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From: creacy@yuppie.enet.dec.com (Chet Creacy)
Subject: SLS Install Problem with disk a2
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 20:11:26 GMT


Hello netters,

I was trying to install SLS on my PC last night and received an error for 
which I haven't a clue.  I booted from disk a1.  All looks well, it displayed
Linux version 0.98.pl5-49 11/16/92 17:49:23.  Then requests that I input
utilities disk (assume it means disk a2).  Put disk a2 in.  It then displays:

  /dev/ram on / type minix ()
  /dev/hda2 on /mnt type minix ()
  /dev/fd0H1440 on /usr type minix (defaults)
  Further instructions can be found in the file /user/README.
  Type 'more /user/README' to look at it. 
  #

Now at the linux prompt '#', I type 'ls' and it responds with 'ls: command not
found'.  Basically, no linux commands work.

So, I decide to try 'doinstall /dev/hda2' (since the partition already existed
from a previous version of SLS).  After I insert a2 in the floppy drive at it's
request, the following error is displayed:
  free-inode: bit 1 already cleared.
  error: you may have inserted the wrong disk, try again (y/n)?

Is the SLS disk 'a2' corrupt on tsx-11?  The previous version I installed back
in November didn't have these problems at all.

Has anyone seen this problem before?

Thanks,

Chet
From: ghod@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: X + kermit + internal modem + mouse = ????
Date: 12 Dec 92 01:12:41 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon Computer Club

Greetings:

I'm a new Linux user (just downloaded enough of it to get the mono X system
working -- gonna grap the compiler tonite :) and I have a question. After
some head scratching concerning the configuration of my machine's internal COM
ports, I discovered what seems to be a bug in kermit. What I want to do is use
my mouse and my 2400 baud internal modem simultaneously. I'm doing that now
using xc (or xcomm). When I try using the pair with kermit, the modem works
fine, but the mouse dies. Obviously, this can be a problem with X running. :)
The problem can't be with the serial drivers since I have no trouble getting
things working with xc, but I'm wondering if anyone has noticed similar
behavior with kermit. One thing about xc that bugs me is that it re-maps the
DEL key to ^H, which is no trouble on other Unix boxes, but ti drives
me nuts in VMS. And no, the mouse doesn't come back to life when I quit
kermit. 

By the way, let me offer congratulations to all you guys, Linus especially: I'm
amazed that I got a working Unix and X system crammed into my little bitty 
16Mhz 386SX and 40 meg hard drive. Now if only I could make the color X
server work... :)

-Bill Paul

Assistant System Administrator
New Windsor Associates L.P.

ghod@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu  or  ghod@drycas.bitnet
From: greggh@redsun.pps.rain.com (Gregg Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Kernel build benchmark
Date: 18 Dec 92 23:00:43 GMT
Article-I.D.: redsun.1992Dec18.230043.5502
Organization: Research and Evaluation Dept. Portland Public Schools, Portland Oregon.

cae@davidge.com (Caleb Epstein) writes:

 # 	A while back I recall a number of people posting Linux
 # 'benchmarks' based on how long it took their machine to
 # rebuild the kernel.  The less time it took, the faster the
 # machine.

 [ personal benchmark info deleted ]

 # 	This little UNIX is a tribute to its author(s).  The
 # fact that I can compile *anything* on this hunk-of-junk PC
 # is near miraculous.

	I generally waited till bed time before even starting the
 making the kernel. It generally took around four to six hours per
 compile. My "paperweight" is a 386SX-20 with 2MB RAM, 16MB swap,
 MINIX fs, no 387, no daemons/nothing in background, version 0.97.6

 # -- 
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From: rick@ee.ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Pros/cons of linux/386bsd?
Date: 14 Dec 1992 20:26:46 GMT
Organization: Just me.
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.2.33

mharm@pollux.usc.edu (Michael Harm) writes:
>Hi folks.
>We are trying to decide whether to go with linux or 386bsd for 
>our 486 machines.  Particular constraints are:

First off... Who's "we"?  That might give us a clue.  You see, if "we"
is a law-sensitive organization you may want to avoid 386BSD because it's
derived from the NET-2 tapes which AT&T now claims to have Copyrights on.

>We don't have a lot of disk space.

Linux uses shared libraries, 386BSD doesn't.  This means that Linux will
take up a *lot* less disk-space than 386BSD will... especially if you intend
to have lots of little executables (such as the usual suite of UNIX-ish
commands:  ls, more, cat, etc.).

>We need X11.

Both do this, don't they?

>We don't have a lot of memory per machine.

Linux will run with only 2 MegaBytes (though the install's a bit trickier).

>We don't have cd roms

Neither Linux nor 386BSD require you to have a cdrom.

