HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: osynw@gemini.oscs.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Subject: Re: [386BSD] boot disk does absolutely nothing on gateway 4dx33v
Keywords: n
Organization: Montana State University
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 18:29:55 GMT

In article <C1HowF.20x@rot.qc.ca> captain@rot.qc.ca (Andrew Webster) writes:
>Timothy Miller (tim@news.Brown.EDU) wrote:
>> I have acquired the boot disk image for 386bsd, and no matter what I try,
>> when my system starts up, it displays all the bios messages, and then hangs
>> with the floppy drive light on. I have tried waiting for half an hour (just
...
>> of the bootables.  I know I'm installing the disk image correctly because
>> doing the same thing with the linux disk images works perfectly (in fact linux
>> successfully installs and runs fine, without my even needing to turn anything
>> off (except gcc dies unless I turn external caching off)).

Having to turn off external cache doesn't sound too good...

>
>Rather intteresting... I have the same problem, different hardware!
>Here's the scoop:
>386DX-20 no cache, 4MB RAM, Logitech EGA, 80MB IDE, locks up on floppy boot
>Comments anyone?

Have both of you tried the NEW bootables, located at
agate.berkeley.edu:~unofficial/patch-kit/*.fs-pk-0.2 ?

If not, give them a try.  There are some boot fixes in them that
allow MOST machines to boot, although there is still some timing
problems with recognizing certain IDE drives because of non-standard
controllers.

Also, if you can't get it to boot after trying the new boot images, 
try removing all of the non-necessary hardware from your machine.
I had a problem when I first installed 386BSD, and it turned out to
be a mis-configured SERIAL/GAME/PARALLEL card which worked fine under
DOS but 386BSD needed it configured correctly.

I have also seen problems with SoundBlaster's, and other non-standard
cards..


Nate
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
From: bsd@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM (Brian de Alwis)
Subject: Correct values for float.h, compiling gcc-2.3.3
Reply-To: bsd@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM (Brian de Alwis)
Organization: I P Sharp Associates, Toronto
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 15:20:28 GMT

What exactly are the correct values for <float.h>?

This problem has come up while attempting to compile gcc-2.3.3 (are
there any patches out there? I couldn't find any, with my limited
resources here). It seems that the build proceeds with no problems
until enquire.c is compiled with the new xgcc. On line 2307, it
craps out with a `floating point constant out of range'. I haven't
had too much time to look at any further.

When I tried compiling enquire with the `stock' gcc-1.39, it manages
to compile properly, but dumps core with a precision exception when
commencing the double tests. I think it may be my implementation of
strtod (from the Tcl distribution).

Any suggestions?

Thanks.
-- 
Brian de Alwis -- bsd@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.com
             bsdealwi@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca
From: kcw@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Ken Whedbee)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: [386BSD] Recompil. passwd; Need pw_copy.c pw_util.c ?
Date: 25 Jan 93 17:38:15 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Univ. of Florida CIS Dept.


Hi -

I'm trying to recompile passwd, but the makefile needs
pw_copy.c and pw_util.c; do I actually need these files ?
and if so, where can I get them ?  They are not in the
passwd src directory.

thanx !

-- 
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University of Florida        UUCP:      ..!uflorida!bikini.cis.ufl.edu!kcw
                             BITNET:    kcw@ufpine
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
From: MCROSBY@bsa3.kent.edu (Malcolm Crosby)
Subject: Sorry >>> Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: PATCHKIT 0.2 is ALMOST OUT
Summary: Testing
Keywords: n
Organization: Kent State University, School of Business Administration
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 16:43:39 GMT

Sorry pleas ignore last posting.


----
Malcolm Crosby

Internet:   blabc183@ksuvxa.kent.edu
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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
Subject: Re: PC-NFS and 386BSD
Organization: Weber State University  (Ogden, UT)
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 21:49:22 GMT

In article <CGD.93Jan20080244@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU> cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou) writes:
>In article <wmbfmk.727536467@rw8.urc.tue.nl> wmbfmk@rw8.urc.tue.nl (Marc van Kempen) writes:
>>I have included '/usr -root=0' in my /etc/exports file, and have
>>rebooted several times since, so the file should have been read.
>>
>>Any clues?
>
>yes,
>
>you need to be invoking mountd as "mountd -n".
>
>man mountd for the reason; the answer's plain as day in there...

