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From: najem@cs.uiuc.edu (Ziad H. Najem)
Subject: Re: Wondering about making an extfs on rootdisk
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 03:55:27 GMT

sp@questor.org (Steve Pershing) writes:

>Being a consummate nit when it comes to UNIX (but I am re-learning), I
>wonder if there are any opinions or traps to be aware of if I were to
>create all fs's on my rootdisk as extended file systems?

>I guess the question is really a "normal" vs and "extended" file system.

>Comments on traps, pitfalls, experiences  ...anyone?

I have my root as an extended fs and it works just fine. 


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From: christian.perrier@lill.frmug.fr.mugnet.org (Christian Perrier)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: [NET]: PROBLEMS WITH 0.99
Date: 8 Jan 93 15:40:00 GMT
Reply-To: christian.perrier@lill.frmug.fr.mugnet.org (Christian Perrier)
Organization: Li'LL BBS - Paris, France


 AXI> I am not running named on either machine.  I have the hosts file
set
 AXI> up identically on both machines:

 AXI> darwin  129.30.30.1       [my machine]
 AXI> fugazi  129.30.30.2       [roommate's]

So do I (but the net is quite larger....but also "dummy")


 AXI> The problem is this:  I try to telnet out from my roommate's
machine
 AXI> to mine and it hangs.  I try to telnet from mine to his, and on
mine
 AXI> it says "WD8003 timed out." and on his it has garbled packets and
it
 AXI> says it's resetting the card.  I have no idea what's going on. 
Please
 AXI> mail me any advice.  Thanks in advance.

Are you *really* sure that your machine hangs?

Try to wait a sufficiently long time when telneting......

I noticed the following (I'll use your machine names for convenience) :

Here "fugazi" is a Sun 3/50 under SunOS

and "darwin" is, as you, my Linux machine

If I 'telnet fugazi' from darwin, Linux seems to hang, but after a
looooong time connects to fugazi and everything is OK.

If I 'telnet 129.30.30.2' from darwin, the connection is perfect and
immediate.

From fugazi to darwin, this is exactly the same bahaviour : if you
telent with the name of the machine as argument, it takes a very long
time, if you do this with tha address it's immediate.....

I never understood why......

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From: ccasted@prism.gatech.EDU (Edward Deering Boykin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Xfree861.2
Date: 11 Jan 93 01:25:40 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

I am currently running Xfree861.1 and Linux 99patch2 on my 486/66.
I use the ati ultra pro vdeo card w/ 2 megs vram. My question is this:
I have heared several people remark as to having Xfree861.2 running
on their linux box. I have looked in several of the ftp servers and can 
only find 1.1 or 1.0 Xfree. Are they in error or is 1.2 available for Linux
yet? If so where can I get it and is it pretty stable or buggy as hell?
Just curious. Thanks in advance for all your replies.


Ed Boykin
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: gunter@mbfys.kun.nl (Gunter Windau)
Subject: Re: The backup problem (was Re: tar won't do multi-volume archives)
Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 08:29:21 GMT

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

>It seems to me the best way to go would be to compress each file
>before it's put in the tar file, and then (obviously) decompress it
>for restores. [.......]

If I remember right there is a program called afio that does just this.
It creates a multi volume cpio style archive by reading files from
stdin. It figures out for each file if it's worth being compressed.
Anyone who knows more about this?

Gunter.
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From: tp@jet.uk (Tarang K Patel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: [Q] Any activist on the NET channel ?
Summary: I cant seem to get thru to the NET channel, help !!!
Keywords: linux, net
Date: 11 Jan 93 11:36:34 GMT
Organization: Joint European Torus


 I have been trying to get thru to the linux-activists, on the NET channel
 but having had NO response, NOT even a confirmation as to when I try to join
 the channel. I hope some one will reply to my simple querry here.

 [Q] What is the current version of tcpip ?

 [Q] Where can I get hold of it ? 
   i.e if tsx-11, then the directory its located in

 [Q] Will, I have to get all the patches, or is there a complete patch level 
     version released on some site out ther ?

 [Q] Can I make use of SLS's release of tcpip, without having any of the
     other SLS release stuff of linux ?

 [Q] Which version of the gcc complier will I need for the release of tcpip ?

 Thanks for all those who respond to my querries here.
 
 Tarang
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From: strobel@sun1.de.fh-heilbronn.de (Stefan Strobel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: olvwm's WINMENU doesn't work.
Date: 8 Jan 1993 15:25:37 GMT
Organization: Rechenzentrun der Fachhochschule Heilbronn
NNTP-Posting-Host: sun1.rz.fh-heilbronn.de


How did you compile olvwm with DIRMENU ? I tried to compile it (Version 3.3),
but the dirmenu code uses some regexp routines (step and compile) that I
didn't have, so I just left them out. 
Apart from that olvwm seems to work fine.

