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From: ghart@ems.cdc.com (Geoffrey Hart)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: LINUX boot from SCSI drive ?
Date: 22 Dec 92 14:17:23 GMT
Reply-To: ghart@ems.cdc.com
Organization: Empros Systems International, a division of CDC

I had the same problem.  The normal value for /dev/hda2 was 0302 in my
case.  Since the three is the major number of /dev/hda2, and 2 is the minor
number, I tried 0802 for /dev/sda2.  It worked :-).

In case you're unfamiliar with major/minor numbers, do an "ls -l /dev/[hs]da*"
to see them.  The major number is the index to the device driver (3 for
IDE, 8 for SCSI), and the minor number is like a parameter sent to the
device driver to specify which device to act on (each partition on each
different disk have a unique minor number, something like
SCSI_ID*16+partition).

Good luck!  (p.s. I'm using bootlin, not PCBOOT, but I suspect they're
similiar in this respect).

-- 
    geoff hart ghart@ems news@ems library@ems   x4273   s/ems/ems.cdc.com/
From: a0055@RRZK (Markus Veittes)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Xwindows with EGA-Monitor
Date: 22 Dec 92 13:34:30
Organization: Regional Computing Center, University of Cologne, Germany
Distribution: comp
NNTP-Posting-Host: dec05.rrz.uni-koeln.de


Hallo all Xwindows-gurus,

I've an OAK VGA-Card but only an EGA Monitor.
Now my question: Is it possible, to run Xwindows with this configuration
and which files and setups do I need to run Xwindows.

Please anwser by E-Mail: ve@rrz.uni-koeln.de

Many thanks to all, who respond.
From: STDN%MARIST.bitnet@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (Dan Newcombe)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: MPEG viewer??? Where is it?
Date: 1 Jan 1993 14:28:38 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

I saw a message a bit ago about the X Mpeg viewer and I swore it
said in was on tsx-11, but I can't find it.  Can anyone tell
me where it is? I just looked through a few hundred memo subjects and
couldn't find mention of it...thanks...
  -Dan

Dan Newcombe
stdn@vm.marist.edu                        kk4d@maristb.marist.edu
dnewcomb@cybernet.cse.fau.edu             And others...
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
- Real programmers like vending machine popcorn.  Coders pop it in the
  microwave oven.  Real programmers use the heat given off by the cpu.
  They can tell what job is running just by listening to the rate of popping.

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: rkoo1@cantor.math.uwaterloo.ca (Raymond Koo)
Subject: Adduser not on SLS??
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 07:47:40 GMT

Hello all. I have successfully installed Linux SLS 0.99 on my 486DX
The problem I'm having now is that I can't seem to add new users to the
system. I've tried using the menu/sysadmin operations but it can't seem to
find the adduser command.
I searched for that command but it did not come with the package.
How then am I supposed to add new users???? (I don't want to manually add
new users - it's a pain in the butt)

If anyone know where I can find the 'adduser' source please let me know.
Thanks!

-Ray
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Subject: Re: "the `gets' function is unreliable and should not be used"??!!!
Reply-To: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Organization: The Internet
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 00:00:13 GMT

   From: kutcha@eos.acm.rpi.edu (Phillip Rzewski)
   Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 22:22:42 GMT

       I happen to think the gcc error message is a tad annoying, but it's
   only trying to be helpful. I get the impression that once people saw the
   problems gets() could cause they'd try to stamp out its use forever by
   just reminding people over and over again why it is a bad thing. :)

Well, yes --- those of you who read about (or some cases, experienced)
the Internet Worm of 1998 should know exactly how much trouble using
gets() can cause.  Specifically, enough to open a gaping wide security
hole into every single system running a BSD-derived fingerd program
(which was most of the machines on the Internet).

Followups should go to alt.security.

						- Ted
From: s0356514@let.rug.nl (H.H. Bergman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: [Q] Status of Qic-02 Drivers for 0.99?
Date: 21 Dec 92 19:57:21 GMT
Organization: Faculteit der Letteren, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, NL
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Tim Foley (tfoley@r-node.gts.org) wrote:
: 
:  
:    What are the present status of the QIC-02 Tape Drivers for 0.99?  I have a couple of Archive 5945c (I think) tape drives and the Genoa QIC-02 tape card, as well as a bunch of Archive full length tape cards...  any one else using a tape drive that could post their experiences?
:  
A new release is planned somewhere in January.
I do not know whether Genoa interface cards will work or not.

