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From: peters@mips2.ma30.bull.com (Dan Peters)
Subject: does SLS install create Swap partition?
Organization: Bull HN Informations Systems Inc.
Distribution: comp
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 18:08:50 GMT
Summary: does the SLS install pkg for Linux create a swap partition?
Keywords: SLS,install,swap,partition

Hi,
	I have looked over the SLS installation instructions and the
15 disk set on the mit ftp site.
	I see that the first steps include:

	 - Create a Linux/Minix partition with "fdisk" on your hard drive
	   and reboot.
	 - Make a file system on the partition with "mkfs".
	 - Use "doinstall /dev/PART", where PART is your partition,
	   to start the installation.
	   For example "doinstall /dev/hda2".


	Does a swap partition get created with this type of installation?

	Thanks,
	
	Dan

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Organization: Freshman, Physics, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 15:15:00 -0400 
From: Frank T Lofaro <fl0p+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Up and Running linux
	<1992Aug26.175330.17630@pool.info.sunyit.edu>
Distribution: usa

Excerpts from comp.os.linux (USENET): 26-Aug-92 Re: Up and Running linux
 ujlh@pool.info.sunyit.edu (James Henrickson) (2551)

>It is not a pretty sight.  I just installed Linux on a second machine, a
>386SX-25 with 2 MB of RAM.  I have 880K free after the kernel is loaded,
>and bash takes a huge chunk of that.  I can run kermit but not shell out
>very often because I usually get a lot of "out of memory" errors.  (Swapping
>doesn't seem to eliminate these error messages, maybe my "working set" is
>too big to fit in 880K.)  When I *AM* able to run a command from within 
>kermit, it is S-L-O-W.

	Unless my understanding of VM is severly flawed (I hope not), having
very low physical memory should *NOT* cause errors (as long as the
kernel fits in memory, but it does, since it boots), as long as physical
memory+swap space is sufficient and swapping is on. You should even be
able to run a program that in and of itself is larger than all of the
available physical memory. This assumes that VM on your setup and on
Linux in general is working right (and that I'm not confused about VM :)

A couple of questions:

1. Are you sure you have enough swap space on disk?
2. Did you properly set up the swap partition (set partition id to swap,
mkswap) or swap file (using mkswap)?
3. Did you remember to enable swapping (using swapon) in /etc/rc or on
the command line?

If the answers to these are all yes:

4. Are you using a SCSI disk? (I heard there were problems with SCSI and
VM, but I could be off-base here).

I'd like to know for myself: Is there any difference, as far as a user
should be concerned, between swap and physical memory, other than
performance, and assuming that swapping is enabled? Do some programs
*need* a certain amount of real, physical memory?
From: lm@slovax.Eng.Sun.COM (Larry McVoy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Linux on a $999 laptop works
Date: 28 Aug 1992 08:01:19 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View
Distribution: world
Reply-To: lm@sun.com (Larry McVoy)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slovax


For your information.  I took the Linux boot disk and root disk, I
think they were .97, and booted it up on an ACER laptop over at Frys
Electronics.  The laptop is $999, 1MB (can go to 5MB) and a 40MB disk
(can't expand) and a VGA screen.  It looked OK.  It has to be the
cheapest laptop Linux system around.  6 pounds or so.
---
Larry McVoy			(415) 336-7627			 lm@sun.com
From: wayne@ita.lgc.com (Wayne McCormick)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: pboot and msdos fs
Date: 2 Sep 92 15:43:57 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Landmark/ITA Inverse Theory and Applications

In article <=7hn=ha.aclark@netcom.com> aclark@netcom.com (Al Clark) writes:
> In article <WAYNE.92Aug31112018@gumby.ita.lgc.com> wayne@ita.lgc.com (Wayne McCormick) writes:
> >
> >First can someone tell me how to use pboot to change a bootimage to boot from
> >the HD?

> The only "pboot" I know of is my modification of Linus' "edit" program.
> Its purpose is only to modify a boot image so that it will use the hard
> disk as the root file system rather than use a floppy as the root file
> system.
> You still need to boot from a floppy until you install boolin, shoelace, 
> lilo or some such.
> -- 
> Al - aclark@netcom.com - My opinions are my own.

Yes, I know that.  I guess I was a little unclear.  I didn't mean "boot from
the HD" like I said but "use the HD for the root partition".  So, how do you
use pboot to change the bootimage for this purpose?  It only seems to hang
and/or crash for me.

