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From: f3b192@rick.cs.ubc.ca (Hong Yeh Ryan Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: How to make a boot disk for .99 SLS Linux??
Date: 7 Jan 1993 22:08:42 -0800
Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Distribution: world
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Hi, Help wanted badly, please help...

I am booting SLS Linux through floppy, and I am DUMP enough not
to keep a backup of my bootable disk. :( Just a few minutes ago,
I accidentally corrupted my **one and only one** bootable disk.
Now I am stuck!!! Lucky, I still own a copy of the old boot disk
from .96??, by using this disk, I am abled to get into unix command
prompt, and run X, but it is extremely slow and problematic...

Could somebody please tell me how could I build a new boot disk from
my new kernel????

Presently, I am using .99 and Xfree1.1 .

Thank You very much..

Ryan.
f3b192@rick.cs.ubc.ca








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From: sadkins@bigbird.cs.ohiou.edu (Scott W. Adkins)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: SCSI EISA bus driver
Date: 4 Jan 93 16:06:43 GMT
Organization: Ohio University CS Dept., Athens


We are looking at possibly buying another SCSI controller that would work
with Linux and the EISA bus.  I understand that this is probably the Adaptic
controller.  Which model of the controller will I need to get the Linux 
system working again with the EISA bus?  Will the controller and the Linux
driver allow me to take advantage of the extended isa mode?

Any information would be helpful.
Thanks!
Scott
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jhallen@world.std.com (Joseph H Allen)
Subject: Re: DOS emulation
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 17:31:08 GMT

In article <15529@hq.hq.af.mil> john@hq.af.mil writes:
>
>--
>The gnu people are putting together a package called jacal.
>This is a symbolic math processor.  I was looking at making a
>troff2jackal and back again translator then patching the adrew ez
>program eq to send the troff code to it for evaluation return and
>display.  This would be a WYSIWIG (almost) way of evaluating
>equations.
>
>Want to help? 

For a school project I made an X-windows symbolic math program.  I never fully
completed the symbolic part of it, but the X interface is nice: as you type
in an equation, it parses it and then pretty prints the parse-tree. 
So you would get something like this:


+----------------------------------------+
|                   5                    |
|            y =  -----                  |
|                 9 * ?                  |
+----------------------------------------+
| y = 5/(9*_                             |
+----------------------------------------+

Once an equation was entered, you could then do some simple symbolic
operations on it: derivatives, rational simplifying, simple factoring and
distributing.  You could also use the mouse to select a part of the
equation, and have the operation occur only on the selected part.

The program also had 2-D graphics.

I can dig this up if you want to try to do something with it.

It's written entirely in C and Xlib.  Unfortunately I didn't know how to use
the resource manager routines when I wrote it so my widgets aren't
customizable.  That could be easily fixed though.
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int a[1817];main(z,p,q,r){for(p=80;q+p-80;p-=2*a[p])for(z=9;z--;)q=3&(r=time(0)
+r*57)/7,q=q?q-1?q-2?1-p%79?-1:0:p%79-77?1:0:p<1659?79:0:p>158?-79:0,q?!a[p+q*2
]?a[p+=a[p+=q]=q]=q:0:0;for(;q++-1817;)printf(q%79?"%c":"%c\n"," #"[!a[q-1]]);}
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jem@sunSITE.unc.edu (Jonathan Magid)
Subject: Re: tput
Organization: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 21:58:30 GMT

In article <1993Jan9.001310.322@draco.bison.mb.ca> drose@draco.bison.mb.ca (Dave Rose) writes:
>I recently grabbed clear from one of the utils packages...now it
>is complaining about not having a 'tput' command.
>Anyone have that kicking around?
>

Its available on sunsite.unc.edu in /pub/Linux/utils/shell.

jem.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: ckurs-2@orville.uni-mainz.de (Teilnehmer am C-Kurs WS 1992_93)
Subject: Re: Where areo ther four consoles?
Organization: Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 09:55:41 GMT

Just undefine the entries for tty5 ... tty8 in /etc/inittab and reboot.
Then you will have the 8 consoles (but most of the time it's better to stay with
only four, unless you have a huge amount of free RAM)

Dominik
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From: tguez@jade.tufts.edu (Name)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Western Digitial video card
Date: 6 Jan 93 21:07:56 GMT
Distribution: comp.os.linux
Organization: Tufts University - Medford, MA

I own a Western Digital windows accelerator card.  Should I be looking
for the S3 driver?  I am not sure what dirver or XConfig setup I need
to use.  I have the capability of going under windows to 800x600 at
32K colors and 1024x912 (or somthing like that) at 256 or 16 (I forget
which one).  I do not care about the colors as much as I do about the
screen space?

Absolutely any information would be very helpful.

