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From: cummings@hammer.Prime.COM (Kevin Cummings)
Subject: Re: all kinds of questions
Organization: Prime Computer R&D
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 15:21:17 GMT

In article <1992Apr13.223428.29499@colorado.edu>, drew@ophelia.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt) writes:
> In article <1992Apr13.191537.8035@coe.montana.edu> icsu8268@cs.montana.edu (Greenup) writes:
> >3. does "sync" do a diskpark, or do I have to round up a routine for that?
> 
> No.  sync merely commits the buffercache to disk.  Buffers will be 
> committed to disk when buffercache is full, or a sync()  syscall
> is performed.  To prevent heinous catastrophees, update is 
> run from /etc/rc. update syncs the disks every 30 seconds.
> 
> Most hard disks these days autopark, so that shouldn't be a problem.

Unless you are not running with "new" disks.  There are an AWFUL lot of MFM
disk out there that don't auto-park; like most of them!  So unless you are
shutting down your system to reboot DOS (or something else), your disk
heads will not be parked by LINUX.  Maybe this is the cause of some of the
trashed file systems some people are experiencing?

=================================================================
Kevin J. Cummings                       Prime Computer Inc.
20 Briarwood Road                       500 Old Connecticut Path
Framingham, Mass.                       Framingham, Mass.

Work:  cummings@primerd.Prime.COM
Home:  cummings@kjc386.framingham.ma.us

Std. Disclaimer: "Mr. McKittrick, after careful consideration,
		  I've come to the conclusion that your new
		  defense system SUCKS..."   --  War Games
=================================================================
From: jon@robots.ox.ac.uk (Jon Tombs)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Byte Unix Benchmarks.
Keywords: benchmark.tar.Z
Date: 7 Apr 92 16:35:51 GMT
Organization: Robotics Research Group, Engineering Science Dept, Oxford, UK.
Originator: jon@diomedes.robots


I have uploaded to tsx-11, and I will upload to nic (if the link will stay
up for long enought), the Byte Unix Benchmarks that came through in
comp.unix.sources a while back. These required /usr/bin/time and a gawk with
trig functions so I've included them in the upload (gawk-2.13.2 and
gnu time-1.3).  I expect it to appear as:

/pub/linux/sources/test_suites/benchmark.tar.Z
on tsx-11

In the mean time any _UK_ user can pick it up from ftp.robots.ox.ac.uk
in the same place.

As an idea of its output here the summary reports for my 486 and a Sparc1+

----
Sparc1+
Arithmetic Test (type = double)               2541.7     1494.0        0.6
Dhrystone 2 without register variables       22366.3    13077.0        0.6
Execl Throughput Test                           16.5       10.7        0.6
File Copy  (30 seconds)                        179.0       83.0        0.5
Pipe-based Context Switching Test             1318.5      947.1        0.7
Shell scripts (8 concurrent)                     4.0        1.7        0.4
                                                                 =========
     SUM of  6 items                                                   3.4
     AVERAGE                                                           0.6


----
486 33c
Arithmetic Test (type = double)               2541.7     1891.6        0.7
Dhrystone 2 without register variables       22366.3    19281.7        0.9
Execl Throughput Test                           16.5       89.2        5.4
File Copy  (30 seconds)                        179.0       44.0        0.2
Pipe-based Context Switching Test             1318.5     3738.0        2.8
Shell scripts (8 concurrent)                     4.0        5.0        1.3
                                                                 =========
     SUM of  6 items                                                  11.3
     AVERAGE                                                           1.9


Nice work Linus!  READMEs etc are in the archive. mail me directly if you
have any problems.