Stefan

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: Bruce@Pixar.com (Bruce Perens)
Subject: Serial hardware flow control and modem control?
Organization: Pixar -- Point Richmond, California
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 19:00:27 GMT

I'd like to find anyone who is working on serial hardware flow control
and modem control. I have some high-speed modems and ham radio TNCs that
require flow control to work above 9600 baud under Linux. I've been
hacking Unix kernels for 11 years, and can help if necessary.

						Thanks

						Bruce Perens
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: hfaester@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Hannes Faestermann)
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: linux FAQ in LaTeX
Keywords: Linux FAQ, LaTeX
Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany)
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 15:28:00 GMT

paula@bronte.boeing.com (Paul Allen) writes:

>In article <1993Jan8.152647.22034@klaava.Helsinki.FI> jflores@dcc.uchile.cl (Pepe Flores Peters) writes:
>>
>>I have uploaded to tsx-11.mit.edu the source code in LaTeX and 
>>dvi file of Linux FAQ.      
>>
>>It's the most  beautiful  FAQ I've ever seen :).

>I realize that the human-readable version of the FAQ is still available,
>and this isn't a flame at Pepe.  His post is just the little nudge that
>has pushed me over the edge.

>Could we please refrain from encrypting (with LaTeX, or whatever) documents
>that don't need to be pretty?  Things like the FAQ, or software installation
>instructions, are most useful if all you need to do to read them is look
>at them.  Significant infrastructure is required to deal with LaTeX, and
>not all of us are interested in making that investment.

...further complaints from Pepe deleted...

Though I like to have LaTeX formatted stuff I have to agree with Pepe: There
is no urgent need to have stuff like the FAQs in LaTeX format. But in
opposite to his suggestion to use a detex program I'd like to ask for another
way to do it. Wouldn't it be possible to create the FAQ stuff (and the like)
in a form that is easily parsable with a script (be it sh or perl) to produce
LaTeX (or troff or whatever) output ?

Just a suggestion...

	Hannes

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From: rob@phavl.UUCP (Robert Ransbottom)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: cannot login at all!!!
Date: 10 Jan 93 18:26:09 GMT
Organization: erehton

In article <1993Jan8.111115.2278@daimi.aau.dk> poe@daimi.aau.dk (Peter Orbaek) writes:

>It's not a bad idea to have
>
>	rm -f /etc/utmp ; touch /etc/utmp
>
>in ones /etc/rc file.

Simply

	> /etc/utmp

will truncate the file & preserve permissions.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: rosa@ghost.dsi.unimi.it (massimo rossi)
Subject: help about et400 color box under linux
Organization: Computer Science Dep. - Milan University
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 10:20:30 GMT
Summary: et4000

     
I have an et-4000 svga card (Color Box)
with a 14" interlaced monitor 
I have big problem setting right frequencies and dot clock
in xconfig 
these are the specific hw frequency table of my tseng
resolution    sync freq horiz.    sync freq vert.    dot clock
640x480           31.5 khz              60   hz         25.175 mhz
640x480           38.7 khz              72.7 hz         32.512 mhz
800x600           35.5 khz              56   hz         36     mhz
800x600           38   khz              60   hz         40     mhz
800x600           48.4 khz              72.7 hz         50.35  mhz
1024x768          35.5 khz              87   hz ''      44.9   mhz
1024x768          49   khz              60.5 hz         65     mhz
1024x768          57.6 khz              71.7 hz         80     mhz

'' means interlaced

monitors specific are:
bandwidth 45 mhz 
horiz. freq.  31.458  35.5  35.2  khz
vertical freq.  50 56 60 70 43.48 hz
blanking time  50 hz    480 400 300 line
	       60 hz    480 400 350 line
	       70 hz    400 350     line
	       56 hz    600         line
	       43.48    768         line    interlaced
	       
	       1) in xconfig should I use in 1024x768 just 35.5 khz
	       or I could use all 1024x768
	       2) I 'd like to have the line to put in xconfig
	       that let me see 1024x768 pixel (800x600 and 640x480)
	       will be pleased anyway
	       3) I think it's possible to set x11 with normal
	       vga 640x480x16 how ?
	       how ?


	       thanks to everybody 

	       



You can mail to me at rosa&ghost.sm.dsi.unimi.it
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From: rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Xconfig help?
Date: 8 Jan 1993 17:17:28 GMT
Organization: Just me.
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.2.33
Summary: NEC MultiSync 6FG setup needed

I've finally gotten around to installing X Windows on my machine, but I
don't know how to set up the Xconfig file for the NEC MultiSync 6FG monitor
and this Compaq's built-in SVGA.  Could someone give me a pointer or two?

