HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: rsj@wa4mei (Randy Jarrett)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Can't boot ISC 2.0.2
Keywords: ISC 2.0.2 boot
Date: 27 Aug 92 02:50:48 GMT
Organization: Amateur Radio Gateway WA4MEI, Chamblee, GA

In <1992Aug26.015704.8894@sun490.fdu.edu> tempel@sun490.fdu.edu (Philippe N. Tempel) writes:

>I recently bought an AMD 386-40Mhz clone motherboard and installed it in my
>AT compatible case.  I tried to boot ISC 2.0.2 from drive A, but I had no
>luck in getting it going.  The hardware I have is:

>AMD 306-40Mhz clone motherboard
>  UMC chipset
>  AMI BIOS
>  8MB memory
>Genoa SuperEGA HIRes+ video card
>Amdek 722 monitor
>Seagate ST-251 hard disk
>3:1 MFM controller
>I/O card
>220 watt power supply
>Maxi-Switch keyboard

>After I cold boot with the ISC boot disk in drive A, I get the message
>"Booting the UNIX system..." and see some disk activity.  Finally, after
>4 minutes the screen goes blank and the system hangs in limbo.  Any ideas
>before I take the motherboard back?  I did disable caching, shadow ROM and
>shadow RAM.

>Thanks,
>Philippe

I am not familiar with your video card but if it is a 16 bit card you
will need to either put it in an 8 bit mode or move it to an 8 bit slot.

Randy

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From: madsere@okys.infoserv.com (Rene Madsen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: What 'stune' parameters do you use for X386?
Date: 26 Aug 92 14:45:10 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Brackton Ltd. Luxembourg

In article <BtJzvz.HKq@gator.rn.com>, larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes:
> karl@ttank.ttank.com (Karl Bunch) writes:
> 
> >In <1992Aug21.220338.3843@smallo.bo.open.de> oklein@smallo.bo.open.de (Olaf Klein) writes:
> 
> >>larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes:
> 
> >>>We run Dell SVR4 4.0 and run X -- and have never experienced a lockup --
> >>>and we have never had to modify any of the kernel parameters
> >>>we are running X11R5 which is shipped standard with Dell SVR4
> 
> >>Larry, you're boring...
> 
> >Well I run Dell SVR4.0 (Dell Issue 2.2) and he's right.  I guess I'm
> >boring too.
> 
> All of us who run Dell SVR4 are boring.  That is because unlike the
> other flavors UNIX -- Dell SVR4 works.  Just think - if everyone
> ran Dell SVR4 -- this newsgroup would get rather slim..

This almost looks to good to be true. A problem free SVR4 for PC's...
Anyone have a email address to dell? I think I'm gonna switch from
SCO ODT (sigh) to Dell SVR4 ... Maybe that'll make my life richer ;-)

-- 
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Unix Systems Support/Dev.       
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Subject: Re: Where can I get GNU C compiler(binary) for Interactive Unix 3.2
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 19:01:52 GMT
Organization: D'Arcy Cain Consulting

yil3937@kramden.nyu.edu (George Bush) writes:
                         ^^^^^^^^^^^
>Does anyone know where I can get a copy of GNU C compiler (executeable,

No GNU taxes?  :-)

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: quinn@ender.tamu.edu (Dave Quinn)
Subject: Notebook
Summary: SVR4
Organization: Texas A&M University
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 15:21:01 GMT

I not-so-long ago installed NCR's SVR4 on my Compaq Lite25
notebook.  The install went just fine; however, upon completion,
I received this bloody error.  I do not remember exactly what
it had said, but along the lines of "WARNING: integral keyboard
connection not found.  if you are running integral console, check
the keyboard connection"  NCR says they are aware of the problem,
but there exists no fix (as of yet).  Has anyone experienced
this, and if so, is there a fix for it?  Any input would be
appreciated, email, or usenet.  Thanks much.

