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From: janl@ifi.uio.no (Nicolai Langfeldt)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: PLEASE READ THIS: How to find answers to your linux questions.
Keywords: FTFM
Date: 1 Jan 93 17:07:26 GMT
Reply-To: janl@ifi.uio.no
Followup-To: poster
Organization: Folkeaksjonen for gjeninsettelse av Revolvermagasinet
Originator: janl@gyda.ifi.uio.no


Much of the volume on comp.os.linux devoted to asking questions that
have been answered tens, hundreds or even thousands of times. The
answers can be found in these documents:

  INFO-SHEET (what is linux, features, hardware, getting linux)
  meta-faq   (linux faq, linux newsgroups, ftp, bbs'es, about which
	      files to get when installing linux, mailing lists,
	      ++ quite a lot of other info and pointers)
  faq_<Date> The complete linux faq. Contains answers on: Linux, linux
	     instalation, common problems, linux and dos, more problems,
	     hints, features, gcc, scsi, X11, networking, and emacs

Both the INFO-SHEET and meta-faq are posted regularly on
comp.os.linux, you should be able to find it if you search backwards
thru comp.os.linux for "INFO-SHEET" or "META-FAQ" in the subject line.

The faq is _large_ but very well organized, and face it: you have to
read _some_ docs to keep your system running smoothly, and the faq is
a kind of a minimum.

The problem is that the people that know the answers grow tired of
answering the same questions time after time and then stop
answering... This is not what anyone want, so please RTFM before
asking... and we know the FM "sucks raw eggs" but make a effort.

If people could start doing this life on comp.os.linux would become
better and maybe we could get rid of all the split posts too :)

Nicolai
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Internet: janl@ifi.uio.no

PS. I was planing to post this twice a week or maybe even every day...
Please make suggestions on how to make it better (e-mail to me please)
From: jmp@comback.uucp (Jean Marc Pigeon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Question: Serial Line in IN/OUT mode?
Keywords: uugetty, uucp, serial FAS
Date: 2 Jan 93 20:13:15 GMT
Organization: Login: Logiciels Interactif

Bonjour,

	Is there is an elegant way to alternate listening and
	speeking on same line?.
	Did somebody implemente something "a la FAS driver" methode?,
	if not, could somebody suggeste to me how to avoid uugetty 
	to lock the line when in waiting mode (the modem is in
	"silent running mode")?.

	I know! I could "patch something" :-}} by enabling and disabling
	line in /etc/inittab, but I considere that methode as really 
	cumbersome!

 	Thanks for your help or suggestions.

	Parameters:
	getty and uugetty: straight from tsx-11 and level 0.99
	kernel		 :  0.99.1

A bientot	
	


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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jdoss@jmd386.lonestar.org (Joe M. Doss)
Subject: Re: How Do You Install SLS on a SCSI Disk with an ST01 Controller?
Organization: JD's home system
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 18:35:59 GMT

In article <1gvrtnINNo3n@im4u.cs.utexas.edu> glenn@cs.utexas.edu (Glenn G. Lai) writes:
>I grabbed the package last night, and upon booting from a1, I got the
>following messages:
>
>	. . .
>	scsi : 1 hosts.
>	  Vendor:CDC	Model:94211-5	Rev:629
>	Type: Direct-Access	ANSI SCSI revision: 01
>	sd0 at scis2, id0, lu0 :
>	scsi : detected 1 SCSI disk 0 tapes 0 CD-ROM drives total.
>	Memory: 6764k/8192k available (376k kernel, 384k reserved, 668k data)
>	Floppy drive(s); fd0 is 1.44M, fd1 is 1.2M
>	sock_init: initializing family 1 (AF_UNIX)
>	SCSI host 2 timed out - aborting command
>
>then it hung and the light on the CDC disk wouldn't go off.  Any ideas on how
>to fix this?

Linux needs interupts enabled (IRQ 5) on the ST01/ST02 for the driver to work.
You should find the 3 pins called W3 on the ST01 or JP3 on the ST02, and
install a jumper to short pins F-G.

>
>Glenn
>glenn@cs.utexas.edu


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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier)
Subject: Re: known problem with email...buy why?
Organization: York University
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 17:58:55 GMT

wonge@fraser.sfu.ca (Edmund Wong) writes:


>   HOWEVER, besides disallowing your users send mail, like I suggested,
>you could always revert to 'mail'...which, for some reason, WORKS..

> Hmm... wierd..eh?  It doesn't work with elm, but it works for mail..

>  ISN'T this wierd???
> 
>  Or am I just hallucinating everything???

>
	No hallucinations...I get the exact same thing.  Permissions
are the same for mail and elm though :(

Marc
From: reynolds@panix.com (Brian Reynolds)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Seeking recommendation for 486
Date: 29 Dec 92 04:32:37 GMT
Reply-To: m-mz4720@cs.nyu.edu
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC

NOTE: the following is being posted for a friend who can't post from
his current location.  He can receive email.  I have tried to set the
Reply-To: header properly.  I will forward any email that I receive.

Brian Reynolds

--------------------------------------------------------

Hi,

I am looking at purchasing one of the 486 laptops on the market and
would like to run linux on it. If any of you have any positive (or
negative) experiences with any particular laptops I would greatly
appreciate any information you can give.

Since I am posting from a friend's account Please send info to
m-mz4720@cs.nyu.edu

thanks in advance
Mike Zamansky

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: sno@ais.org (Stephen Opal)
Subject: Linux raw beginner question.
Organization: UMCC
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 01:06:04 GMT

I am an experienced unix user who now wants to learn how to be a unix
system manager.  Because of this, I acquired an IBMPC 486sx 33mz with
8 Meg ram.  I am waiting on an Adaptech controller to manage my
Wren IV 350 SCSI drive.  In the mean time, I have downloaded SLS a1 and
a2 to my 286, and rawrite'd two 1.2M floppies.  The 286 only has 1
drive which is the 1.2M.  The 486 has 1 1.2 a: drive and a 1.4M 3.5 b:
drive.

Now my problem.

Booting a1, and then switching to a2 at the appropriate time gives me my
unix environment.  I can cd and ls and more to my hearts content for a short
time before the thing freezes up.  BUT, my real problem is that I cannot
format the 1.4M 3.5 from Linux.

Login screen:

Memory: 7016k/8448k available (376k kernel, 384 reserved, 672 data)
Floppy drive(s) fd0 is 1.2M, fd1 is 1.44M
sock_init: initializing family 1 (AF_UNIX)
Ram disk: 642048 bytes, starting at 0x109d00
Loading 624640 bytes into ram disk
......................................
done
Linux version 0.98.pl5-49 (root@softland) 11/16/92 17:49:23
Now you may.... etc.

----
After I type "1" for Drive A: 5 1/4 inch to load a2, I get

/dev/ram on / type minix ()
/dev/hda2 on /mnt type minix ()
/dev/fd0h1200 on /user type minix (defaults)

Further instructions... etc.
#

----
I would like to access the ram disk but don't know how.
I would like to format fd1, and have tried numerous combinations of:
mkfs /dev/fd1 1400 (gives a listing of inodes, blocks, and a
	maxsize=268966912)
mkfs /dev/fd1H1440 1400 (same thing)

When I try 'mount /dev/fd1h1440' I get:
	mount: can't find /dev/fd1H1440 in /etc/fstab

So, I can't format and create a new a2 in
the 1.44M disk and free up the 1.2 floppy so that I can take it out and
load more software.  I can't mount another disk to get it into the system.
I might be able to manage with the system temporarily on ram disk, but
I can't mount ram, or I don't know how to use it...

I read this newsgroup, and see references to 'login'.  I never see a login 
message.  I can't log in as root.

My SLS was acquired at tsx-11, after the 0.99 modification.

HELP!
-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: amartell@nyx.cs.du.edu (Alex Martelli)
Subject: Bell HUB multiport dumb serial card?
Summary: anybody got a driver or working on one?
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 23:34:54 GMT

I'm setting up Linux, and I like what I see a LOT, but I'd like to keep
using some old pieces of hardware... one I haven't noticed any driver
work for (but maybe I haven't been looking in the right places?) is
the dumb multiport serial card from Bell Technologies called "HUB6" -
vintage 1987, six 8250's sharing one interrupt.  I used it with
Interactive Unix, and I guess I could try to hack together a driver 
(maybe starting with a similar one - I believe there is one for a
4-port AST board?), but just thought I'd check if anybody else has
already done any work on this or a similar driver... answers here or
by email are fine, of course, and I'll summarize if asked to.


Alex
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: agc@weasel.demon.co.uk (Alan Charlton)
Subject: Re: Kernel build benchmark
Reply-To: agc@weasel.demon.co.uk
Distribution: world
X-Mailer: cppnews $Revision: 1.20 $
Organization: nowhere in particular...
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 10:48:08 +0000

In article <BzM0HC.n39@citrus.SAC.CA.US> ianj@citrus.SAC.CA.US ( Ian Justman ) writes:
> 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.
> Uh-uh...  That sounds like a good analogy; however, what about if
> you had more memory like I do (I have 3MB)?
> 
> I'm using a 386sx/20 with, like I said, 3MB of RAM and 5 megs'
> worth of swap partition, and gee whiz, I thought _ONE_ HOUR was
> bad!  Evedently even one megabyte of RAM makes all the diff (no
> pun intended...  Ok, Ok, OK!!!  Pun intended  :-) ).
> 
> : 	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 second the emotion!
> 
> Here's to Linus B. Torvalds and his masterpiece which only gets
> better!
> 

I'm using a 386sx/25 with 8Mb of RAM and 3M swap (of which only about 512K
is ever used), and a 0.99 make dep/make Image takes about 40-50 minutes,
and never more than 1 hour.  It would seem that lots of memory has a far
greater influence on build times than all-out processor speed.

Cheers,

Alan.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: amir@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (Guindehi Amir)
Subject: Re: HELP : bad magic number in super-block
Organization: University of Zurich, Department of Computer Science
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 14:14:14 GMT

Hi All !
For everybody who had/has or will have the same Problems here is how I fixed
it :

As I lost every control over me I only thought all is crashed. So I booted
with my rawrited disks and started fdisk.
Fdisk told my that some numbers are wrong, and they will be corrected if
I write the bartition table (It sad this just after starting up). So I
did a <w> in fdisk and rebooted. But still I had the same problems. So
I got back and booted again with my rawrited system and restarted fdisk again.
Now I have set my HD-datas in the extendet menu (because I have an SCSI-Hd)
and after thet I made a <p> to show my partition table.

And here I found it : My rootpartition had wrong beginning and endings !!!
(-27363 or someting like that). So I deleted the root-partition and made
a new one, with THE SAME PARAMTERS AS IT HAD ! After that I writed the table
and rebooted.

Yeah ! After that my System comes up as normaly. Fsck means all is ok and
every thing is fine ! (Uffff...)

So the Question is now : What screwed up my PARTITION TABLE ???

Was it the command <shutdown -r now> or was it because I filled my /usr
partion till 100% and deleted aftter that some files ? I don't know,
but it was strange !!!

Greetings to everybody, and thanks for every help I received !

- Amir Guindehi

Email : amir@avalon.phsyik.unizh.ch

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald)
Subject: Re: List of Broken Bins under 0.99 [v1.2]
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria B.C. CANADA
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 92 18:18:54 GMT

In article <1992Dec26.120724.535@camaro.uucp> tfoley@camaro.uucp (Tim Foley) writes:
>
> 
>Below is an un-official list of programs which break under 0.99 (or 0.98.6)
>and the method to get them running again.  I felt there was a great need
>for such a thing.

This is really strange.  I don't know where you got these binaries from
that you say are broke.  Are they from SLS?  How does knowing this help
people, if they don't know where and when you got your binaries.

>
>           Any Changes/Suggestions/Fixes, tfoley@camaro.uucp
>
>
>     NOTE: ENSURE YOU GET THE NEW LIBC 4.2 FILE FROM YOUR LOCAL SITE

The official libc 4.2 is not released yet.  Do not use it, unless you
absolutely have to.

>
>To Upgrade to 4.2:
>
>  Make sure you don't remove the sym-link to 4.0 or the old 4.1, unless
>you have a boot diskette.  The easiest method that I have found is use
>either HLU's bootdisk or Disks 1 and 2 of the SLS series, reboot your
>machine using either combination and exit from the SLS install, then
>manually mount your partition with /lib on it.  Then just kill the link
>and relink using 4.2, reboot and voila...4.2

Sigh.  Look you can do the same thing without all this rebooting malarkey.

	ln -sf /lib/libc.so.4.2 /lib/libc.so.4

Look, you may mean well, but posting this kind of official sounding misinformation
is more damaging than helpful.
From: probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Cron for Linux?
Date: 27 Dec 1992 16:16:15 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier) writes:

>	Also, those of you that tried 'find / -name cron -print' to find
>it...that wouldn't work, since it is named crond instead of just cron.

