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From: peter@vax.oxford.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Install bindist from C: or FTP+NE1000
Date: 24 Dec 92 11:42:50 GMT
Organization: Oxford University VAX 6620

(Sorry if this is a FAQ) - I have installed the Tiny 386BSD succesfully and
would now like to install the main binary distribution. I can get the files on
my DOS C: partition but could also use FTP. I have an ethernet card which can 
be made NE1000 compatible. I can't figure out the right ifconfig command - 
there doesn't seem to be a suitable driver in /dev anyway (ne0?).

Help appreciated either in accessing C: or FTP.

Thanks

Peter Higginbotham
Oxford University
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
From: dwoakes@cix.compulink.co.uk (David Woakes)
Subject: Tape Streamer with 386bsd
Reply-To: dwoakes@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 14:58:00 +0000

I would like to use some kind of tape streamer with 386bsd.
Can anybody tell me if there is a driver?
From: josephs@msen.com (Joseph Stroup)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: BSDI CD Rom Helpme
Date: 2 Jan 1993 19:53:42 -0500
Organization: Msen, Inc. -- Ann Arbor, Michigan
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: garnet.msen.com

To make a long story short I have BSDI Gamma .0.9.4 and a Mitsumi CD ROM.
They say to set the CD up as Port 340 IRQ 2/9 and DRQ as 3. If anyone
of you experts has done this please e-mail me with the settings. 

I have set the jumpers to IRQ and the port correctly but there is not
a spot for the DMA jumper 3 on 5,6 and 7. The Rom works fine under dos 5
and I tried to run the install. It gets to the root question looking
for the device name , then I enter the  CD ROM code mcd0 after that it
see's the rom and hangs. The box its on is running a Conner IDE drive
and I know that one reason why the different settings.

I know that something simple will fix this and I have hardware all over
the place. I also have e-mail into BSDI and will call Monday a.m. Meanwhile
I just hoped one of you out there in Net land has done this andis running
this.

                  Email  josephs@garnet.msen.com

                  Thanks in advance.
                  `:wq
                  
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Nf-From: tisdec.tis.tandy.com!chris    Dec 29 09:00:00 1992


I encountered these same messages once when I was upgrading the memory in my
BSD/386 system (Compudyne 386/25 original model).  I turned out that the memory
expansion board did not like the cheap 3 chip 1MEG SIMMs, but worked fine when
I got the 9 chip variety.  I am now running 8 9-chip 70ns 1MEG SIMMs.

The system would work fine until it needed the area where the 3-chip SIMMs were
mapped into.  If I placed the 3-chip SIMMs in the lower memeory area the system
would barf on the way up.

The 9-chip SIMMs are about $5 more, but worth it.
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From: conklin@kaleida.com (J.T. Conklin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: [386BSD] Anyone using CD-ROM's with 2048 byte sectors
Date: 28 Dec 92 22:41:43 GMT
Reply-To: conklin@kaleida.com
Organization: Kaleida Labs, Inc.


I'm trying to get my Texel 3024 CD-ROM to work with 386BSD with the
new scsi drivers.

I can mount CD-ROMs and access the directories and some of the files
(others fail with errno=EINVAL.)  After a while the machine hangs or
crashes.

I don't think the bug is in the filesystem code, as the same behavior
(crashes and hangs) can be be obtained by:

	dd if=/dev/cd0a of=/dev/null

I've read the cd.c source, and see that there is code that is supposed
to work with !512 byte sector devices, but maybe there is something
else missing.

	--jtc


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From: andreas@knobel.GUN.de (Andreas Klemm)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: 386bsd and AT&T SVR4 compatibility
Date: 27 Dec 92 23:59:26 GMT
Organization: Andreas Klemm, 4040 Neuss, Germany

In <1992Dec22.121831.4481@ghost.dsi.unimi.it> marelli@ghost.dsi.unimi.it (Paolo Marelli) writes:

| I'm very interested in obtain some information about
| compatibility between 386bsd an AT&T SVR4 or similar
| unix version like Consensys.

| Do the excutables use the same format ?

System V Rel.: 4	ELF-format
			supports COFF as well

386bsd:			a.out format.

No way to exchange binaries between 386bsd and traditional SYSV Systems.