I've been pretty busy trying to get X/TeX/MetaFont/etc running properly...

--Hennus Bergman
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: alovell@kerberos.demon.co.uk (Anthony Lovell)
Subject: Re: Makeing new kernel 
Distribution: world
Organization: The Home for Three Headed Canines
Reply-To: alovell@kerberos.demon.co.uk
X-Mailer: Simple NEWS 1.90 (ka9q DIS 1.18)
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 19:27:49 +0000

Unpack in /usr/src ,then edit linux/Makefile to set your root and keyboard
then type make config and answer the questions to select what you what
compiled in ,then it's just make disk or make lilo depending if you boot
from floppy or from lilo

Merry Christmas

-- 

anthony

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
alovell@kerberos.demon.co.uk          |   If at first you don't succeed
                                      | 
alovell@cix.compulink.co.uk           |   Get a Bigger Hammer 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: books@fsunuc.physics.fsu.edu (Roger Books)
Subject: Re: Optimal Partition Sizes
Organization: FSU nuclear physics
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 21:42:13 GMT

In a similar note, can linux be told to put kernal dumps to the swap 
partition? (Basically throwing them away.)  Is there much system accounting
information?  On Ultrix/Sun/HP you can have problems with this information
eating your disk space so you normally run it to its own partion, usually
mounted on /var.  If there is nothing that does this I guess it is 
mostly irrelevant, although now that these are going on the net security
and accounting will be (semi-)necessary headaches.

Roger
books@fsunuc.physics.fsu.edu
From: haerter@elysium.novalis.public.sub.org (Otto Haerter)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Another patch to new scsi code uploaded.
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 15:26:59 CET
Organization: Otto_s private site

In article <By8q93.BE6@ra.nrl.navy.mil> eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil (Eric Youngdale) writes:
>	I just uploaded fscsi-a06.patch2, which contains a few more minor
>patches to the scsi code, and it is on tsx-11.mit.edu in pub/linux/ALPHA/scsi.

Does anybody know whether LINUX supports an ATBUS harddisk together with
an ADAPTEC 1542 B and a SYQUEST for example.
I have setup MS-DOS 5.0 at the PC and I need the ADAPTEC and the SYSQUEST
under DOS, but more space for LINUX would not be too bad also.
But if I put the ADAPTEC board into the PC and connect the SYQUEST, the 
system hung if in booting sequence for LINUX you can read:
SCSI host detected or so.
The LED on the ADAPTEC board in on at this moment.
Problems on my system:
I cannot run LINUX from the ATBUS harddisk yet (problems with doinstall, with
the new bootdisk I get a cold reset with memory test, or system stops with
a general protection failure, the different errors occured, after I had chosen 
to install whole base system or base and X 11.
Are there running systems from the IDE-harddisk with an extra ADAPTEC ?
Probably another problem on my system: A ARTISOFT (Lantastic) 
Ethernet-Adapter is plugged in also. (IRQ 10, ADAPTEC is on default (IRQ 11)
>
>-- 
>Eric Youngdale

tschuess,
	Otto
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: rsocia@alberti.cray.com (Rick Socia)
Subject: Successful install
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Date: 29 Dec 92 16:53:06 CST

I know that this does not happen often, but I am so tickled that I have
to say to all of the Linux contributers ala SLS, Bravo!  After (finally)
ogtaining and reading the FAQ, SLS 0.99 installed perfecto on my Adaptec 1542B/Quantum 80MB disk, without a hitch!  My Cipher ST-150 SCSI tape drive
(dormant for more than 2 years) works great too.  Well done!

Ahhh! It feels good to be back on line again.


-- 

Rick Socia
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: vince@halcyon.com (Vince Skahan)
Subject: Re: Smail 3.1 on SLS 0.99. Can't send smtp mail!
Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc. (206) 455-3505
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 07:50:49 GMT

splee@alchemy.tn.cornell.edu (Seng-Poh Lee) writes:

>I'm trying to get the smail 3.1 package running. It came with the SLS 0.99
>version. I want to get smtp mail working. I've included the smtpd entry
>into the /etc/inet/inetd.conf and I can receive mail via smtp fine. However,
>I am unable to send mail out via smtp. I set up a routers file with the
>entries;

>All I ever get is failed mail saying I haven't defined  smart host. And then
>when I invoke smail directly, it bombs out saying that it cannot find
>the smtp driver. Please help!

