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From: jem@SunSite.unc.edu (Jonathan Magid)
Subject: Re: --> META-FAQ: Where to find information about Linux (13 Aug 1992) <--
Organization: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 21:44:21 GMT

I appologize for posting this to the world, but all my mail to lars 
bounces.

lars,
could you remove reggae.oit.unc.edu from the meta-faq list of
ftp sites? sunsite is the same machine as reggae used to point
to, and now reggae points to a different machine.

thanks,
jem.
-- 
Jonathan Magid     jem@sunsite.unc.edu       SunSite Administrator
Virtual pizza Delivery (tm)::faxed in 30 cycles or less or you get it
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: davisdm@widget (Mat Davis)
Subject: Re: Freeze-up after 'sock_init:...'
Organization: NASA/MSFC
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 21:48:29 GMT

Matt Welsh (mdw@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU) wrote:
: In article <1992Sep10.162933.29988@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov> davisdm@widget (Mat Davis) writes:
: >I'm having trouble with Linux freezing after the 'sock_init:...' message.
: 
: (and so on)
: 
: This is a known problem with the SCSI drivers... if you don't have any
: SCSI devices then get the kernel code, dyke out the SCSI drivers, and
: recompile. Works like a charm. (I know; I posted the same problem just
: a few days ago). 
: 
: Matt Welsh    mdw@tc.cornell.edu        +1 607 253 2737
: Random Hacker, Cornell Engineering and Theory Center 
:   "People will say we're in love."  --Hannibal Lecter

If that's it, I've still got two questions:

Why did it work so smoothly the first time and then *suddenly* start 
having problems?  The hardware wasn't touched.  (The partition map
and the contents of the Linux filesystems were all that could have
been changed.)

If I can't get Linux to run (even off of a floppy root) how can I do 
*anything*?  Darn chicken-and-egg-type problem.

Thanks!

------------------------------------------------------------------------
Mat Davis				Boeing Computer Support Services
davisdm@widget.msfc.nasa.gov				  Huntsville, AL
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From: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: /pub/OS/Linux disappeared fm nic.funet.fi
Date: 12 Sep 92 13:13:16 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki

tdunbar@vttcf.cc.vt.edu (Thomas Dunbar) writes:
>what's happened to the Linux dir at nic.funet.fi??? there's no pub/OS anymore
>and, unlike other os's, Linux isnt in the /pub dir.

It was there about 19 seconds ago.  :-)

--
Lars.Wirzenius@helsinki.fi
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jwinstea@fenris.claremont.edu (Jim Winstead Jr.)
Subject: Re: Question about rz/sz
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, WIBSTR
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 19:36:12 GMT

In article <1992Sep7.144021.22715@klaava.Helsinki.FI> wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius) writes:
>jwinstea@fenris.claremont.edu (Jim Winstead Jr.) writes:
>>Personally, Omen will never see a penny of my money unless they find
>>someone who can write documentation.  There are better (and free)
>>zmodem implementations for DOS (Texas ZModem for one), and the old
>>'free' rzsz packages work fine for me.  I also have no use for a
>>communications program that is by all reports hard-to-use.
>
>BTW, does anybody have a pointer to documentation of the Zmodem
>protocol?  It seems that somebody might want to write a better Zmodem
>for Unix.

The thing to do is find the pre-1989 (?) rzsz packages and base the
work on that - those versions were public domain.  Versions after that
have a rather non-specific copyright.

-- 
                                    +      Jim Winstead Jr. (CSci '95)
                                    |      Harvey Mudd College, WIBSTR
                                    |   jwinstea@jarthur.Claremont.EDU
                                    + or jwinstea@fenris.Claremont.EDU
From: Emmett.Sauer@f215.n3802.z1.fidonet.org (Emmett Sauer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: SunSite is not (as much) a disaster
Date: Sun, 06 Sep 1992 22:52:00 -0800

* Replying to a message originally All on 09-06-92

JM> From: jem@SunSite.unc.edu (Jonathan Magid)
JM>
JM> After about a solid 10-12 hours of work, sunsite has been
JM> reorganized. Or rather organized for the first time.
JM>
JM> Please check it out and tell me what you think
JM> along with any suggestions.
Well I just got off and it looks real good... but one little
question...

Are you going to be a mirror?

I saw no reference to mirrored files.

