types)" and so they don't link.
   Do I need to link a special library for this? I thought this stuff should be
   in libc.a? 

I am presently using an SLS distribution Linux which thinks it's 0.96 
without any patches other than newer xfree86. 

Please help,
Ammo Goettsch
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Question: has anyone ported SML?
From: shachar@ramon.bgu.ac.il (Shachar Fleishman)
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 12:44:48 GMT
Organization: Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel
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The subject says it all, is the an SML port to linux?

- Thanks in advance Shachar
From: lenneis@statrix1.wu-wien.ac.at (Joerg Lenneis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: [Q] SLS+0.99+TCPIP+SMC16
Date: 17 Dec 1992 17:11:57 GMT
Organization: University of Economics and Business Administration Vienna
Distribution: world
Reply-To: lenneis@wu-wien.ac.at
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In article <865@blue.cis.pitt.edu>, broadley@lrdc5 (Bill Broadley) writes:
|> I have been enjoying linux greatly, having fun watching things progress. We
|> recently received a new gateway ATI PRO 66Mhz machine, which I immediately blew
|> away the disk and installed a linux partition.
|> 
|> I installed the sls distribution and updated to 0.99.  Has anyone taken
|> this configuration and gotten any of the tcpip stuff to work with an SMC card?
|> 
|> I just got and read the new NET FAQ for 0.99 and still can't get anything
|> to work.  During bootup I get the syntax for /usr/etc/inet/config displayed
|> twice during boot up.  I am fairly sure I answered all the 
|> /usr/etc/inet/install.inet problems appropiately.  I know that the IRQ and I/O
|> address's are right, (IRQ 5 And i/o 280) becuase dos uses them and works.
|> Also the memory address were right stock (D0000).
|> 
|> One other strange thing is when I soft boot into dos, the tcpip there doesn't
|> work, but if I hard boot into dos it does.  (this is reliable).  Seems that
|> linux is locking up the ELITE SMC 16 card somehow.
|> 
|> Any ideas appreciated, all commands come back with network is unreachable.
|> 
|> Please reply to address below or POST.
|> --
|> Bill
|> Broadley@neurocog.lrdc.pitt.edu

Have you recompiled the kernel with the proper parameters for the
SMC Elite set? It requires  16k of shared memory, not 8k as the WD8003
does. This occupies d000-d400 and not d000-d200. I am not sure what 
is compiled into the distribution, but to be on the safe side you 
might want to recompile.  Look out for the file space.c under the
/usr/src/linux/net tree and change the parameters there.   



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Augasse 2-6, 1090 Vienna, Austria

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From: sdh@po.CWRU.Edu (Scott D. Heavner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Screwy characters after accidentally typing a binary?
Date: 20 Dec 1992 23:59:57 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: sdh@po.CWRU.Edu (Scott D. Heavner)
NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.ins.cwru.edu


	Every once in a while, I try to type a binary file
and my charcters all get shifted to graphics.  Upper case
is OK, and if I logout and login with ALL CAPS, it will
run and I can read everything again (without lower case,
of course).  Is there any way to fix this?  It only happens on
one VC, the rest are fine.

	I have had this problem with other unix systems
and never learned how to fix it.

				Scott Heavner
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: andrewc@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !)
Subject: Re: Does bootlin.com work with the new kernel?
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 02:03:26 GMT

joel@wam.umd.edu (Joel M. Hoffman) writes:

>In article <1992Dec13.193812.6958@tc.cornell.edu> torvalds@cc.helsinki.fi (Linus Torvalds) writes:
>>Linux version 0.99 is now available at nic.funet.fi, in the directory
>>pub/OS/Linux/PEOPLE/Linus as both full source and patches against
>>0.98.6.  It will probably show up on the other major sites soon. 

>>NOTE!!! Use LILO-0.7 to load the 0.98pl5 and newer kernels: any older
>>version of lilo is liable to result in weird problems. 

>What about bootlin.com?  Does that still work?

I don't see why not...It's just that LILO 0.6 did weird things to 98p6 when
you booted it (apparently - nothing weird happened to me except I now have a
1024 byte ramdisk, but i can live with that - I've got 8MB to play with,
anyway...)

Enjoy !

Cos !
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From: Jeff-Randall@uiuc.edu (Jeff Randall)
Subject: Re: TCP/IP Question: Disallow remote logins
X-Aka: Upholder
Reply-To: Jeff-Randall@uiuc.edu (Jeff Randall)
Organization: The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 17:37:13 GMT

operjsl@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU writes:

>I know it is possible via securetty to prohibit anyone from logging in as
>root via telnet.  Is there a way to prohibit an arbitrary user from 
>logging in remotely via telnet?

The shadow passwd suite now included with the SLS distribution allows for
the use of a porttime file in /etc that can define login times for individual
users and or ports.

Check your login.defs file and make sure the porttime restrictions are 
enabled and read the porttime.4 man page for the porttime syntax.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: koch@rtsg.mot.com (Clifton Koch)
Subject: Coprocessors (was: Do X-Windows use the math-coprocessor?)
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 08:01:17 GMT

  I'm not sure the last message made it out, so:

  Now I gotta try it.  A question, though.  Does linux support Weitek
coprocessors, or only 387/clone/ coprocessors.  I don't think the two 
coprocessors are entirely compatible with each other.

