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From: mjc@baker.ds.boeing.com (Mark Crosland)
Subject: starting dosemu ?
Organization: Boeing Defense & Space Group
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Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 19:11:34 GMT



hello,

i am having a problem getting dosemu to work, i have SLS 98.p5
/dev/hda2 is linux,
i tried /dev/hda1 as formatted dos, unformatted dos, not there at all,
which one is correct ?

i do steps 1 - 5, step 6 produces the following output,

EMULATE
ISBLK
dev : 200
DISK /dev/fd0 removeable
ISBLK
dev : 201
DISK /dev/fd1 removeable
FLOPPY /dev/fd0 h=2, s=15, t=80
general protection
 cs    eip     ss    esp      flags    ds   es   fs   gs 
   0:00000000    0:00000000 00000000    0    0    0    0
  eax      ebx      ecx      edx      edi      esi      ebp
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 
 e8 5b 02 00 00 b8 2d 00 00 00
booted

> The file hdimage is mounted as drive C:

does the dos cmd "mount hdimage as drive C:"
i don't seem to see a drive C: or linux.exe after step 6

once dosemu is running, what to do to run a dos program ?

thanks,

mjcr@atc.boeing.com


> INSTALLATION
> 1. unpack the tar arcive 
> 2. adapt the Makefile to your system and run make
> 3. move libemu to /lib or make a symbolic link
> 4. create the directory /usr/dos
> 5. insert a DOS boot disk into drive A: (/dev/fd0) without config.sys and
>    autoexec.bat
> 6. run: dos > [debug msg file]
>    where [debug msg file] can be either a file, /dev/null, or the device
>    of another (console) window
>    Beware: dos output gets to stderr, debug to stdout 
> 
> The file hdimage is mounted as drive C:
> 
> On drive C: is a file LINUX.EXE. Run this with parameter D. Now you should
> have access to drive d: which is linked to the linux file system /usr/dos.
> LINUX.EXE has been tested with DOS 3.3 and DOS 5.0. It isn't totaly implemented
> (file attributes cann't be set) and there is a bug that running .EXE files 
> will crash the emulator.
> This program LINUX.EXE is derived from a version in the book 'undocumented
> dos' chapter 4. Andrew Schulmann is the author of the original program
> PHANTOM.PAS. He prommised to send me some fixes but I'm still waiting.
> 
> Now you can install DOS on C:, but don't format C: use sys.
> Use then 'dos c' to boot direct from C:
> 
>
From: jdelashe@jade.tufts.edu (James deLasHera)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: HELP!  More problems mounting HD (SCSI)
Date: 18 Dec 92 04:13:36 GMT
Organization: Tufts University - Medford, MA

Hi, I have dowloaded the SLS distribution of LInux, and made
floppy images of disks a1 and a2 to boot from (the rest of
the floppies are on my SCSI hard drive, Adaptec controller)
I have tried to install Linux, and the boot works fine, but
Linux cannot find my hard drive!  What can I do?
I assume I can install from the files on my HD, once Linux finds
it!


By the way, will Linux support my TI based, 1280x1024 svga
card?  Hopefully, I can get Linux to work on my Eisa machine.
Please help, or else I'll be forced to purchase SCO!

Send replies to JLATEINE@PEARL.TUFTS.EDU -- I don't read 
news often, and a friend is posting this for me.
	Thanks,
	Josh
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: "david shadoff" <david.shadoff@canrem.com>
Subject: suggestion spliting g
Reply-To: "david shadoff" <david.shadoff@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: comp
Date: 13 Dec 92 13:32:56 EST

In message <1992Dec12.192135.23708#tc.cornell.edu>,
mdw@db.TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh) writes:

>USENET policy says that we can't bring up the proposal for another 6 months.
>I'm surprised there are still people on this group who DIDN'T notice the
>previous RFD/CFV, unless you just joined the group. :)

I just joined the group after the RFD/CFV.  I've also gone through
over 1000 articles in the last week.  Personally, I think it's an odd
mish-mash of kernel hacking and "what's UNIX" questions.  Also, we've
gone through 2 patchlevels since then, and 0.99 is expected soon.

It should be noted that the suggested groups narrowly lost, and this
may be due in part to the exact *_set_* of new groups suggested.  A
different set may have passed, and pacified the crowd.