The smail3.1.28 I provided for Peter to include in SLS0.99 has no drivers
at all that I'm aware of...if you look in /usr/local/lib/smail you won't
find any such driver.

What I gave him was the smail3.1.28 config for a uucp-via-modem only setup.
If anybody has the stock SLS smail3.1.28 working over any other transport,
they must've grabbed the sources and built their own.


-- 
   ------------------- Vince Skahan ------ vince@halcyon.com ----------------
    ... to list Waffle files available from the mail server at halcyon.com,
            send mail to 'fileserv@halcyon.com' with the text 'index' ...
Xref: sparky comp.os.linux:22371 comp.unix.questions:15096
From: cc935@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Gerrold T. Sithe)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Book recommendations for Unix/C newcomers
Date: 1 Jan 1993 19:23:23 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu



        As one ignorant to the ways of unix, I was frequently tempted to post
my many, many questions to the net.  But, yea, I resisted temptation and
instead set upon the road of deliverance which led me to my university
bookstore.
        After sifting through hundreds of texts and purchasing and returning
several, I found the following books to be the best for learning unix and C
from scratch.
        These can be ordered from the publisher at (800) 428-5331.


Title    : Introduction To Unix
Author   : Mark Schulman
Publisher: Que
ISBN     : 0-88022-745-1

        This is by far the best, most comprehensive introductory text I found,
covering all those juicy topics other texts omit (Like, what is an inode
anyway, and how do I use cron?)  While the book assumes you are new to unix it
doesn't treat you as if you are brain dead.  This is a must-have for
intelligent unix newcomers.


Title    : Programming in ANSI C
Author   : Stephen G. Kochan
Publisher: Hayden Books
ISBN     : 0-672-48408-0

        This is by far the best introductory ANSI C book I found.  With a
writing style that's unassuming and easy to follow this book is a joy to use.


Title    : Topics in C Programming
Author   : Stephen G. Kochan and Patrick H. Wood
Publisher: Wiley
ISBN     : 0-471-53404-8

        Picks up where the last text leaves off.  Primarily covers using the C
library and unix system calls.  Required knowledge if you want to write C
programs that do anything useful.

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: satishc@microsoft.com (Satish Chittamuru)
Subject: Re: Question about ISA/IDE disk throughput (pc newbie)
Date: 30 Dec 92 08:06:54 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation

In article <dmw.724992752@teal> dmw@teal.csn.org (Dave Warner) writes:
 > 
 > 	[stuff deleted]
 > 
 > 	My experience differs.
 > 	Here's an iozone benchmark on a Gateway dx2-66v, 8MB ram with
 > local bus and a WD IDE drive (Pirhana, I think) with linux.0.99 -- output
 > from 'free' included to show cache size:

Is the IDE controller on the local bus or on the ISA bus? Also what's the
drive speed (RPM or rotational latency and track-to-track seek time). If
it is an ISA controller, could you let me know the name of the controller
board? Thanks..
 
 > 	[more stuff deleted]
 > 
 >         IOZONE writes a 16 Megabyte sequential file consisting of
 >         32768 records which are each 512 bytes in length.
 > 
 > Writing the 16 Megabyte file, 'iozone.tmp'...22.610000 seconds
 > Reading the file...17.770000 seconds
 > 
 > IOZONE performance measurements:
 >         742026 bytes/second for writing the file
 >         944131 bytes/second for reading the file

Hmm. These number are really good. Beats mine by quite a margin
(550000 and 640000 respectively). My ISA/IDE controller is a generic one
(The 'manual' says it is  an AB-757; doesn't say who manufactures it).
Are there better controller on the market? If so, could someone lemme
know which ones are good? The above figures are on a 11MHz bus. Increasing
it to 13MHz drops (yes, drops) the performance by about 200000 bytes/sec.