Wayne
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: russed@vccsouth13.its.rpi.edu (Daniel Pereicich Russell)
Subject: twm
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 00:28:47 GMT

Hi y'all-
	I have a problem with twm running under 0.97pl2 and X386 (-er- XFree86)
v1.1.
	The Hardware:  Gateway 2000 486/50, ATI Graphics Ultra 8MB RAM.
	The Software:  0.97pl2 kernel, changedd to 16pty's (pty's created
by kernel recompile and MAKEDEV script on 0.97.1 rootdisk), X386v1.1,
XLinux8514.  The only change I have made to the X distrib. is to change
the mouse entry in XConfig to ttys1 (I copied over the XConfig from the 8514
distribution, of course :)
	The Problem:  X works fine, I get the clock and XTerm, but when I
try to restart twm or exit twm, first twm dies (window border and titles go
away), and then the machine hangs (C-A-Bksp doesn't work, commands to make the
disk work aren't accepted).  When I used 'startx 2> x.errors', the x.errors
file says: "xinit: connection to X server lost"
	I can exit X using C-A-Bksp (before I try to kill twm from the menu),
or by 'kill'ing the X server or twm (not very polite...).
	What's happening?
Many thanks (for the help, for the OS, for tsx-11, &c)-
 dan
=====
Dan Russell		russed@rpi.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: zwerin@cis.ohio-state.edu (Andrew Zwerin)
Subject: LILO
Originator: zwerin@xylophone.cis.ohio-state.edu
Organization: The Ohio State University, Department of Computer and Information Science
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 23:03:53 GMT

Recently, I repartioned my HD and got the 0.97 boot and root images.
I ran the install script and have the following partions:

  /dev/hda1	  # dos
  /dev/hda2	  # linux root
  /dev/hda3	  # linux usr
  /dev/hda4	  # linux swap

I have read the README file in lilo.b.4.tar.Z and am confused.  As per
the instructions, I did the following:

./lilo -b /dev/fd0 -i boot.b -v -v -v /Image

If I reboot with the floppy, then the image on /dev/hda2 is loaded and
/dev/hda2 is the root device.  That works.

I am confused about where to go from here.  I would like lilo to be my
MBR and boot sector i.e. I want lilo to be the boot selector and boot
sector for linux.  Basically replacing shoelace.

Can anyone tell me how to accomplish this?  It would be a great help
if you could also explain the options I should be using?



thanks
andy
From: alliot@cenatls.cena.dgac.fr (Jean-Marc Alliot)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Gnu/MIT Scheme port?
Date: 2 Sep 92 15:56:03 GMT
Organization: Centre d'Etudes de la Navigation Aerienne, Toulouse, France


In article <-xjn!v+.thinman@netcom.com> thinman@netcom.com (Technically Sweet) writes:

>   There are many other Scheme implementations, and
>   a few run fine under 386 Unix in interpretive mode.
>   FTP to nexus.yorku.ca:pub/scheme/scm and pull the
>   latest SCM and SLIB distributions.  SCM works
>   fine under most OS's.  

>   Lance Norskog

It works also on Linux, with absolutely no problems, I have been using
it for 6 months.

		Jean-Marc
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: vesseur@fwi.uva.nl (Joep JJ Vesseur)
Subject: clearing SUID bit on writes
Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 09:11:47 GMT

when appending to a file with S_ISUID bit set, linux keeps the
'bit up', while i think it's desirable that whenever anyone appends 
to such a file, the bit gets cleared. the same holds for S_ISGID
bits. i don't know whether the behaviour of setuid files is defined
somewhere (at least i can't find it in 'the design and implementation
of the 4.3bsd unix operating system', i don't have docs on sysV); 
all i know is that SunOs clears the bit.
adding this behaviour should be straightforeward (about three lines
in fs/read_write.c: sys_write()), but maybe i'm missing something
and it is left out intentionally?

joep

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From: kxb@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Karl Buck)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Polling keyboard in linux. What works best?
Date: 29 Aug 1992 04:12:35 -0500
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu
Keywords: linux

I want to check the keyboard for input (using gcc of course) without
actually reading (ie: getc etc..). The unix FAQ suggests looking at
the FIONREAD ioctl or using select() and the C FAQ states that this is
a purely OS dependant question.