--
 Jon                    <jon@robots.ox.ac.uk>
                        "I got in today just as the sun was crashing"
                                                
                                                


                                            

                        


                   
                                                
                                                


                                            

                        
                   
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,alt.os.linux
From: sergios@bcars282.uucp (Sergio Slobodrian)
Subject: Re: Keyboard dies when I hit Caps-Lock (+SCSI)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 20:13:55 GMT

In article <1992Apr14.111958.19792@odin.diku.dk> dingbat@diku.dk (Niels Skov Olsen) writes:
>I wrote:
>
>>Following keys gives TOTAL lock up but with Linux stil running:
>>	Pause
>>	Scroll Lock (gives a task-info)
>>	Caps Lock
>>	Num Lock
>
>Clarification: Everything keep running but it seems as if the
>wiring of the keyboard interrupt to the service routine is
>being broken after one of these keys are hit.
>
I have the same problem with the keyboard, but I can clarify it further.
Once the keyboard locks up on my machine, even a hardware reset leaves
it locked (hitting the reset button, not turning on and off the PC)!! Only
when the bios gets around to initializing the keyboard does it start
to behave once again. The problem with the Caps Lock key is that on my
keyboard it is exactly where the <Ctrl> key is on my SPARC at work
and that makes for very frusterating vi sessions.

Does any one have any ideas?
From: coutant@imag.fr (Fabien Coutant)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: What about running Linux from DOS ?
Date: 13 Apr 92 16:04:16 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: IMAG Institute, University of Grenoble, France

This is BootLinux, a little program that, for those of you
that found ShoeLace too complicated (I'm one of those), will
allow you to boot linux from DOS, and more especially from
a hard disk. To use it, it's preferable to have something
that handles multiple config.sys, like BOOT.SYS for example.

From Linux, you just have to mcopy the file Image after
making the kernel to a dos partition (instead of writing it
to a floppy) ,
or you can also use the distributed bootimage-xxxx.Z
uncompressed.

It works fine with a patched Linux 0.12 and my
AMD 386 / 40MHz, 4M ram, 2 IDE 80M+40M HDs.
I also tried it today with Linux 0.95a and it
seems to work.

The .zip file contains the .COM executable and a
small documentation.

Since I don't know if a lot of people will be interested
in this, I didn't uploaded it. Of course, if there's a
lot of requests, I'll upload it.

------------------------<CUT HERE>---------------------------
begin 400 bootlin.zip
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------------------------<CUT HERE>---------------------------

Excuse me for my poor english.
Fabien COUTANT
Email: coutant@imag.imag.fr
From: aldabbag@sal-sun118.usc.edu (Maad Al-Dabbagh)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Is Linux real-time ?
Date: 8 Apr 1992 13:50:19 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Distribution: world
Reply-To: aldabbag@sal-sun118.usc.edu (Maad Al-Dabbagh)
NNTP-Posting-Host: sal-sun118.usc.edu
Keywords: real-time os


Is linux a real-time os ? please advise. I am working on an os called
Lynx OS , and it is supposed to be rea-time. I am wondring if it is the
same os or not.

maad
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: mikee@seas.gwu.edu (Mike Me)
Subject: SCSI / Adapted support.... I dont get it!
Originator: mikee@seas.gwu.edu
Organization: George Washington University
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 07:31:32 GMT

Hi people, I relatively new to this scene and in need of some
assistance.

I have an EISA system, and I have been able to get LINUX to work.
It took me a while... but hey! Anyway, I really want to get away from 
this floppy method of running things, but CAN NOT seem to get the 
thing to recognize my HD.

I got the bootimage 95+, which supposedly has (some) support for the
ADAPTEC 17XX controllers.

I'm not quite sure what the problem is, but I thought that since the
same controller is also in charge of the floppies I might have a
chance
of getting this thing to work.

I end up with the folloing errors when running the bootimage 95+

0 host adapters detected
detected 0 disks , 0 tapes
hard disk I/O error
dev 0301 block 1
kernel panic, unable to boot.

Am I doing somethiong wrong?

Also, the 95+ tar file comes with some c source? Am I to compile this 
first? How can I on a floppy system?

Needless to say I'm confused, and could not find any help that
pertained to my problem in the FAQ pages.

Thanx, and I hope someone out there knows what I need to do to get
this to work.


Thanx,
	MikeE

Xref: sparky comp.os.linux:383 alt.os.linux:2464
From: ulan@ee.ualberta.ca (Dale Ulan)
Subject: Compiling 0.95c+
Reply-To: ulan@ee.ualberta.ca (Dale Ulan)
Organization: University of Alberta Electrical Engineering
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 21:04:18 GMT


To Linus: Great job/ great idea!


Now... the problem. 

I am having a (very) hard time getting 0.95c+ to compile.

It compiles with about five or six 'incompatible pointer' warnings,
and gets to disk no problem.