>Marc

That is why a lot of times people should just RTFM.

I never do finds with absolute names unless I know that is EXACTLY what
I am looking for. Use wildcards, they were included for a reason.

find / -name \*cron\* -print

Works just fine here.

(Sidenote: This ranting is mainly because half the problems people have
here is just general unix questions that could be better answered somewhere
else. (Gee, comp.unix.questions comes to mind :-). Those man pages and README
files were put there for a reason people, try using them. )

James
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: agc@weasel.demon.co.uk (Alan Charlton)
Subject: Re: A keyboard problem
Reply-To: agc@weasel.demon.co.uk
Distribution: world
X-Mailer: cppnews $Revision: 1.20 $
Organization: nowhere in particular...
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 13:32:56 +0000

In article <1992Dec18.152326.16342@prime.mdata.fi> kennu@mits.mdata.fi (Kenneth Falck) writes:
> 
> If you want a quick&dirty fix, edit linux/kernel/chr_drv/keyboard.c,
> find something like this around line 1042:
> 
> 	if (kbd_flag(KG_ALT))
> 		if (vc_kbd_flag(kbd,VC_META)) {
> 			put_queue('\033');
> 			put_queue(ch);
> 		} else
> 			put_queue(ch|0x80);
> 
> and change the if-comparison line containing VC_META into:
> 
> 		if (1||vc_kbd_flag(kbd,VC_META)) {
> 
> It seems to work for me. Obviously there are plans to make it
> possible for every VC to have its own setting for the meta-key,
> but I couldn't find any ioctl or other stuff to select the state...
> 
> Btw, I just managed to `lock up' Linux pretty bad when I turned
> on the RAW keyboard mode with ioctl. It was my own stupidity/
> ignorance, of course, but it might be a good thing to have some
> "backup"-key which would turn on the XLATE-mode again.

Thanks for this and also the email replies.

Cheers,

Alan
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: root@rshark.mixcom.com (Brian Kapitan)
Subject: is Image used if booting off floppy?
Organization: Secret Sound
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 15:53:15 GMT

i was just curious...is the file /Image used if booting from floppy?
or is it only used if booting from the hard disk?

thanks
-- 
"If you wait long enough, a car will come." -- anon
Brian Kapitan, root@rshark.mixcom.com
From: ccasted@prism.gatech.EDU (Edward Deering Boykin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: .99.1
Date: 22 Dec 92 23:19:07 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

What exatly does the Linux .99 patch 1 fix from .99? Is this just
the two line patch Linus posted a little bit after he released .99?
Is it what is now at Sunsite's SLS distribution?


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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: cloos@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (James H. Cloos Jr.)
Subject: Installing SLS on my Gateway Nomad
Organization: Cornell Information Technologies, Ithaca, NY 14853
Distribution: comp
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 06:53:16 GMT

Well, I dl'ed the a & b series disks for sls from sunsite, and
installed them today.  I set up the drive to have 4 partitions: DOS,
swap, / and /usr.  There were some inconsistancies reported during the
installation, and I didn't get the b4/lx99.taz file (I could not find
.99 src at sunsite at all), but it seems useable.

I would like 80x50 text mode, though.  (80x60 would be even better.)

I had thought that sls .99 was out, but I only got .98-5.  Running
strings on /Image, though, found the line:

Linux version 0.99-47 (root@softland) 12/14/92 19:41:34

so I'm not sure just what version I *did* get.  [SIGH]

Anyway, I think I'm going to retry, as DOG won't recognize the dog
partition at all, and I do, unfortunately, need to use it a bit.

Anyway, is there a more up to date version out there?  Do I have to
ftp to Europe to get the 99.1 src?  Would anyone who knows dos
internals be willing to help me reverse-engineer the dos utilities
that gateway provided to change the cpu speed, the power-savings
modes, etc (I'll be finding out tomorrow whether they work in dosemu)?