Well, almost:

	OPTIONS
	     -n   Do not check that the clients are  root  users.  Though
		  this  option makes things slightly less secure, it does
		  allow older versions (pre-3.0) of client NFS to work.


The *method* mountd uses to determine if the client is root is if it
is using a "secure port" (<1024) for the socket it is connecting from.
In a normal TCP/IP impementation, only a user with root credentials is
allowed to allocate a secure port... therefore anyone coming in on one
is assumed to be root.

In reality, this is a somewhat bogus "security" feature, since it is
a "vouchsafe" protection (if you're root there, you can be root here)
rather than some other protection (if your root here, you can be root
here; so if you don't have the password, beat it!).

An unpatched 386BSD can not use a reserved port to communicated with
the remote mountd.  Patches have been posted here, and archived in
all the normal places for 386BSD patches, but like I said, the
protection granted is somewhat a false sense of security.  The main
application would be if you had people on local machines who wrote
programs that acted like NFS clients for the localhost or some other
local machine.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@icarus.weber.edu
					terry_lambert@novell.com
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From: glenc@netcom.com (Glen Collins)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Building a kernel
Date: 25 Jan 93 20:26:06 GMT
Article-I.D.: netcom.1993Jan25.202606.20672
Distribution: na
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

HELP!!!!

	I am trying to build a kernel for my system and it compiles ok,
but when I install it it can't mount root and panics. I am building the
kernel on ref.tfs.com, so I suppose that the kernel is up to date. The
following is the config file for the kernel!
Basicly I just trying to build a kernel so I can use my SMC ethernet
card to install the system. ANY help would be appriciated!

=============== config file ===============

#
# GENERICISA -- Generic ISA machine -- distribution floppy
#
machine		"i386"
cpu		"i486"
ident		GENERICISA
timezone	8 dst
maxusers	10
options		INET,ISOFS,NFS
options		"COMPAT_43"
options		"TCP_COMPAT_42"
options		"WD8013"

config		"386bsd"	root on wd0 swap on wd0

controller	isa0
controller	wd0	at isa? port "IO_WD1" bio irq 14 vector wdintr
disk		wd0	at wd0 drive 0
disk		wd0	at wd0 drive 1

controller	fd0	at isa? port "IO_FD1" bio irq 6 drq 2 vector fdintr
disk		fd0	at fd0 drive 0
disk		fd1	at fd0 drive 1

controller	as0	at isa? port 0x330 bio irq 11 drq 5 vector asintr
disk		as0	at as0 drive 0
disk		as1	at as0 drive 1

device		pc0	at isa? port "IO_KBD" tty irq 1 vector pcrint
device		npx0	at isa? port "IO_NPX" irq 13 vector npxintr
device		com1	at isa? port "IO_COM1" tty irq 4 vector comintr
device		com2	at isa? port "IO_COM2" tty irq 3 vector comintr

device we0 at isa? port 0x300 net irq 10 iomem 0xcc000 iosiz 8192 vector weintr
device ne0 at isa? port 0x300 net irq 2 vector neintr
device ec0 at isa? port 0x250 net irq 2 iomem 0xd8000 iosiz 8192 vector ecintr
device is0 at isa? port 0x280 net irq 10 drq 7 vector isintr

device		wt0	at isa? port 0x300 bio irq 5 drq 1 vector wtintr

pseudo-device	loop
pseudo-device	ether
pseudo-device	sl	2
pseudo-device	log
pseudo-device	pty	4

pseudo-device	swappager
pseudo-device	vnodepager
pseudo-device	devpager
From: cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: kernal switcher?
Date: 23 Jan 93 21:27:59
Organization: Kernel Hackers 'r' Us
NNTP-Posting-Host: eden.cs.berkeley.edu
In-reply-to: "Alex R.N. Wetmore"'s message of Fri, 22 Jan 1993 08:45:43 -0500 

regardless of whether or not you're using Julian's boot blocks 
(which are wonderful!) you'll still have some problems with using
a kernel not named "386bsd" because a lot of things depend
on this being the kernel name...

your shellscript idea is probably the best, for your needs...
(but use Julian's bootblocks, too...  they've saved my butt once or
twice, and left me with as running system when /386bsd got hosed
for some reason or another...)