After booting, this is what appears:

8 virtual consoles
4 pty's
lp_init: lp1 exists (0)
stack segment:0000
EIP: 0008:0000D752
EFLAGS: 00010202
fs: 0010
base 00000000  limit  000A0000
pid: 0, process nr: 0
8b 45 d0 66 c7 04 cd e0 a4 00

Kernel panic: Trying to free up swapper memory space
In swapper task- not syncing

Here are the details of compiling:

software emulation flag is still set 'as was' in the .95c+ Makefile.

rootdev  /dev/hda2

-fcombine-regs -fstrength-reduce  uncommented so it will compile under 1.40.

2 megs RAM.  1.2 meg /dev/floppy0
(doesn't seem to complain that there isn't enough memory: it just makes
the disk drive dance a lot).

I've tried figuring out what's wrong, and I know it at least gets to
move_to_user_mode(); in main.c, but I got lost tracing it after that
(using printk("Got here...\n\r");)

The .95c+ binary works, but, of course, ps needs the system alone and not the
image.. to build /etc/psdatabase

-------
Dale Ulan   ulan@ee.ualberta.ca
Computer engineering undergrad
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: drew@romeo.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt)
Subject: Re: virtual consoles/pty's
Organization: University of Colorado at Boulder
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 09:43:24 GMT

In article <1992Apr17.064610.25268@athena.cs.uga.edu> knapka@athena.cs.uga.edu (Joseph Knapka) writes:
>Here's a silly question: When I boot linux, it says "8 virtual
>consoles, 4 ptys". I know what ptys are, I think -- the guys I get to
>by alt-f[1-4]. So my question is, "What, exactly, is the difference

Nope. ALT-Fn selects virtual console n, which is /dev/tty[n].  
 
>between a pty and a virtual console?"

A pty is a "Pseudo TeletYpe".  It lets you give a pipe to something that 
expects to have a "real" tty attached to it, such as most editors,
an xterm, etc.  There are master (/dev/ptyp[n]) and slave ends
(/dev/ttyp[n]) to it.  One program can open a master end, and other programs
can read / write to the slave end to get / send to the master.  

A virtual console is a console... that is virtual - so you can have 
multiple terminal sessions on one physical console.  Basically, it's 
indistringuishable from any other tty device.

  
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: cummings@hammer.Prime.COM (Kevin Cummings)
Subject: Re: Questions from a beginner...
Keywords: 1.44 A: drive, compiling, shells
Organization: Prime Computer R&D
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 19:34:51 GMT

In article <45126@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, cheetah@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Bowen Goletz) writes:
> In article <1992Apr13.150808.10585@cis.umassd.edu> slowhand@cis.umassd.edu (Chris P. Sullivan) writes:
> >RESET-FLOPPY CALLED errors.  HOW WOULD WE MAKE LINUX UNDERSTAND THAT WE HAVE
> >AND A: DRIVE THAT IS 1.44MB?
> 
> Re-run the mkdev script as described above.  PS0 is the desired device name
> for a 1.44MB floppy (unit 0).

Better yet, go find 0.95c or 0.95c+.  This was supposed to fixed
the uncommon reset floppy problem that only a few people had.

=================================================================
Kevin J. Cummings                       Prime Computer Inc.
20 Briarwood Road                       500 Old Connecticut Path
Framingham, Mass.                       Framingham, Mass.

Work:  cummings@primerd.Prime.COM
Home:  cummings@kjc386.framingham.ma.us

Std. Disclaimer: "Mr. McKittrick, after careful consideration,
		  I've come to the conclusion that your new
		  defense system SUCKS..."   --  War Games
=================================================================
From: kxb@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Karl R. Buck)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: GCC2.1 (Wonderful !)
Date: 14 Apr 1992 14:59:57 -0500
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu
Keywords: gcc, 2.1, 1.40

hlu@yoda.eecs.wsu.edu (Hongjiu Lu -- Graduate Student) writes:

>It seems that gcc 2.1 can run with 2MB RAM. I think it's the time we
>retire gcc 1.40. Lots of problems about kernel and gcc 2.1 are related
>to the old gcc 1.40. With gcc 2.1, we can use the shared libs as the
>standard. So we can squeeze more stuffs into rootimage. I really miss
>bash. I had to copy it from 0.12 rootimage.

>What do you guys think?

Well, since you ask:-)
Some of you may remember my whining and complaining a while back about
not being able to get 2.1 to work. It ended up being a bogus copy of
tar from the 95a distribution. After fixing this I've no trouble at
all compiling .95c+ and other applications. If anyone is looking for
votes I think going with 2.1 is a great idea. I'm really looking
forward to converting my stuff to shared libs.

To the people (person) working on 2.1: Thanks, and good work!
-- 
Karl Buck, kxb@matt.ksu.edu 	:)
From: entropy@goofy.WPI.EDU (Lawrence C Foard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: I'm back (I think)
Date: 14 Apr 92 01:08:19 GMT
Article-I.D.: wpi.1992Apr14.010819.17165
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Between various disasters I've been unable to keep up with linux stuff for a
while. 

Some jerk mail bombed wintermute using a forged sendsys, this meant that I
didn't get any of the mail that was supposed to get there since it had to
be taken off the net. 

Then I lost the use of my account there because of it. But fortunitly WPI
is getting comp.os.linux now, so until WPI's news feed dies again I'm back :)

If any ones mail to me boinged send it again to entropy@goofy.wpi.edu
From: xtifr@netcom.com (Chris Waters)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: make and .95a kernel rebuild
Date: 17 Apr 92 17:50:49 GMT
Article-I.D.: netcom.r#2j6+c.xtifr
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)


Ok, I gather that GNU make won't cut it for the kernel rebuild or
something, but I'm still curious about this bit from the Makefile:

all

Version
        @./makever.sh
        [etc.]

Shouldn't there be some targets for "all"?  And maybe for "Version" as
well?  Do I have a damaged set of kernel sources?  (I got 'em from
tsx-11).

Other comments:

  Is there a limit on the size of the DOS files that mtools will handle?
I've had problems with files around 3 meg or so.

  Shouldn't "compress" and "uncompress" in the distribution root fs be
links?  I admit that this wouldn't save much space, but it would save a
tad.  Also, there's no link to "zcat".

  Is there a reason for the "dummy line" in /etc/passwd?

  In bash, MAIL seems to default to /var/spool/mail/username, rather
than to /usr/spool/mail/username?

Ok, that's all I've come up with in a couple of days of not-very-much-
spare-time-hacking.  I'm sure I'll be back with more comments,
suggestions, etc.  TTFN.

p.s. killer system--I am very impressed.  Major kudos to Linus. :-)
-- 
Chris Waters    | the insane don't |   I figure the odds be fifty-fifty:
xtifr@netcom.COM| need disclaimers | I just might have something to say. --FZ
From: 9041592@mango.cs.su.OZ.AU (Bernard Joseph Gardner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: all kinds of questions
Date: 15 Apr 92 06:30:02 GMT
Reply-To: 9041592@basser.cs.su.OZ.AU (Bernard Joseph Gardner)
Organization: Basser Dept of Computer Science, University of Sydney, Australia


In article <45188@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> cheetah@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Bowen Goletz) writes:
 In article <1992Apr13.191537.8035@coe.montana.edu> icsu8268@cs.montana.edu (Greenup) writes:
 >
 >Hello netters!
 >   I just booted up for the first time two days ago, and now I'm a happy
 >Linux user.  Well, almost.  I do have a few questions...

 >2. why doesn't "tar +help | more" work?
 
 	The help output is through stderr insted of stdio (why?)  If you
 want to pipe stderr, use the amperstand (&).  For example: tar &> tar.help.
 Then more the tar.help file.  For some reason, stderr pipes aren't supported
 with bash.  You should be able to do a &| to pipe the output directly to
 more in the first place.

Another solution is 'tar +help 2>&1 |more' (This combines stderr with stdout
which is then piped through more)

Bernard.

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In article <45188@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> cheetah@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Bowen Goletz) writes:
 In article <1992Apr13.191537.8035@coe.montana.edu> icsu8268@cs.montana.edu (Greenup) writes:
 >
 >Hello netters!
 >   I just booted up for the first time two days ago, and now I'm a happy
 >Linux user.  Well, almost.  I do have a few questions...