What is best for Linux? Can this be non-blocking? A snippet of code
for this would be great since I have not had to do this kind of thing
before. Thanks.


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From: ee89mdw@lab11.ee.surrey.ac.uk (Marc Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: library problem
Date: 30 Aug 92 21:50:40 GMT
Organization: University of Surrey, Guildford, England
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

I forgot to mention in my last post, the reply address doesn't work.  If reply-
ing by email please use: ee89mdw@ee.surrey.ac.uk

Many thanks.
From: barr@hardy.u.washington.edu (David Barr)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Background processes not dying on parent exit
Date: 31 Aug 92 07:10:11 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Aug31.071011.15546
Organization: University of Washington

hammond@kwhpc.caseng.com (Kevin W. Hammond) writes:

>I'm not sure if this is a shell problem or OS problem.

Neither; the behavior you are about to describe is normal.

>  I'll start with the
>OS....

>I ran a process in the background from tcsh with the ampersand (&).
>I would have expected that when I logged out of the shell that my
>background processes would have died as well, but they didn't.

>Is the shell responsible for killing the background processes, or,
>since the shell is the parent of them and has been terminated,
>shouldn't the OS kill the processes automatically?

The processes are not supposed to go away unless they are suspended
for some reason.  Another thing to watch out for: if someone logs in
on the tty you were on when you started the jobs, they will get the
output from your program.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: cummings@tiger1.prime.com (Kevin J. Cummings)
Subject: Re: MouseSystems bus mouse ("WhiteMouse") support?
Organization: Prime Computer, Inc.
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 17:33:03 GMT

In article <3=ln+=.fpolizo@netcom.com>, fpolizo@netcom.com (Fred Polizo) writes:
> Anyone know of a linux mouse driver for a MouseSystems "WhiteMouse" bus mouse?
> 
> I've tried the Microsoft and Logitech drivers, but neither works for me (on
> 0.97pl2).  I tried changing the port addresses and that got the kernel to
> recognize the mouse at boot up.  However, when I try the x11 mouse test
> program, it fails to see any mouse clicks or mouse movements.  I put a
> printk() in mouse_interrupt() and it never gets called, but I'm not sure
> why.  Any ideas?

Mouse Systems mice are not compatible with Microsoft mice.  Microsoft mice
only use two buttons, Mouse systems use three.  Besides that, I believe they
send different serial data (or send it at different baud rates?) for movement
and button presses.  I thought that Logitech had a Mouse Systems compatible
mode for their mice, but perhaps the software you have us using Microsoft
compatible mode.  I recently bought a mouse for a friend that would run as
either Microsoft or Mouse Systems compatible.  It had a switch on the bottom
to configure it either way.  You have to install different software depending
on how you want to set the switch.  I used to have an old GENIUS mouse which
was Mouse Systems compatible by default, but if you held down the left mouse
button when you powered it on, it would instead be Microsoft compatible.
(GENUIS has since added a switch on the back of that mouse to switch between
what they called 2 button mode and three button mode.)

Take a good look at your mouse's "bus card".  If it is just a serial card
(using either a standard or non-standard com port address or IRQ line)
you may be able to use setserial to configure your kernel to talk with
it like any other serial mouse.  (I have a PC-mouse-II at home and a PC-mouse-III
at work, which are both "bus" mice, but the bus card is just a serial port.
I configured it to use non-standard IO addresses and IRQ lines so as to not
lose any of my 4 standard "COM" ports.)

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: fl0p+@andrew.cmu.edu (Frank T Lofaro)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: 16550A
Date: 23 Aug 92 10:43:59 GMT
Organization: Freshman, Physics, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

From netnews.comp.os.linux: 23-Aug-92 16550A  gt0449a@prism.gatech.EDU
(Rob Coleman) (1124)

>Does anyone else have problems with Linux not correctly "shutting down"
>the 16550?  Ever since the kernel has supported a 16550, I have had to
>hard reset the computer after running linux, or it seems that the
>computer "forgets" that the port that contains the 16550, exists.  When I
>soft reboot from linux (after doing a shutdown), the CMOS screen shows
>one less serial port (in my case, None), and programs such as OS/2
>refuse to install the COM drivers because they don't see the serial
>port.  (I have no term program running under Linux at the time)

>I had this problem with beta versions OS/2 early on where it would
>exhibit the same behavior (and still will if I reboot OS/2 while
>running a term program), but a normal shutdown (in the final release of
>OS/2) "correctly closes" the port (ie. the computer is aware of the
>ports existence when the CMOS screen comes up).

