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From: cummings@hammer.prime.com (Kevin Cummings)
Subject: Re: Extending the size of a partition?
Organization: Prime Computer, Inc.
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 19:03:29 GMT

In article <1992Dec14.021022.16565@tc.cornell.edu>, mdw@db.TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh) writes:
> My /usr filesystem is on /dev/hda4, and is a Minix filesystem. I'd
> like to somehow non-destructively replace this with an extended
> filesystem so I'll have the space... currently, about 100 megs of
> my disk are sitting unused after /dev/hda4. 
> 
> I imagine this is impossible, but if there's any way to do this
> without destroying the files, I'd like to try it. Otherwise, I'll
> just have to tar up my entire /usr tree onto my DOS partition (which
> I only use as my Linux backup!), kill the partition, replace it, and
> then unpack the big tar file back onto the new /usr.
> 
> Any ideas? If I can't replace the filesystem non-destructively,
> are there any caveats for backing up the whole thing with one
> big tar file? Thanks for any help.

You don't mention what your partition table looks like.  Are you already
using 4 partitions?  At least one for DOS, and at least one for Linux.
Do you currently have a swap partition?  Do you have a DOS-extended
partition?

If you are only using 2 or 3 partitions, then you can create new partition
for your remaining disk space.  Use efdisk to create it, and do a newfs
on it to initialize it.  mount it under your current file system (/mnt),
and use the mv command to move your files to the new partition.  When you
are done, you can put the appropriate mount commands in your rc.local file
and you are done!  

If you are already using all 4 entries in your partition table, then you
need to do some creative re-partitioning.  I sugest that you make one
of your partitions (the big one) a DOS-extended partition.  Inside of the
DOS-extended partition, you can create "logical disks" for DOS and still
leave other space for LINUX partitions.  You can create the LINUX equivalent
of DOS "logical disks" using efdisk (/dev/hda5, etc) and follow the suggestions
above.  You may have to back stuff up to floppy or tape first in order to
reclaim it later (either under DOS or LINUX depending on your capabilities).

Finally remember that if worse comes to worse, you can always re-create the
better part of your LINUX environment from the SLS disks if necessary (again
depending their availability to you).

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From: pranjoto@ece.wisc.edu (Hokkie Pranjoto)
Subject: Non-SCSI tape backup (Colorado DJ20) for Linux
Organization: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Date: 19 Dec 92 12:27:34 CST
Originator: pranjoto@janus

Dear Linuxers:
I plan to buy a Colorado tape drive and attach it to my floppy disk
drive which is connected to a IDE FD/HD controller.  Has anybody done 
this and does it work?

Any help will be greatly appreciated ( I do not feel like spending $250
and find out it does not work properly and then I have to return the
merchendise:-))

Yours,
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: poe@daimi.aau.dk (Peter Orbaek)
Subject: Re: How do I provide the floppys to normal users????
Organization: DAIMI: Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 09:06:56 GMT

S_ESPENLAUB@rzmain.rz.uni-ulm.de (Klaus Espenlaub) writes:

>Is there any possibility to give normal users the right to mount
>floppy drives???? I've been trying it with different success (it works only
>when floppys already in at boot time........)

>May anybody help me???????

>Thanks for all

If you just want users to be able to use messy dos disks, then you
might want mtools.

If you also want ordinary users to be able to mount linux disks or, say,
CDROMS, then you might want to use a mount program that I wrote
some time ago. It supports exactly this, by way of an /etc/ufstab file
that determines what and where ordinary users can mount.

I can post the mount/umount pair if anybody is interested, but the are still
quite alpha.


	- Peter.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: tfoley@camaro (Tim Foley)
Subject: Making a Terminal Server?
Organization: camaro
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 18:54:51 GMT
Summary: Use my SYSV68K system as...

 
  I have noticed that people are using other systems for terminal servers 
with other unix systems.  Any idea how I can do this with Linux?
 
  I have a nice huge Motorola SYSVR3 68K machine sitting behind me, with 
about 20 serial ports, but its just sitting there....doing nothing....Linux 
has too many more toys...but only two com ports....
 
  How can I turn this monster into a terminal server for my linux box?  
 
I take it some sort of tcp network with rlogin or something...could someone 
please elaborate? 
 
						TIm




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From: rthomas@pandora (Robert Thomas (extusr Telecom PLUS))
Subject: Re: UFC-Crypt
Organization: Charles Sturt University
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 11:02:01 GMT

Jim Winstead Jr. (jwinstea@fenris.claremont.edu) wrote:
: In article <1992Dec14.054309.10224@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> prv2d@fulton.seas.Virginia.EDU (Peter Villadsen) writes:
   [re UFC speeds under Linux]
:       crypt:  312.7 crypts/sec
:    ufccrypt:  281.9 crypt/sec
: 
:       I am wondering why this is the case? Under the Sun and RS6000,
:    the UFC-crypt ran much faster. I'm using 0.98pl4, gcc2.2.2d on a
:    386/25 with no math coprocessor. Thanks,
: 
: Well, for one thing, UFC-crypt is the native crypt under Linux.
: Perhaps you were trying an older version when you grabbed your own to
: compile?

