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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
Subject: Re: Adding Swapspace ??
Organization: Weber State University  (Ogden, UT)
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 92 20:18:06 GMT

In article <1992Oct16.162729.3701@ninja.zso.dec.com> alan@ulka.zso.dec.com (F. Alan Jones) writes:
>
>>Is there a way to add that much swap-space without making a new filesystem
>>i.e. just recompile the kernel ?
>
>I believe the answer is no.  There may be a way to figure out how much
>swap space you have configured.  Look for the file swapvmunix.c in your
>kernel object files directory.  That will tell you which device swap
>is configured to run on.  Then do something like chpt -q on ULTRIX.  I
>think I have tried this command and had it not work.   In any case try
>to read what the current partition table is and see how much space is
>allocated to the device on which your swap is configured.  If it is
>smaller than you want, and the rest of the disk is taken up with the
>root and/or /usr filesystem,  I'm afraid you will have to rebuild from
>scratch.

And people wonder why I recommend putting the swap last, just before a
DOS partition.  The reason is to allow you to back up your DOS (for which
there is good, fast, reliable backup available, much as it pains me to say
it), move the DOS partition, and simply blow the disk label to increase
your swap.  Restore the DOS garbage to the DOS partition.

What we really need is the ability to swap to a file (any file -- say an
NFS mounted one, for instance) and get rid of the idea of a swap
partition altogether.  Then you make a default swap file out of a
bunch of contiguous file system blocks; if you let it grow, you pay
for it being discontinuous then; at least you don't have to reinstall.


					Terry Lambert
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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
Subject: Re: Could the passwd/crypt changes be included in the patch kit?
Organization: Weber State University  (Ogden, UT)
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 92 00:29:46 GMT

In article <1992Oct8.184241.27632@sci34hub.sci.com> gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston) writes:
>In article <1992Oct7.161805.21244@rwwa.COM> witr@rwwa.com writes:
>=In article <1992Oct6.152823.3185@sci34hub.sci.com>,
>=  gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston) writes:
>=
>=| The only bypass is for someone outside
>=| the US to write the code, and make it available on a ftp site also outside
>=| the country. 
>=
>=So then, if there were a patch that included a dummy module with comments
>=pointing to such a place, a patch could be distributed, right?
>
>As I understand things, correct. As long as there is no actual crypto 
>code in there, or a description of the algorythm, it'd be legal. 
>
>Not efficient, but legal. (I wish the govt would get out of the way
>of a number of things, including prohibiting the export of things
>readily available outside the country, but that would mean reducing 
>their power somewhat...)

Or at least their perception of their power.  8-).


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From: ejh@slustl.slu.edu (Eric J. Haug)
Subject: 386BSD and ghostscript 2.5.2
Organization: St. Louis Univ.
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 19:06:48 GMT

Ghostscript 2.5.2 works nicely with 386BSD 0.1, and X11-Xfree86 1.1.
You need to add
|| defined(__386BSD__)
to the end of line 36 in malloc_.h
Besides the X11 device i used ljet3.dev, epson.dev and paintjet.dev
eric
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
From: g89s9112@hippo.ru.ac.za (Dirk Sturzebecher)
Subject: uucp and 386bsd ?? help ??
Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Distribution: global
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 19:19:02 GMT

Hi all,
can someone out there please give me a short description on how to get
uucp working under 386bsd ?

Specifically,

1. uucp host!test /tmp
   this should get the file "test" from the machine "host" and put it into
   the "/tmp" directory. The result is a "action test not found". I have
   tried "host!test" as well, same result.

2. I have setup the descriptions in the "/etc/uucp" set up to port1,
   com2 and all the correct initaliztion strings for the modem, nothing
   happens at all Any tricks, or just that the 1) does not ever get
   there ?

Cheers, Dirk

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From: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Anyone for a UK keyboard?
Date: 7 Oct 92 16:41:16 GMT
Organization: Uni-Duisburg FB9 Datenverarbeitung
Reply-To: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de
NNTP-Posting-Host: du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de

In <718437281snx@softage.demon.co.uk.demon.co.uk> zawada@softage.demon.co.uk.demon.co.uk (Mark D Simpson) writes:

>Here's a simple patch to enable use of a UK keyboard with correct key
>mapping under 386bsd 0.1.  This is a self extracting shell archive. Save
>the text after "CUT HERE" to a file called     "ukkeyb.shar", then
>type:    "sh ukkeyb.shar"  to extract and read the README.