Chris
--
Chris G. Demetriou                                    cgd@cs.berkeley.edu

"Sometimes it is better to have twenty million instructions by
        Friday than twenty million instructions per second." -- Wes Clark
From: paulus@cs.anu.edu.au (Paul Mackerras)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Bug + fix: page leak in VM system
Date: 22 Jan 1993 15:19:37 +1100
Organization: Computer Science Department, ANU, Australia
NNTP-Posting-Host: sirius.anu.edu.au
Keywords: VM system, bug, memory leak

I have found a bug in the new Mach-derived VM system in BSD Unix (as
in the NET/2 release and 386BSD) which causes it to lose physical
pages, resulting in less memory for running programs and increased
likelihood of thrashing.

The bug is that the call to vm_page_deactivate() at line 531 of
vm_fault.c does not put the (now no longer needed) page back on the
inactive list, because vm_page_deactivate() only does anything with
active pages.  Consequently, the page is then not on the active,
inactive or free lists and is effectively not available for use.  (It
is not lost forever, though, because it is still on its object's page
queue.)

The situation where this occurs is basically the following:
	1. A process has a copy-on-write mapping, e.g. to the data
	   segment of an executable file.
	2. The process reads a page in the copy-on-write region.
	   The VM system allocates a page and reads in the data from
	   the file.
	3. The process writes to the page.  The VM system allocates
	   a second page, copies the first page to it, and then
	   loses the first page :-(.

The following patch corrects the problem.

Paul Mackerras
Dept. Computer Science,
Australian National University.
paulus@cs.anu.edu.au

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
*** vm_page-orig.c	Fri Jan 22 09:54:01 1993
--- vm_page.c	Fri Jan 22 09:52:51 1993
***************
*** 687,701 ****
  	/*
  	 *	Only move active pages -- ignore locked or already
  	 *	inactive ones.
  	 */
  
! 	if (m->active) {
  		pmap_clear_reference(VM_PAGE_TO_PHYS(m));
! 		queue_remove(&vm_page_queue_active, m, vm_page_t, pageq);
  		queue_enter(&vm_page_queue_inactive, m, vm_page_t, pageq);
- 		m->active = FALSE;
  		m->inactive = TRUE;
- 		vm_page_active_count--;
  		vm_page_inactive_count++;
  		if (pmap_is_modified(VM_PAGE_TO_PHYS(m)))
  			m->clean = FALSE;
--- 687,708 ----
  	/*
  	 *	Only move active pages -- ignore locked or already
  	 *	inactive ones.
+ 	 *
+ 	 *	XXX: sometimes we get pages which aren't wired down
+ 	 *	or on any queue - we need to put them on the inactive
+ 	 *	queue also, otherwise we lose track of them.
+ 	 *	Paul Mackerras (paulus@cs.anu.edu.au) 9-Jan-93.
  	 */
  
! 	if (!m->inactive && m->wire_count == 0) {
  		pmap_clear_reference(VM_PAGE_TO_PHYS(m));
! 		if (m->active) {
! 			queue_remove(&vm_page_queue_active, m, vm_page_t, pageq);
! 			m->active = FALSE;
! 			vm_page_active_count--;
! 		}
  		queue_enter(&vm_page_queue_inactive, m, vm_page_t, pageq);
  		m->inactive = TRUE;
  		vm_page_inactive_count++;
  		if (pmap_is_modified(VM_PAGE_TO_PHYS(m)))
  			m->clean = FALSE;

Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
From: ac116@city.ac.uk (Tarkan)
Subject: [386BSD] and x-Windows SVGA cards
Summary: will these cards work with X 
Keywords: 386BSD X SVGA CARD
Organization: The City University
Distribution: comp
Date: 24 Jan 93 19:33:03 GMT


Could anyone tell me if any of these SVGA cards will work
with X-windows and 386BSD..