CVK
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From: roskos@telerobo.rutgers.edu (roskos)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Can X run with only 4 megs RAM?
Date: 15 Dec 92 19:30:19 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

Well, I consider waiting a few seconds to bring a window back to the
foreground quite tolerable.  Xterms generally come back much, much
quicker.  Staring an application for the first time requires a little
longer a wait.  Xv can take up to a minute if I am loading a JPEG, but
then again loading a JPEG pic is not generally done super fast.  Also,
once Xdvi is up, keep it up.  The information inside can be updated
with a simple ^L in the window.  So waiting a few to several seconds,
for most applications, I imagine is quite satisfactory.

One experiment you might try is to turn off backing store in your
.twmrc (if you use twm).  Keeping backing store info could increase
your memory usage very substantially.  Again, I am a relative newbie,
so take this with a grain of salt.  But if you try this, post or mail
your results - they may be interesting.

			--Ed Roskos, roskos@caip.rutgers.edu
From: zdenek@ksr.com (Zdenek Radouch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: IMPORTANT [BUG in 0.99] Re: [ANNOUNCE]: linux version 0.99
Keywords: kernel linux 0.99
Date: 20 Dec 92 18:42:17 GMT
Organization: Kendall Square Research Corp.

Lars Wirzenius writes:

[about questionable initialization of a static pointer to NULL]

>In normal C programs, yes, but the kernel is a bit special.  Like, for
>instance, who is going to do the initialization?  Normally it is the
>kernel (which zeroes out all memory before it is given to a user
>process), the linker (which loads the pre-initialized variables from a
>file, i.e. those variables which are given an explicit initializer),
>and possbily the C startup code.  Trouble is, none of these are active
>when the kernel is booting...

Sounds more like a slight design problem, or perhaps a "feature".
Normally, the primary bootstrap code, before doing anything else, loads
either itself or a kernel or a secondary boot code into memory (from a PROM
or from a device). An integral part of this loading process is to initialize
BSS. That way the loaded object can be written as any other piece of C code.
Actually, even the loader itself can be written in C (I've written one myself),
you just have to make sure there is no static data in the code.

I can't think of a reason for the kernel loader to skip the BSS initialization.
And, as the bug more than clearly demonstrates, there are quite a few reasons
to keep the kernel coding standard.

This reminded me that I was questioning why the linux kernel uses floating
point code (I seem to remember a message posted, implying that it is used).
Generally, there is no need for any floating point code in
operating systems and absence of the floating point code eliminates all
difficulties with handling the coprocessors or emulation code.
-Z
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: vince@victrola.sea.wa.us (Vince Skahan)
Subject: probable faq - explain the filesystem types
Organization: Vince and Suzie's Underpowered PC
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 16:43:54 GMT

I've gotten lost in all the types of filesystems available
for linux and would appreciate either answers or pointers to
existing FAQs for the following:

1. The 'default' filesystem is limited to 14-character filenames
	which breaks lots of software I'd like to run that assume
	longer-than-14-characters.  What do I need to do to get
	the long filenames ?  Since 14 is the default, I assume that
	anything else isn't 'official'.  What's the condition of
	any such unofficial setup ? (alpha, beta-but-almost-perfect...)

2. Is there still a hard partition size limit ??? What is the maximum
	partition size in MB that's "official" ?  How about the various
	extensions ?  What condition are they (alpha, beta, etc.).

3. I have an existing BBS files area on a DOS partition that's accessible
	via mtools.  I think I remember being able to mount this partition
	as a 'msdos' filesystem and have it appear as a linux filesystem.
	How do you do this ? (again, how 'official' is it and is there any
	risk in doing so?).

My setup currently is:
	
	- SLS0.98-5 (soon to up it to 0.99)
	- /dev/hdb2 as /
	- /dev/hdb3 as swap
	- /dev/hdb1 as an old mcc-interim soon to be nuked
	- /dev/hda1 as DOS c:
	- /dev/hda5 as DOS d:
	- all linux filesystems currently 'normal' not using any of
		the linux extensions (I used mkfs, not mkefs).
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From: sridhar@caboom.cbm.dec.com (Pete Sridharan)
Subject: Re: Old Binaries' Summary
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 20:12:29 GMT

In upgrading from 0.97 the following binaries were broken:
    binary                         Failure
   ========                       =========
  - bash                           getwd failed
  - make                           getwd failed
  - setterm                        stat failed
  - less                           stat  failed

-pete sridharan
sridhar@cbm.dec.com
From: csdong@cirrus.seas.ucla.edu (Dong S. Chang)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Where to get lastest version of linux?
Date: 20 Dec 92 23:57:23 GMT
Organization: School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, UCLA

Where can I get latest vertion of Linux?
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: andrewc@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !)
Subject: Re: How do I provide the floppys to normal users????
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 22:25:28 GMT

andrewc@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !) writes:

>Well, it depends...If you don't mind the security risk you could just make
>mount and umount setuid root, although this is NOT a Good Thing (tm) if
>you've got dial-in access...
>(Or DOS partitions you don't want them to mount)

>So, take your chances if you like, but I don't recommend it...
>i guess you could make a setuid root script that checked what tty they're on
>and what they're mounting, so they can only mount floppies and only when
>they're at the console...

This could cause problems if you're using a pty, though, I just thought...
eg. You could be using an Xterm or you could be using Screen via a modem...
Hmmm...

Oh well...

Enjoy !

Cos !
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