Andreas.
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From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: [386BSD] GCC 2.3.2 floating point problems
Date: 27 Dec 1992 21:59:41 GMT
Organization: /etc/organization
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu


In article <1hklblINN7rb@life.ai.mit.edu> mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu
(Charles Hannum) writes:
>
> ldexp() is such a trivial function that I don't know why it wasn't
> just coded in assembly language.

With foot halfway in mouth, I point out that I missed a trivial
optimization:

#include	"DEFS.h"

ENTRY(ldexp)
	fildl	12(%esp)
	fldl	4(%esp)
	fscale
	fstp	%st(1)
	ret

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From: heiser@acs.bu.edu (William Heiser)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: [386BSD] XFree86 on ATI Ultra-graphics Pro (mach32 chip)
Keywords: 386bsd xfree86 ati mach32 drivers
Date: 3 Jan 93 23:30:39 GMT
Distribution: us
Organization: Boston University, Boston, MA, USA

In article <kburke.726088112@cwis> kburke@cwis.unomaha.edu (Kevin Burke) writes:
>I am ttrying to get XFreee86 running on a Gateway 486-33 with a
>ATI Ultra Graphics Pro  local buus card.  Has anyone had success

Along the same lines:  I expect to be trying Xfree86 on a 486/33 
with an ATI Graphics Ultra (not the PRO model), ISA, not localbus.
Are there drivers for this setup?
From: DS1437@acspr1.acs.brockport.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: RE: 386bsd kernel problems on a Gateway 2000 486/dx-2
Date: 22 Dec 1992 21:04:27 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

>    I am trying to install 386bsd on a GateWay 2000 486 50Mhz DX/2. The
>system has a 205 Mb IDE Drive. I can run the install disk fine, however
>when I boot off the hard drive the screen looks like this:

    Well I solved my own problem, I ftp'd the kernel from rachel with
all of the new patches applied and it seems to do fine now.


    However I still have another problem, Anytime any software tries to
output data to the NE2000 ethernet card the machine hangs. Does anyone
have an Idea what this is? since I now have the system running at least
I can debug it now.

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
From: karl@NeoSoft.com (Karl Lehenbauer)
Subject: Re: [386bsd] Kernel build dies, unref symbol _version
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 08:42:03 GMT

In article <21250004@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com> reink@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com (Reinier Kleipool) writes:
>/ hpuamsa:comp.unix.bsd / levinson@halcyon.com (Don Levinson) /  6:07 pm  Dec 19, 1992 /
>I am trying to build a new kernel using the code in the src01 distribution
>the only change was that I added the files for the DEPCA driver
>I have not added the patchkit or anything else. after executing
>config, make depend, I execute make and all goes well until it says
>"loading 386bsd"
>"init_main.o: something about an unreferenced symbol _version"
>is there a standard fix for this?

Yeah, ATFP.  Add The Fine Patchkit.  This problem is fixed by patch #1.

There are *so* many problems fixed by the patchkit, like random lockups.

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From: mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp (Masataka Ohta)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Dumb Americans (was INTERNATIONALIZATION: JAPAN, FAR EAST)
Date: 27 Dec 92 19:26:11 GMT
Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology

In article <CARLTON.92Dec21163548@scws8.harvard.edu>
	carlton@scws8.harvard.edu (david carlton) writes:

>I certainly wouldn't call it an insignificantly larger market.  Huge
>numbers of people use Chinese, Japanese, and other languages whose
>scripts don't fit in 8 bits, after all.

True. But, it should be noted that they don't fit even in 16 bits.

Even character sets used in a single language can not be represented
with 16 bits.

While not all characters are used in modern Japanese, Taiwan already have
a character encoding standard which contains more than 65536 Han
characters.

>Whether it is worth the
>effort to you is another matter, though;

Sure. But if you do something, do it throughly, so that you don't have
to do it twice.

						Masataka Ohta
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
From: grefen@convex.com (Stefan Grefen)
Subject: Re: Does 386BSD work on systems with 20 megabytes of memory! HELP!
Reply-To: grefen@convex.com
Organization: CONVEX Computer Corporation
Distribution: comp.unix.bsd
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 08:26:29 GMT
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.