 - Dave
 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: liljeber@hydra.Helsinki.FI (Mika Liljeberg)
Subject: Re: GNU make not working suddenly???
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, Finland
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 12:47:21 GMT

In article <1992Dec19.065912.23358@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> farrow@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (J. Scott Farrow) wrote:
> I haven't noticed anyone else having this problem, so here goes:
> 
> I just downloaded the 0.99 kernel source and went to compile it:
> 
>># make config
>>sh Configure < config.in
>>make: *** [config] Error 139
>># 

[ other examples deleted ]

> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Scott
> --
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> Computing & Network Services, Boulder, Colorado, USA, phone: (303) 492-4428
> Internet: farrow@spot.colorado.edu, farrow@cs.colorado.edu

Make is not the culprit in this case. You have a broken /bin/sh
(bash). I came up against this problem, when I upgraded to 0.99.
Stubborn as I am, I even recompiled make twice, before I caught on.
:-) After that I was too worked up to start compiling bash, so I
simply switched to zsh as a temporary solution. So, get a working sh
and everything should be ok.

	Mika
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: cae@davidge.com (Caleb Epstein)
Subject: Kernel build benchmark
Organization: Davidge Data Systems Corp., NYC, NY
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 18:17:22 GMT

	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.

	I'm currently rebuilding the 0.98.5 kernel and believe I
will weigh in with the *worst* benchmark in Linux history.
The machine doing the compiling is a '386-16 with 2Mb ram
and a 35 Mb Linux-MINIX partition and a 6 Mb swap partition.
I started the build this morning around 10 am and right now
(1:13 pm) its only up to the SCSI code.  I'd say that's
probably about 3/4 through all of the modules.  I figure
it'll be done sometime around 2:30 or 3 pm.

	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.

-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: loser@clueless.newbie.tyro.org ()
Subject: Problems with SLS and XFree
Organization: Workstations at Maryland, University of Maryland, College Park
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 14:31:11 GMT

I've noticed the following problem when running XFree from the SLS distribution
After I exit X, I noticed that a pseudo tty (ttyp0 usually) is show as being
used (w command).  Shouldn't it be release after exiting X?  Thanks,

Jaime


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From: msdloem@cs.vu.nl (Loemban Tobing MSD)
Subject: Re: root login refused on some terminals, can't see kermit prompt.
Organization: Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, VU, Amsterdam
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 12:18:42 GMT

Chuck Lunskis (chuck@perlab.eas.asu.edu) wrote:
: I've got two problems, that I can't solve... I've look in the FAQ, and
: didn't see anything related to either, so here goes...

: Why is root login refused on some terminals?  I've encountered this in
: two places. first, I've added a couple extra getty calls in inittab so I can
: login to tty5 and tty6, but if I try to login as root, I get the message
:  "root login refused on this terminal."  Same thing happens if I try to login
: as root from an xterm.  What do I need to do to fix this?

: Second problem I've seen mentioned in the past, but apparently missed the 
: solution...  I'm using minicom, and when I start up kermit, I never see the 
: kermit command prompt.  How to fix this?

: I'm running version 0.99.

: Thanx in advance for any help.
You should edit the file /etc/securetty and add lines with the tty's from which
you want to login as root.
: Chuckster
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From: kfogel@occs.cs.oberlin.edu (Karl Fogel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Can X run with only 4 megs RAM?
Date: 15 Dec 92 14:35:02 GMT
	<Dec.13.14.03.44.1992.2074@telerobo.rutgers.edu>
Organization: Oberlin College Computer Science
X-Posted-From: occs.cs.oberlin.edu
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In article <Dec.13.14.03.44.1992.2074@telerobo.rutgers.edu> roskos@telerobo.rutgers.edu (roskos) writes:

   Wow.  I have been using 4 Meg of RAM on a 33MHz 386 with a 15Meg swap
   partition (like to play it safe with swap space :-) without any real
   performance troubles so far.  I can have 2 xterms, emacs, xdvi, and an
   xconq game going, and bringing different windows up is a matter of a
   few seconds at the most, often only a second or two.  I have been
   running Xfree86 in 800x600 (color) physical resolution with a virtual
   screen of 1024x768 (my card has 1 Meg of RAM, making the virtual
   scrolling nice and quick.  And with all that I have running, I must be
   swapping quite a bit.  I am a relative newbie, but I don't think that
   from what I have seen, 4Meg of RAM is too big a problem.

				   --Ed Roskos, roskos@caip.rutgers.edu




	Huh! I have nearly the same config: 4 megs RAM, 386/40 (AMD),
16 megs swap, and I'm running in 640 by 480, color. By all counts, my
X should be even faster than Ed's! But if I had 2 xterms, emacs, xdvi,
and anything else running, the swap time would be unbearable! I never
open more than 4 windows of anything now, and if I run Xv, or xdvi, I
expect things to take a long time. Starting up xdvi or xv can require
more than one minute, when xemacs is running as well! Compilations
take much longer in X... in short, why is my system so much slower
than his? It's still quite useable, and I love it, but what the heck
is going on here? I have heard so many different reports of X speeds
from Linuxers, and I can't see why there should be such a wide range
of timings, especially as they don't necessarily make "faster" systems
look any faster in reality!
	Any ideas?
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: chuck@perlab.eas.asu.edu (Chuck Lunskis)
Subject: Re: HELP X gods! .99 broke my xdm!
Organization: Arizona State University
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 07:04:37 GMT

operjsl@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU writes:

>I just finished compiling 0.99 with tcp.  I had to do some fun patching
>on my own, because my ethernet card is an ne2000.  I got the driver code
>from Matt Welsh at Cornell.  Anyway, I set up the tcp code like I did for
>0.98.5, applied to emergency patches to .99 posted by linus, did the
>appropriate making and voila!  0.99 booted without a hitch. No inode errors,
>no tcp errors, no nothing.  I even successfully recompiled ps and ps -U
>worked fine.