 > | Dave Warner            | e-mail: dmw@csn.org |
 > | 151 Sky Trail Road     | USWest: 443-9589    |
 > | Boulder, CO 80302      |    FAX: 443-6791    |


-- 
Satish K. Chittamuru				satishc@microsoft.com
=====
Disclaimer: The opinions expressed herein, either stated or implied, are
solely my own and do not reflect Microsoft's views in any manner.
From: makisara@vtinsx.ins.vtt.fi (Kai Makisara)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: SCSI tape FAQ?
Date: 28 Dec 92 01:25:15
Organization: Technical Research Centre, Instrument Lab., Espoo, Finland
NNTP-Posting-Host: vtinsx.ins.vtt.fi
In-reply-to: dsc3pzp@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil's message of 26 Dec 92 17:28:58 GMT

In article <Bzvn8C.6K0@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil> dsc3pzp@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (Philip Perucci) writes:
   Hi,

     Is there a SCSI FAQ?  I checked tsx-11.mit.edu /pub/linux/ALPHA/scsi,
   but saw only a README.scsi.  The Nov 20th FAQ for Linux glosses over SCSI
...
   -- 
   ===========================================================================
     phil perucci      | "Any opinions expressed are solely my own views and 
     ssb1pzp@digex.com |  do not reflect the position of any organization"
   ===========================================================================

There is a SCSI tape FAQ but there is a README in
tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/ALPHA/scsi/tape-dist.tar.Z. The archive contains
also one version of the mt tape utility.

	Kai

--
DISCLAIMER: The views expressed here are mine and may not always
coincide with the views of my employer.

*  Kai Makisara                *  email Kai.Makisara@vtt.fi    *
From: slc4x@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: HIMEM.SYS&WINDOWS3.1&LINUX(kernel panic after run windows3.1)
Date: 26 Dec 92 04:12:23 MDT
Organization: Utah State University

Hi: 
     The problem is that after I install SLS, I backup some of my dos
file and reinstall the MS WINDOWS 3.1. After I reinstall it and run the windows
I try to login linux again(of cause I reset the system). But there's an error
message come out just before linux load the kernel into the memory. The error
message is
        Unable to handle kernel paging request at address e0203638
        Oops : 0002
        EIP: 0008:00053131
        EFLAGS: 00010202
        fs : 0017
        base C0000000 limit 000A0000
        PID 0 process nr:0
         c7 02 00 00 00 00 a1 68 3f 06
        task(0) (swapper) killed: unable to recover
        kermel panic : trying to free swapper memory
        In swapper task - not syncing

After the massage came out I reset the system again. Linux boots well.
I found out it might be HIMEM.SYS problem. So I delete the line
    device=c:himem.sys 
boot dos and reset the system and boot the Linux again. It boot well.
Is that TRUE that Linux can't compatible with HIMEM.SYS? Or something
else went wrong in my system? Have anyone ever encounter the same
problem? or this is a known problem? How to solve the problem?
Please help me to slove the problem.
Thanks in advance and merry X'mas and Happy new year.

Chen-Yuan Wu
    E-mail slc4x@cc.usu.edu
From: pdp@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU (Paul Douglas Page)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: PANIC - need boot diskette.
Date: 29 Dec 1992 00:08:37 +1100
Organization: University of Melbourne
NNTP-Posting-Host: ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au

I had a bit of a drama today with a hard disk cable and trashed my boot blocks
and partition map. I managed to recover the partition map but I can't boot
from the hard disk. I used to have shoelace running but I have lost the
winiboot file. I am happy to swap over to LILO but I don't have a binary.

The real problem is my only boot diskette and root diskette is the old
version 0.95a from Jim Winstead. I can boot from these but most of my
prgrams crash as I have been running linux 0.99 and the 0.95a Image bombs the compiler so I can't compile LILO or winiboot.

Could some kind soul put me in the direction of a linux 0.99 boot diskette
or a biniary for winiboot or LILO as I can compile. I do have rawrite on
a dos disk.

thanks in advance.

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: qumqats@citrus.SAC.CA.US ( Joel M. Baldwin )
Subject: Re: What logs off?
Organization: Citrus Grove Public Access ( 916 ) 381-5822    Sacramento CA.  USA
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 21:08:33 GMT
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

dsc3pzp@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (Philip Perucci) writes:
: What does ATZ to modem, or disconnects when you log off?
: I have getty_ps (uugetty) working after a week!... but
: the modem will not disconnect when I call in.  I checked
: uugetty, login, and bash source code.  No luck!  
: 
: What disconnects modem when you log-off the "bash" shell?

I have to echo this question.  I'm running SLS 0.98pl1 with the
0.98.pl4 kernel and I've noticed that if someone just hangs up
without logoff then they're >NOT< logged off.  It looks like the
controling process is terminated, but if they're in a child process
then the parent is just left hanging.