In article <287902vW30DE01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>, tjw00@zombie.uucp (Tom Wye) writes:
|> Does 386BSD work on machines with 20 megabytes of memory or more? HELP!!!!
|> 
|> The system slowly crashs and burns when I boot with 20 megabytes of storage     
|> installed. The same kernel runs ok with 4 megabytes.
|> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|> My configuration is as follows:
|> 
|> PC Clone
|> Motherboard: NICE 486DX50 Mhz 256K cache
|> AMI BIOS
|> Memory in bank 0 - 4 x 1m sims for 4M 
|> Memory in bank 1 - 4 x 4m sims for 16M 
|> Adaptec 1542BB
This is it, the Adaptec can only DMA into the lower 16M of RAM ... you loose.
You need an  Adaptec 174x (EISA) or change the code in the driver to use a 
buffer and copy the data for requests outside the first 16M.
Regards 
 Stefan
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
From: levinson@halcyon.com (Don Levinson)
Subject: [386bsd] where is libcompat.a when compiling games?
Organization: The 23:00 News and Mail Service
Distribution: comp.unix.bsd
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 19:56:24 GMT

when I try to compile the games in /usr/othersrc/games
it dies when trying to link each game because it cannot fint
libcompat.a, as far as I can tell there is no libcompat.a and
never has been. (I am at patchlevel 58 or whatever the current
is)
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From: mark@roissy.umd.edu (Mark Sienkiewicz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: [386bsd] Help finding an up-to-date kernel
Date: 23 Dec 92 16:34:49 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Maryland

In article <lje9qaINN4hs@news.bbn.com> blackett@bbn.com (Kent Blackett) writes:
>
>I'm really new to 386bsd, and I got to where I am by ftp'ing the distribution
>files at work, then ftp'ing them to a Mac at work, then writing DOS-format
>floppies on the Mac, then taking the floppies home to the PC.
>

Here's an alternative you can consider.  (I did this for my system.)

Carry the whole machine in to work and "borrow" an IP address for long
enough to ftp in the distribution.  You need an ethernet board, of course,
but if you can borrow one of them too, you're in good shape.

The install disk comes with the ftp client, which you can use to get
the distribution over the net.  Be warned-- the kernel on the install
disk has some debugging left on in the network code, so it will be
pretty slow to do the transfer.  It took me several hours to get the
whole bin01, src01, and etc01 distributions over, but I wasn't paying
attention to it either, so I don't know how long it was waiting for me.
Mostly, I would look at it once in a while and and see 
"startstartstartstartstartstartstart" moving across the screen.

It happens that there was an ethernet board I could borrow, but before I 
knew that would be the case, I considered buying one for occasions like
this.  I don't have my tape drive yet, though, so it would be more cost
effective for me than it would be for you.

Good luck,

Mark.
From: carlton@scws8.harvard.edu (david carlton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Dumb Americans (was INTERNATIONALIZATION: JAPAN, FAR EAST)
Date: 21 Dec 92 21:35:48 GMT
Organization: Citizens for Boysenberry Jam
In-reply-to: gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk's message of Sat, 19 Dec 1992 20:28:41 GMT

In article <BzIwvu.3BE@demon.co.uk>, gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal) writes:

> PS What's the general feeling on i18n here?  I make my stuff (like my
> bsd spell clone) 8 bit clean, but haven't given any thought to > 8 bit
> alphabets.  Is it chauvinistic to take the attitude that the extra work
> (if any) for 8 bit isn't much, for a significantly larger market but
> > 8 bit involves a lot of work for an insignificantly larger market?

I certainly wouldn't call it an insignificantly larger market.  Huge
numbers of people use Chinese, Japanese, and other languages whose
scripts don't fit in 8 bits, after all.  Whether it is worth the
effort to you is another matter, though; if you spend too much time
worrying about that sort of stuff, you'll never get anything written,
after all, and I'm certainly not going to say that
internationalization should be high on your list of priorities.  It
isn't on mine, after all; most of the programming that I do is for my
own benefit.

david carlton
carlton@husc.harvard.edu

        Rex, lui, il s'est mis `a manger les b'egonias, mais c'est
        moins grave que pour le fauteuil du salon, parce que nous
        avons plus de b'egonias que de fauteuils.
                                        - Semp'e / Goscinny
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
From: rivers@ponds.uucp (Thomas David Rivers)
Subject: Re: [386bsd]  NMI messages on the console and log.
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 01:32:02 GMT


  These indicate memory problems (memory parity problems) with your
 motherboard.