-David

Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: dwex@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (david.e.wexelblat)
Subject: Re: X386 1.2E on ATI Graphics Ultra
Organization: AT&T
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 14:16:49 GMT

In article <UeceOjD0BwwwIIWK8q@transarc.com> Lucian_Dancanet@transarc.com writes:
> 
> 
> Does anyone have X386 1.2E running on ATI Graphics Ultra, at 1024x768 or even
> at 800x600?
> 
> I'm running ESIX 4.0.4. Thanks for any help.
> 
> Lucian
> 
> 


There is no support for 8514/A accelerators in X386 1.2E.  The next version
will have support for the ATI SVGA chipset, which is also on the Graphics
Ultra.  SGCS and MetroLink sell X servers that support the accelerator
on the Graphics Ultra.

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From: stevea@i88.isc.com (Steve Alexander)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: How to install SCO Unix MS v4.1 ???
Date: 4 Sep 92 15:48:02 GMT
Article-I.D.: i88.1992Sep04.154802.13439
Organization: INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation, Naperville, IL

In article <JOCHEN.92Sep1192439@busybit.mrz.sub.org> jochen@busybit.mrz.sub.org (Jochen Fahrner) writes:
>Can someone tell me, how to install MS v4.1 for SCO Unix 3.2v4.0 ?
>You will not believe the following story, but it is true:

Well, the last time I installed MSv4.1, it was using two disks.  The first
is a filesystem, but that's OK, because custom can install those.  Just
make sure you don't have anything mounted on /mnt at the time, or custom
won't be able to mount it.  From there everything should be straightforward.

-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: dominic@scooter.genie.uottawa.ca (Dominic Richens)
Subject: Re: disk mirroring
Originator: dominic@
Reply-To: dominic@shamin.genie.uottawa.ca
Organization: MCRLab - University of Ottawa
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 22:20:16 GMT


In article <steve.714806047@crash>, steve@crash.cts.com (Steve Morrison) writes:
! Someone has asked for help in establishing disk mirroring on a SCO Xenix
! or Unix system.
! 
! Anyone know sources for drivers (if that is what is needed) for this task.
! I don't have a lot of details, except that I'm sure he is working with
! SCSI interfaces.
! 
! Maybe Someone like Adaptic have software available for their 1542's.
! 
! Also, If another group on internet is a better place to seek help, I
! could use a steer to it.

I'm using Chantal Systems Corp's Paragon virtual SCSI disk managers, with
their Cornerstone SCSI drivers under SCO ODT (available for Xenix too).  
It does disk striping, spanning, and mirroring (RAID) plus a bunch of 
other stuff I don't understand.  I'm using it for disk striping: 
two 1740's + two Segate Elite's = 3Mbytes/second!

Contact info:

Chantal Systems Corporation
6265 Greenwich Drive
Suite 201
San Diega, Calif 92122
(619) 452 0975

dominic

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: dlparker@dlpinc00.rn.com (David L. Parker)
Subject: Re: FAS 2.10 (not a flame)
Organization: Automated Data Management Services
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 10:53:08 GMT

In article <1992Aug27.021105.1524@iisat.alt.ns.ca> kevin@iisat.alt.ns.ca (Kevin Davies) writes:
>
>I'm using Taylor-UUCP 1.3 on SCO Xenix/386, with the FAS 2.10 drivers
>without problems.  The serial port (stock 16450) is locked at 38400
>to a Worldblazer. Everything was also working with FAS 2.09.00.
>

Where can I get Taylor-UUCP 1.3 via (V.32bis) dial-up?
-- 
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Automated Data Management Services, Pleasant Hill, MO 64080-1331
(816) 987-5167/5218 voice/fax
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: slangley@constant.demon.co.uk (Simon Langley)
Subject: Re: Sending files from UNIX pc to MSDOS. Possible.?? How??
Organization: Home
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 23:53:14 GMT

hank janssen (hjanssen@cbnewse.cb.att.com) wrote:
: 
: Are there PD utilities out there that allow the easy moving of MSDOS files
: to ATT UNIX SYSV 4.0 (For the 486 pc) that reside on the same disk.
: 
: Or device drivers for unix/msdos that allow the floppy disks to be read
: on both operating systems..???
: 
The mtools package is available for ftp on lots of sites (check archie) and
allows you to read and write to DOS floppies from a UNIX system.  I think
it also allows one to use the HD but I don't have any DOS partitions so I 
have never needed to know.