Thank you,
Tomer

p.s.
SLS installation
From: john.will@satalink.com (John Will)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Phantom file invades /etc
Date: 5 Jan 93 08:01:00 GMT
Reply-To: john.will@satalink.com (John Will)
Organization: Datamax/Satalink Connection * Ivyland, PA (215) 443-9434

I have developed a somewhat mysterious problem with Linux, specifically
a mystery growing file! :-(  A binary file appears in my /etc directory
named wtmp, and it's continuously growing.  It's also flagged by fsck
as a problem, that's how I spotted it.  The whole system is very slow,
obviously because of this phantom file I can't seem to figure out.
Booting from a previous kernel on a floppy didn't fix anything, so
I'm kinda stuck.  What in the world is going on, and how do I fix it?
I tried deleting the file, but it gets recreated.  Where is it coming
from?  HELP!
                                                                    
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: bjones@cambria.columbus.oh.us (Bill Jones)
Subject: [BUG] Problems with ps 0.99.2
Organization: Cambria Mail and News Gateway -- Columbus, OH
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 12:36:47 GMT
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Just tried to run a number of shell scripts which depend heavily upon the
`c' flag in ps.  It turns out that in the ps taken from HJ's 0.99.2 rootdisk
the c flag is absent.  This causes shell scripts containing such things as

	while ps auxc | grep uucico > /dev/null
	do
		sleep
	done

to fail.  Instead of passing through with no effect when uucico is not
running, this will always produce output of `grep uucico' and will therefore
sleep forever.  So all of my uucp cleanup scripts are now not working.  Is there
a workaround to this problem?  Thanks,

Bill

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: ckurs-2@wilbur.uni-mainz.de (Teilnehmer am C-Kurs WS 1992_93)
Subject: Re: linux-0.99 patchlevel 2
Keywords: linux kernel, patch, 0.99.2, minor fixes
Organization: Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 12:20:59 GMT

THANK YOU LINUS!
----------------
I spend the most of my holidays doing just the same (that is rewriting the
low-level stuff in keyboard.c ...), but since all i got is the exact location
of my problem (set_leds()...) and quick hack for it (#ifndef mykbd .... #endif)
i will test the new release and report on the results.
If there is something in my version of the keyboard driver which seems useful to
me under 99pl2 too, i will post a diff to it (and mail it to you!).

WHAT THE HELL made IBM using to 2 controllers and the system cpu just to connect
to a rather simple keyboard ??? Reminds me a lot of regulations by the EC... ;-)

Dominik

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.windows.x.i386unix
From: hartnegg@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de (Klaus Hartnegg)
Subject: Re: Help with Xconfig = (800x600 != full screen) && (1024x768 == mess)
Organization: Rechenzentrum der Universitaet Freiburg, Deutschland
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 93 18:31:18 GMT

dwb4h@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU (Daniel W. Bingler) writes:

>        I'm using an ET4000 1mb w/ Interlaced monitor.  640x480 works fine,
>but that is it.  I can't get 1024x768 to come close.  I get multiple
>screens.  My monitor has screen frequences of horiz. 31.5/35.5KHz and
>vert 50-87Hz.  These rating don't even seem to give the right resolution.
>These resolution work fine under Dos.

My monitor also has 31.5 and 35.5 KHz. It has 40MHz max band width.
However there is no way to get 1024x768 with 40 MHz.
The bios of my tseng uses 44.9 MHz. This works well on my monitor.
Try it but please don't blame me if your monitor gets damaged.

Try to to get a new version of dmode.
The new versions display the parameters used by the bios.
I think it's in the list one gets with the F2 key.

Good luck!

Klaus
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: SCHLIGHW@dosuni1.rz.uni-osnabrueck.de (Hans Schligtenhorst)
Subject: Re: Installing Packages from HD - how ?
Organization: University of Osnabrueck, FRG
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 17:28:05 GMT

In article <1993Jan06.013328.7683@buchonia.rhoen.in-berlin.de>
horke@buchonia.rhoen.in-berlin.de (Bernhard Kroenung) writes:
 
>Hy
>
>is it possible to install packages from HD (mounted DOS-Partition) instead
>of installing every single disk. Just put all the files in a directory and
>the "sysinstall -instsrc /mounted/dos/partition" should work - but how ?
>
>
Hi,
 
- untar the SLS-tar-file.
- rawrite or dd the disks a1 and a2 to disk
- boot with disk a1 and disk a2
- mount your dos-disk
- mkdir a subdir called a2 in the SLS-tree (rename the a2-file you copied
  to disk). Attention: ist has to be in the subdir, where a3 and a4 are.
- copy the mounted disk (a2 is now inserted!) to this new subdir (I think,
  only the subdir including the .taz-files have to be copied).
- fdisk and mkfs the disk, if it is not be done yet.
- and now: sysinstall with the given options will work from hd!
 
Sounds a bit complicate, but if you examine the structure of the SLS-tree,
which will be build, when you untar the SLS.tar-file, then it will be
clear. The hurdle is a2, it is a file instead of a subdir. So you have to
dd it to disk, rename the file and make an analog subdir with the .taz-
contents etc.
 
By the way: I did it this way and it worked. Oh, I wrote this list from
my brain and I hope, I didn't miss anything.
 
A last hint: look into /bin/doinstall and /bin/sysinstall, it will help
a lot. Oh, I missed the bootable disk! Finally you have to dd the /Image
to disk and "rdev /dev/hda1 /" or "rdev /dev/hd?? /". Then it will work.
Booting from HD will work via lilo, but it's another chapter ;-)
 
Hope it will help
 
Hans
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: miranda@hitchcock (Johann Miranda)
Subject: linux 0.99.2 : Why can't I exec "reboot" ?
Summary: .99.2 system hangs when 'reboot' given
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 06:15:30 GMT
Reply-To: miranda@eng.uiowa.edu
Organization: Department of Elect. and Comp. Engr., University of Iowa, USA.

	Hello Gentlemen.

After a bit of reading today in c.o.l I decided to make sure that my system had
"the right stuff". So, I made sure of links, makefile ( I once got a finish
one by mistake!) sound support, scsi, etc... and recompiled. No problemo.

Right after recompilation I fdformatted a floppy and typed "make disk".Swell.

Problem is, to test this, I 'synced' about 10 times :) and then typed
"reboot".
Usual message, bounce... bounce. System halts.


That's it. Any ideas?

486/33 8 megs ram WDC IDE, Trident card.
Never experienced this before. 

	Any help is appreciated. Thanks. Adios.		-JEM-
From: hj467ri@unidui.uni-duisburg.de (Rienks)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Why does 'X386 -query hostname' not work??
Date: 8 Jan 1993 15:29:44 +0100
Organization: Universitaet Duisburg GH
NNTP-Posting-Host: unidui.uni-duisburg.de

We have a network of hp700 risc Workstations and want to use a PC under
linux (SLS 0.98p5) as a X-terminal. X386 is running quite well on the
pc. I am able to connect to other hosts via telnet and to start
processes on other hosts with  DISPLAY set to my pc. But I am not able
to start the Xserver with -query Option. I tried all possible
combinations of options in the startup command line, but all I got is
the message: 
XDMCP fatal error: Session declined. No valid address

But the address is valid when using ftp or telnet. Any Idea how to fix
the problem?

Thanks in Advance

Andreas Rienks                 E-Mail: rienks@mechanik.uni-duisburg.de
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: Jeff-Randall@uiuc.edu (Jeff Randall)
Subject: Re: It's installed, now what? (was Re: A flight of marketing fancy)
X-Aka: Upholder
Followups-To: poster
Reply-To: Jeff-Randall@uiuc.edu (Jeff Randall)
Organization: The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 06:48:57 GMT

richb@jti.com (Richard Braun) writes:

>it was an offshoot of the Plato academic environment
>developed at CDC and the University of Illinois.  Like Athena, it had
>ambitious goals which didn't include "taking over the world".  Essentially
>the point was to revolutionize computer-based teaching, and indeed Athena
>also took a stab at this.  Plato was installed at 15-20 sites around the
>world before it collapsed like a dinosaur (you needed a $5 million
>computer to run it), so it did fulfill a moderate sized niche for a
>while.

The Plato system (now know as 'NovaNet') is still in use at UIUC.  It's
old, outdated, and *REALLY* slow, but they still use it for required
coursework in some departments and courses.... (as any UIUC engineering
student about the horors of Physics 107.. quizes, etc all exclusively on
Novanet.. ick).

Followups to me.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: craig@spitpa.tscs.com (Craig Anderson)
Subject: Xconfig problems AND thanks
Organization: Southern Prestressed, Inc.
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 93 15:04:55 GMT


Hello World,

First, my equipment:

	Video Card:  STB Powergraph ERGO VGA -- 1MB (1024x768x256 capable)
	             Programmable dot clocks: 23 25 33 35 38 45 50 65 72

	Monitor:     Mitsubishi Diamondscan 14"
	             Multisync
	             MAX Horz. Refresh:  36Hz
	             MAX Vert. Refresh:  90Hz


	The problem is that I seem to have to use an interlaced display, which
in and and of itself is no problem, only there are "lines"1 missing on the
display.  I don't know quite how to explain it but, actual horizontal line are
not being displayed, thus the word "hello" in an xterm window (blown up) would
look like this:

#     #
#     #  ######  #       #        ####

#######  #####   #       #       #    #

#     #  #       #       #       #    #



As opposed to:

#     #
#     #  ######  #       #        ####
#     #  #       #       #       #    #
#######  #####   #       #       #    #
#     #  #       #       #       #    #
#     #  #       #       #       #    #
#     #  ######  ######  ######   ####

Rendering the display unreadable.  The video card dot-clock setting
I am using is 38Mhz, because that is the max I can use for my monitor.
Is there anything I can tweak?  Any help would be GREATLY APPRECIATED.
Please email, and I'll post a summary, if there is interest.

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From: ludwig@wefunk.rent.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: News/UUCP Questions...
Date: 7 Jan 93 07:11:47 GMT
Organization: WEFUNK, The Mothership Connection - Franklin Park, NJ

ACK!

	No sooner do I send mail saying everything is alright.....

	I'm having two problems with my UUCP/Mail/News system.....

	1)  For some reason, every news message that comes in is getting
	    sent back out.  I.E. When my newsfeed sends news to me, the
	    todo file in out.going for the feed has every message that 
	    came in.  If I run news spooling without cleaning this filee
	    up, I'm gonna piss my feed off with all the reposts....
	
	2)  For some reason, my UUCICO sessions are dying.  I'm using a 
	    modem that was connected to my feed using DOS waffle at 38400.
	    I'm running at 38400 here too, but I'm getting alot of errors,
	    and I keep losing the connection...  Any clue?

Danke

Mitch
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From: probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: How to subscribe to X11 channel?
Date: 11 Jan 1993 13:43:14 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

harun@suhana.analog.ingr.com (Bustamam Harun) writes:

>Hi everybody:

>I don't know how to subscribe to the X11 channel, can someone give me a brief
>instruction?  I'm trying to find Orest's latest Xfree (xsrc1.1) source using 
>the archie but there is no match.

>Thanks for your assistance.

>Bustamam Harun

>harun@suhana.analog.ingr.com

The easiest way to build Xfree86 v 1.1 is to ftp to export.lcs.mit.edu
in the contrib/XFree86 directory. Get all the files, and read the README.

Builds rather easily, except you have to know how to build shared libraries
if you don't want your client binaries to be HUGE.

James
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: wonge@fraser.sfu.ca (Edmund Wong)
Subject: Re: how to set temp variable?
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 03:45:04 GMT

In article <C0FK80.B3z@rahul.net> bryanw@rahul.net (Bryan Woodworth) writes:
>I am sorry if this is a faq, but I can't find out the problem..
>
>I compiled cjpeg and djpeg, and they run fine, but they complain about
>running out of temp space. I've watched the /tmp subdirs while the programs
>run and can't see them writing temp files.. . -- help?  The exact statement
>is, "Out of temp space -- no more drive space?"  Not exactly, but close.
>
>I am almost out of room on my root partition, so I setup another partition
>and tried linking the temp dir there with the temp on the normal
>partition..  I'm linking /tmp.  Perhaps I'm doing it wrong?  Could someone
>tell me in email please..
>
    Well, if I'm correct, linking /tmp to the new partition isn't gonna do
you alot of good.  What you need to do is do a 'mount /dev/hd?? /tmp', 
I think.  Right after you've done a 'mkfs -c /dev/hd?? <blocks>'.

    Guys, am I correct on this matter?  Or did I screw up big time with
that answer?  

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: pfau@coffee.enet.dec.com (Thomas Pfau)
Subject: X on 90c30 (was: Problems getting X running)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 04:11:55 GMT


In article <1993Jan11.020858.1524@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu>, hdoshi@picasso.ocis.temple.edu (Hiren Doshi) writes...
>Hi everybody! I am a satisfied Linux user. I just installed SLS X
>series to get X running on my PC. I spent all night to get X up and
>running without any success. As mentioned in the SLS.FAQ at tsx-11,
>I tried to bring X in mono mode up but I was not able to bring X up.
>It gave me a error message saying that there is not enough memory
>I do have 8 megs memory. I tired all the different settings but it 
>always gave me the same result. If anybody has been able to bring X 
>up, either in mono or color mode on the following configuration, 
>I would really appreciate if you can mail me the entries in Xconfig
>or any other changes that I am supposed to make. I am using the SLS 
>distribution. My configuration is:
> 
>Dell 486P/50 PC
>Dell UltraScan 14C monitor
>WD90C30-31 video card
> 
>Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
>Thanks in advance.
> 
> 
>Hiren Doshi
>hdoshi@129.32.1.21 (picasso.oics.temple.edu)

'not enough memory' probaby refers to your video card.  If your 'Virtual'
line specifies a screen size larger than your video memory can handle,
you will get this error.  Width times height should note be more than
your video memory size.

I've finally had some success myself with a 90c30.  The numbers that
finally worked:

"640x480" 14 640 672 776 808 480 480 487 504
"800x600" 20 800 832 968 1000 600 600 607 630

The 800x600 mode is slightly left of center so it needs some adjustment.

tom_p
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