>If I've re-invented the wheel, don't flame me.  :-)

Well, you of course did. :-)
Furthermore, according to IBM's technical notes,
there are at least two different incompatible UK mappings, so don't say
that the sharfile (in original posting below) is the correct UK mapping:
you may get complaints. Finally, the way you use (including it) will
start a new thread of pccons, which may or may not break further patches
made by Terry's (in)official patchkit.

But that are only remarks, not directly a "flame", you haven't really
heard me flaming yet ;-)

>Mark
>---------
>Mark Simpson  		
>SoftAge Solutions.                          (Beware of Gnomes on missions!)

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Holger

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From: julian@tfs.com (Julian Elischer)
Subject: Re: Binary compatibility question...
Organization: TRW Financial Systems
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 01:41:46 GMT

In article <1992Oct13.223537.11949@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> ngoh@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (NGO HIEN D) writes:
>I am unable to find the info I need through the FAQ's and
>scanning the newsgroups, so that leaves me the post-and-ask-a-
>possibly-trivial-or-completely-obvious-question method :).
>
>I need to run a specific piece of software on either 386BSD or
>Linux that is only distributed in binary form... it's a commercial
>product.  My question is: is either Linux or 386BSD "88 Open
>Compliant?"  The tech-guy popped this term on me and I was
>unaware of any such compatibility standard (wouldn't be a first.)

88 open is for motorala 88000 based systemV systems.
I find it difficult that a 386/486 based berkeley system could possibly
in any way be compliant with it.

HOWEVER!

BSDI do claim (or I have seen claimed for them) the capability
of running XENIX binaries (or was that sysV386) in an upcoming release.
For linux I cannot comment.


>
>There is another option to run this program, however.  They have
>a Xenix version also, and I know that under Linux there is a
>Xenix emulator.  How complete is this emulator?  The latest
>version on tsx-11 is still the early alpha.
>

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From: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad)
Subject: Re: Sound Blaster Driver for 386BSD
Organization: Nanyang Technological University - Singapore
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Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 02:02:14 GMT

Josh Osborne (stripes@pix.com) wrote:
: 
: Well we are going to try to make it work for a Pro Audio Spetrum 16
: (which I think is the best card on the market - better grounding for
: less interferance, _standard_ 50-pin SCSI, 16-bit DAC (and I hear AtoD))
: as soon as we can, so I immagine it ought to work on the newer SBPro
: also.  Check on the prices of the PAS-16 + MIDI kit and the ProAudio + MIDI.
: Creatave Labs charges *alot* for the MIDI kit...

And Mediavision of Pro Audio Spectrum will let other OEM manufactures similar
cards and let people know about its interfaces.
	Anyone want to develop a SCSI driver for it as well so that we can
use its fast CDROM as well. I wonder what sort of SCSI chip does it use?


--
Othman bin Ahmad, School of EEE,
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 2263.
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
From: pgdga@ibm.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Dirk Gajewski)
Subject: Bad sector hd problem???
Organization: tu-clausthal.de         
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 07:53:15 GMT

I have a 80 Meg disk with about 240 kb of bad sectors
scattered all over the disc. I can install 386BSD on the
hard disk and it boots just fine (no messages about bad
sectors). When it comes to extracting the bin01.* files
after copying them on my machine, it says that there are
several corrupted files. However, I have successfully read
and extracted the bin01.* files on an other machine having
a disc without any bad sectors, thus the bin01.* files I have are
correct. Is my problem related to the bad sectors on the hd??

I could not use bad144, because no messages like
"wd0: hard read error writing fsbn ..........."
occured during the installation procedure.

I heard about a new wd.c driver which is supposed to do bad sector
mapping in a better way than the original wd.c. Is there somewhere
a compiled kernel with this new wd.c driver out in netland?

Any comments are appreciated.

Dirk
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
Subject: Re: getting net config with SIOCGIFCONF ioctl call
Keywords: ioctl ifconf ifreq
Organization: Weber State University  (Ogden, UT)
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 92 20:51:22 GMT

In article <mark.718543244@labtam> mark@labtam.labtam.oz.au (Mark Treacy) writes:
>linkt@GroupW.cns.vt.edu (Tim Link) writes:
>>I'm working on a program that needs to determine the network
>>configuration under 386BSD.  I'm using the SIOCGIFCONF IOCTL function
>>which *I THINK* should return to me an array of ifreq structures which
>>have the name of the interface and it's ip address.  This ain't what I'm
>>gettin'.
[ ... ]
>In the 4.3bsd-reno and net2 release the ifreq's returned by SIOCGIFCONF
>are not fixed length.  See ifconf() in usr/src/sys/net/if.c .
>
>You need something similar to the code in inet.c in tcpdump.
>i.e. (fragment taken from tcpdump)
[ ... ]

1)	From the "for what it's worth" department:  There's a compatability
	call for getting the old style list.

2)	COMPAT_43 may not be defined in the kernel (patches for doing this
	and for no NPX defined due out soon).

3)	I think this is why the netstat -i output seems so bizarre ...it
	isn't a "new way of doing things" as had been supposed.  Address
	families other than AF_INET may add to the conusion as well, as
	Mark sort of pointed out.


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From: csb960lanaga@qut.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Problems with patchkit
Date: 13 Oct 92 17:35:06 EST
Organization: Queensland University of Technology

Is anyone having trouble the patch kit ? I have insttalled all of the
patches onto the srcdist files. 

config GENERICISA works fine
make depend works fine
make falls over with a signal 11 (Segmentation Violation)

The make stops when you get to the SYSTEM_LD line. I suspect that it has
got something to do with the added object vers.o. I have compiled the kernel
before on other machines with out too many problems, so it is one of the 
patches that is the problem but which one.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Regards 
Michael Lanagan
csb960lanaga@qut.edu.au
From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Corrupted directory
Date: 16 Oct 92 03:38:43 GMT
Article-I.D.: fcom.1992Oct16.033843.9805
Organization: Weber State University  (Ogden, UT)

In article <5232.9210151353@thor.cf.ac.uk> spedpr@thor.cf.ac.uk (Paul Richards) writes:
>In article <Bw4Fv7.M4L@unx.sas.com> sastdr@torpid.unx.sas.com (Thomas David Rivers) writes:
>|
>|Regarding this infinite reboot cycle; I recently applied the entire
>|beta patchkit (from a new, clean, installation of 386bsd 0.1) and
>|began getting this problem.
>|
>|I.e. If I have to shut down for some reason, or the power goes out; the
>|     machine reboots.  Root gets fsck'd and repaired; and the
>|     machine reboots again.  Then there is another problem with the
>|     fsck of root, and the machine reboots, etc... encountering the
>|     same problem over and over.
>|
>| I've now seen this happen on two machines to which I applied the beta
>| patchkit.  It did *not* happen on these machines using the kernel I 
>| had patched together from news articles.   This means (at least to me)
>| there is some patch applied by the patchkit which I had not otherwise
>| applied in my kernel, that is causing the problem.

I -think- the offending patch is patch00038, which updates the error
reporting mechanism for bad sector reporting for read errors being reported
to user programs (with this patch in place, trying to install the bin01
distribution from files located on a bad sector actually fails where you
would want it to, rather than in the decompression some time later).

Backing out this patch does not require deinstallation of other patches.  It
should be noted that the correct fix is to adjust the fsck code (or to return
the expected value to the fsck code) so that the checking is not aborted by
the error.

Generally, this error will not occur on disks installed with a dist.fs with
the patches applied; instead, it will occur on disks installed on top of
bad sectors (without the error being caught) and to which the patches are
later applied.

I don't know how the author of the patch (Frank Maclachlan) handles this on
his drives, but I suspect that he does one of the two approaches above.


					Terry Lambert
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From: nbladt@autelca.ascom.ch (Norbert Bladt)
Subject: Re: Sound Blaster Driver for 386BSD
Organization: Ascom Autelca AG, Guemligen, Switzerland
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 09:55:13 GMT

lidl@pix.com (Kurt J. Lidl) writes:

>Thanks to the excellent driver sources posted (the Mach 386)
>for Sound Blaster Pro, there is now a working driver for 386BSD.
Do you know which version of the Pro ?
I have heard that there are two different ones.
One use two chips with 11 channels on each to do 11 channel stereo (?).
The newer one just has one chip with 20 channels on it.
If that's true, there must be, at least in stereo mode, quite a different
handling of those two boards. Which one are you using ?

You see, I am interested in buying such a board. I would like to do
some editing of songs under X11R5 and create Midi output to play on my
girl-friends digital piano.
I am running 386BSD and this driver is OK for me.
Now, I wonder, which board should I buy or is it easy to support
the new version of the board which I would rather want to buy.

Thanks for the port !
I was about to looking at the code while you are posting this article.

Norbert.
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Date: Saturday, 10 Oct 1992 11:21:35 PST
From: <CALT@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Can't make Logitech mouse working right

Hello,
I can't make my Logitech mouse working under XFree86 1.1.
My mouse is connected to com1 on my 386. Here is what  I
put in Xconfig:

Logitech        "/dev/com1"
  BaudRate      9600
  SampleRate    150
  Emulate3Buttons

Also, I tried BaudRate 1200, 2400, 4800. The same: The mouse pointer
can be seen on the screen. If I move the mouse, the pointer moves.
But it's very very slow. If I press any mouse button, it does nothing.

Could someone out there help me? Thanks a lot!

Ching Shih
shih@cithex.caltech.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
From: lafollet@astro.ocis.temple.edu (Paul Lafollette)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: 386BSD - cpio and etc01
Date: 11 Oct 92 22:06:36 GMT
Organization: Temple University
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

I fear the answer to this is no, but here goes anyhow...

I do not have room for both sources and the etc distribution.  I
need the sources, so etc has to go.  I do, however, have 
all of the etc01 files on a series of DOS diskettes.  Is there
any way that I can retrieve specific files or directories
from them without copying them all to my unix hard disk (no
room to hold them all).  I am able on our mainframe to
cat them all together and uncompress them, but then cpio
on that machine says the result is not a cpio file. I suspect
that the header is in byte reversed order or something like that.

Anyhow, I wonder if there is anyway to simultaneously
uncompress and extract from the collection of etc01.xx files.


On a more frivolous subject... why does rogue complain
about not being able to lock the score file?  My guess is
that there is a directory somewhere which either does not
exist or has the wrong permissions.

Thanks for any help...

Paul LaFollette
CIS Dept.
Temple University
Philadelphia, PA 19122

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From: adrian@rachel.ibmpcug.co.uk (Adrian Hall)
Subject: Re: software ported to 386bsd
Organization: The IBM PC User Group, Harrow, England
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 09:46:44 GMT

In article <1992Oct14.185412.24973@zia.aoc.nrao.edu> cflatter@nrao.edu writes:
>I just saw the list of software ported to BSD/386 go by in this newsgroup.
>Is anyone maintaining a similar list for 386BSD?  It seems to me that this
>would be pretty useful thing to have.
>
>	Chris Flatters
>	cflatter@nrao.edu

There is a fairly large selection for anonymous ftp on rachel.ibmpcug.co.uk
in ~ftp/src/local. If anyone has got a piece of software ported that they
wish to put in this area, I will be glad to put it up.

Adrian

PS: All the software in this area has been compiled and is being run on
rachel at the moment, so I know it all works.

Adrian
From: julian@tfs.com (Julian Elischer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: [386BSD] Problems with new boot code (HELP!)
Date: 7 Oct 92 08:20:20 GMT
Organization: TRW Financial Systems

In article <1992Oct6.104110.714@sics.se> jonas@sisu.se (Jonas Lagerblad) writes:
>Hello all happy 386-bsd users!
>
>I am a previously very content user of 386BSD, but since last night I can't
>boot my computer anymore (except from the fixit floppy).
>
>The scenario is like this:
>
>I have a 50Mhz 486DX Brand X (16Mb), an adaptec 1542B, A Seagate Wren7 (1.0Gb)
>on which I have been running 386BSD for the last month. The disk is partitioned
>with one 200Mb DOS5 partition and one 800Mb BSD partition, and I use the
>boot selection code posted quite recently by someone from Berlin (Thomas XXX).
>
>Most things have been
>working reasonably well, but yesterday I decided to test Julian Elischer's
>new scsi driver. I installed all patches needed in the kernel code, 
>configured a new kernel with sd0 configured as boot and swap device, everything
>was fine until I tried to boot the new kernel and got an error message
>from the boot code that the kernel was to big, using 386bsd.alt.
>
>At this point I decided to install the new boot code. I compiled it without any
>problems, installed it with:
>disklabel -r -w sd0 wren7 scsitst /usr/mdec/sdboot /usr/mdec/bootsd
>
>and after copying my /etc/disktab to the FIXIT floppy I rebooted, and
>got no response at all from the new boot code. The boot selection still
>works and I can boot DOS (but who wants to run DOS?), but when selecting 
>Unix nothing happens, and I have to do a reset of the computer (Ctrl_Alt_Del 
>doesn't work).
>
>At this point I thought OK, there is some bug in the new boot code, lets
>reinstall the old code, I booted the fixit floppy, checked my file
>systems and reinstalled asboot and bootas with the same command as above (s/sd/as).
>Tried to reboot, but still no response from any unix boot code..
>
>My disk layout is (approximately) like this:
>
>offset	size(kb)	Usage
>0	200000		DOS5 partition (with boot select code)
>200000	700000		/dev/sd0a
>900000	100000		swap (/dev/sd0b)
>200000	800000		/dev/sd0c
>0	1000000		/dev/sd0d
>
>Does anyone have any idea of what to do to get my disk bootable again,
>I have considered removing the DOS partition and installing Unix on that
>partition too, to avoid the problems with bootselect (can that be the cause
>of this?), but there ought to be some simpler method.
>
>Regards Jonas Lagerblad
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