I get most all files from TSX-11 and since last night I will check your
system on a daily basis... I bring files to those in DOS based systems
the files..
I get them and hatch them in LNXNET.. and your system seems to be taking
a bit more care... Thanks..

emmett@tenet.edu                         ADVANCED BBS
                                        (512) 578-2720
                                         Linux files
                                        are available!


 * Origin: Advanced BBS - Line 1 (512)578-2720 (1:3802/215)

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: rhodesia@wixer.cactus.org (Felix S. Gallo)
Subject: the infamous setjmp
Followup-To: poster
Summary: hmm
Keywords: setjmp, gcc
Organization: Real/Time Communications
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 04:47:39 GMT


Alright, color me vaguely confused, but:

I installed gcc2.2.2d the other day, even going so far as to
read the readme and the faq.  Neither of them were particularly
informational, but I ended up getting it together, putting the
right files in /usr/install/gcc2, failing to rename them, and
executing the script.  

But now a bunch of programs fail to compile, most notably
including xcomm -- because of the 'setjmp programs won't
work' problem noted in this file and the gcc files.

My questions:

1) when will they?  I recently accidentally annihilated my
copy of xcomm, and now I'm relegated to using kermit until I
fall back to a previous version of gcc or until the problem
gets fixed.  Since falling back is considerable effort and
time, I wanna get an estimate.

2) why won't they?  I vaguely remember ol' H.J. filling half
my screen with a bunch of repeated warnings and admonitions
to read the faq, but he never got around to any sort of
explanations, not even in the faq.

Lest anyone miscomprehend (or worse, say 'read the faq' again),
I'm perfectly willing to rewrite any install document or FAQ
handed to me in pure, simple English, and in fact offer to do
so for the next gcc release.

-- 
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Felix Sebastian Gallo                              rhodesia@wixer.cactus.org
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: quale@saavik.cs.wisc.edu (Douglas E. Quale)
Subject: MOUNT(8) IS STILL A DISASTER !!!
Organization: Undergraduate Projects Lab, UW Madison
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 00:39:32 GMT


Well, mount(8) is still disaster.  Already I have reports of two problems.

1) It won't compile with the 2.2.2d header files.  This has the advantage
that you'll never see any other bugs, but it does reduce its usefulness
somewhat.  The mount(2) prototype I used in sys/mount.h and in the _syscall5
in mount.c doesn't agree with <unistd.h>.  The easy fix is to comment out
the prototype in <unistd.h>.  The better fix is to correct my prototypes
by adding the const qualifier to the final parameter of mount(2) in both
places.  The patch below takes care of this.

2) The root entry doesn't get added to the mtab when the mtab is missing.
This used to work right, and it was more convenient than using printroot.
The patch below makes it work again.


--- 1.1	1992/09/06 13:30:53
+++ mount.c	1992/09/06 23:57:19
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 #include <unistd.h>
 
 _syscall5(int, mount, const char *, special, const char *, dir,
-	   const char *, type, unsigned long, flags, void *, data);
+	   const char *, type, unsigned long, flags, const void *, data);
 #endif
 
 
--- 1.1	1992/09/06 13:30:53
+++ sundries.c	1992/09/06 23:57:20
@@ -153,6 +153,7 @@
       if (addmntent (F_mtab, fstab) == 1)
 	die (1, "mount: error writing %s: %s", MOUNTED, strerror (errno));
     }
+  endmntent (F_mtab);
 }
 
 /* Open mtab.  */
@@ -159,8 +160,10 @@
 void
 open_mtab (const char *mode)
 {
-  if ((F_mtab = setmntent (MOUNTED, mode)) == NULL)
+  if (fopen (MOUNTED, "r") == NULL)
     create_mtab ();
+  if ((F_mtab = setmntent (MOUNTED, mode)) == NULL)
+    die (2, "can't open %s: %s", MOUNTED, strerror (errno));
 }
 
 /* Close mtab.  */
--- sys/mount.h~	Sun Sep  6 08:22:57 1992
+++ sys/mount.h	Sun Sep  6 18:57:20 1992
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@
 #ifdef HAVE_MOUNT5
 /* 0.96c-pl1 and later we have a five argument mount(2).  */
 int mount (const char *__special, const char *__dir,
-	   const char *__type, unsigned long __flags, void *__data);
+	   const char *__type, unsigned long __flags, const void *__data);
 #else
 /* Before 0.96c-pl1 we had a four argument mount(2).  */
 int mount (const char *__special, const char *__dir,
-- 
Doug Quale
quale@saavik.cs.wisc.edu
From: martin@franck.cs.unc.edu (Kevin Martin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: 0.97 patchlevel 5 available
Date: 12 Sep 92 21:35:37 GMT
Organization: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

In article <1992Sep12.182131.2168@klaava.Helsinki.FI> torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds) writes:

>Patch 5 should also fix the problems with iopl() that resulted in the
>X8514-server having problems with 0.97.pl2 and above.

