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From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: 0.99.2 compile problem
Keywords: 0.99.2 compile problem
Date: 2 Jan 93 12:44:57 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki

I've now seen two compilation problem reports, and they both looked like
being due to bad include-file setups, probably due to a problem with the
SLS files. 

IMPORTANT! To get any linux kernel to compile, your /usr/include/linux
and /usr/include/asm directories should be symlinks to the linux
include-dirs.  If they aren't, correct the problem with:

	# rm -rf /usr/include/linux
	# rm -rf /usr/include/asm
	# ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/linux /usr/include/linux
	# ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/asm /usr/include/asm

After the above, cd to /usr/src/linux and do a "make dep ; make clean"
to make sure any changes in the header files will result in the correct
dependencies.  After this linux-0.99.2 should compile without any errors
(possibly a few warnings that you can ignore). 

		Linus
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jthomas@kolanut.mitre.org (Joe Thomas)
Subject: Re: Macintosh format disks
Organization: The MITRE Corporation
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 20:13:48 GMT

In article <9212204752@monty.apana.org.au> newton@monty.apana.org.au (Mark  
Newton) writes:
> jliddle@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Jean Liddle) writes:
> > In article <1992Dec7.225330.10418@news.columbia.edu>  
jml12@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Jonathan M Lennox) writes:
> > >  I would be very surprised if Linux could be made to read Mac 400k or
> > >800k floppies, as the low-level layout of the disks is different, and
> > >I don't think PC hardware could read it.
> > 
> > How different are mac disks (formatwise) really?  FDFORMAT for MSDOG can
> > format and read 400k and 800k floppies, as well as 1.72 MB HD floppies. 
> > Theoretically, linux should be able to do the same, with probably a great
> > deal more eligance than FDFORMAT/DOS. 
> 
> You'll need new hardware.
> 
> The rotation speed of Mac disks changes, depending on how far the head
> is from the centre of the disk.  Unfortunately, most standard PeeCee 
> disk hardware doesn't have any means of controlling the speed of  
revolution.
> 
> The designers of the Mac emulator for the Amiga ran up against this
> problem.  At first they "solved" it by supplying an interface to plug
> a real Mac drive into, but that wasn't a very good solution ('cos Mac
> drives have that multicoloured Apple on 'em, so they're expensive!).
> In the second release of the emulator, they supplied a card which varied
> the speed of the floppy drives by stepping the motor at varying rates
> (Pulse, pulse, pulse...).  Yukko.

Dave Small's amazing Mac emulator for the ST, Spectre GCR, solved the problem  
without having to add a variable speed drive.  He did have to have external  
sampling hardware to poll the read-head-line on the floppy interface,  
interpret it as a GCR signal, then pass the sector information in on another  
channel.  I believe he was the first to get 800K Mac floppies to read on a  
standard IBM-type drive (which the ST's use) with the product Translator One,  
_way_ back before Apple put out the SuperDrives.

Anyway, my point before going off on that tangent was that I think somebody  
soon after started selling the same kind of system on an ISA board for the  
IBM.  Does anybody else remember seeing this?  Even if it's still being made,  
there's the problem of deciphering the HFS filesystem...

Joe
From: nieuwhzn@fys.ruu.nl (Gerrit J. Nieuwenhuizen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: SLS boot flop
Date: 29 Dec 92 08:52:44 GMT
Organization: Physics Department, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands


After installing the SLS distribution of Linux something seems to 
have gone wrong when writing the final bootable floppy.
When trying to boot from it, the system hangs somewhere around mounting
/dev/hda2 (my Linux partition).
How do I write a new bootable floppy, without doing (part of) the 
installation again?



			Gerrit J. van Nieuwenhuizen
			Sub Atomic Physics department
			University of Utrecht
			nieuwhzn@ruunfs.fys.ruu.nl
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jes@grendel.demon.co.uk (Jim Segrave)
Subject: Re: BUG in 0.99[p1] kernel c
Organization: Segrave Software Services
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 20:23:24 +0000

In article <725836861.AA28902@remote.halcyon.com> Andy.Tainter@f615.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Andy Tainter) writes:

>You *CAN* have more than one card on INT 2, this is a cascaded int and
>you can have upto 7 (may be 6) devices using it...
>
>That is DOS, maybe linux cannot do that, but the hardware is set upto
>do
>it...

This is not quite correct. INT 2 is connected to the interrupt request
output of the second interrupt controller which in turn is connnected to
the ISA bus IRQ8..IRQ15 lines. When one of these lines has an active
high edge, the second controller generates an interrupt request which
then activates the INT 2 input of the master interrupt controller. This
input is NOT connected to any line anywhere on the ISA bus. The
interrupt controllers are programmed for cascade operation on the master's
INT 2 request line so that the interrupt vector passed to th CPU on an 
interrupt generated on IRQ8..IRQ15 will get its vector supplied from the
second interrupt controller. Of course Linux upports this, if it didn't,
no non-SCSI disc would work.

None of this has anything to do with sharing a bus IRQ line between cards -
the advice posted earlier is correct - you can not share interrupts
between cards without modifying the motherboard with diode networks. It
may work at first but the long term effect is likely to be component damage.

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From: chet@odin.ins.cwru.edu (Chet Ramey)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: [SLS] Can only login as root: "shell-init - Permission denied"
Date: 31 Dec 1992 14:29:20 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: odin.ins.cwru.edu

In article <1992Dec30.125051.269@dde.dk> mbo@dde.dk (Morten Bonde) writes:
>After I installed the shadow-package I can't log in as other users than
>root. All I get is:
>
>		Welcome to Linux 0.99             <--- my /etc/motd :-)
>
>		No mail.
>		shell-init: Permission denied
>		pwd: Permission denied
>		: Permission denied

Bash can't get the current directory with getcwd.  One of the parent
directories somewhere has too-restrictive permissions.

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	-- Arthur Schlesinger

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: marc@r-node.gts.org (Marc Fournier - Admin)
Subject: Re: Problems, and questions. HELP! :)
Organization: R-node Public Access UNIX Information System (416-249-5366)
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 22:00:39 GMT

In article <1hpngqINNlev@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> ah200@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Randy Beiter) writes:
>
>I'm having a couple of rather hindering problems with running linux
>at the moment, I would greatly apprechiate any help any one can offer with
>either, thanks!
>
>Problem/Question #1:
>My hard drive is acting wierd, periodically *well, very frequently* it
>displays this messages, then goes back to what it was doing:
>
>HD: write_intr: status = 0xff
>HD: write_intr: error = 0xff
>controller_read: status = ff
>HD-controller reset
>
>I have no idea what this means/if I should worry about it or how to correct
>it.
>
	Do an fsck/efsck on the drive...there is an option for updating
your .badblocks file

>Problem #2:
>gcc/cc does not like my system at all, it absolutely crawls. I tried
>compiling ps and it took 30-45 minutes to compile. I dunno if this is
>because of my swap drive, cpu speed, memory, or what. I'm afraid to try
>to re-compile the kernel :)
>
>My setup consists of:
>386 33mhz
>2 meg ram
>30 meg linux partition *50% free*
>2 meg swap drive *which linux says is 4?*
>the usual floppy drives, keyboard, ect
>
	Are you serious??  I have 3meg of memory available, and 4 meg
of swap space, and when I do anythign with gcc, it even gets into
at least 1 meg of swap space, as in it is taking over 4 Meg to handle
system process as well as compiling a program...and you are trying to
do all that with 4 Meg of virtual memory? (ps. 1 Meg of my memory is
used for kernel stuff, that is why I only have 3 meg available)

Marc

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From: kjv@exucom.com (Karl J. Vesterling)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: UUGETTY & Lock files...
Date: 3 Jan 93 06:18:28 GMT
Organization: ExuCom Multimedia Inc.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]


	Where do I obtain a version of uugetty which functions, or at
least has the documentation?  Here are the problems I am experiencing:

	o Lock-files (They exist, BUT they all are invalid/stale)
	  Maybe the pid in them is not the pid of the users shell, and
	  is/was the pid of uugetty itself?  IE, uugetty creates the
	  lock file, puts it's PID in the file, then exits, thus
	  causing the lock file to be stale?

	o No documentation about /etc/default/uugetty.ttys[1-9]  Nice
	  script, pretty good idea, but lacks information on how to go
	  about it.  You need this stuff when you're dealing with a
	  modem that has the ROM's in it programmed by a manufacturer
	  who hires programmers that program in "DWIM - Do What I Mean"

	o Why does the manual page for uugetty say that there is a -r
	  option when uugetty says that it not an option?


	Should I go and write my own and do it the right way?  Or
would that just cause more confusion in this effort?

	Other than the above, I like LINUX so far...  I just got
TCP/IP to run on a users machine of this system, and I think it's
pretty nice.  After all, you can't beat the price...

	I got the whole SLS from tsx-11 about a week ago and made it
available on The Buffalo Computer Society for download.  Got three
people running it right now, however, they got it because they want to
be able to call/into and out from their machines...  With uugetty
going crazy it just doesn't work that way.  I fear they may go back to
DOS.  That would be bad.



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From: kosina@techbook.com (Martin Kosina)
Subject: App. defaults for Seyon 1.6
Organization: TECHbooks --- Public Access UNIX --- (503) 220-0636
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 21:10:33 GMT

Hi,

I got Seyon 1.6 to work, but the program is still complaining
that it cannot find the "application defaults" and therefore
"won't run correctly". I read the help file and README but
it only says that linux users need not to change anything and
everything will be installed properly if you compile it with
"make install". It puts the file 'Seyon' into /usr/lib/shlib/
/jump/X11/appdefaults/  but can't find it even if I put this
into my $PATH. 
   Could someone tell me where this is supposed to go ?

Thanks !


Martin
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From: ccasted@prism.gatech.EDU (Edward Deering Boykin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: LILO
Date: 25 Dec 92 20:49:40 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

Where can I get the latest version of LILO? Will LILO enable me to boot both
dos and linux from my hard disk without usiong a boot diskette for either
os? Does LILO come with docs to set it up? Thanks for your help
 Ed Boykin
ccasted@prism.gatech.edu

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From: eichin@athena.mit.edu (Mark Eichin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: SLS Installed, But Wont Boot
Date: 28 Dec 1992 01:43:42 GMT
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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In-reply-to: sdw@meaddata.com's message of 18 Dec 1992 16:14:39 GMT

>> Also, it zips past the VGA selection menu and makes a choice but
>> can't set it up right (I have a laptop with a Cirrus chip).  It stays
>> in 80x25 but thinks it has more lines.  To see what the last lines
>> are after it hangs, I have to ctrl-break it...
	rdev -v /dev/fd0 -1
will set the SLS boot floppy video type to "NormalVga" (assuming it is
still in the drive, ie. /dev/fd0) which should give you 80x25 and not
go into any of the "advanced" modes. (I have the same problem on a
DECpc 320P laptop -- when set to prompt, there are 2 or 3 available
ones, but none of them change the actual screen size. X does run on
it, given the right XConfig...) If you use -3 instead of -1 it will
prompt you at boot time, then at boot up just hit space and you should
be alright.
				_Mark_ <eichin@athena.mit.edu>
				MIT Student Information Processing Board
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From: sseiden@anita.ics.uci.edu (Steven Samuel Jr. Seiden)
Subject: [BUG REPORT] X11 crashes in 0.98.5
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Organization: Univ. of Calif., Irvine, Info. & Computer Sci. Dept.
Date: 21 Dec 92 21:22:53 GMT


I've had X11 crash on me three times now. I'm using the SLS 0.98.5
distribution, with olvwm (from sunsite) added on. The strange thing
is, I wasn't even doing anything two of the times. I left the room,
and when I came back, the system was crashed. By crashed, I mean that
the screen had switched back to text mode (blank), and all input from the
keyboard was ignored. I never had a problem with 0.96.6 or earlier
releases. Perhaps there is a bug in the screen blanker. Does anybody
know about this? Does anybody have a fix? My system is:

33Mhz 386DX w/ Cyrix 387
80 Mb Hd 12 Mb ram (No swap)
SLS 0.98.5 release with olwvm from sunsite


Please reply by email, as I don't always have time to read all
of c.o.l. :-). I think this is a pretty serious bug, as it made
me reboot and risk fs damage. We wouldn't want to have it in 1.0.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: keith@aisg.com (Keith B. Kee {AISG} )
Subject: SLS missing parts?
Organization: Accura
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 93 03:26:55 GMT

Hi:
  I like to thank numerous people for being so helpful in answering my
  previous question "HELP: Linux installation".

  Now, I am trying to compile lilo, so that I can install the boot sector
  with lilo. However, when I tried to compile lilo, the compiler can't
  find include files under /usr/include/linux. Is there supposed to have
  files under that directory? Because, when I 'cd' to that directory, 
  it only has one file - 'const.h'.

  Keith
  email address: keith@aisg.com
From: liu-pangfeng@cs.yale.edu (Pangfeng Liu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Seyon problem
Date: 29 Dec 1992 11:26:41 -0500
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511
Distribution: comp
NNTP-Posting-Host: ebony.theory.cs.yale.edu


I installed seyon on my PC last night.  The first problem I had is
that all the buttons overlap together.  I check the FAQ and do a 'make
install' to make sure the app-defaults file is properly installed, but
that did not help.  Later I check the directory under X and find one
with the name 'app-defaults' with lots of app-defaults files inside.
I copy the defaults file (Seyon.ad) into that directory and it works.
It seems that 'make install' did not put the default file (Seyon.ad)
into the right directory.

Now here is a new problem.  After I dial a number and the xterm shows
connect message,  xterm does show the login prompt on the remote
machine.  In fact it does not accept any key and hang.  I have to
hang up and exit seyon.  

Does anyone have similar experience or any suggestion?  Thanks in
advance. 

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From: probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: ps in linux .99p1 broken?
Date: 26 Dec 1992 19:55:43 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

amir@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (Guindehi Amir) writes:

>probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon) writes:
>: amir@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (Guindehi Amir) writes:
>: 
>: >Same at me, ps,fstat and top dos'nt work with 99p1. Do you have tried the
>: >posted fstat.diff.tar.Z ? I will do tomarrow ! ;-)
>: 
>: >- Amir
>: 
>: Ps, top, and free will work if you fo a ps -U against the unstripped kernel
>: which is stored in /usr/src/linxu/tools/system.

>ps -U changes NOTHING ! ;-(( ps always brings out only the HEADER - Line :

>root @ titan.chronos.ch [/] # ps -U /usr/src/linux/tools/system
>  PID TT STAT  TIME COMMAND
>root @ titan.chronos.ch [/] # ps
>  PID TT STAT  TIME COMMAND
>root @ titan.chronos.ch [/] #

>Any Idea ?

>: The fstat patch works, and allow fstat and fuser to work again.. Thats the
>: only file it patched.

>It's surely a FAQ, but how does one apply a *.diff.Z file with diff ? 

>: 
>: James

>- Amir

When ps won't work after doing a ps -U that generally means its time to 
recompile the thing. Just recompile and try again and I am positive it will
work. 

As far as using diff files, you need to have the patch binary on line. 
Then go to the directory where ps is at and do the next command.

patch -p1 < diff >& patch.log &

When it is done, grep through the patch.log for the word fail. These are
patches you will have to apply by hand. The FAQ had a good example on
doing this once, don't know if its still in there.