-- 
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   Hampstead, London                             slangley@cix.compulink.co.uk
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: s2285427@techunix.technion.ac.il (Amnon Horowits)
Subject: Re: SMC Ethernet
Reply-To: s2285427@techunix.technion.ac.il (Amnon Horowits)
Organization: Technion, Israel Inst. of Technology
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 20:46:40 GMT

> Ed Whittemore writes:
>
> The new SMC versions of the WD80(x)3 cards work for 10baseT, but have
> broken the AUI/BNC interface.

The same thing happened to me. It seems that SMC removed the 10BaseT/AUI
port select mechanism from a jumper on the board to software.  Try running
the ezsetup software provided with the board. Make sure you are running
their latest (4.01 I think).


Amnon.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: slangley@constant.demon.co.uk (Simon Langley)
Subject: Re: X does not reset screen mode under ESIX
Organization: Home
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 16:45:35 GMT

PPH Bauwens (paul@pphbau.atr.bso.nl) wrote:
: 
: Dear Simon,
: 
: Did you forget re-running 'evgainit' after building a new kernel?
: 
: Check if 'evgaqry -verbose'  (in /usr/sbin)  gives the correct
: Trident card answer. 
:
Thank you for your help, but I have checked evgaqry and it reports:
evgaqry: Trident 8900B/C VGA
: 
: You can also try a different Trident card or different card with a 
: Trident chipset. Also, to my knowledge ESIX has an updated X server
: available on their BBS.
:
I also have all the ESIX 4.0.3 patches which include a new X server.

Trying another VGA card might be enlightening but I only have one VGA
card and the problem is not serious enough that I am going to buy another card.
 
Thanks anyway.

-- 
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   Hampstead, London                             slangley@cix.compulink.co.uk
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder)
Subject: Re: DOS5.0 meets the creature from large SCSI disks and ISC 2.0.2
Organization: The Gator Public Access Unix Site - 219-289-3745
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 12:18:09 GMT

rbe@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM (Robert Bernecky) writes:

>I am contemplating an attempt to move my DOS5.0 (with damn windows
>so I can run Corel Draw) onto my Unix Box.

Have you thought of getting Corel Draw for UNIX and running it under
UNIX on your box?

-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: rick@rei.com (Richard J. Barton)
Subject: Tuning Parameter(s)
Summary: Time-slicing/Disk Activity/User Activity
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 15:51:07 GMT
Organization: Recognition Equipment, Inc.
Keywords: Kernel

My Consensys SVR4 runs great and _v_e_r_y_ fast on my i486 with SCSI disk,
BUT, when I compile large programs, it does an excellent job at devoting
a vast majority of time to doing just that!  It pretty much inhibits doing
anything else :-(.  While this is fine if that's all I want to do, great,
but it's not.  Especially when I'm in X windows, by the time I enter the
<return> key, it's down several levels make files and compiling before
my screen even shows it.  And going another Xterm is also very slow, as
is the mouse movement.  I am using an Orchid Prodesigner II if this makes
any differenct.  Don't they have an accelator chip for it, and if they do
will this help and is it compatible?  I'm sure there is some simple
solution for this...  Thanks in advance.

-- 
rick
:-)
rick@rei.com   [Plexus Software, A Division of Recognition Equipment Inc.]
rick@panic.com [Personal]
From: sts6f@rayleigh.mech.Virginia.EDU (Sonya Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: HELP!!! Xmach server on Dell unix v2.2 DOES NOT WORK!!!!
Date: 26 Aug 92 15:40:44 GMT
Organization: University of Virginia
Originator: sts6f@rayleigh.mech.Virginia.EDU

Help!!  I have a Dell 486D/50 running Dell unix v2.2. The Xmach server
which provides 256 colors 9and the only one that does) does not work.
I bought the 512K vram 
upgrade (also from Dell) so that I would have the 1 Mb of memory that
is required.  It still does not work!  I have run the diagnostics and
the memory is recognized and tests ok.  If anyone out there has a
similar set up with Xmach working *please*  respond and tell me what
you had to do to make it work.