>Is there code that needs to be added to Shutdown that would relinquish
>control of the port?

Actually something like that should probably be in the kernel reboot
code that is run when the reboot system call is executed. There are a
few problems with rebooting remaining, it seems. Some of them might be
due to the computer BIOS, and some due to Linux. Hopefully a patch to
the Linux reboot code will fix any Linux bugs or work around any BIOS
bugs.

By the way, I have had no trouble with reboot usually. My computer had a
CMOS amnesia attack (forgot the *WHOLE* setup), but I don't know if
Linux did that. It happened only once.
From: hlu@fili.eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: HOSTNAME usage?
Date: 28 Aug 92 18:54:49 GMT
Article-I.D.: serval.1992Aug28.185449.22092
Organization: Washington State University

In article <1425@yetti.UUCP>, frank@cs.yorku.ca (Frank Pikelner) writes:
|> Hello,
|> 
|> Since the installation of Linux I have decided to change the name of the machine
|> from the original. I have tried to use the HOSTNAME program but it only changes
|> the name temporarily until I reboot. Is there a way to make it permanent? It is
|> probably something simple that I've overlooked like a file or an option when
|> running the HOSTNAME program.
|> 
|> Thanks,
|> 

Put that line in /etc/rc.local.

H.J.
From: dlj0@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (DAVID L. JOHNSON)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: new X11 editor: aXe
Date: 26 Aug 92 03:03:04 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

In article <1992Aug25.144151.2046@athena.mit.edu>, chchen@stat.fsu.edu (Ching-Hsiang Chen) writes:
>In my department our SA installed a new X11 editor called aXe which
>looks quite nice. I got the tar.Z file here but unfortunately I am
>just a newbie in GCC or compiler to port it (I will try anyway :) )
>Anyone already ported it to Linux?
>
>Steve Chen     chchen@stat.fsu.edu
>
I've been trying.  (See the whine about alphasort and scandir above).  If anyone
else wants to try, be advised that 3.0.1 is *much* more stable than 3.0, and
anything before 3.0 requires oodles of special widgets that I don't think you
want to waste your disk space on.  I'll be waiting patiently, it's worth it.

-- 
Sincerely,

David L. Johnson                    ID:  dlj0@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu
Christmas-Saucon Hall #14, rm 211        
Department of Mathematics

Lehigh University                   Telephone: 215-758-3759 (office)
From: mal11@po.CWRU.Edu (Matthew A. Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: transfering mtools from DOS partition to LINUX fs
Date: 2 Sep 92 15:26:37 GMT
Reply-To: mal11@po.CWRU.Edu (Matthew A. Lewis)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.ins.cwru.edu



Does rawrite work for this??????

I ran it and gave it mtools.n.tar.Z as the file to copy to my
floppy drive....

but then in Linux when i tried to mount /dev/fd1 I get an error
message like no magic match or something.

What is the simplest way to do this?

thanx inadvance

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From: greenfie@gauss.rutgers.edu (Greenfie)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: DISASTER AT MIT!!!!!
Date: 1 Sep 92 23:58:39 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

mal11@po.CWRU.Edu (Matthew A. Lewis) writes:
>Someone seriously need to do some housekeeping in the LINUX directories
>on TSX-11.MIT.EDU. It's a wreck.
>
>Anyone up to it???????

I agree!  I don't want to seem to whine to the kind admin who lets it
exist, but some indexes would be nice. (Especially using the ftp server
that gives the short, one line descriptions when you type 'dir'. An example
of this is at hobbes.nmsu.edu, the OS/2 archives.)

I'd volunteer to write a great deal of them, but I don't know what many
are. :^( A more coherent directory structure would be nice, too.

I hope people don't take this as a complaint... Just suggestions.