I've just tested the 8514/A X server with 0.97.pl5 and it works
beautifully.  The problems with the X server appearing to hang when
quitting from TWM with the 0.97.pl2 and more recent kernels are
fixed.  Thanks Linux!

On a different note, I noticed that if you are going to remove the
scsi stuff from your kernel, you need to add an #undef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR
to the bottom of the include/linux/config.h file.

Thanks again Linux.

Kevin
___
Kevin E. Martin               University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
martin@cs.unc.edu                          Department of Computer Science
From: eoi@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Chenmin Zhang)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: gcc 2.2.2d installation and linux-0.97.4
Keywords: gcc 2.2.2d installation and linux-0.97.4
Date: 10 Sep 92 22:41:49 GMT
Organization: Purdue University


    I am trying different partition scheme and installing gcc 2.2.2d .
First question is :
    1.  Can I have both C: (primary DOS partition) and D: (DOS extended)
        partition and at the same time have root, usr, swap partition
        for LINUX.  Seems to me that only 4 partition are allowed and
        the fifth one /dev/hda5 is image of /hda2 (my D: drive).  There
        is one "extended" entry in "fdisk", but Why I can't use it?
        How can I initialize a LINUX extended partition so I don't have
        the 14 char. limit.  BTW, I have 0.97 boot and 0.97.1 root, and
        LINUX-0.97.4.tar.Z (new stuff).
The second question is:
  

    2.  Can I use linux-0.97.4 source file when I install gcc 2.2.2d
        since originally the linux-0.97.1 source (or linux-0.97pl1 source)
        is required.  If the answer is yes, do I need a 0.97pl4inc.tar.Z
        since the installation asking for 0.97pl1inc but my kernel is 
        0.97.4.

    3.  The gcc 2.2.2d is quite big and files are all over the place.
        Is there any one tell me what stuff I can delete if I have no
        imediate plan to use c++ since my hard drive space is quite 
        tight.

 Thanks advanced !
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: dminer@mcs213f.cs.umr.edu (Dan Miner)
Subject: compilation speeds revisited (from orig author)
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 22:30:06 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri - Rolla
Keywords: FAST!!!!!!!!!

	If you any remember the last time I wrote
about this, I was whinning about how long it took for
me to compile the kernel.

Set up: (old)
	386sx-20
	SVGA (Paradise/Wester Digital)
	2 megs
	80 meg HD (40 for linux)

	It took a HUGH 5 hrs and 20 mins to compile.  Well, I
told all that the only solution at this point is get more
memory.  Guess what?  :)  I bought 4 more megs for a total
of 6 megs (yes, a weird system.  It even self-configured..?)

	So, the new results are: (using same kernel after a clean)
	0 hrs and 37 mins!!!!

What does this mean?  BUY MEMORY!!!  Now, I would think that
anyone over 4 megs would not really be hurting (unless you
are trying X  :)   Now, that is no longer a problem, I am
going to tackle X.  What is the lowest res (paradise) can X
go?  I have a standard VGA monitor that can't handle 800x600x256. :(

Thanks,
Dan
Hackers' Guide Coordinator/"we're in the memory, we're in the memory..."
-- 
 Dan Miner
                           		 email: dminer@cs.umr.edu
Computer Science          
University of Missouri-Rolla             "It all begins with a glimmer."
From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Feeling good about it (Was Re: Progress report?)
Date: 8 Sep 92 19:18:56 GMT
Reply-To: davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corporate R&D Center, Schenectady NY

In article <1992Sep7.212031.20410@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, cmenser@nyx.cs.du.edu (Charles Menser) writes:
| Let me get this straight... :) :) :)
| 
| The Linux system is not yet at rev 1.0, BUT it has X, suppport for 3(+ ?) FSs
| [minix, efs, DOS, CD?], fantastic mm, DOS (only ;) ) emulation, etc. etc...

  You left off xenix fs, and the mm works well but lacks full mmap() and
shared memory to date. Other than that, you have it right, lotta neat
stuff!

| Linus feels good about the kernel...

  And well he should...

-- 
bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
    I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: SDENARO@vm.poly.edu
Subject: Re: error messages concerning _setjmp and pixmap
Organization: Polytechnic University
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 14:45:38 EST

Help!
 
I have LINUX .97 set up on a hard drive on a 486-33 clone, how do you
move files from DOS disks to the LINUX file system. I could move files
from one machine to the linux box if I had kermit for linux, but how
would I move Kermit to the file system?
 
Send any advice you can give me to rarachel@ishara.poly.edu
From: card@masi.ibp.fr (Remy CARD)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: efsprogs alpha 8
Date: 7 Sep 92 12:34:37 GMT
Organization: Laboratoire MASI - Universite Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris - France


	A new version (alpha 8) of the ext fs programs is available.
You can get it by ftp on ftp-masi.ibp.fr:/pub/linux/ALPHA/extfs and
it will soon be available on tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/ALPHA/extfs.

	This version corrects a bug in efsck: when checking a file
system containing some special files, efsck sometimes complained about
incorrect block numbers and incorrect sizes.  This is now fixed.

--

	Remy Card
	card@masi.ibp.fr
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: lair@ellis.uchicago.edu (Scott A. Laird)
Subject: X problems (8514/A)
Reply-To: lair@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 19:40:25 GMT

I have a 486DX2-50 with an ATI Graphics Ultra, and I had the 8514/A X server 
running on the system, until today.  I seem to have done something to it.
Actually, the X server itself works, but no XClock or Xterm window opens.
Twm is running, and I can move the mouse cursor, but I cannot run any clients.
When I exit (via Ctrl-Alt-Backspace ctrl-C) xinit is still running (as 
reported by ps) and there is a nice, fresh coredump in my directory. It ranges
from about 71k to over 100k, and seems to contain parts of XClock, but I don't
know for sure where it came from.  Also, xsetroot _does_ work.

Does anyone have any suggestions on what to fix to get X working again?    

Scott


-- 
Scott A. Laird            |  "But this goes to 18,446,744,073,709,551,615"
lair@midway.uchicago.edu  |  		   - Nigel on his 64-bit computer
The University of Chicago |  
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: sph1@cbnewse.cb.att.com (stephen.p.hill)
Subject: Selection/X11 mouse probs..
Organization: AT&T
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 02:01:13 GMT
Keywords: mouse

I have a strange problem with my cheep mouse.  I use X11, and 
I also (used to) use selection.  Back when I still used 
DOS, I used my mouse in 2-button mode.  When I installed 
selection long ago, I never bothered to try switching 
it to 3-button mode.  I used selection for several months, 
and it really makes life easier.

Now the complicated part:  When I installed X11 about 
a month ago, I thought I would preferr a 3-button 
mouse.  So I removed selection from my /etc/rc, flipped
the little switch, set up  my Xconfig with MouseSystems 
"/dev/mouse", and X worked gread! ( I LOVE LINUX ).  Then 
I got the bright idea of setting up selection with a 3-button 
mouse config so I would still have it when not in X.

I flipped the little switch back, changed selection from P_MS 
to P_MSC ( which is MouseSystems ),  and left the baud rate at 
1200.  The test-mouse prog seemed to work fine, but a little 
jerky.  The only problem was that selection then was totaly 
unresponsive.  I tried every combination of  baud rate and 
mouse type and nothing worked.

Then I decided to try changing X to use 2 buttons.  I 
changed the mouse back, tested the old selection to ensure 
that it really worked, changed Xconfig to Microsoft "/dev/mouse", 
and ran startx.  Well, the mouse was there but very wierd.  
It pressed its own buttons, etc.  To make a long story short, 
I  have tried every combination of baud rate and mouse type 
that is possible in both selection and in X, and only one 
works for selection, only one for X.  Not the same one!

Any clues?

Stephen Hill
sph1@cbnewse.att.com
sph@ihlpe.ih.att.com
From: jhelberg@nl.oracle.com (Joost Helberg)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Can a boot start on C: and complete on D:?
Date: 10 Sep 92 07:35:48 GMT
Organization: Oracle Europe
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3

X-Disclaimer: This message was written by an unauthenticated user
              at Oracle Corporation.  The opinions expressed are those
              of the user and not necessarily those of Oracle.

swaliff@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Steve Aliff) writes:
: I have two IDE drives; the primary drive is a 105MB quantum, the
: secondary is a 200MB Maxtor. I had planned to dedicate the 105 to
: DOS and the 200 to Linux. However, after playing with Linux for a
: few days, it appears to me that I may need a small Linux partition
: on the 105 in order to boot Linux from the hard-drive. (I'm thinking
: ROOT would go on the 105.) Is this true or is there a program
: similar to SHOELACE which will let me optionally boot MSDOS from my
: 105 OR Linux from my 200?

Get LILO, the most flexible boot-loader you can find. You can have
Linux on one of the drivers and MS-DOS (if you realy want) on the other, 
no mixing needed.

You can find it on several ftp-locations or mail-servers (nic.funet.fi e.g.).

--  
   Joost Helberg                                Rijnzathe 6
   jhelberg@oracle.nl                           NL-3454 PV De Meern
   jhelberg@nl.oracle.com                       The Netherlands

   Oracle Europe BV                             Product Line Development	
   Phone: +31 3406 94211                        Fax:   +31 3406 65609
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: djr48312@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (X X)
Subject: SLIP to connect and run Xapps remote
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 05:37:29 GMT

I have SLIP connection to my University.  Havent installed Linux (again) yet 
becasue I have sold my old hard drive in order to buy a couple of LARGE HD's
.  Question is, using Xwindows and the SLIP connection would I be able to
run a program like Mathematica, or some other graphical program from the
remote site and be able to expect to get the graphics output at home.
(Going to use a v32bis modem).  Any one Used X with a slip connection and
run graphical programs?  Also I could use a little educatio on TCP/IP
(KA9Q) for Linux and how to hook up a SLIP connection to a remote site.

Any help appreciated.

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Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 22:12:08 MDT
From: ecktons@sirius.byu.edu (Sean Eckton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Linux booting on drive with OS/2 and DOS?
Reply-To: ecktons@sirius.byu.edu (Sean Eckton)


I need some help getting Linux to boot on my hard drive.  I am using the OS/2  
boot manager.  Will that work?  I have heard people talking about it, but I  
didn't see any details.  Could someone help me?  The FAQ I have doesn't  
mention it (or at least that I could find).  I have as my partitions, OS/2,  
DOS, and Linux.  OS/2 boots just fine, but Linux always comes up with an  
error that the partition isn't formatted.  Do I need to set up the boot  
manager differently?

--
Sean Eckton

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From: zlsiial@uts.mcc.ac.uk (A. V. Le Blanc)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: GCC 2.2.2d problems
Date: 8 Sep 92 14:29:53 GMT
Reply-To: LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk (A. V. Le Blanc)
Organization: Computing Centre, University of Manchester

In article <1992Sep8.084449.14138@fys.ruu.nl> hooft@fys.ruu.nl (Rob Hooft) writes:
>I have heard some rumors that this problem was caused by duplicate files.
>I think that copies of 'cpp' came with the MCC interim releases, and our
>newer compilers don't like them.

The MCC interim releases install 'cpp' in /usr/bin, since a number of
auto-configure scripts look for it there or in /usr/lib.  If you install
a later version of gcc from HJ Lu, please remember to delete /usr/bin/cpp.
This will be less of a problem if the new package installation format
gets worked out.

     -- Owen
     LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: bjones@cambria.columbus.oh.us (Bill Jones)
Subject: Parse errors -- what causes them and what's the cure?
Organization: Cambria Mail and News Gateway -- Columbus., OH
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 19:05:27 GMT
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

I was trying to compile perl 4.035 and began running into repeated parse
errors in the include file /usr/include/fcntl.h (This has also happened at
different places during different compiles -- in at least two dozen header
files when I tried to compile dbmmalloc)).

The strange thing is, I have compiled a number of other programs which, I
think, use fcntl.h and the other header files where parse errors were
reported and had no problems -- gnuplot3.2, Cnews, Tin1.1pl4, ssh-1.3, the
list goes on.

Why do parse errors occur when compiling some packages but not others?  What
can I do to stop them from occurring.  FYI, the uncompress and tar I use is
from the rootimage 0.97 disk and the unzip was compiled myself -- I don't
think there are any other ``unpackers'' that I have used.

Bill


--
===============================================================================
Bill Jones
bjones@cambria.columbus.oh.us
===============================================================================
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