-JimC

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From: knowles@FNALO.FNAL.GOV
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: LINUX for AMIGA/M68k
Date: 21 Dec 92 15:08:12 GMT
Reply-To: knowles@FNALO.FNAL.GOV
Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Lab
NNTP-Posting-Host: fnalo.fnal.gov

Hello All:

     When I heard of Linux, the person telling me said that
there was an AMIGA effort.  Does anyone know if its likely
to bear fruit in the forseeable future?

Rich Knowles       knowles@fnalo.fnal.gov     Fermilab
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: marc@r-node.gts.org (Marc Fournier - Admin)
Subject: error in compiling kernel...0.99
Organization: R-node Public Access UNIX Information System (416-249-5366)
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 17:01:16 GMT

Hi...

	I'm trying to recompile the kernel, primarily to take
advantage of my AST board.  I get the following error:

ld -r -o proc.o inode.o root.o base.o mem.o link.o fd.o array.o nfs
make[2]: *** No way to make target `/usr/include/sys/cdefs.h'. Stop
make[1]: *** [filesystems.a] Error 1
make: *** [linuxsubdirs] Error 1

	Anyone have an idea as to *why* it is trying to make an
include file? :)

Thanks...

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From: erwin#m#_mike@msgate.corp.apple.com (Mike Erwin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: SPLIT #$%&%$ THIS GROUP NOW!!!!!!!
Date: 28 Dec 92 22:38:43 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.




In article <dosburn.725084767@cwis> Don Osburn, dosburn@cwis.unomaha.edu
writes:
>>When a newsgroup accumulates >150 articles over 2 days -- it's time to
>>split. No human being could possibly read everthing in here and still
>>hav a life.
>
>>Please!
>
>>.david
>>--
>>Internet: davidre@ifi.uio.no    --    UUCP: mcsun!ifi!davidre
>>David E. Reksten, dept. of Informatics, Univ. of Oslo, Norway
>
>I'm afraid I must agree.  To quote an old blue movie I watched once,
>"My but it's gotten rather large, hasn't it?"  (I was only watching
>for the insightful dialogue :-} )

Haven't we heard this Tom-foolery before?  There's no sense in bitching about
it;  It's just NOT going to happen any time soon.
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|   (When the rest of heaven was blue), of a demon in my view." 
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| 
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From: sadkins@bigbird.cs.ohiou.edu (Scott W. Adkins)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: EISA Bus and Linux
Date: 22 Dec 92 15:20:57 GMT
Organization: Ohio University CS Dept., Athens


Well, we have had pretty good luck with Linux using a Local Bus machine
and the sort.  The only problem we have had is the EtherExpress16 ethernet
board is not supported by Linux, but we are in the process of writing a
device driver for this (and I will make sure that it gets posted and ftp'd
when we are done...).

The only problem with the Local Bus machine was that it wasn't the machine
we were suppose to have had to begin with... some mix up in the Purchasing
Department caused the wrong computer to be ordered.  Well, now we have the
correct machine, and EISA bus machine.  Now... :-(  Linux refuses to accept
the SCSI harddrive and prints a message when mount/fdisk/etc is used...
"Could not open /dev/hda" (or something like that).  It doesn't make any
difference if I use /dev/hda or /dev/sda or any of the devices.  The end
result is the same.  This means that we cannot even install Linux on the
machine as long as it is doing this. 

Has anybody had experience with any EISA bus machines and installing Linux?
I would appreciate any help on this matter... Thanks.

MACHINE:
   486DX2/50.  EISA Bus.  340meg SCSI UltraStor 14F.  8Meg Ram.
   Gateway 2000.  ATI Ultra VGA graphics card... and various other
   standard stuff that comes with Gateways.  (It is a towercase as well).

Thanks.
Scott

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From: daryl@monty.apana.org.au (Daryl Tester)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Linux questions
Organization: APANA South Australia - State mail hub
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 92 18:50:38 +1030

Been waiting patiently for the FAQ to come across, but I still haven't seen
it. I'd be much obliged if some kind soul could answer me these questions:

1) Can Linux utilize an ordinary MDA (or Hercules) adaptor? Seems everyone
   is running SVGA adaptors (with dot clocking problems :-).

2) What IPC facilities (apart from sockets, which I assume Linux has because
   TCP/IP is up and running) are supported? Shared memory, semaphores, named
   pipes?

3) What (if any) restrictions are there placed on Linux if it is used in
   a commercial environment?

Eagerly awaiting your replies :-)

 - Daryl
   daryl@monty.apana.org.au