James
From: jhurwitz@access.digex.com (j. hurwitz)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: HElP where do I find info on FDISK. Can't figure this out.
Date: 26 Dec 1992 16:32:15 GMT
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Distribution: all
NNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.com
Keywords: hd fdisk drive


I was wondering if someone could give me some pointers on Formatting my DOS 
hard disk to accept Linux files. I have read through the documentation that I 
have about using fdisk within Linux. It seems that when I run fdisk it does'nt
see my Hard Drive/Partitions. If someone could be so kind as to point me in 
the direction of any documentation that specifically and clearly instructs 
someone how to make a Linux readable partition it would be much appreciated.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: stoehr@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Peter Stoehr)
Subject: Booting after crash works not
Keywords: Lilo-Botting / Crash
Originator: stoehr@hpsiegert3.informatik.tu-muenchen.de
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 14:05:40 GMT


Hi folks,

the new year started with a great problem, my Linux - Partition was destroyed.
Well no problem I thought and tried to install 0.99-1. But lilo was unable to
install a working bootsector. Well, even reinstall MSDOS on the whole harddisk
and trying to reboot failed. It seems to me, that my computer is absolutly 
unable to bott from harddisk (even under MSDOS). 
Has anybody an idea what to do ?

     Thanks in advance
	Peter





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From: heiko@kaa.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Heiko Schroeder)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: problems with less (Linux bug?)
Date: 22 Dec 92 21:44:08 GMT
Organization: Rechnerbetrieb Informatik - RWTH Aachen
NNTP-Posting-Host: kaa.informatik.rwth-aachen.de
Keywords: less,ioctl

I had problems with man, so I tried to figure out, what went wrong. Finaly I    found out that less was the one to make problems. When started by the
system() call it won't work. I traced the problem down to a ioctl() call in
raw_mode() function (screen.c). The function TCSETAW keeps less from
outputting anything to screen, even if no parameters are changed between
TCGETA and TCSETAW. As it works on other systems - is this a bug of the
system() call or the Linux kernel? - or isn't it a bug at all?

CU
   Heiko      <heiko@POOL.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: mfrankow@hamline.edu (Mike Frankowski)
Subject: Re: Best Linux Printer
Organization: Minnesota Supercomputer Center
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 20:04:07 GMT

David Megginson (meggin@epas.utoronto.ca) wrote:
: Next week, I am planning to buy a Samsung NoteMaster 386SX/25E with
: 4MB RAM and a 120MB hard drive, specifically for the purpose of
: running Linux (the price is CAN$2300, less than US$2000).  I would              
: like a printer to use with this system, preferably one which has                
: existing dvi, Ghostscript and groff drivers.  What is the best                  
: printer for moderate use (ca. 200 pages/month)?  If I get an HP                 
: printer, will I need to buy a lot of RAM, or can the driver handle              
: that within Linux?  Thanks for any help -- I couldn't find much                 
: info in the packages on tsx-11.                                                 
:                                                                                 
: David                                                                           

Hello David, I use a DeskJet 500 and love it.  It is very quiet and works
just wonderful from linux.  A init string needs to be setn to the printer
before it is used the first time, but otherwise, not a single problem has
arrision form it.  GhostScript works with it also, if printing post-
script to it is something else you are lookcing for.  and the price is very
reasonable.

Mike
From: kankkune@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Risto Kankkunen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: BUG of feature: cannot move `foo' accross file systems
Date: 3 Jan 93 20:55:23 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki, Department of Computer Science

>that's a feature, not a bug.
>many *nix'es don't allow that.

OK, I can live with that, but is there any reason for this? I haven't
checked the sources (yet), but I think disallowing just requires extra
code with no benefits. Afterall, symlink is just a file containing the
path name of the file it points to.

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From: erwin@nioz.nl (Erwin Embsen)
Subject: Disk a5 !!
Originator: erwin@nioz.nl
Organization: Nederlands Instituut voor Onderzoek der Zee (NIOZ)
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 10:38:26 GMT



Hi,

Yesterday I started downloading the SLS distribution and discovered
that disk (actually the directory) a5 is empty! Should this be?
My other question is: Does the SLS distribution contain the latest
release of the kernel (0.99)?

Thanks,

Erwin.
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