 >2. why doesn't "tar +help | more" work?
 
 	The help output is through stderr insted of stdio (why?)  If you
 want to pipe stderr, use the amperstand (&).  For example: tar &> tar.help.
 Then more the tar.help file.  For some reason, stderr pipes aren't supported
 with bash.  You should be able to do a &| to pipe the output directly to
 more in the first place.

Another solution is 'tar +help 2>&1 |more' (This combines stderr with stdout
which is then piped through more)

Bernard.
From: wang-i@acsu.buffalo.edu (Haohui Wang)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: gcc 2.1 woes
Date: 8 Apr 92 07:27:30 GMT
Article-I.D.: acsu.1992Apr8.072730.27022
Organization: UB

I downloaded the GCC2.1 from tsx-11.mit.edu in the directory:
	/pub/linux/incoming/GCCv2

Then moved gcc1.40 to another partition and installed 2.1, but it seems that
the cc1 came with it dies out on:

main()
{
printf("hello");
}

It says:"parse error before '('"

If I use the cc1 from 1.40 it compiles.  But if I want to use gcc2.1 to link
it, ie - gcc junk.o, ld says "'---' unknown option" and prints a list of options.

Did I miss something?

thanks

howie
From: rab@ariel.its.unimelb.EDU.AU (Richard Alan Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: problems booting
Keywords: bootdisk
Date: 17 Apr 92 09:48:40 GMT
Organization: School of Physics, University of Melbourne


A problem, not from rab@ariel... but it may interest him also.

I used rawrite to make a bootable disk and a rootimage disk. When I 
boot my pc with the floppy in, I get the loading............
and the SVGA mode question. 
when I press any other key, the system simply reboots, and cycles through
this same process.

Hmm.

Its probably obvious, but any ideas what might be going wrong?

alistair scott
afs@tauon.ph.unimelb.edu.au
From: books@fsunuc.physics.fsu.edu (Roger Books)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: compile kernel with gcc2.1
Keywords: linux, kernel , gcc2.1
Date: 2 Apr 92 19:36:26 GMT
Reply-To: books@fsunuc.physics.fsu.edu
Organization: F.S.U. Dept of Physics
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.3-4

In article <zhao.702238978@chilko.ucs.ubc.ca>, zhao@unixg.ubc.ca (Jiansheng Zhao) writes...
>Ok, I grabed gcc-as, gcc-ld etc from gccbin to compile the kernel. It went
>smoothly, until the Image building stage: error message:
>tools/build.c 28 : linux/fs.h : No such file or dirctory
>However, as I checked, there is linux/fs.h in /include. I cann't see why
>gcc2.1 wouldn't keep going.

I ran into the same problem.  To solve it I made /usr/include/linux 
subdirectory and linked all the stuff in the /usr/src/linux/include into it.

An odd one I ran into was when compiling ps095 it wouldn't accept some of
the include files, saying undeclared __(name).h in _text.  I ended up
putting a full path name to the that particular include file.

				Roger
				books@fsunuc.physics.fsu.edu 
Xref: sparky comp.os.linux:347 alt.os.linux:2424
From: dingbat@diku.dk (Niels Skov Olsen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: Keyboard dies when I hit Caps-Lock (+SCSI)
Date: 11 Apr 92 23:27:03 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen

I just got my Adaptec 1542B the other day and installed the stuff
from sc.tamu.edu with Tommy Thorn's SCSI driver in it. It works
fine except that my keybord locks up completely when I hit
Caps-Lock. That's very annoying because Tab is right above it
and I use that one extensively for filename completion. I compiled
the kernel with the Danish keyboard - it didn't help. I 'heard' that
Drew Eckhardt was almost ready with incorporating low level Adaptec 
support, so I thought I would poke around at headrest to see if 
something had come up. There was a brand new vmunix which I installed
and booted. It detected my adapter and disk just fine, but tried to
load the root from device 0301. I changed that (vmunix[508]=02) and
rebooted. That didn't help so I cleared the bytes at 508 and 509
so that the rootimage would load from floppy. That worked (phew).
But still no talking to /dev/hda2. And the keyboard still locks 
up...

Any clues? No problems in DOS. The keyboard is a cheap Taiwanese
one called DANREX KB-6252EA.

Niels