Is this a bug in the kernel or in init or what?

I consider it a pretty serious problem for a public access system to not
have a user logged off when they hang up the phone for whatever reason!
-- 

Joel M. Baldwin
System Administrator,  Citrus Grove Public Access
N6NPL      H ( 916 ) 383-9470        W ( 916 ) 452-1481
uunet!csusac.ecs.csus.edu!citrus!qumqats    Sacramento CA.   USA.
qumqats@citrus.SAC.CA.US						/\../\

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: phil@plisgyn.demon.co.uk (Philip H Jones)
Subject: SLS 0.99.pl1
Distribution: world
Organization: private
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 00:00:23 +0000

    I am now ready to graduate from Minix to Linux to overcome many 
    restrictions and limitations.

    I have read the FAQ but still have the following questions --

    Which is the best way to go having only a 9600 baud mnp5 modem with
    ftp access.
     
    1/ I can obtain 0.98.pl5 SLS on disks and then upgrade via ftp.

    2/ ftp 0.99.pl1 

     I have already ftp'd disks  a1 and a2 from tsx-11.mit.edu in
     /pub/linux/SLS and used rawrite as per FAQ and a1 fails to boot
     with Load coming up on screen the 4***** and no further disc activity.
     a2 is recognised as a 1.2meg Minix filesystem but is empty.

     If 2/ is the best option where can I ftp 0.99.pl1 from as above a1 a2 
     disks appear to be 0.98.pl6 according to History in directory.

     All help gratefully received as after a year with Minix Linux appears
     to be the system I would like to have got originally.

                       Yours Hopefully
                         Phil Jones
  **************************************************************************  
  |  Philip H Jones     email --  phil@plisgyn.demon.co.uk                 |
  |                     phone --  +44 81-521-9966                          |
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From: jgrape@coos.dartmouth.edu (Johan A. Grape)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: BSD lpr/lpd and serial lw - help help help
Date: 28 Dec 92 17:03:37 GMT
Followup-To: comp.os.linux
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

Well, this thread seemed to die....  I still can't get the
daemon to print anything.

My setup:

kernel 0.99pl0 w/ tcp/ip compiled in.
apple personal laserwriter on ttys2
BSD lpr binaries from tsx-11

/usr/etc/printcap entry:
lp|local laserwriter:\
        :lp=/dev/ttys2:sd=/usr/spool/lw:\
        :br#9600:\
        :mx#0:pw#1000:\
        :sh:sf

/usr/etc/lp*  setuid root, setgid daemon
/usr/spool/lw setuid daemon, setgid daemon.

daemon is in /etc/passwd & /etc/group

/dev/ttys2 is setuid daemon  (have tried with setuid root too)

/usr/etc/inet/hosts.lpr  contains the line:
brunhilda	(my machine - don't ask)

I also have 
/usr/etc/inet/hosts.equiv with
brunhilda

My problem is:  lpr spools, but the daemon never tries to print.

Does anyone have a working setup similar to this?
Help would be greatly appreciated.

regards
Johan

jgrape@coos.dartmouth.edu
From: sweh@spuddy.uucp (Stephen Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Floppy Tape drivers
Date: 27 Dec 92 03:16:23 GMT
Organization: Spuddy's Public Usenet Domain

Hope this doesn't sound too stupid, but I'm a little ignorant when it
comes to standards....
 
I've recently bought a Summit Systems SE250 tape drive.  This plugs into
the Floppy Disk controller, and uses DC2120 tapes.
First silly question set: is this a QIC-02 compatible tape drive?  I know it
is meant to produce QIC-80 tapes, but is QIC-02 an interface definition?
Could I use this tape drive with the QIC-02 patches?
 
Second silly question set:  By looking through the Floppy Tape Driver files
(GNU programs) which seem to have support for Colorado tape drives, it
appears that you need to send two special bytes to the FDC, and the
tape drive then intercepts all further FDC commands, effectively
disabling the floppy drives.  Correct?
 
I also assume these files are not suitable for Linux yet - they were
put there for reference?
 
Does anyone know the "enable" and "disable" bytes needed for Summit
tape drives?  I tried using a Colorado TAPE program, but this just caused
my floppies to be accessed, so I assume the Summit command sequences are
different to Colorado :-(
 
Your time and effort much appreciated in answering these questions.
 
Best regards.
 
-- 

                               Stephen Harris
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