   I tried this a while ago out of curiosity, and the latest version (then)
ran about the same as that.. Approx 20 or 30 cps SLOWER than crypt() - I 
would assume from this that Linus has tweaked UFC a tad to make it work
a bit better on a 386..  And since my 386 has gone to the big tower case in
the sky, I can't really check.  It wouldn't be too hard to have a look at 
the source in the kernel and see what linus has done to it.
 
             Robert Thomas
From: greenfie@gauss.rutgers.edu (Greenfie)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: lpd woes
Date: 19 Dec 92 18:12:00 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


I've been trying to get lpd to work correctly, and failing miserably. I
have no idea what is going wrong, since I saved a message from
wmitchell@atl.ge.com and followed his directions. My printcap has the
following entry:

lp|epson:lp=/dev/lp0:sd=/usr/spool/lp0:lf=/usr/adm/lpd-errs:

(That is the only line not commented out.)

Now my problem. I run lpd in my rc.local, and it doesn't stay running. It
exits immediately. (Nothing in ps...) If I run lpr, I get:

lpr: connect: invalid argument
jobs queued, but cannot start daemon

and a lpq gets:

Warning: no daemon present
but besides that the standard stuff

If I now run lpd, it prints out the file, but doesn't stick around again.
It seems to be queueing fine. My only problem is that lpd doesn't stay
running in the background.

I have 0.99 w/ tcp/ip compiled in, but no other TCP/IP daemons. (Is that my
problem?)

Thanks!
-- 
Larry Greenfield
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: koenig@nova.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de (Harald Koenig)
Subject: /dev/lp1 VERY slow in 0.98p6 and 0.99
Organization: TAT (Theoretical Astrophysics Tuebingen), U. of Tuebingen, FRG
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 10:03:31 GMT

When I upgraded to 0.96p6 (and now 0.99, has the same lp code),
parallel line printer driver got VERY slow (printing bitmaps an a NEC
P6 or a HP DeskJet takes 1 or more MINUTES per line).

Using  /usr/src/linux/kernel/chr_drv/lp.c and /usr/include/linux/lp.h
from 0.98p5 (or earlier) works with both 0.98p6 and 0.99.

Is there a fix for the "new" broken lp driver?

Thanks, 
Harald
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jwinstea@fenris.claremont.edu (Jim Winstead Jr.)
Subject: Re: UFC-Crypt
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, WIBSTR
	<1992Dec14.054309.10224@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Date: 16 Dec 92 03:00:12 GMT

In article <1992Dec14.054309.10224@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> prv2d@fulton.seas.Virginia.EDU (Peter Villadsen) writes:

      I recently ran the small test suite included with the ufc-crypt
   package and found that it ran slower than the native crypt. For
   my 386/25 (no math coprocessor), this was:
      crypt:  312.7 crypts/sec
   ufccrypt:  281.9 crypt/sec

      I am wondering why this is the case? Under the Sun and RS6000,
   the UFC-crypt ran much faster. I'm using 0.98pl4, gcc2.2.2d on a
   386/25 with no math coprocessor. Thanks,

Well, for one thing, UFC-crypt is the native crypt under Linux.
Perhaps you were trying an older version when you grabbed your own to
compile?
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From: ghart@ems.cdc.com (Geoffrey Hart)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: InterViews possible bug
Date: 13 Dec 92 19:31:52 GMT
Reply-To: ghart@ems.cdc.com
Organization: Empros Systems International, a division of CDC

In article <588@blue.cis.pitt.edu>, fmg@alpha.smi.med.pitt.edu (Filip Gieszczykiewicz) writes:
|> 
|> 	Greetings. My setup: 486D/25, 16MB/10MB swap, ET4000, SLS 98.5-49,
|> 	on a 40MB "/", 50MB "/usr" IDE partitions off an IDE drive.

I have a 486/33, 16MB RAM, no swap, ET4000 LB, SLS 98.2, UltraStor 14F with
3 HDs and many partitions.

|> 	The problem: 1) bring up InterViews Drawing Editor
|> 		     2) Select any FONT
|> 		     3) Select TEXT function and enter "test" on screen
|> 		     4) Click on "Zoom out" a few times... WAM!
|> 		     5) HD light goes on for solid 15 seconds and I get
|> 			a 3MB core dump.

I get the core dump when I *rotate* any text!  It seems text handling is
the problem.  Anyone else?

Other than that, I love both idraw and doc!
-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: root@rshark.mixcom.com (Brian Kapitan)
Subject: Re: libX11.so.2.1 -- where?
Keywords: libX11.so.2.1 X xconquer
Organization: Secret Sound
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 20:29:49 GMT

dpn2@po.CWRU.Edu (Damien P. Neil) writes:

>I FTPd xconquer from sunsite and installed it, but when I try to run it it 
>complains about not being able to find libX11.so.2.1 and dies. I looked 
>around, and found a libX11.so.2.0 in my /lib directory, so I assume that all 
>I need to do is get an update and put it in there.

actually all one needs to do is copy libX11.so.2.0 to libX11.so.2.1 and then
patch the 1024th byte in the file from 0 to 1. (use bpe or equiv). worked
fine for me. in fact, that's how i got xconquer to run.
-- 
"If you wait long enough, a car will come." -- anon
Brian Kapitan, root@rshark.mixcom.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: hymowitz@circle.cs.jhu.edu (Hymie!)
Subject: 0.98.6 and echo
Reply-To: hymowitz@cs.jhu.edu (Hymie!)
Organization: Creative Sensualities dept, Jacquie's House of Underwear
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 11:20:59 GMT

i saw somebody report that 0.98.6 trashed bash's builtin echo.

since this seemed kinda important, i was wondering if someone could
point me to
a) 0.98.6a which fixes this one problem, or
b) a way to emulate echo that works under 0.98.6?

thanx in advance.

--hymie
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: lucy@lehre24.informatik.Uni-Bremen.DE (_xY)
Subject: [Q] ibuild bugs : fixed ??????
Keywords: lots of coredumps
Organization: Universitaet Bremen
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 09:05:51 GMT

Hi

I have a 3.0.1 Version of InterViews (.. have to stay there !) and lots of
trouble with ibuild. If there are fixes for ibuild could you please sent me
your patches (sources) or point out where i can get this !!!! 

thanx in advance
h.b.

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From: gisie@wam.umd.edu (Satan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: FDISK
Date: 21 Dec 92 06:00:03 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park

I finally got all of the disks...

.. but would someone please tell me how to run fdisk on hdb !?

I want to install LINUX on my D: drive but when I run fdisk the only
drive it lists is hda (which is my C:)

Thanks,
Tim

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From: ujlh@pool.info.sunyit.edu (James Henrickson)
Subject: Re: device FAQ?
Organization: State University of New York -- Institute of Technology
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 02:53:04 GMT

In article <1gjossINNn56@uwm.edu> rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller, Linux Device Registrar) writes:
>
>I'll be posting the latest Linux Device List before the end of the week.
>This time I'll have the sound devices in it too!  ;-)  I s'pose it would
>be proper to make sure it gets onto some archive sites as well...
>I'll post to comp.os.linux.announce once it's available via anonymous ftp.
>

I think it might be an idea to make a list of unsupported hardware.
I know we've been through this before with motherboards and didn't
get very far, but I'm not just thinking of motherboards.  In particular,
I know of Diamond video cards, Ultrastor host adapters, and Always
host adapters because they require Non-Disclosure Agreements.  I'm sure
there are a lot more.

I will be losing Internet access soon and will be unable to put together
such a list.  Any takers?

-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry)
Subject: Re: Two queries
Originator: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 01:38:30 GMT

T.J.R. Cutts (tjrc1@cus.cam.ac.uk) wrote:
>1) I am trying to compile kernel 0.99 on my machine.  I have got an error which
>I have not yet seen mentioned, and which (as a non-C programmer) I do not have
>a clue how to deal with!  This is the error:

>kernel/kernel.o: undefined symbol _store_TR referenced from text segment

Weird. I would probably do a 'make clean dep' and remake the thing. If you
have already done this, then try to find out where store_TR is defined,
[Having just looked, it is a #define in <linux/sched.h>]. That being the case,
are you sure that /usr/include/linux is a soft link to 
/usr/src/linux/include/linux (and similarly for /usr/include/asm)?
You could be using old include files.

>2) To keep data files separate from others, last week I moved /usr/users onto a
>separate partition from the rest of the /usr tree.  Now when I try to log in as
>anybody other than root, most commands work, after giving huge numbers of
>'Permission denied' errors.  User and group ownership of the home directories
>are correct, and as far as I can see from logging in as a user (amongst the
>'Permission denied's'!) I have the correct read/write/execute permissions in
>directories such as /bin and /usr/bin.  What's going on?

Probably you do not have execute permission for others on your /home
directory. This will prevent anyone other than root from referencing files/
directories in /home (or whatever you called it).

-- 
Tom J Parry.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: kutcha@eos.acm.rpi.edu (Phillip Rzewski)
Subject: Not quite bug in math stuff
Organization: The Voice of Fate
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 03:29:53 GMT


    I don't do much stuff with math under Linux, so I never ran into this
before. I'm sure someone else has come across this, it's probably quite
documented somewhere. But it took me rather by surprise.