Thanks in advance,
S.T. Smith
-- 
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Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22901
From: gtvega@SEABASS.ST.USM.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: consensys SYSVR4
Date: 26 Aug 92 20:36:00 GMT


lo....
Im thinking about installing UNIX on my PC...

Does anyone have any suggestions or experience with consensys Sys V?
Im trying to find out compatibility probs and also how it compares to
other UNIX packages.. It is supposed to be BSD compatible as well as
compatible with xenix too..  Please email me any info that you might ahve..

Thanks

Guy

Guy Vega
University of Southern Mississippi
gtvega@seabass.st.usm.edu
From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Dell SVR4 (and Dell hardware)
Date: 26 Aug 92 15:20:59 GMT
Reply-To: davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corporate R&D Center, Schenectady NY

In article <PCG.92Aug20160444@aberdb.aber.ac.uk>, pcg@aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) writes:

| But, to recognize the weaknesses and strengths of different lines, all
| Intel floating point implementations, including the 486 one, are losers,
| even with compilers tuned to its architecture. After all it was Intel
| who started speaking about 'integer' SPECmarks, because the x87
| 'floating' SPECmarks were so poor that they dragged down the overall
| SPECmark index.
| 
| It's just a small matter of cycle counts. Indeed one of the (rumoured)
| major advances in the 586 is that it will have a competitive floating
| point implementation.

  Yes, assuming Cyrix can deliver where Intel could not, the 586 will be
a major step forward in performance.

-- 
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.
From: jochen@busybit.mrz.sub.org (Jochen Fahrner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: How to install SCO Unix MS v4.1 ???
Date: 1 Sep 92 17:24:39 GMT
Organization: Busybit's Software Labor, D-8068 Pfaffenhofen
X-Md4-Signature: 17f299669bdb6d9ba7e89cb854cdb0fa

Can someone tell me, how to install MS v4.1 for SCO Unix 3.2v4.0 ?
You will not believe the following story, but it is true:

Last week we got MS v4.1 from our german distributor
"Garmhausen & Partner". We have a support contract with them.

We got two floppy disks, labelled "UA 1" and "UA 2". There was no
paper in the envelope, which says how to install it. I guessed it must
be installed with custom, but the "UA1" disk was not in tar-format.
The UA2 disk looked like a custom disk, it had the label file
"./tmp/label...", but disk UA1 contains a file system.
I called the hotline of our distributor, asked them how to install
this two disks and got the answer there must be 5 disks, not only two.

They promised to sent MS V4.1 again, and today 5 disks arrived,
labelled "N1 Boot", "N2 Filesys", "Master", "UA01" and "UA02".
Again there was no paper in the envelope.
"UA01" contains no filesystem, as with the first "UA01"-disk.
I called the hotline again and asked how to install this 5 disks. As I
explained my problem, I got the answer that they don't know how to
install it. I should call them again next week, then they will know
how to install MS v4.1. Should I believe it ? :-(

So I ask the net: Can someone help me ?

Jochen
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: root@kilowatt.uucp (Kilowatt admin)
Subject: Re: FAS 2.10 async driver, part 5/5
Reply-To: root@kilowatt.UUCP (Kilowatt admin)
Organization: Kilowatt Computing of Deer Park, NY
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 23:56:03 GMT



	Regarding the posting of FAS 2.10 ...

	I for one, used the source IMMEDIATELY since it would do 115200 baud.
(Or should I say 115.2Kbaud?) The host I feed off of (nice metaphor), does
not include a lot of the alt.sources in his news feed. I get alt.sources.x
but nothing else. I greatly appreciate the fact that FAS was posted in 
comp.unix.sysv386 - whatever happened to the phrase MAXIMUM DISTRIBUTION ???

*** Need a Norton NCD replacement for UNIX? I have one... maybe I'll pretty
it up a little, and pass it around (but NOT on comp.unix.sys386)

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: dold@unislc.uucp (Clarence Dold)
Subject: Re: disk mirroring
Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 00:35:03 GMT

From article <steve.714806047@crash>, by steve@crash.cts.com (Steve Morrison):

> Anyone know sources for drivers (if that is what is needed) for this task.
> I don't have a lot of details, except that I'm sure he is working with
> SCSI interfaces.

Vendors who list "mirroring" in the 1992 SCO Directory:

1776 Inc, (213) 653-1776, rob-steven-kramarz@cup.portal.com

Star Technologies, (714) 768-6460, (800) 486-2533

Twincom International, (31) 01620-23936 [Netherlands]

Veritas, (408) 727-1222, laurent@veritas.com

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: toma@swsrv1.cirr.com (Tom Armistead)
Subject: Re: Can't boot ISC 2.0.2
Keywords: ISC 2.0.2 boot
Organization: Software Services; Garland, Tx
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 15:03:21 GMT

In article <1992Aug26.015704.8894@sun490.fdu.edu> tempel@sun490.fdu.edu (Philippe N. Tempel) writes:
  [Stuff deleted]
>After I cold boot with the ISC boot disk in drive A, I get the message
>"Booting the UNIX system..." and see some disk activity.  Finally, after
>4 minutes the screen goes blank and the system hangs in limbo.  Any ideas
>before I take the motherboard back?  I did disable caching, shadow ROM and
>shadow RAM.
>
>Thanks,
>Philippe

If you have a parallel port with no printer attached, or a printer attached
but turned off, this will happen.  After you get everything installed, the
problem goes away...

Hope this helps,
Tom
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst)
Subject: Re: Single-user mode boot on SCO UNIX
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 00:19:35 GMT
Organization: The Programmer's Pit Stop, Ann Arbor MI

In article <syscrc.714768938@gsusgi1.gsu.edu> syscrc@gsusgi1.gsu.edu (Randy Carpenter) writes:
>Ok...this is embaressing...we forgot the root password on a seldom used
>SCO UNIX box.  We're trying to figure out how to do a single-user mode
>boot so that the root password is not required to login.

If you have a set of emergency boot floppies, simply boot from them,
mount the hard disk's root filesystem, and edit the appropriate files
of {/etc/passwd,/etc/shadow,/tcb/files/auth/r/root}.  If you don't
have a set of emergency boot floppies, you should be able to make them
on another SCO machine.  Or, in a pinch, you should be able to use the
N1 and N2 disks.

>SCO wants $100 to tell us the answer

Others will no doubt flame SCO for this, but that's probably a
legitimate price.  If you had called the company I work for, we'd
charge you $120/hour for Unix phone or onsite support.  The reason for
this is quite simple: while it may be possible to learn to support DOS
or Windows in a month or so, Unix is much more complicated.
Experienced and knowledgable support people are more difficult to
find, take longer to train, and have to be paid more.  And, it takes
more overhead to maintain a Unix support department.  SCO has tried to
get around this to some degree by constructing a database of common
problems and solutions, then using front-line support people as a
natural-language interface to this database.  It works most of the
time, but there are still questions that have to be answered by a
person knowledgable about the OS.  $100 for what is probably a
half-hour or 45-minute job is probably a bit on the high side, but
still reasonable.

-- 
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mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us   | accidentally delete files that they're going
                            | to need later.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: kmolloy@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Kevin P Molloy)
Subject: Looking for basic info on SCO Unix
Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax, Va.
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 17:39:58 GMT


	Considering moving from DOS/Windows 3.1 to a Unix operating
system for a 486 50 mh machine, mainly Open Desktop/SCO Unix.  Have no
information on SCO Unix or Open Desktop.  Looking for advice/FAQ/ and
any other relative information(examples: Hardware requirement for
decent performance, sortware availablity, etc).

	Thanks
		Kevin

kmolloy@gmuvax2.gmu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder)
Subject: Re: Dell SVR4 (and Dell hardware)
Organization: The Gator Public Access Unix Site - 219-289-3745
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 16:28:07 GMT

bill@unixland.natick.ma.us (Bill Heiser) writes:

>In addition to a hang (occasionally, not very often), there are other problems
>like serial ports ceasing to respond, etc., etc.

couldn't the problem with that be in the driver?  Are you running FAS?

its unfortunate that the majority of Intel Unix vendors have left a bad taste in
many mouths -- but believe me, there are alternatives -- Intel based Unixes
which run and run - granted the ones with problems out number those
which work.


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