>However, xdm locks up my machine.  xdm was working fine on 0.98.5, and nothing
>has changed with the xdm (or X, for that matter) stuff since then.  I can 
>start X with startx just fine.  But xdm locks it up.  Once I was lucky
>enough to get some errors in the xdm-errors.  Basically, it said 'hung in
>XOpenDisplay (:0); aborting' and then 'cannot open display.'  Does anyone
>know what my problem is here?  This is important to me since I have several
>users, and xdm is their way to login and X is the environment of choice.  Do
>I need to recompile the xdm source?  Do I have an old version of xdm?  I am
>running XFREE86-1.1.

I too am having problems with 0.99 and xdm.

xdm starts, and I get the login prompt, but can't log in.  Most of the keys
work, but a few (like 'r', 'RETURN', and some others) don't function.  I also
get this incessant beeping with every keystroke.  startx also works okay for
me, it's just xdm with the problem.

I'm using the X8514 server, and the rest of the X stuff is from the 0.98 SLS
release.  I have had similar problems in the past when I tried to get xdm to
start at bootup (I put a call to xdm in my /etc/rc.local file) , but I was too
incompetent to get it to work--I think it had something to do with there not
being a tty to connect to, because xdm worked fine when I started it from the
command line.

Help would be appreciated.

>Jeff Little
>operjsl@rosevc.rose-hulman.edu

Chuckster
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|  Chuck Lunskis                         |                                    |
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From: n217cg@tamuts.tamu.edu (Scott Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: ps that uses /proc
Followup-To: comp.os.linux
Date: 14 Dec 1992 15:24:14 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University
NNTP-Posting-Host: tamuts.tamu.edu
Summary: recompiling ps gets those filenames out of the brackets
Keywords: ps recompile

In article <andrewc.724325825@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au> andrewc@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !) writes:
>parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry) writes:
>
>>David Barr (barr@stein.u.washington.edu) wrote:
>>>Has anyone written a version of ps that uses the proc file system?  I

......stuff deleted because the lame newsreader here won't post the article....
......unless there is more new text than included text.........................

>
>although I did notice in 98p6 that ps no longer shows the command line
>options of the processes - they're all inside brackets...
>
>Any fixes ?

I had this problem too; also, top claimed that I always had 100% free core- none
of my processes  were using any memory!  Recompiling ps and top and then doing a
ps -U fixed it.

By the way, I am still using the ps package for 0.97 pl6; I haven't replaced it
yet 'cause it still seems to work. It worked fine under 0.98 and now with 0.99.

> ....sig deleted, too....

Scott Taylor
n217cg@tamuts.tamu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: hartkopf@spot.Colorado.EDU (Jeff Hartkopf)
Subject: ThinkPads and 486DX laptops
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 21:15:39 GMT


I am looking to buy a 486DX notebook computer to run Linux, and have some 
questions.

1. Has anyone used Linux successfully on an IBM ThinkPad model 700?

2. Does Linux support the Microchannel bus and, if not, is anyone currently
working on getting Linux to work with Microchannel? Is there a Microchannel
mailing list which would have more information?

3. Does anyone have any experience or recommendations about 486 based
notebooks? If you are using a notebook with Linux and X-Windows, I would like
to hear any comments or experiences.

4. The FAQ states that Linux runs on most notebooks, but is there any reason 
why Linux wouldn't run on any 386 or better notebook *without* a Microchannel 
bus?


Jeff Hartkopf
University of Colorado at Boulder
Internet: hartkopf@spot.colorado.edu
From: bir7@leland.Stanford.EDU (Ross Biro)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: More TCP patches
Date: 12 Dec 1992 04:46:00 GMT
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: elaine32.stanford.edu
Summary: more tcp patches at sunsite and tsx-11
Keywords: tcp ip network patches kernel

Since the mailing list still seems to be a bit slow and I'm in a
hurry, I'm posting this.

It's Friday 12/11 I've just uploaded 2 more tcp patches (for a total of
9) to tsx-11.mit.edu (packages/tcpip) and sunsite.unc.edu (Incoming and
packages/tcpip).  If you know what you are doing please test them and
let me know by Tommorrow (sat 12/12) if you find problems with them.
The release of .99 is immanent and I would like the tcp/ip code to 
be as solid as possible.

Things fixed are the memory leak in accept (I just did ~50000 accepts
without a problem.)  Connect should now return the proper errors on
non-blocking sockets.  Shutdown now sends an eof to the other end and
half duplex connections are supported (Tim MacKenzie
tym@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au).  And all the damage done by patch 7 should 
be fixed.

Ross Biro bir7@leland.stanford.edu 
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From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: How stable is extended filesystem?
Date: 17 Dec 1992 10:49:55 GMT
Organization: /etc/organization
NNTP-Posting-Host: hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu


In article <Conrad_Nobili-161292173933@nobili.harvard.edu>
Conrad_Nobili@Harvard.EDU (Conrad C. Nobili) writes:
>
> In article <1gm5rrINNb01@life.ai.mit.edu>, mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu
> (Charles Hannum) wrote:
>>
>> If you don't *need* extfs, and don't mind short file names, I would
>> recommend not using it for now.
>
> Hmmmm....  Maybe some of you *have* been using DOS too long....  I
> guess 14-character file names must be quite a luxury to you...!  ;-)

I haven't used either DOS or SysVr<=3 for several years.  I also
haven't had a disk completely trashed by a kernel bug in years.  I'm
simply weighing them and indicating which one I consider a bigger loss.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: gisie@wam.umd.edu (Satan)
Subject: 2 Hardrives, Windows NT and LINUX
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 20:59:37 GMT

I am about to install LINUX on my 486 but have a few questions.
I have scoured the FAQ and as much documentation as I could find
before I posted to the newsgroup... Here goes:

I have the Windows NT Oct BETA installed on my system. I also
have DOS 5.0.  Windows NT creates a loader that I can choose to
either boot Windows NT or Other OS on Drive C:.  I am afraid
that if I use LILO, it will screw up this boot loader that NT
creates.  Anyone have anyu experience in this area??

My C drive is partitioned into 2 halves, and I have a second IDE
drive installed.  The 1st IDE drive partitions are C: and E: and
the second IDE drive is partioned into Drive D: and F:.  If I want
to install LINUX on partition F: what is the proper /dev/hd? ?
I want to make sure it doesnt install over my C: or E: partitions.

Come on people ... help me escape sh*tty DOS...

Forever in your debt,
Tim

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"How will these windows affect my final document?"
From: jerrys@holly.wimsey.bc.ca (Jerry Sturge)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: V.99 MAKE dep BOMBS with irq.c: linux/interrupt.h: no such file or d
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 09:14:24 PST
Organization: CANCOM, VANCOUVER, B.C./ CANADA


we regarding header, i fixed the inode things re linus suggestions.
did a make dep and i got the irq.c: linux/interrupt.h: no file or dir
...suggestions anyone.
thanks 

jerrys@holly.wimsey.bc.ca

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: farrow@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (J. Scott Farrow)
Subject: GNU make not working suddenly???
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 06:59:12 GMT

I haven't noticed anyone else having this problem, so here goes:

I just downloaded the 0.99 kernel source and went to compile it:

># make config
>sh Configure < config.in
>make: *** [config] Error 139
># 

I get similar results from doing a "make dep"

># make dep
>for i in init/*.c;do echo -n "init/";gcc -DKERNEL -E -M $i;done > .depend
>make: *** [dep] Segmentation fault (core dumped)
># 

A "make -v" gets me the following:

># make -v
>GNU Make version 3.62, by Richard Stallman and Roland McGrath.
>Copyright (C) 1988-1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
>There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
>PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
>
>expr: syntax error
>[: argument expected
>make: *** [Version] Segmentation fault (core dumped)
># 


That core dump certainly doesn't seem normal.  I'm running Linux 0.98-pl5, 
gcc 2.2.2d, and GNU make 3.62. Did GNU make break somewhere along the way? I 
downloaded a new binary from tsx-11 but got the same results.

Any clues?

Thanks in advance,

Scott
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From: nation@dopey.sanders.lockheed.com (Robert Nation)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: HELP - How can I activate my middle mousebutton?
Date: 16 Dec 92 22:06:57 GMT
	<1992Dec16.182141.11938@ips.cs.tu-bs.de>
Organization: Lockheed Sanders, Inc.
In-reply-to: andersen@eis.cs.tu-bs.de's message of 16 Dec 92 18:21:41 GMT

I am glad to see that my 3 button mouse solution worked for someone
else. Please note that this solution was derived from a program
received T. J. Cutts, which he received from Rick Stanley - just to
give credit where its due. 

Also, note that T. J. Cutts indicated that my program locked up his
machine, but that if he did everything else, and held down a mouse
button while starting X, his mouse worked as desired.


			Rob Nation
			Lockheed-Sanders
			Merrimack, NH



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