    Consider the program:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <math.h>

int main(void)
{
  double d;
  long l;

  d = pow(2.0, 1.0);
  printf("%1.32f\n", d);
  l = (long) d;
  printf("%d\n", l);

  return 0;
}

    And of course the output:

1.99999999999999977795539507496869
1

    Now, I understand how keen it is that math software speeds things up
by using logarithms, giving us results like this. However, I know that there
are systems out there where one doesn't notice it quite so much. The
program I was originally working with on Linux (not like the one above :) )
was originally something I wrote under VAX C on a VMS system, and I got
just what I thought in the long (in other words, 2).

    Of course, I was able to fix this by simply adding 0.5 to the double
and then casting it to long. It just seems kinda icky to have to do it that
way. I mean, this means that every person who tries to do something like I
did above (which I would think is quite a few) would have to have this same
weird thing happen to them and learn how to correct it.

    I'm not one to make demands or anything, but the math people might
consider fixing this?

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: mdw@db.TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh)
Subject: Crossposting
Organization: The Linux Inquisition, Propaganda Division
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 00:16:57 GMT

In article <1992Dec16.171501.16944@nmsu.edu> emf@freedom.nmsu.edu writes:
>IMHO, anyone who cross-posts an announcement to both c.o.l and c.o.l.a
>is an idiot.  

Thanks. I appreciate that. I crosspost the articles to both groups
on purpose.

>c.o.l.a is where EVERYONE will go if they want
>announcements and ANYONE NOT READING IT DOESN'T CARE!!  Please,
>c.o.l.a moderator, STOP CROSSPOSTING.  

I've already posted a few times asking if I should continue to crosspost
and so far have had 1 reply (not including this) saying that they'd like
me to no longer crosspost, but have had more than a dozen responses from
those who want me to continue to crosspost to both groups.

In any case, I plan to stop crossposting to both groups once the new
Fidonet echo is set up (should be very soon now) and once the new group
has wider distribution. I'll also make a seperate mailing list (or
a new channel on the current mailing list) that will echo c.o.l.a, for
those who are getting the current group in mail digest format. 

Good enough? 

mdw
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From: garyf@uts.amdahl.com (Gary Faulkner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: More 0.99 boot problems (even after fixes)
Summary: very early hang on 0.99 boot
Keywords: 0.99, boot, hang, fixes
Date: 16 Dec 92 15:00:19 GMT
Followup-To: comp.os.linux
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA

Hello all

I have been trying to get 0.99 to boot on my 486 tonight, with no
luck.  It's dying in a very strange (to me) place...

The system comes up and appears to sense all of the devices, until
it gets to the call to move_to_user_mode() in init/main.c.  When
this call is made, the system just hangs.  I can't even
ctl-alt-del reboot.  I have to reset the machine.

I'm not very 80x86 assembler literate, so I'm not sure what
move_to_user_mode() is trying to do.  Is it 'supposed' to return to
main?  If so, it is not.  I put a printk() before and after it, and
the one before prints, but nothing thereafter.

My system is a 486 w/ 8Meg, IDE drives, no-SCSI (tried with SCSI
configured in and out...no change), no ethernet (but have TCP in my
0.98-5 kernel w/ no problems...and sock_init() appears to work, just
complains about no ethernet card).

I'd really like to get .99 up...and tested out on my machine before
the holidays.  

Does anyone have any pointers on where to proceed from here?

Thanks in advance!!
-- 
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From: Steve.Harrington@f34.n343.z1.fidonet.org (Steve Harrington)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: How stable is extended filesystem?
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 18:51:52 -0800

 LW> From: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius)

 LW> Steve.Harrington@f34.n343.z1.fidonet.org (Steve Harrington)
writes:
>Actually the efs author has also mentioned that he will release
>a program to convert to the new file system.  A backup and restore
>won't be necessary.

 LW> A backup is still very, very, very advisable.  Backing up before
doing
 LW> anything dramatic is always a good idea.  (What if the conversion
 LW> program has a subtle bug that only manifests itself on your
machine?)

 LW> --
 LW> Lars.Wirzenius@helsinki.fi  (finger wirzeniu@klaava.helsinki.fi)
 LW>    MS-DOS, you can't live with it, you can live without it.

 LW> ---
 LW>  * Origin: Gated by {remote.uucp}, +1 206 292 9048 [PEP]
(1:343/94)


 
Then I would rebuild my system from the source disks + backups
of current data.  However, your point is well taken, if you don't
have backups of your CURRENT data you're:
           a) in big trouble
and
           b) not real smart.
    
Also, does anyone know when Reme (sp?) plans to make a public
release of the bitmap system.  (not pressing - I can live with
big filenames in a slow system - just curious).
 
Steve Harrington

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