Pro-Designer II  ?? (I think it is ET4000 based)
and a realtek based SVGA Card with 1mB memory??

any one help
thanks


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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
From: umlecla3@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Brian Leclair)
Subject: uugetty
Organization: J. Random Misconfigured Site
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 06:08:12 GMT
X-Posted-From: ccu.umanitoba.ca
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

Hi, has anyone been able to port uugetty over to 386bsd? If so where can i
ftp it from or where can i get the diffs for it from? I find the usual gettys
suck... :)
 Please mail umlecla3@ccu.umanitoba.ca or feel free to post it on here since 
im probably not the only one who wants to know?
 
 Brian
From: kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: newfs on /dev/rfd0a (how?)
Date: 23 Jan 1993 15:52:35 GMT
Organization: I.Physikalisches Institut RWTH-Aachen
Distribution: world
Reply-To: kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de
NNTP-Posting-Host: acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de


I'm able to disklabel a floppy, but how can I put a newfs on it?

--
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Christoph P. U. Kukulies
kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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From: vv77076@cs.tut.fi (Vanhatupa Vesa)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: [386BSD] how do i get booteasy from a posting here
Date: 26 Jan 93 21:29:09 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Tampere Univ. of Technology, Finland.
NNTP-Posting-Host: naakka.cs.tut.fi
In-reply-to: ac116@city.ac.uk's message of 26 Jan 93 16:46:57 GMT


In article <ac116.728066817@Hailsham> ac116@city.ac.uk (Tarkan) writes:

> can anyone help,,I've filed the booteasy posting
> and I have tried turning it into a .zoo file
> with no success,,how am i supposed to do it

Just uudecode the file and then zoo x <file>.

- Vesa
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		   Tampere University Of Technology
			       Finland

		       email: vv77076@cs.tut.fi
From: T.D.G.Sandford@bradford.ac.uk (TDG SANDFORD)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: [386bsd] problem with new patchkit?
Date: 27 Jan 93 19:10:18 GMT
Organization: University of Bradford, UK
Originator: 90908106@columbia

I grabbed a copy of the new patchkit (0.2) from my local 386bsd mirror
(src.doc.ic.ac.uk), but have had some problems with it. Is it me or
is it the patchkit?

Here's what I did:
(all as root)
ftp'd new patchkit (file patchkit-0.2.tar.Z length 478731 date Jan 24 22:23)
De-installed all patches from old kit (DALL)
Moved old kit to /usr/oldpatch and deleted /patch link
untarred new patch kit to /usr/patch
ran bin/mkpatchdirs
ran bin/patches
	all the patches deearchived etc
did an IALL
	all patches sucessfully installed
tried to deinstall patch00603
	reported "required by patch00602" so
tried to deinstall patch00602
	succesfull
tried to deinstall patch00603
	reported "user has deleted file (?cant remember?) - can't deinstall"
tried reinstalling patch00602
	succesfull
tried deinstalling patch00603 again
	reported "required by patch00055"

It looks to me as though it might be regarding PREREQUISITE patches as
DEPENDANT patches in deinstallation.

Is this the case? Have I done something stupid? Has anyone else experienced
problems?

--
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From: migieger@delos.stgt.sub.org (Michael Giegerich)
Subject: Re: Where can I pick up the FAQ from?
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 23:23:56 GMT
Organization: Delos Stuttgart, Germany

Hi,

>You might find the FAQ and BUGLIST (really an FAQ) on agate:
>anon ftp agate.berkeley.edu; ~/pub/386BSD/386bsd-0.1/unofficial/{*FAQ,*BUGLIST}

I wonder what could be the reason to keep the FAQ and the BUGLIST
(and BTW, the patch-kit) "hidden" on agate.berkeley.edu; this
forces many people without access to ftp-connections asking the
same questions again and again...

Any hints?

(And YES, I would appreciate seeing those files among the other
tons of FAQs, BUGLISTs e.a. in a news.group).

Bye,
Michael



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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
Subject: Re: NE2000 kernel - anywhere?
Organization: Weber State University  (Ogden, UT)
Distribution: comp
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 22:56:29 GMT

In article <JVAISANE.93Jan26172121@lk-hp-7.hut.fi> jvaisane@snakemail.hut.fi (Jukka V{is{nen) writes:
>
>I've been setting up a 386BSD system and it works fine except it has the
>'startart' thingy. The FAQ says: remake kernel. Well I don't have the
>the diskspace to remake the thing and the kernel I now use was FTP:d w/o
>sources (someone had fixed it work with NE2000). Now I'd like to know if
>there is a bin-distribution kernel somewhere that can handle the NE2000.

Order one from the Sears catalog of kernels... ref.tfs.com.  Seriously,
Julian has been allowing kernel builds on his machine for some time now.
Or if you want to avoid the trouble, Nate has posted a patched kernel
at the 0.2 patchkit patch level on agate.berkeley.edu with the now
oficially released 0.2 patchkit.  This should have what you are looking
for.  Of course, if your video card uses IRQ2 for the vertical retrace,
you're up a creek anyway.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@icarus.weber.edu
					terry_lambert@novell.com
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
From: tlw@world.std.com (Tim L Wolfe)
Subject: [386bsd] How to change video modes (super vga)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 19:16:27 GMT

I would like to change the video mode of my super vga monitor
while running 386bsd to get more lines on the screen! I know
that other modes are supported by this monitor. Is there
a simple way to do this?

Since I'm posting - is X available for 386BSD?

Thanks for any constructive help!

Tim Wolfe
twolfe@world.std.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: bsd compatibility lib for sysVr3.2 ?
From: jehresman@eagle.wesleyan.edu
Date: 27 Jan 93 01:21:39 EST
Organization: Wesleyan University

I'm trying to find or build a bsd compatibility library that will run on sys V 
r 3.2 machines (AT+T 3b2's and NCR towers to be exact).  These are what we 
have to work with around here and we're trying to make them useful so no 
comment on the choice of OS please.

Any pointers to source that may be of use or specs on what a bsd lib is supposed
to contain would be helpful.  I know that some bsd features are going to be
hard if not impossible to implement, but this is mainly so we can compile 
stuff off the net that is not bsd only.

Please email any responses as I'm not a regular reader of this newsgroup.

Thanks in advance,
John

jehresman@eagle.wesleyan.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
From: peter@alice.wonderland.org ()
Subject: Re: su problems.
Organization: Demon Internet Services.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 23:00:15 GMT

GALBRAITH JOHN (galbrait@rintintin.Colorado.EDU) wrote:
: 	On my 386bsd machine, nobody can su to root.  There is no
: password (confirmed by checking the password file a hundred times), yet
: it asks for one anyway.  I tried setting a password, but it would not
: accept it.  The /etc/group file is ok too.
: The only way to become root is from the login: prompt.  Then,
: no password is needed.  Obviously, this is a pain.  Does anybody know
: what is going on?  Thanks.

Users who are allowed to su must be in the "wheel" group.

On a similar note "su -c command" doesn;t seem to work for me, or am I
being stupid ?

--
Peter Galbavy				e-mail: P.Galbavy@wonderland.org
Wonderland

	      "Nothing's forgotten. Nothing's ever forgotten."
Organization: Sophomore, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 21:24:10 -0500 
From: "Alex R.N. Wetmore" <aw2t+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: pcvt 2.0 problem

I have been playing around with getting pcvt to work on my machine
without luck.  When I bootup it loads the kernel, but crashes soon
afterwards (I don't get any text on the screen, I can just hear the
drive, and then the cursor becomes a full block and the a: drive light
goes on).  I am using the default options in the pcvt-hdr.h file.  Here
is my machine configuration:

Mitsubishi 386dx/16 with 6 megs
120 meg Talon hard drive
Paradise (WD) PVGA1 chipset (256k of video memory)
Teknika multisync monitor
NEC 101 key keyboard

The kernel is the standard one with the ec0 driver hacked to work with
AUI and about half of the patches that come with the patch kit.

alex

Xref: sparky comp.unix.bsd:11971 news.groups:26528
From: danson@lgc.com (Doug Anson)
Subject: Microsoft busmouse driver problems with patchkit-0.2
Organization: LandMark Graphics Corporation LGC
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 18:08:07 GMT

Hi:

I've installed 386BSD with patchkit-0.2 and have installed the microsoft 
busmouse driver (dont remember offhand where I got it from). Anyway, it seems
with the new select() changes that the mouse only works when keys are depressed.

has anyone else patched the microsoft busmouse driver for patchkit-0.2?  any
pointers on what I need to do to get it flying?

Thanks in advance.
Doug

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