  It is possible that such problems are caused by DMA devices you
 may have, and, if you have an older motherboard, its interaction with 
 the memory subsystem.

  Also, if you have a newer motherboard, it could be related to the
 BUS timings (which is configuarable in the setup of newer motherboards.)

  Also, some older motherboards have the habit of asserting this error
 if there is a parity problem on the AT-BUS instead of the memory.

  A card which is known to behave this way with older motherboards is
 the Adaptec 1542 SCSI controller.  Fortunately, that card contains a
 test for this situation in the card's ROM (see you manual for how to
 execute this test.)

  Finally, I owned such an old machine (a DTK KEEN 2000) which,
 although it passed the Adaptec test had the same problems.  I believe
 it just wasn't correct (it also had similar problems with ISC Unix) and
 fell into the situation where it asserted the AT-BUS parity problems.
 (That is, all memory tests showed everthing to be correct; but 386bsd
 and ISC Unix 2.0.2 would still demonstrate the problem.) Since they 
 are rather cheap now, I simply replaced the motherboard with a newer one.

  By the way, I did notice that linux didn't seem to have a problem like
 this, nor did 386bsd v0.0. However, it may be that at the time, these 
 OSs simply didn't log these problems.

	- Dave Rivers -
	(rivers@ponds.uucp)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.linux
From: peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva)
Subject: Re: INTERNATIONALIZATION: JAPAN, FAR EAST
Keywords: Han Kanji Katakana Hirugana ISO10646 Unicode Codepages
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 00:39:54 GMT

In article <veit.724666000@du9ds3> veit@du9ds3.fb9dv.uni-duisburg.de writes:
> Please tell me where I can get a document describing NET-UTF, preferably
> electronically.

The Plan 9 manuals are up for FTP from research.att.com, in the dist/plan9
subdirectory (or something like that).
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
From: ted@usasoc.soc.mil (Ted Nolan)
Subject: How about Zeos?
Organization: SRI International, Ft. Bragg NC
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 20:35:44 GMT

Hello folks,

In my ongoing attempt to psych myself up to get a decent home system,
I'm now considering Zeos 486s.  Does anyone know:

	1) If 386BSD will boot (and run!) on one.

	2) If Xfree86 will work in highres mode on their vesa super vga

	3) If their SCSI option is compatible with what 386BSD wants to
	   see.

Anyone have any experience?


				Thanks,

				Ted Nolan
				ted@usasoc.soc.mil
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.windows.x
From: berry@enuxha.eas.asu.edu (Joel R. Berry)
Subject: [386bsd] xfig
Followup-To: poster
Keywords: xfig slowness
Organization: Arizona State University
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 22:12:38 GMT

Hello all,
    I had been playing with X for a while and I decided to download
the sources to xfig.  I compiled them and they work great.  I just
have one question tho.  When I load one of the example files called
roundboxes2.fig, the redraw takes about 15 seconds.  This is running
on a 386bsd equipped 486 33 Mhz with a STB Pwrgrph.  This was not so
alarming until I ran the program on another machine and sent the
output to my display.  The redraw was in less than a second. 
Okay I thought, too much stuff on my box with the server and the 
application running at the same time. No Problem.  I then saw the
same program with server running on an SCO box.  The server and program
were running on the same machine and the redraw was still less than
a second.  The version I have on my bsd box is 2.1.6 and the version 
on the SCO box was 2.1.4.  The server I am using is the prebuilt one
at agate.  I compiled it before and things were faster, but I put
"real partitioning" on my bsd box and now I dont have enough room
to compile.  What is my performance botleneck. Is the 386bsd system
that much slower at running applications?  Any help would be greatly
appreciated.
joel berry
berry@enuxha.eas.asu.edu

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From: pozar@kumr.lns.com (Tim Pozar)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: [386bsd] SLIP is one way...
Date: 2 Jan 93 17:33:47 GMT
Organization: Late Night Software (San Francisco)


   With building any kernel the best I can get on slip sessions are
packets going out a slip link and not making it back in.  The machine on
the other end will echo pings back, but the 386BSD box is not getting them
back.

   Here is my routing...
Route Tree for Protocol Family 2:
(root node) =>
default          140.174.7.10       UG          1       17  we0
localhost        127.0.0.1          UH          1        0  lo0
140.174.7        140.174.7.11       U           7      134  we0
140.175.7.34     127.0.0.1          UH          0        0  lo0
140.175.7.35     140.175.7.34       UH          1        6  sl0

   I "ifconfig"ed the slip link (sl0) as:
ifconfig sl0 inet 140.175.7.34 140.175.7.35 netmask 0xffffff00

   This problem is occuring with both sliplogin and slattach.  I tried to
use the dist kernel with marginal success with slattach only.

   FYI here is my kernel config file...
---
#
# My machine! ftp.lns.com
#
machine		"i386"
cpu		"i386"
ident		FTP_LNS_COM
timezone	8 dst
maxusers	32
options		XSERVER,INET,ISOFS,NFS,GATEWAY
options		"COMPAT_43"
options		"TCP_COMPAT_42"

config		"386bsd"	root on wd0 swap on wd0 and sd

controller	isa0
controller	wd0	at isa? port "IO_WD1" bio irq 14 vector wdintr
disk		wd0	at wd0 drive 0
disk		wd0	at wd0 drive 1

controller	fd0	at isa? port "IO_FD1" bio irq 6 drq 2 vector fdintr
disk		fd0	at fd0 drive 0
disk		fd1	at fd0 drive 1

device		pc0	at isa? port "IO_KBD" tty irq 1 vector pcrint
device		npx0	at isa? port "IO_NPX" irq 13 vector npxintr
device		com1	at isa? port "IO_COM1" tty irq 4 vector comintr
device		com2	at isa? port "IO_COM2" tty irq 3 vector comintr

device we0 at isa? port 0x300 net irq 10 iomem 0xcc000 iosiz 8192 vector weintr

pseudo-device	loop
pseudo-device	ether
pseudo-device	log
pseudo-device	pty	32
pseudo-device	sl	1

pseudo-device	swappager
pseudo-device	vnodepager
pseudo-device	devpager
---

   Anyone running into this probelm?

                Tim

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From: sef@Kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: [386bsd] GNU malloc in favor of BSD malloc in libc - shall we vote?
Date: 31 Dec 1992 15:03:05 -0800
Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd.
NNTP-Posting-Host: ftp.uu.net

"comp" is not a valid distribution.  By putting "Distribution: comp" in your
header, you have caused or allowed a growing number of sites around the
world to drop your article on the floor.  If you don't care whether or not
people see your article, please feel free to continue using invalid dis-
tributions.

In article <JKH.92Dec31154004@whisker.lotus.ie> jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes:
>I say we petition Bill to use GNU malloc in preference.

GNU malloc is copylefted.  Using it in a library means that every program
compiled using that library is copylefted.  That is almost certainly the
reason why it is not used, and I cannot fault anyone for that.

Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
From: rich@Rice.edu (& Murphey)
Subject: Re: recompiled ps exits with /dev/mem permission denied message
Reply-To: Rich@rice.edu
Organization: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice
	University
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 04:16:55 GMT

>>>>> In article <fXiP7x7@quack.sac.ca.us>, dfox@quack.sac.ca.us (David Fox) writes:
David> I've noticed something strange.  After putting in a Cyrix NDP, and
David> recompiling ps and libutil.a (installing the patch for ps), ps
David> dies when I'm not logged in as root with

David> ps: kvm_openfiles: can't open /dev/mem: permission denied

you need to 'chgrp kmem /bin/ps' and 'chmod g+w /bin/ps' so that it is
set-group id on execution:

-r-xr-sr-x   1 bin      kmem        77824 Dec 16 15:52 /bin/ps*

Rich
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
From: scardina@sed.stel.com (David Scardina)
Subject: test
Organization: SED, Stanford Telecom, Reston, VA
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 93 02:30:29 GMT


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