You didn't mention what you want to *DO* with your machines... That's CRITICAL.
If you want to do networking, perhaps 386BSD is your answer.  But if you want
to be POSIX-compliant, it's Linux.

Rick Miller   <rick@ee.uwm.edu> | <rick@discus.mil.wi.us>   Ricxjo Muelisto
Occupation:  Husband, Father, WEPCo. WAN Mgr., Discus Sys0p, and  Linux fan
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From: pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald)
Subject: Re: newbie:  what do I do with SLS Fix files?
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria B.C. CANADA
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 02:38:47 GMT

In article <fluet.724344463@ee.ualberta.ca> fluet@ee.ualberta.ca (Kevin Blaine Fluet) writes:
>Hi all,
>
>Please forgive my question if the answer is obvious, but I've looked
>through the docs I have and can't seem to find any info on what to do with
>the Fix files in the SLS/fixes directory on tsx-11 (ZAFIX.TAZ ...).  I
>just installed linux this last weekend, so I'm sure I have the latest
>version of the SLS release (and it sure was easy to install, I must say),
>so should I be trying to use these fix files, or are they for people with
>previous SLS releases?

The fixes dir are for the previous releases.  SLS has been recently cleansed
and contains no fix files.  But the extfs upgrade may soon fix that!

>
>Thanks for any help.

Your welcome.

>
>----------------------------
>Kevin Fluet
>fluet@ee.ualberta.ca
>----------------------------
>


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From: evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans)
Subject: Re: arp crash under 0.99
Organization: Aston University
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL241235]
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 08:33:28 GMT

Patrick L. McGillan (pmcgilla@hp.uwsuper.edu) wrote:
: Hi,
:  Just brought 0.99 on a second machine and when I try to telnet to it,
:  I get an error on the console like;
: 
:  arp.c skb with bad magic - 1B7A46: squashing queue
: 
:  Who has some thoghts about what this means and how to correct it. Using
:  the latest NE2000 drivers on an AT&T 386 20mhz machine - 4mb.
: 
:  Same card and drivers work fine on a clone 486-33.

I have got this as well, though it dosn't appear to be fatal.
(some way of examining the arp cache might be useful)

Are your machines on different ethers?
Does the one which causes problems also carry non-ip traffic?

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Date: Tuesday, 15 Dec 1992 15:20:56 EST
From: <ACPS7221@RyeVm.Ryerson.Ca>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: IV-doc situation.


   Hello all:
   It appears that the newest doc will not run on a 386 without a math chip.
Although I don't have a math chip, I am able to compile and run doc. It only
runs properly on a machine with a math coprocessor.  I am not sure if it will

run on the 386 + 387 combination O.K., but it definitely does on the 486DX.
   Also, my computer may be at fault, so others without a math chip should try
it and let us know how it goes.
   I am not sure what this says about out FPU-emu, (which is a fine piece of
work IMHO).  Perhaps under some conditions, it does not work properly. On the

other hand, it could be the compiler, kernel, or something else.
   All the other apps seem to work fine, so don't be discouraged from trying
the patches to get idraw and ibuild built if you don't have the math chip.
But if all you want is doc, get the older version 3.0.1 from the SLS package
(it now has AFM fonts).  It is roughly equivalent in functionality.

                                Regards, Michael.

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From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: HP Ethernet driver
Date: 16 Dec 1992 11:49:37 GMT
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu


Based on the alpha NE/2000 (et al) code from Donald Becker and a long,
hard stare at the Crynwr HPPCLAN packet driver, I have constructed an
Ethernet driver for HP cards.

I have, of course, only tested it on my machine--a Vectra 486 with a HP
27250 ThinLAN card.  It works, though I'm not terribly impressed with
the throughput.

Any interested parties are welcome to drop me a note.

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From: satishc@microsoft.com (Satish Chittamuru)
Subject: Re: FAQ: Yes, the Dimond Stealth works in 1024x768 
Date: 12 Dec 92 22:38:46 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation

In article <badger.724106648@phylo> badger@phylo.life.uiuc.edu (Jonathan Badger) writes:
 > 
 > It is time to clear up this confusion. The Diamond Stealth works fine
 > in 1024x768x256 -- the trick is to run Windows first (in 1024x768). This sets
 > the clocks.

Actually there is no confusion. Quite a few people have posted this
"trick". Boot up in DOS, set your clocks, then *WARM BOOT* into
Linux.

 > What we really need is a program that can set the clocks within Linux. I often
 > think the reason this hasn't been written is philosophical rather than
 > technical. Many people have the absurd belief that writing something like
 > this would send the wrong message to Diamond that their policies are OK. 
 > Diamond's policies are bad, I agree. But I can assure you that they could
 > not care less about the very small Linux user base -- refusing to support 
 > their cards is NOT going to bring about a change. 

You are probably right in that the reason is more philosophical than
technical (I wouldn't know). But the belief is not absurd, IMHO. Well,
if they don't care, too bad. I have plenty of other choices.

Besides, nobody is *refusing* to support those cards. All they are
saying is this: In the absence of reliable docs on how to program
the clock, our (the Linux & X coders) time is better spent supporting
chipsets that do have the docs available and hence easier to program
for.

 > Telling us "sell your Stealth" is obviously a pretty unrealistic solution.
 > Most of us can't afford to sell hardware every thirty seconds when some
 > piece of software or another doesn't support it.

True. So I have a suggestion. Write the driver for the Stealth and
put in the public domain. All the posts I have seen from Dave Wexelblat
(?) have said that if someone is willing to write drivers for the
currently unsupported chipsets/boards, he would be happy to include
them in XFree86.

The Linux and XFree86 hackers (The GNU people too) have done an
excellent job in providing a quite reliable OS, utilities & tools.
My heartfelt thanks to them on a job well done. If *they* are unable
to write a driver for a non-standard piece of hardware that *I*
have, I don't believe I have right to tell them that what they are
doing is absurd or of no effect. IMHO, ofcourse!

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: tfoley@camaro (Tim Foley)
Subject: Faq for 0.95p5...needed!
Organization: camaro
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 02:07:06 GMT
Summary: Someone should write one....

  Someone should write a faq for converting from 0.98p1 to 0.98p5 and 
above....I have read tons of messages about problems getting things to run 
under 0.95p5 from 0.98p1...but nothing concrete....if someone has a good 
documentation of converting from 0.98p1 to 0.98p5 or p6, please post it, as 
myself and quite a few others are still running 0.98p1 due to the fact that 
the general gist of the messages was that 0.98p5 broke too many binaries....
 
							Tim
 
Reply to 'whome!camaro!tfoley' or in the newsgroup.
 



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From: pfitzmau@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (paul fitzmaurice)
Subject: Login Help!
Keywords: Login Help Linux
Organization: Northeastern University, Boston, MA. 02115, USA
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 08:23:26 GMT

I just installed 0.98 of linux and went to boot off of the new floppy
disk and it went throught he startup info and asked me for a password. 
I have no password or login id yet.  None have been set up.  I tried the
'root' and it asked me for a password, I tried <cr>, space, root and
anything else I could type.  How do I log in.  I ftp's a,b,c, & x from 
tsx-11.mit.edu on 12-dec-92, so I know that the files are the most
current.  PLease help!

Thanks, Paul...
From: nosilla@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Andrew J. Templin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: New SLS realease
Date: 19 Dec 92 17:54:17 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Dept. of CS Ball State University Muncie IN


I have the next-to-most-recent release of SLS.

Considering the troubles that seem to have popped up in the 
newest release, should I upgrade or wait a while?

EMail please.

Thank you,

					Andrew
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From: Rob_Prior@mindlink.bc.ca (Rob Prior)
Subject: Linux, X, and ATI Vantage
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 23:12:51 GMT

I was just mailed the X8514new.tar.Z binary, and now when I try to run X, it
gives me the message:

X: can't load library '/lib/libm.so.4'
    No such library

... Could someone point me to a source for this?  It doesn't appear to have
been included with my system (0.97.something).

Thanks in advance,
Rob

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From: st1mb@jane.uh.edu (Supernaw-Issen, Daniel A.)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Strange problems with .99
Date: 15 Dec 1992 22:49 CST
Organization: University of Houston
Distribution: world
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News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    


I grabbed the SLS .98pl5 distribution.  Had few problems with it.  I just 
grabbed and recompiled linux .99 and lo and behold , I get a) an ioctl error
message stating that an invalid argument was passed.   This was emitted from
the line:
$CONFIG -n $NET -r $ROUTER eth0 $IPADDR
in rc.net

b) The dos emulation do longer works.  It just clears the screen and returns
my prompt.  

Any ideas?
oh, btw, I compiled in TCPIP & NFS and I don't have an ethernet card.
I compiled in NFS in an effort to try to isolate the first problem.

Oh, I got xdm up and running but it kept thrashing the harddisk.  this is 
strange given that it didn't do this before.

ah well..

Daniel

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From: wpwood@queball.austin.ibm.com (Bill Woodward)
Subject: Changing a Serial Port IRQ Number
Originator: wpwood@queball.austin.ibm.com
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 20:03:40 GMT
Reply-To: billw@aixwiz.austin.ibm.com (Bill Woodward)
Organization: IBM Austin


How does one go about changing the IRQ that a specific serial port
uses.  I have a modem on COM3 under DOS running with IRQ 5.  When I
switch to Linux and boot, the bootup messages say that the IRQ for
/dev/ttys2 is 4.  Is there a config file I am missing, or do I need
to recompile the kernel?
   Any suggestions happily accepted.
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From: jem@sunSITE.unc.edu (Jonathan Magid)
Subject: Re: Help needed with HP500 printer
Organization: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 08:07:31 GMT

In article <Bz7r1p.Kts@cs.uiuc.edu> tgao@cs.uiuc.edu (Tong Gao) writes:
>I think there was some discussion about this before. I have a hp500 printer,
>and when I do cat file > /dev/lp1, the printer just print one line of text.
>Could someone tell me how to make it print CR/LF? Also I copied the printcap
>for HP500 sometime ago from this group, but I have no idea about how to use
>it. Is there a lpr code somewhere out there I can use? Thanks in advance.
>
>Tong
>tgao@cs.uiuc.edu

 get /pub/Linux/Incoming/set-deskjet.c on sunsite.unc.edu...
it solves this problem by sending the correct init string to the printer...


        printf("\x01b\x026\x06b\x033\x047");

in case your curious... this should also work as a shell script by
echoing (with a smart echo) to /dev/lp1.

jem.
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From: dmw@teal.csn.org (Dave Warner)
Subject: [SCSI] ST01/Wangtek 5125ES problems!
Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc.
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 05:58:33 GMT

%tar cf - /etc | dd of=/dev/st0 (/etc is about 750K)
I/O error
55+9 records in
60+0 records out
scsi 0: unexpected interrupt
SCSI host 0 timed out - aborting command

In addition:
 - console hangs
 - ps shows dd in "uninterruptable sleep" (can't kill it!)
 - drive hangs - needs power cycle to clear it
 - sometimes screws up CMOS

Questions:
1. How do I track down the problem? Tried #define DEBUG in both
   st.c and seagate.c but so much stuff came out that I couldn't
   tell much. Is there a better way to examine the debug printout?
2. Why does the console hang? That's not very friendly.
3. Ditto for hanging the drive.
4. Ditto for "uninterruptable sleep"

I'm running 0.99 with inode patches.

Thanks for any help,
--dave

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From: mckay@uhdvx3.dt.uh.edu (Steven McKay)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: device FAQ?
Date: 14 Dec 1992 18:15 CDT
Organization: University of Houston-Downtown
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: uhdvx3.dt.uh.edu
X-Lunar-Date: 3 days, 14 hours, 52 minutes since the full moon
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41A   

Could someone point me to the device FAQ? I have been told one exists,
but can't seem to find one anywhere. ( The regular FAQ doesn't seem to contain
enough info).

Please e-mail to me at mckay@dt.uh.edu so we can save bandwidth. :-)

                                     Thanks in Advance,
                                     S. McKay
                                     mckay@dt.uh.edu

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From: peterw@archsci.arch.su.edu.au (Peter Williams )
Subject: Re: Errors when making 0.98pl5 kernel
Reply-To: peterw@archsci.arch.su.edu.au
Organization: Design Computing Unit, Sydney University
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 00:15:11 GMT

In article 92Dec6084444@gopher.dosli.govt.nz, steven@gopher.dosli.govt.nz (Steven Brydon) writes:
>
>Info I probably should have included in my previous post:
>
>        GNU Make version 3.62
>        BASH (not sure what version) from hlu boot disk
>
>Some added emphasis, I can make 0.98pl5 while running a 0.97pl6 kernel.
>
>Steven


Try recompiling bash with the jump libraries. (It worked for me.)
(or copy the version on archsci.arch.su.edu.au (129.78.66.1) in pub/linux/gnu
where you will also find patches for the source)

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From: Dwight.Francis@nautical.r-node.gts.org (Dwight Francis)
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 92 12:54:35 EST
Organization: R-node Public Access UNIX Information System (416-249-5366)
Subject: Dos Emulator FAQ
Distribution: world
Reply-To: Dwight.Francis@nautical.r-node.gts.org (Dwight Francis)
X-Posting-Software: UniBoard 1.10a S/N 120921

 Is there a Dos emulator FAQ ? If so, could someone please E-mail it to
me? 
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From: mdw@db.TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh)
Subject: Re: Problem(bug?) when running background jobs with X windows
Organization: The Linux Inquisition, Propaganda Division
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 07:04:24 GMT

In article <1992Dec16.053232.19524@eng.umd.edu> yjwu@eng.umd.edu (Yu-Jen Wu) writes:
>I found a problem(maybe a bug?) when I try to do some background jobs under X.
>If I send the job to the background and then exit X, that job would be killed.
>This does not(and should not) happen for Sun Unix---all background jobs under
>X would be still running even if you exit X.

If you put them in the background with a command such as

	foo &

Then they should be killed, as the parent shell that spawned the process is killed
when you exit X. If you don't want the processes to go away, try using 'nohup' 
or fork and orphan the process by hand.

mdw
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