-- 
Larry Greenfield
greenfie(ld)@gauss.rutgers.edu
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: hpa@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin N9ITP)
Subject: Re: Rootimage 97-1
Reply-To: hpa@nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin)
Organization: You must be kidding!
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 16:27:32 GMT

In article <1992Aug27.160343.12570@iitmax.iit.edu> of comp.os.linux,
  gkt@iitmax.iit.edu (George Thiruvathukal) writes:
> 
> In my experience rawrite stops writing tracks once EOF is reached for the
> raw file. If the file were 1200KB, and KB==1000, then the number of bytes
> would be less than available on a 1.2MB diskette, where MB=1024*1024. Was
> an "error" message actually displayed?
> 

Sorry about this.  The sizes of PC floppy disks used by IBM and others are:

160K 180K 320K 360K 720K 1200K 1440K 2880K

where 1K = 1024 bytes.  The reason we see "1.2M, 1.44M, 2.88M" is *not* due
to confusion, but to IBM's own definition of "megabyte" which is:

	1024K when dealing with internal memory,
	1000K when dealing with disks.

I have actually seen this "policy" in print, so don't flame me for it.

	/hpa
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From: Emmett.Sauer@f215.n3802.z1.fidonet.org (Emmett Sauer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Recommendations for a PC to support Linux and X386
Date: 28 Aug 92 15:09:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: remote.715131567.F00042

AH> From: gt6698a@prism.gatech.EDU (Andrew Hobson)
AH> In article <6080@vtserf.cc.vt.edu> tdunbar@vttcf.cc.vt.edu
AH> (Thomas Dunbar) write
AH> s:
AH>           avoid DTK motherboards
AH>
AH> >Do you know what is wrong with them? I have a DTK based
AH> machine, and I
AH> >keep getting unexpected hd interrupts a lot. Could the
AH> motherboard be
AH> I have a DTK motherboard and I have had absolutely zero
AH> problems with anything
AH> like that.
I too have a DTK 386 33MHZ MB and have no problems at all with running
Linux or XWIN....  Check your ROM version, and will note that the best
IDE interface to use with DTK MBs is the DTK... I had experienced
problems with interrupts until I narrowed it down to the interface
board... I would check the HD/FL controller be it IDE or not...

Emmett Sauer

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: davison@borland.com (Wayne Davison)
Subject: Re: DDEBs (DON'Ts, DON'T EVERs, & BEWARES)
Organization: Borland International
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 14:36:14 GMT

hargrove@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Paul H. Hargrove) wrote:
> In article <Bstv3p.2KD@news.cso.uiuc.edu> thoth@uiuc.edu (Ben Cox) writes:
> >When I want to remove files matching a wildcard, I always echo it first:
> >
> >$ echo silly?file*
> >sillyXfile1a    sillyYfile1b    sillyZfile327a  sillyqfileTHX1138
> >$ rm silly?file*
> 
> You're even better off (assuming bash) doing
> $ echo silly?file*
> sillyXfile1a    sillyYfile1b    sillyZfile327a  sillyqfileTHX1138
> $ rm !$  (or !* for multiple wildcards)

If you're using zsh, it can expand wildcards into the command-line.
This way if you type:

$ rm silly?file*

and hit tab, you'd see:

$ rm sillyXfile1a sillyYfile1b sillyZfile327a sillyqfileTHX1138

and you can simply hit return.  You can also "setopt magicspace" to have
it transform history references as you press space:

$ rm !!:3

would automatically replace the !!:3 with the 3rd argument of the prior
command as you hit space.  If you haven't tried zsh I recommend you give
it a whirl.
-- 
Wayne Davison
davison@borland.com
From: zlsiial@uts.mcc.ac.uk (A. V. Le Blanc)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Mtools documentation (was Re: Clue?)
Date: 3 Sep 92 07:30:25 GMT
Reply-To: LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk (A. V. Le Blanc)
Organization: Computing Centre, University of Manchester

In article <MedHI8O00WBLM7_V8v@andrew.cmu.edu> dsa3+@andrew.cmu.edu (David Reeve Sward) writes:
>4) mtools.  Where can I find docs for mtools?  (DOS is on C, Linux is on
>D with 3 partitions - 18M /, 63M /usr & 10M swap).

The manual pages are included in the source, available from (I think)
tsx-11.mit.edu in /pub/linux/sources/usr.bin/mtools.n2.tar.Z or from
ftp.mcc.ac.uk in /pub/linux/src/usr.bin/mtools.n2.tar.Z.

I recently added to the MCC interim version a README file containing parts
of the original README and of Werner Almesberger's README; I have removed
the parts concerned with compiling mtools and left only the user-specific
bits.  See mcc-interim/0.97p2/README.mtools in /pub/linux at ftp.mcc.ac.uk
and in /pub/linux/mirrors/mcc-interim at tsx-11.mit.edu.

     -- Owen
     LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk