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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Date: Wed,  2 Sep 1992 17:41:28 -0400 
From: David Reeve Sward <dsa3+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Clue?

Psst!  Buddy, can you spare a clue?

A couple Linux-newbie(tm) questions:

1) Is there any Token Ring support?  I've got a 16Mb card here and it
would sweet to ftp right to Linux instead of to DOS -> rawrite -> Linux
-> tar.

2) Just how do you move stuff from DOS to Linux via rawrite -> tar?  I
grabbed tcsh.tar.Z from tsx, uncompressed it in DOS, rawrote it to a
floppy, fired up Linux (thanks BootLinux & Boot.Sys!) and ran

tar -tvf /dev/fd0H1440

It spat out the verbose file listing as (I assumed) it put the files on
the HD. But!  There were no additional files on the HD.  df reported no
used/free changes.  What am I doing wrong here?

[ok, maybe not just a couple of questions]

3) Is there a Common Lisp implementation for Linux?

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).

5) Anything else a Linux-newbie(tm) should know that's not in the FAQ/whatnot?

Thanks!
From: bboerner@novdpd.uucp (Brendan B. Boerner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: getting "bogus do_no_page"; strange vi behavior
Date: 31 Aug 92 14:51:23 GMT
Organization: Novell, Inc. --Austin

Hello, using Linux 0.97 and later 0.92 Pl#2, when compiling (among
other things) on a (386/16 w/a tad under 5MB of RAM) I start getting
spurious "bogus do_no_page" messages.  These don't appear on my
girlfriend's computer (486/33 w/8MB RAM).

Also, after upgrading to 0.97, I noticed that vi has been acting
funny.  While inserting into a line, it starts adding spaces.  Using ^L
will redraw the screen and show that the spaces really don't exist.

Also, if anyone working on porting Mtool v2.0 over to Linux?  If not,
I'll look into it.  Does anyone know where I can get the patches which
cause Mtools to use /etc/mtools?

Thanks,
Brendan
-- 
Brendan B. Boerner		Phone: 512/346-8380
Internet: bboerner@novell.com	MHS: bboerner@novell
Please use ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ if replying by mail.
From: mal11@po.CWRU.Edu (Matthew A. Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: segmentation fault/core dump uncompressing GCC 2.2.2dmisc.tar.Z
Date: 3 Sep 1992 02:13:39 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: mal11@po.CWRU.Edu (Matthew A. Lewis)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc12.ins.cwru.edu



well....i was able to uncompress all the other files but this one.
Any ideas why??? Is it too big????

i got the file from tsx-11. i have 8 MB mem with 8MB swap and my shadow
ram is enabled (and I haven't had any problems yet).  

Any info would be greatly appreciated.
Thanx in advance

-- 
MaThiEu a. LeWis      "There is no middle ground/Or that's how it seems/For 
Thieves Like Us        us to walk or to take/Instead we tumble down/Either
mal11@po.cwru.edu      side left or right/To love or to hate."
					-A Strange Kind of Love
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: michael@gandalf.moria (Michael Haardt)
Subject: Re: HOSTNAME usage?
Reply-To: u31b3hs@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Michael Haardt)
Organization: An old and gray machine, somewhere in Moria.
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 20:48:22 +0100

In article <1992Aug28.185449.22092@serval.net.wsu.edu>, hlu@fili.eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu) writes:
> In article <1425@yetti.UUCP>, frank@cs.yorku.ca (Frank Pikelner) writes:
> |> 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.
>
> Put that line in /etc/rc.local.

I wanted to ask that since a while, but now where you bring it up: What rc
files etc. should be used and how?

When I used Minix, things were simple.  I had /etc/rc, and that's it.  Now
I have a real init with runlevels.  I read about mount table files which 
specify the disks to mount. (btw: Is that finished?)

There is documentation about all these things, you just never get told *how
things usually are installed*, and for various reasons I don't want to look
at the HPs in uni and install it like that :(

To make a start, here is my /etc/rc:

#!/bin/sh
/bin/rootdev > /etc/mtab
/usr/bin/cat /dev/null > /etc/utmp
/bin/hostname gandalf
/bin/swapon /dev/swap
TERM=con80x25 /usr/bin/setterm -blank 10
/usr/bin/rm -f /etc/nologin

That is my /etc/inittab: (using the SYS V init, of course:)

# Level to run in
id:5:initdefault::
#dt::sysinit:/usr/bin/date -h
ud::boot:/etc/update
rc::bootwait:/etc/rc
pwr::powerfail:/bin/echo Power failure test ...
# Test entry for ondemand (works!)
od:a:ondemand:/usr/bin/sleep 2
cr::boot:/etc/crond
# Bootlevel 0: test purposes
c0:0:respawn:/bin/getty 9600 tty1
# Normal levels:
c1:123456:respawn:/bin/getty 9600 tty1
c2:23456:respawn:/bin/getty 9600 tty2
c3:3456:respawn:/bin/getty 9600 tty3
c4:456:respawn:/bin/getty 9600 tty4
t1:56:respawn:/bin/getty 19200 ttys3

Ok, what about /etc/fastboot, /etc/rc.local and these?  What should be
done in /etc/rc?  Where should filesystems be checked (assuming I would
have more HDs)?  Are there scripts to be executed when changing to
single user more?  What run levels are usually used for what?

Perhaps we can come up with something to add to the FAQ or rootdisk.

Michael
From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: ghostscript/ghostview errors
Date: 27 Aug 92 14:44:41 GMT
Reply-To: davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corporate R&D Center, Schenectady NY

In article <1992Aug27.035346.16159@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>, jliddle@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Jean Liddle) writes:
| Hi,
| 
| Both ghostview 1.3 and ghostscript 2.5 (from gatekeeper.3com.com) compiled
| flawlessly under linux 0.97.1 and gcc 2.2.2.  (linux 0.97.1 was installed
| over the SLS 0.96 installation).  When trying to display some files, such

  Beward 2.5. If you've been reading the bug group you will know that
there are performance problems and problems with the laserjet. Bad
problems to the point that 2.5.1 is promised in about 6 weeks.

-- 
bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
    I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.
From: eric@tantalus.dell.com (Eric Youngdale)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Problem with find in MSDOS file system
Keywords: DOS FS, linux, find
Date: 28 Aug 92 17:45:00 GMT
Organization: Naval Research Laboratory

In article <1992Aug28.155134.24843@midway.uchicago.edu> ace3@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>In general, when find reaches the 3rd level of subdirectory nesting in a
>DOS file system, it will only list the files in the first such
>sub-directory.
>
>I'd like to help figure out what's going on, but I'm not sure if the
>problem is in find, or the fs/msdos stuff.


	Try:

find -noleaf

I ran across this with the CDROM filesystem.  Find assumes that the i_links
field is accurate, and uses this to decide how many subdirectories it needs
to examine.  If the i_links field is not accurate, then find screws up.
I do not know if this is the problem with the msdos fs, but it is fairly
easy to try.

-Eric
--
Eric Youngdale
eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil
From: steve@Nyongwa.CAM.ORG (Steve M. Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: getty_ps and modem carrier loss
Keywords: getty, modem, dialup
Date: 27 Aug 92 05:05:14 GMT
Organization: Chiral Symmetry Breaking, Inc.

In article <1992Aug22.162204.135@cpumagic.scol.pa.us> mloewen@cpumagic.scol.pa.us (Michael C. Loewen) writes:
>In article <k-+n=9m.james@netcom.com> james@netcom.com (James L. Paul) writes:
>>I'm using uugetty and getty from the getty_ps package with Linux 0.97.1
>>Everything is working great, dialups are easy and the autobaud method is
>>'charming.' However, I'm having trouble getting the shell (or whatever the
>>current parent process is) to die when modem carrier is lost before logout.
[..]
>
>   Check your /etc/gettydefs file, and make sure the entry you're using has
>'HUPCL' added to it.  I'm running getty_ps on a SVR4 system, with the modem
>locked at 19200 baud.  Here's an entry from my gettydefs:
>
>19200USR# B19200 OPOST ONLCR TAB3 BRKINT IGNPAR IXON IXANY ISTRIP ECHO ECHOE 
>ECHOK ICANON ISIG HUPCL CS8 CREAD # B19200 OPOST ONLCR TAB3 BRKINT IGNPAR IXON 
>IXANY ISTRIP ECHO ECHOE ECHOK ICANON ISIG HUPCL CS8 CREAD #login: #19200USR

Yeah, I guess that's one way.  A shorter way is using the 'SANE' settings,
which does include HUPCL.

Are others having this problem?

Last week A. Rumble posted about this, so I logged in to my system over the
modem and dropped carrier several times.  Every time the shell died, even
if I was running another program like elm or rn. 

Then I tried doing weird things like starting a bunch of shells (bash; wait
for the prompt; bash; wait for the prompt; bash...), or running login to login
as another user.  A couple of times when I did this, some, but not all of
the shells I started died, leaving two or three running, and of course, no
getty.

I guess I should see if this is repeatable.  But it's late now, and I was
just wondering if anyone had an idea of what's going on.

Doesn't the signal go to the process that originally opened the device?
That would be the original shell (exec'd from getty) so why would hanging up
kill off some of the newer shells, but leave the old one running??

Steve

-- 
Steve Robbins  --  steve@nyongwa.cam.org
I asked Hank Williams "how lonely does it get?"
Hank Williams hasn't answered yet.
From: wuwei@acf3.nyu.edu (Wei Wu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Extended partition is not recongnized when boot from HD
Date: 26 Aug 92 14:48:00 GMT
Organization: New York University


I have a system with 386DX/25, 8Mb RAM, IDE disk, AHA1542B and Fujitsu 
SCSI disk, Linux 0.97-pl1.5.).
On my IDE driver I have one primary partition for dos, one small
primary partition for Linux root, and one extended partition all for
OS/2.  On the SCSI disk I have three primary partitions for Linux,
(two for data, one for swap) and one big extended partition divided
two logical partitions, one for DOS and one for OS/2.

My problem is this. When I boot Linux from floppy, everything is OK.
In the boot up message, it stated that the primary and all the logical
partitions are recongnized.

However, if I boot the same image from hard disk, (shoelace installed)
at boot up, it stated that the primary partitions are OK, the logical
partition on IDE is recongnized, but for the SCSI disk, the primary
partitions are recongnized , the logical partitions on the extended
partitions are NOT recongnized, it gives error messages 'cann't read
partition table on device 804' or something like that. Then I cann't 
access the extended partition on SCSI disk.  
Note that when I boot from floppy everything is fine, I CAN access 
the extended partition on the SCSI disk just fine.

Do you have any idea what the problem could be?

Thanks in advance.

Wei Wu (wuwei@acf3.nyu.edu)

P.S.: Is the multichannel mailing list still active ? I subscribed
SCSI, X11, GCC channel two days ago, except the machine replied
messages, I have not received anything yet.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: Kevin W. Hammond <hammond@kwhpc.caseng.com>
Subject: Location of X11 for 0.97pl2
Reply-To: hammond@kwhpc.caseng.com
Organization: The Internet
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 23:50:35 GMT

I'm looking for the X11 binaries for 0.97pl2 on tsx-11.  I cannot seem to find
the files I am looking for (as they may not be the correct files :-)

I'm looing for xuser0?.  Is this correct?

-kwh-
-- 
Kevin W. Hammond
hammond@kwhpc.caseng.com

  CASE Engineering * 575 W. Madison #1601 * Chicago, IL 60661 * (312)902-2161
From: ajt@swan.doc.ic.ac.uk (Tony Travis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Elm's permissions
Date: 29 Aug 92 23:35:31 GMT
Reply-To: ajt@rri.sari.ac.uk
Organization: Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, University of London, UK.
NNTP-Posting-Host: swan.doc.ic.ac.uk
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Muhep Guest account (guest@chopin.Physics.McGill.CA) wrote:
: [...]
: [smail seems to give read permissions to the world when creating a  
: mailbox, so when you create a new account you should touch the mailbox and  
: chmod it to 600 in the adduser script (like mine does!)]

check the umask of the user account: smail will set 600 if the umask is
22. (nb. this umask would normally set permisions 644 on a plain file).

	Tony.

--
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Rowett Research Institute,            |  JANET: <ajt@uk.ac.sari.rri>
Greenburn Road, Bucksburn,            |  other: <ajt@rri.sari.ac.uk>
Aberdeen, AB2 9SB. UK.                |  phone: 0224-712751
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: wolff@zen.et.tudelft.nl (Rogier Wolff)
Subject: Are S3 cards ET4000 compatible enough to run X11?
Originator: wolff@zen.et.tudelft.nl
Reply-To: wolff@zen.et.tudelft.nl (Rogier Wolff)
Organization: Delft University of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1992 10:58:31 GMT

I am considering buying a VGA card to run X11 under Linux. However the
shop tells me that they are out of ET4000 cards, but are willing to sell
me a more expensive S3 card. They say that the card is compatible with
ET4000. Should I expect it to work?

I don't beleive the guy when he said that this card supports a mode
with 32000 colors out of a palette of 1.6 milion. 1) the number is 16
milion. and 2) isn't 32K * 3 bytes of FAST table lookup memory very 
expensive?

					Roger

-- 
If the opposite of "pro" is "con", what is the opposite of "progress"? 
(stolen from  kadokev@iitvax.iit.edu, who got it from brydon@asl.sinet.slb.com)
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: ujlh@pool.info.sunyit.edu (James Henrickson)
Subject: Re: Beta TCP/IP
Keywords: beta buggy tcp/ip
Organization: State University of New York -- Institute of Technology
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 18:16:57 GMT

In article <1992Aug25.233806.11161@morrow.stanford.edu> bir7@leland.Stanford.EDU (Ross Biro) writes:
>
>At long last kernel tcp/ip is now ready for beta testing.
>
>Currently only the Western Digital Ethercard Plus and compatibles
>are supported (wd80[01]3 boards).  If you have a different ethernet
>board you will either have to write your own driver or wait until
>someone else does (There is someone who claims to be working on
>drivers for many different ethernet boards.)  If you want slip
>you will have to wait (There is a slip mailing list for people
>interested in working on it.)
>
>REMEBER ONLY THE WESTERN DIGITAL BOARDS ARE SUPPORTED.
>

I tried the mailing list and didn't get much in the line of responses,
so here goes:

I would like to co-develop or alpha test an NE2000 driver.  I have two
Linux machines equipped with NE2000 clones that are currently useless.
The only NE2000 info I could find at ftp sites was source code that
was insufficiently documented for me to gain much insight.  I would
like mail from (a) someone that is working on a driver, (b) someone that
would like to help me with a driver that has some knowledge of programming
the NE2000, (c) someone that can point me to some free NE2000 information,
or (d) someone that can point me to some inexpensive (less than $50) but
useful NE2000 information.

Thanks in advance,


-- 
Jim H.
*
* James L. Henrickson
* ujlh@sunyit.edu        "Some day I might have a real .signature!"
From: doug@owl.isis.org (Douglas W Murray)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Rootimage for 0.97?
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 92 02:57:33 GMT
Organization: Quoi! me organized?

Hi All,

Is the rootimage for 0.97 available anywhere for ftp request?  I did an 
Archie request for 'rootimage' and found many versions but not one for 0.97. 
Could it be that the rootimage is not named in the same many as the previous 
ones?

Help would be appreciated.

Doug!

P.S. Before anyone throws a FAQ Flame, I have been off the newsgroup for the 
last 2 weeks, hence I dont know if this was posted in the FAQ or not.
From: pmacdona@tadpole.bcsc.gov.bc.ca (Owner of this machine)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: RE: SLS problems
Date: 30 Aug 92 18:49:37 GMT
Reply-To: pmacdona@tadpole.bcsc.gov.bc.ca
Organization: The Internet

This is in reply to Peter B?, who had problem installing SLS.
My mailer is broken...

Given that dozens of people have managed to install the SLS from
downloaded sources, don't you think that it is possible that if
it doesn't work for you, that you might be doing something wrong?

I will give you credit, however, for being resourcefull enough to 
look at the install script to try to determine the problem.  And if
you had been reading the posts, you would know that the SLS kernel
was modified to try mounting all 3 types of FS's, when none is 
specified by the command.   That is the reason you see the bad magic
match command upon the mount attempt.  The first one tried is "minix"
then "ext" then "msdos".  Unfortunately, Linus never adopted this patch
when I sent it to him.  So my first question is, are you sure the mount
actually failed?  If so, then perhaps your boot-disk is corrupt?

Really, I can understand your frustrations.  Computers are complex, and
even simple functions like downloading files, seems error prone.  But
SLS is free, and it offers you the greatest freedom of all.  Namely,
you are free not to use it, if it puts your bun in such a knot.

Other things to note:  
	doinstall will not work with "ext" fs on the harddrive.  
	the files "disk*" must also be downloaded.
	you log in as "root" after the install.
	you can also login as "user1" to see startx use GWM.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: hammond@kwhpc.caseng.com (Kevin W. Hammond)
Subject: Latest releases
Reply-To: hammond@kwhpc.caseng.com (Kevin W. Hammond)
Organization: The Internet
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 01:52:05 GMT

What are the latest *working* combination of Linux source and GCC and where
are they located?

I want to install GCC and Linux 0.97 from scratch and build the kernel.  Past
attempts have failed miserably, so I'm going to try from a "fresh, known-to-
be-working" set.

-kwh-
-- 
Kevin W. Hammond
hammond@kwhpc.caseng.com

                 Looking for a real operating system?  Try Linux.

  CASE Engineering * 575 W. Madison #1601 * Chicago, IL 60661 * (312)902-2161
From: sprave@gonzo.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Joachim Sprave)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: slow lp driver
Date: 1 Sep 1992 07:42:59 GMT
Organization: CS Department, Dortmund University, Germany
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: gonzo

Hi Linuxers,

Friday I bought my Deskjet500 (very hard to get even if you're willing
to pay). I printed via latex, dvips, gs into a PCL-file and copied
it to /dev/lp2 (was also trying lp1). My DJ500 printed one or two lines,
then waited a while, and so on. Can someone explain me why it is 
/that/ slow ??