Rick Miller   <rick@ee.uwm.edu> | <rick@discus.mil.wi.us>   Ricxjo Muelisto
Occupation:  Husband, Father, WEPCo. WAN Mgr., Discus Sys0p, and  Linux fan
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil (Eric Youngdale)
Subject: Re: Adaptec 1542B config?
Organization: Naval Research Laboratory
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 15:52:40 GMT

In article <C0HGE0.77M@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil> dsc3pzp@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (Philip Perucci) writes:
>Hello,
>
>  Re: Adaptec 1542B
>
>  1)  To use 1542B w/Linux 0.99pl2 kernel with SCSI support compiled in
>      (1542B controller), should BIOS be enabled or disabled?

	Works either way.

>  2)  Are there ANY docs describing proper configuration of 1542B for Linux?

	You can use any setting for the DMA channel except for 0, and any
IRQ number that you can strap the board for.  Note that when you fiddle with
these there is one strap that tells the board what to use, and there is a
second strap that tells the board what to tell the CPU that it is using, and
if you have the board incorrectly strapped these can be different.

	Finally, you can use I/O address 0x330 or 0x334.  I could add more, but
I do not like the idea of probing a whole bunch of memory addresses when we are
not even sure if the board is in the system or not.

-Eric
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: friedman@starbase.trincoll.edu (Mark A. Friedman)
Subject: Gateway 2000 486DX2-66V vs. Zeos 486DX2-66 VESA Local Bus System?
Reply-To: mark.friedman@mail.trincoll.edu
Organization: Trinity College, Hartford, CT
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 04:38:53 GMT

I've narrowed the choice of what system I will buy on which to run
Linux to two and now wish to make a final decision between the Gateway
2000 486DX2-66V and the Zeos 486DX2-66 VESA Local Bus System.  The
systems seem comparable in terms of performance, features and cost in
terms of my needs and budget.  I will be buying only a system unit
(i.e. motherboard, processor, memory, etc. within a tower case) and
hard disk but no monitor nor graphics card from one of these two
vendors.

I want to base my final decision on the overall quality of systems put
together by the two vendors, in particular, how well these two
specific machines are built, how well and how reliably Linux has been known
                             ----------------------------------------------
to perform on each of the machines and in addition take into account the
----------------------------------
reputation of each vendor in terms of service and support.

I would appreciate any comments, praise or grief from Linux users who
have chosen these machines.  I plan to summerize that which I receive
together with a promised summary of a previous post early next week.

-- Mark
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: hausman@caffeine.cen.uiuc.edu (Kevin Hausman)
Subject: Startup video problem with SLS
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 06:18:51 GMT
Keywords: SLS video

After finally getting the new hard drive I ordered some time ago, I eagerly
began the installation process for the SLS Linux distribution.  Everything
worked great until I rebooted with the floppy the installation procedure
created.  When it booted, after the "Loading...." message, my screen went
berserk.  The computer continued merrily along and seemed to come up OK,
but I couldn't read anything on the screen.  

It looks like a timing problem on the video card.  Does anybody have any
idea how this might be fixed?  The install boot disk didn't have this
problem, even when I put it in SVGA mode...

My system is a Gateway 2000 386-33Mhz with a Diamond Speedstar (ET4000)
video card and a Crystal Scan 1024NI monitor.


Kevin

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From: jeffreyj@nighthawk.ksu.ksu.edu (Jeffrey John Martin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: how do I mount the a2 disk for SLS.
Date: 5 Jan 1993 23:00:40 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: nighthawk.ksu.ksu.edu

     The instructions I have say to boot off the a1 and mount the a2.	
how do that??  When I boot the a1 it says to type more /user/README
When I do that I get "more command not found"  I'm lost.
                            Thanks, Jeff jeffreyj@matt.ksu.ksu.edu
From: hlu@eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Boot prog which allows OS selection
Date: 6 Jan 93 22:17:52 GMT
Article-I.D.: serval.1993Jan6.221752.4914
Organization: School of EECS, Washington State University

In article <1ifghrINNp0m@introl.introl.com>, pete@introl.com (Pete Ikusz) writes:
|> Does a boot program exist which will allow the user to change
|> the active partition and boot off it. I know there is one
|> for OS2, but is there a PD version which will work for
|> linux/dos?
|> 
|> Thanks,
|> -Pete
|> -- 
|> -------------------------------------------------------
|> Pete Ikusz	Introl Corporation	pete@introl.com

I am using mboot. You have to run it first on the DOS partition of your
hard drive. You can choose the the active partition from choices of four.
After you can just delete your dos partition like I did.

Mboot is on tsx-11 under pub/linux/GCC/rootdisk. Read mboot's docs for
details.
 
H.J. 
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: amir@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (Guindehi Amir)
Subject: Gcc 2.3.3, gcc 2.2.2d and -V
Organization: University of Zurich, Department of Computer Science
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 23:28:18 GMT

HI all !

I have a question on the new gcc compilier. Probably I should post this message
on something *.unix but I don't know on which so I post here.

After installing the lib-4.2 package image-4.2.TZ and the gcc 2.3.3 for 486
i tried to compile something with the -V 2.2.2d switch, to see if I can
use the old compiler. It seems that it works, but to the end he writes :

gcc: installation problem, cannot exec cpp: No such file or directory

Thats curious ! Both cpp correctly reside in /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/2.2.2d
and /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/2.3.3 and have the correct flags. I have
deleted the link in /lib to /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/2.2.2d/cpp and made
a new one pointing to  .../i486-linux/2.3.3/cpp.

Whats wrong ? Have I to let the link in /lib like it was ? Or is'nt it
possible to use a i386 and a i486 compiler at the same time ?

I think I installed the packages correctly.

Any help ? Any Idea ?

Thanks in advance

- Amir Guindehi

EMail : amir@avalon.physik.unizh.ch
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: mfrankow@hamline.edu (Mike Frankowski)
Subject: Re: SLS GCC chokes on TIFF libraries
Organization: Minnesota Supercomputer Center
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 07:04:50 GMT

Ziad H. Najem (najem@cs.uiuc.edu) wrote:
: daves@techmpc.csg.mot.com (Dave Schmitt) writes:
: 
: [...] 
: 
: to compile, GCC required around 24M of memory. try increasing your
: swap space. You may want to swap to a file (not a perminant partition)
: for this time only. 
: 
: I can generate the .o file for you if you want, drop me a note. 
: 
:  - Ziad
:    najem@cs.uiuc.edu

Now that is weird, cause I have 8 megs of ram, and 16 swap (well, 32 now, but
that is after the fact) and I got the tiff libraries compiled just fine, it
did trash hard on the system, but worked flawlessly.  DON'T try to run X though
while compiling :)

Mike
From: wjin@cs.uh.edu (W. Woody Jin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: 386 BSD
Date: 7 Jan 1993 22:45:55 GMT
Organization: University of Houston
NNTP-Posting-Host: rodin.cs.uh.edu

In article <1993Jan7.191406.25765@klaava.Helsinki.FI> lukka@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Tuomas J Lukka) writes:
>>Also, 20M for 386BSD is a bogus.
>
>So? When was that mentioned? 

Sorry,
it was mentioned by someone else previously.
I should have said that it was from him, and I was lazy ...

>>You must have at least over 40M disk space to install 386BSD.
>
>If you strip the system down, it can fit in quite narrow spaces...

But the problem is that you have to install first.

>Anyway, not to dispute about that, BSD is a system with more
>disk space requirements. 
>
>BUT...
>
>>Xserver for 386BSD is nonsense (to me).  The size was around 10M !
>
>It's nonsense because it was compiled with symbolic info!
>strip X386 
>and the size is little over a meg.

I asked the ftp site manager to put the stripped version, since
not many people will debug Xserver anyway.
It was ignored and I had to download the stupid symbols ....
Later, I stripped Xserver, but
as far as I remember, the stripped binary was around 3M (I could be
wrong and I don't want to do it again).
Anyway, I could never succeed in runing X on 386bsd on my 386 with 4M.
Whereas I am very satisfied with X and Linux on the same configuration.

>Just trying to correct some of the WORST misunderstandings
>about the free OS wars...
>
>	TJL

Sorry for the confusion.



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From: hlu@eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Zmodem for 0.99?
Date: 7 Jan 93 23:34:18 GMT
Article-I.D.: serval.1993Jan7.233418.16665
Organization: School of EECS, Washington State University

In article <2B4C4A00.85B8@tct.com>, chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
|> I've tried compiling the rzsz9202.tar-z with rzsz9202.dff.Z, but it
|> doesn't work with 0.99.2.  When receiving, it creates the file it's
|> supposed to be receiving, but then it does nothing else.  Has anyone
|> ported rzsz to Linux 0.99?
|> -- 
|> Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT  <chip@tct.com>, <73717.366@compuserve.com>
|>   "you make me want to break the laws of time and space / you make me
|>    want to eat pork / you make me want to staple bagels to my face /
|>    and remove them with a pitchfork" -- Weird Al Yankovic, "You Make Me"

There are rz/sz stuff in Linux Base System. I can use them with minicom.
They are on tsx-11.mit.edu under pub/linux/GCC/basedisk/disk2. Check ls-lRa
for location. BTW, I am using them up to 0.99.2. They work, but at the end
of transmission. They may have some garbage. I lost the sorce code due to
a fs problem.

H.J.