From: levin@cosmic.physics.utah.edu (Chris Levin)
Subject: Some linux hardware questions for a new user
Keywords: SCSI PRINTER LILO
Organization: Cosmic Ray Physics Group, University of Utah
Distribution: comp.os.linux
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 92 21:26:56 GMT

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THIS IS A REPOST OF MY ORIGONAL MESSAGE.  I MADE A FEW ERRORS
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Hello,
 
I have just installed LINUX version 0.98.Pl5-41 using the SLS package.
 
I have to say that this is an excellent product.  I plan on using it at home
for school projects, programming etc.
 
I am running Linux on the following hardware:
 
        486DX-33 with AMI bios
 
        8 Megs of RAM
 
        A Maxtor IDE harddrive (124meg) with 3 Linux partitons and a swap
                partition (about 10 megs).
 
        An Ultrastore 14F SCSI controller card with a Maxtor 340 meg SCSI
        and an NEC CDR-77 CD-Rom drive.
 
        An Orchid Farenheit1280 Video card.
 
Overall the system is working VERY well (Coherent is now gathering dust!)
but I am having a few problems that I hope someone here can help with.
 
One:
How can I access the rom-drive?  When Linux boots it sees the drive but
there seems to be no entry in the /dev directory to mount it to.
 
Two:
I want to use LILO so that I can boot without a floppy but the instructions 
refer to a kernal image.  What is this?  There is a file in / called Image and
when I use this, the system starts to boot and then locks.  Help!
 
Three:
I can not get X working.  I have tried the VGA mono settings but every time X
starts it says that VGAcolor stuff can't be found.  However, if I just type 
X386 I get a graphics screen and a working mouse cursor (but no shell of any
sort). This seems to be a problem with a config file but I can't find it.
Any ideas?
 
Four:  QUESTION WAS ANSWERED!
I have man and man2 but there seem to be man pages missing.
 
 
Five:
I have gotten my HPlaserjet series II working by sending a control string to
it.  However I want to use LPR but I dont know how to make a printcap file.
The directions I have are not readable so can someone explain the settings?
 
Six:
How can I make my own man pages and add them to the system?
 
If anyone can help with these problems I would appreciate it.
 
Also, for anyone interested, I have got the following working (I understand
that some people have problems with the following)
 
1. I have no trouble accessing my SCSI dos partitions under Linux.
 
2. Modem communications using V.32 and minicom work fine (although minicom seems
        to have a minor bug with line feeds.)
 
3. Zmodem is working with #2. ( I am using the zmodem from coherent which compiles
        with warnings but works fine)
 
4. The drive Linux is on has no dos partitons at all and it seems to work fine.
        Initaly, it had one partition and that also worked fine.
 
5. Gcc is working great.
 
Thanks again for any help you can give.  If anyone wants to know how I got the
above working feel free to send me e-mail.
 
Thanks again.
 
Chris Levin
 
Ps. Please reply via email since I loose many messages in this group
before I can read them.  My address is:
 
levin@cosmic.physics.utah.edu