A comparision:

	linux		:	cp page.1 /dev/lp2	~ 3 min.
	a-mess-dos	:	COPY /B page.1 LPT2	~ 20 sec.


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       _|  _   _ |_
      |.|-(.)-(.)+.|
       \|    J   |/
        \   ---  /
         \      /
          "####"
		Joachim
From: cd2a+@andrew.cmu.edu (Court Demas)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Compiling X/Motif Apps
Date: 30 Aug 92 11:00:36 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.AecFfIy00Vp3R6VUMf
Organization: Junior, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA


	I'd like to start compiling X and Motif apps on my Linux system, but I
haven't been able to find any of the include files or libs anywhere. 
Can I just d/l the source and compile it myself or something?  Is it
that difficult?  I'm sure somebody's done this before..


thanks

-court
From: dlbb0@diag.amdahl.com (David Black)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Killing background processes on logout
Date: 1 Sep 92 01:37:13 GMT
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Cupertino, CA

In article <1992Aug31.233729.24652@athena.mit.edu>, hammond@kwhpc.caseng.com (Kevin W. Hammond) writes:
|> My new question would be this:  how do you force the exit of background processes
|> on csh termination?  I would really swear up and down that nohup was used to keep

I think kill -0 in your .logout might work, but for sure a one-liner
that does a ps -aux, greps for your username in the first field, and does
kill -9s on all of 'em will.

I recall from school daze that only those processes that are still attached to
the tty are automatically killed on hangup, not those which have detached (say
"?" in the tty field of ps -x). That held true for a Sequent running Dynix
(BSD-like) and the NeXT boxes anyway.

-- 
David L. Black     I/O Diagnostics Development   Dial-up LINUX+archives 24 hrs.
dlbb0@amdahl.com   Amdahl Corp., Sunnyvale CA    408-773-0768 V.32bis/HST
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: dje@cygnus.com (Doug Evans)
Subject: Re: Swap files versus swap partitions
Organization: Cygnus Support
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1992 15:33:47 GMT
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Lars Wirzenius (wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI) wrote:
: What reasons are there to prefer swap partitions instead of swap files? 
: I have the impression that a partition may be a bit faster, but how much
: is this?  5% or 50%?

Tracing through indirect blocks and double indirect blocks has to slow
things down some, where as a swap partition doesn't have this problem.

Secondly, swap files might be scattered all over the disk (depending upon
when you create them).

--
Doug Evans        | With views like these ...
dje@cygnus.com    |                           who needs disclaimers.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: trussell@cwis.unomaha.edu (Tim Russell)
Subject: Re: Up and Running linux
Keywords: Up and Running linux info. needed
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 22:54:05 GMT

ujlh@pool.info.sunyit.edu (James Henrickson) writes:

>How about those Linuxers with 16-32 MB of RAM?  I haven't heard their
>experiences.  I wonder if they ever managed to run out of memory, except
>when compiling something big like Interviews.  :-)

    Well, actually I have 16 MB of RAM, and just for kicks since I have
tons of disk space (envy me :)) I even put on an 8 MB swap partition.  As
far as I know, I've never come /anywhere/ near even getting into the swap,
with X running several (8-10) clients and doing kernel compiles at the
same time.

    I understand that GCC gets *really* big really fast when you have large
pre-initialized arrays, though.  I haven't tried compiling anything that
does that as of yet.

--
    Tim Russell                 Omaha, NE              trussell@unomaha.edu
One of the richest men in the world made his billions selling a toy "operating
system" that is more accurately described as a glorified bootstrap loader.
                                                  -- Phil Karn
From: zlsiial@uts.mcc.ac.uk (A. V. Le Blanc)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: ld86 source
Date: 28 Aug 92 16:47:38 GMT
Reply-To: LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk (A. V. Le Blanc)
Organization: Computing Centre, University of Manchester

In article <17jcl4INN7ka@chester.ksu.ksu.edu> probreak@chester.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon) writes:
>I need to find source for ld86. I grabbed the file bin86.tar.Z off of tsx-11,
>but when it compiles ld86, build in /usr/src/linux barfs about it not being
>a minix header on the boot files it is trying to link. Could someone just
>try to email to me. Thanks

The patches which I used to compile as86 and ld86 are available by anonymous
ftp from ftp.mcc.ac.uk in /pub/linux/mcc-interim/0.97p2/patches/bin86.ud.Z.
It is compressed, but only 1732 bytes long.

     -- Owen
     LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux