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From: duperval@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Duperval Laurent)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: .97 kernel and root disk/probs with swapping
Date: 31 Aug 92 02:40:52 GMT
Organization: Universite de Montreal

In article <6026@pdxgate.UUCP> moyerg@rigel.cs.pdx.edu (gary a moyer) writes:
>I am now in the process of getting the kernel to compile however I am getting
>some strange results.  I am using a 2M swap file (NOT partition).  I get
>some errors during swaps like:
>rw_swap: bad swapfile
>
>This occurs during compilation using gcc 2.2.2d with 4M RAM and 2M swap.
>Any ideas?  Thanks.
>
>               Gary Moyer


I have similar problems with kernel compilation.  I have 4M of memory and 8M
swap space.  When compiling I get an out of memory, out of swap space error.
I'm running all the stuff that was on mcc-interim 0.96c (gcc 2.2.2, kernel
0.96c).

I never encountered this prblem before and I thought I had plenty of room.
BTW, if anyone is interested, my make fails on chr_drv/tty_io.c when I have 
one console open and on chr_drv/console.c when two consoles are open.

Also, what are these 'put_tty_queue' declarations disagree about 'inline'
errors I get.  What do they mean and could they be a hint as to what is going
wrong?


-- 
Laurent Duperval
duperval@ere.umontreal.ca
duperval@jsp.umontreal.ca
"If you gotta go, you might as well go happy... or suprised"   -Me
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: peterw@archsci.arch.su.oz.au (Peter Williams )
Subject: Re: Request for Help/FAQ
Organization: Design Computing Unit, The University of Sydney
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 01:50:56 GMT

In article <morgan.714816217@syzygy>, morgan@socs.uts.edu.au (David Morgan) writes:
|> Hi, this is for  friend,
|> 
|>  What is the closest place that I can pick up a copy of Linux and what
|> do I need to install it?  (East Coast of Australia)
|> 
|>  If this is a FAQ can someone tell me where I can get the FAQ list from.
|> 
|> Regards 
|>  David
|> --
|>  morgan@socs.uts.edu.au            Ph +61 2 330 1864  Fax +61 2 330 1807 
|>  David Morgan : University of Technology Sydney PO Box 123 Broadway 2007     
|>  "Creativity can be a curse.
|>   Ask Dr Frankenstein." - Calvin Miller

I tried e-mailing this reply but it bounced. Anyhow! I live in Glebe run linux
on a PC and may be able to help.

-- 
Peter Williams                |e-mail: peterw@archsci.arch.su.oz.au
Key Centre for Design Quality |phone: +61-2-692 2053 or +61-2-660 6156
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: kfogel@occs.cs.oberlin.edu (Karl Fogel)
Subject: X dies and sync dumps core in /dev directory... help!??
Organization: Oberlin College Computer Science
Distribution: comp.os.linux
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 01:45:07 GMT
X-Posted-From: occs.cs.oberlin.edu
X-Posted-Through: sol.ctr.columbia.edu


	I had 4 megs of memory, decided to upgrade to 8. I bought
4 more megs of the wrong speed (stupid mistake on my part) and 
got parity errors when I tried to run X Windows. It essentially hangs
and I must press ctl-alt-backspace to leave it, as mouse is dead.
So I went out and got the right speed and type of memory. *Same* 
problem still with X. I started to get scared and got my actual
original 4 megs back (the very same SIMMS) and the same problems
with X are still present. Now I have no X, but everything else
still works just fine, including Emacs and Make! Just X. How could
I have screwed something up permanently with a simple memory upgrade
(I have given back the extra memory and now have  only my original 4
SIMMs there!) I have also noticed that each time Linux syncs now it
dumps core in my /dev directory -- same size each time, suspiciously.
What have I done to X Windows with my attempt to have eight megs like
any civilized person? How could a permanent problem have been created
by some bad RAM? I have already reinstalled the binutils from the 
rootdisk (I'm using 0.96c right now), but it didn't help (or hurt).
	Any ideas?

--


			-Karl Fogel
			("Leg of Lark")
		  (kfogel@occs.cs.oberlin.edu)
		   (fogel@antares.mcs.anl.gov)

       	    "I'm not lost... I know exactly where I'm not!"
From: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Newbie GCC Problem -- PLEASE HELP!
Date: 3 Sep 92 12:56:15 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki

harp@netcom.com (Gregory O. Harp) writes:
>The simplest "Hello, world" program won't work.  I get an executable
>file, but it isn't. %) The permissions are all set right, but I get a
>"command not found" message whenever I try to run it.

If the executable is called a.out, and is in the working directory, try
executing it with the command ./a.out and if that doesn't work, ask
again.  Unix shells don't look in the working directory by default, so
you have to have . in your PATH environment variable to get that
behaviour.

This problem is most probably a very frequently asked question in
comp.unix.questions (and comp.unix.wizards :), so looking in the FAQ of
the unix groups should be profitable for Linux users too.  This applies
to many other problems with normal Unix usage. 

--
Lars.Wirzenius@helsinki.fi
From: butler@cs.tulane.edu (Larry Butler)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Floppy interface tap units info request
Date: 1 Sep 92 17:08:09 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Tulane Univ., New Orleans, LA
Nntp-Posting-Host-[nntpd-10577]: jupiter

In article <1992Sep1.115517.1@vx24.cc.monash.edu.au> edb201acot@vx24.cc.monash.edu.au writes:
>Hi,
>I'm trying to find out whether or not those tape backup units which use the
>floppy interface connectors will work under linux. My information has it that
>they don't require a device driver under DOS but only work with specific
>software which is hence probably doing the job of the driver.
>
>Does anyone know anything more, specifically whether they can be used under
>Linux without me having to write a device driver.
>
>The brand names that seem to occur most frequently are alloy and mountain.
>
>Thanks for any help
>
>Scott Thompson
>int678t@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au
>

I would like some information on that.
Larry (butler@cs.tulane.edu)
From: almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch (Werner Almesberger)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: How do you install programs?
Date: 1 Sep 92 20:29:13 GMT
Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH

In article <1992Aug31.035350.4961@wimsey.bc.ca> stewart@wimsey.bc.ca (Jim Stewart) writes:
> Linux 0.97.1 mounts my dos filesystem on /dev/hda1 fine. I can get directory
> listings and can copy FROM the dos filesystem fine.  When I copy TO the 
> dos filesystem,  the cp (from root0.97.1) grinds away then comes back and
> tells me that the device is full...

cp is probably trying to make a hole. There was a bug in dosfs.6 (and
probably also in dosfs.5) that made this operation fail in the way you
describe.

I'd suggest upgrading to dosfs.7.

- Werner
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From: bsp10@cd.amdahl.com (Byong Pak)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: library problem for X11
Keywords: me too
Date: 1 Sep 92 00:52:30 GMT
Reply-To: bsp10@duts.ccc.amdahl.com
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA


In article <1992Aug30.214915.7628@EE.Surrey.Ac.UK>,
ee89mdw@lab11.ee.surrey.ac.uk (Marc Walker) writes:
>I just installed the mcc-interim release and added the xwindows
>binaries.
>When I do startx, xinit complains that I don't have libc.2.2.2 (or very
>>similar name) and libm.2.2.2 in /lib.  Does anyone know if these are
>missing
>from the distribution, and if so can I get them somewhere else?  I have
>looked
>in loads of ftp sites but I can't find them.

I saw this also.  The way I got around it was to get the older version of GCC
and look for the libc.2.2.2 files in the tar files. (tar -ztf *.tar.Z |
grep libc.2.2.2 ) and just untared that one file.  The libc.2.2.2 file
is there as 
is but the libm.2.2.2 file should actually be a link to libhard.2.2.2
or
libsoft.2.2.2 depending on weather you have a math co-processor or not.

As I said... this is how I got it to work and I am sure this is not the correct
way to make it work.  But I needed X over the weekend and had to make due with 
what I have available.  Does anyone know the correct fix?

-- 
* Byong "the pakman" Pak             * These opinions are my own and do *
*        aka                         *   not reflect the opinions or    *
*  email:  bsp10@duts.ccc.amdahl.com *    policies of Amdahl Corp.      *
*  phone:  408-746-7871              *                                  *
*************************************************************************
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: int152p@mdw035.cc.monash.edu.au (Mr Tan Hong Tzeh)
Subject: Help: X and Paradise
Organization: Monash University
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1992 03:05:35 GMT


  I just wonder if anyone know if the "Paradise Windows accelerator card" which
has a WD90C30 chipset can work under X window.

  I have a 486-33Mhz and the card mention above and 4M RAM. Linux 0.96c work
okay under my system but the X windows does not seems to work. When I try to
run X, what I get is just a flash of small yellow box and then the screen went
blank.

  Dose any one know how should I set the Xconfig or make any further changes so
that I can make the X windows work under my VGA card ?

  Thanks in advance.

Steven Tan


Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: najem@milton.cs.uiuc.edu (Zeyad Najem)
Subject: help selecting SCSI hardware. 
Keywords: SCSI hardware linux
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 17:24:24 GMT


I'm about to buy the following three items. Linux will be the main OS
installed on my system (I still need DOS from time to time). I would
appreciate any comments regarding the selected hardware and/or prices.
The major use of the system will be LISP/Prolog/TeX/Postscript.


 o  520MB Fujitsu 3.5" 12ms HD             $1099.00
 o  Always SCSI controller                 $ 179.00
 o  Archive Viber 250MB Tape drive         $ 499.00


The current specs of the system is:
 
 o  486/33 ISA
 o  16MB RAM
 o  170MB IDE Hard drives. 


My specific questions are:

 1) Is the Always controller a good choice ?

 2) Is there any inheritied limitations in the controller/tape drive
    that prohibits linux from supporting it in the future ? If enough
    material is avaialable, I can try writing a driver myself. 

 3) Do SCSI and IDE coexist ?


 Thanks for your help and, as always, thanks for everyone who
 contributed to the success of Linux. 


 - Ziad
   najem@cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp)
Subject: Re: Linux history...
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 18:57:27 GMT

Jan Nicolai Langfeldt (janl@ifi.uio.no) wrote:

: In article <1992Aug24.123824.4665@klaava.Helsinki.FI>, wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius) writes:
: ...
: > Ha.  And I tried to be gentle with you.  I have a mind to mention
: ...
: 
: He probably knows your favourite linux hostname too, so check that
: new kernel source before you start using it! :-)

char host[32]; /* may be limited to 8 characters */

if ((gethostname(host, 32) == 0) && strcmp(host, "klaava"))
   panic("Hahaha, Lars!");

-- 
Ed Carp, N7EKG     erc@apple.com                801/538-0177
"This is the final task I will ever give you, and it  goes  on  forever.   Act
happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love,
and do what you will."           -- Dan Millman, "Way Of The Peaceful Warrior"
From: trussell@cwis.unomaha.edu (Tim Russell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: How to create a user and other questions!
Date: 1 Sep 92 21:14:27 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha

sundaram@cps.msu.edu (Divya Sundaram) writes:

>--- How do I create a user?

    Login as root and use adduser, or do it manually: put a line for the
user in /etc/passwd, an entry in /etc/group, create a home directory and
chown it to the user, create default shell profiles, etc.

>--- When I try to use emacs, it says that it cannot find some 'X' library.
>	Since my current Video card is NOT supported by Linux, I have not 
>	installed X yet. Is there a work around for this?

    The emacs provided has X11 support built in, so you'll have to install
X11 to get the X libraries in /lib.

>--- WHere can I find a port of Tcsh for Linux 0.96

    Somewhere on tsx-11.mit.edu.  Grab 'ls-lR' in /pub/linux and search
for tcsh, you'll find it.

>--- WHere do I get mtools - so I can read/writye MS-DOS Floppy disks.
>	Were these included in the SLS Dist.? If so where?

    Mtools is in /usr/local/bin, or you can just mount the floppy and
use it directly, with 'mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /dir' (or fd1).

--
    Tim Russell                 Omaha, NE              trussell@unomaha.edu
One of the richest men in the world made his billions selling a toy "operating
system" that is more accurately described as a glorified bootstrap loader.
                                                  -- Phil Karn
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: hpa@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin N9ITP)
Subject: Re: New 486 Suggestions?
Reply-To: hpa@nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin)
Organization: You must be kidding!
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 18:02:11 GMT

In article <pdhatchm.715057547@syzygy> of comp.os.linux,
  pdhatchm@socs.uts.edu.au (Io's Hatchet) writes:
>
> In my experience with Linux a faster CPU is a BIG advantage.
> 
> Someone preveously mentioned it taking a 486-33 12 minutes to do a
> "make clean ; make dep ; make".
> 
> My 486-50 does this in just over 4 mins.
> 

Timeout!  12x50/33 = 8!  Obviously, the fast CPU in your machine cannot be
the *only* reason why things are going faster for you.  Memory, cache size,
disk speed, _data_layout_on_disk_ also make a difference.  I haven't timed
my machine (a 486/33 with 8 Mb RAM and a 12 ms Fujitsu IDE HD), but my
estimate is about 6 min.

	/hpa
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From: duperval@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Duperval Laurent)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: What is the Caps Lock patch?
Date: 2 Sep 92 02:08:05 GMT
Organization: Universite de Montreal

Hi there,

I vaguely remember one of the posts on this group mentioning something about a
patch that changes the Caps Lock key into the Ctrl key and Vice versa.  Can
someone one there tell me how to do this please?

Thank you.

Have An Excruciatingly Pleasant Day! (tm)
-- 
Laurent Duperval
duperval@ere.umontreal.ca
duperval@jsp.umontreal.ca
"If you gotta go, you might as well go happy... or suprised"   -Me
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: hammond@kwhpc.caseng.com (Kevin W. Hammond)
Subject: SCSI drives
Reply-To: hammond@kwhpc.caseng.com (Kevin W. Hammond)
Organization: The Internet
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 01:38:18 GMT

Does anyone have a good (yet inexpensive) recommendation for a SCSI adapter,
hard drive and tape combination for Linux?  I would like to prepare my Linux
machine production level usage and am looking for mid to high range storage
and ease of backup.  I'm choosing SCSI for the ability add CD-ROM drives and
the such.

Any information is greatly appreciated!!

-kwh-
-- 
Kevin W. Hammond
hammond@kwhpc.caseng.com

  CASE Engineering * 575 W. Madison #1601 * Chicago, IL 60661 * (312)902-2161
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: c-amb@math.utah.edu (Mark B. Alston)
Subject: Compiling X-apps for 0.97p2 was Re: Can't compile xv-2.21, help!
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 02:31:16 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Department of Mathematics, University of Utah


	Thanks to everyone for their help.  The solution to compiling
X-apps for 0.97p2 is quite simple.  You must install the libs from
gcc2.2.2.  The only problem is that gcc2.2.2 is no longer available on
tsx-11, at least not in the GCC directory.  I got around this by
getting disk-7 from the SLS distribution, removing the redundant
files, and installing everything under /usr/lib/gcc-lib .. /2.2.2/ Now
you must add -V 2.2.2 to the cflags in every makefile.  Voila! It
works great.  xv-2.21 is incredible.

	Now I can compile any X-app on tsx-11 and run it under 0.97p2.
Linux continues to amaze me everyday!  The combined briliance of all
the programmers is staggering.  I look forward to the day in which I
am able to contribute as more than an alpha/beta tester.



--
--------------------------------------------------------
  Mark Alston        
  c-amb@math.utah.edu
       
       It is not just a riot of blots and blurs and 
      disjointed jottings linked by spurts of speed...
      it only looks as like it as damn it.
       
                          James Joyce, Finnegans Wake
---------------------------------------------------------
From: zlsiial@uts.mcc.ac.uk (A. V. Le Blanc)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Newbie GCC Problem -- PLEASE HELP!
Date: 3 Sep 92 14:14:19 GMT
Reply-To: LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk (A. V. Le Blanc)
Organization: Computing Centre, University of Manchester

In article <7hlnv=q.harp@netcom.com> harp@netcom.com (Gregory O. Harp) writes:
>
>I've just installed the MCC-Interim (0.97p2) distribution, and I 
>can't get gcc to create useable executables.
>
>The simplest "Hello, world" program won't work.  I get an executable
>file, but it isn't. %) The permissions are all set right, but I get a
>"command not found" message whenever I try to run it.

If you log in as root on a standard MCC-installed system, your path
(for security reasons) does not include your current directory.  Therefore,
if you compile a program named 'prog', you must run it by typing the command

     ./prog


If, on the other hand, you log in as 'user', you may simply type 'prog';
that is, assuming that your program doesn't duplicate the name of one of
the system commands.  By default the MCC-installed PATH for non-root
users searches the current directory last; this can cause some people to
have trouble with programs named 'test' and the like.

     -- Owen
     LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk
From: simonich@uservx.plk.af.mil
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: mount & head problems
Date: 23 Aug 92 21:19:24 GMT
Organization: Phillips Laboratory - Kirtland AFB

In article <675@svcs1.UUCP>, slix@svcs1.UUCP (Bill Miller) writes:
> Hi Linuxers,
> I've noticed two problems so far with the .97 pl1 root disk.
>  
> First, the mount -t msdos command doesn't seem to work.  I've tried to
> mount -t /dev/fd1H1440 /mnt as others have suggested (using fd1, or b: 
> drive which is a 1.44 3.5" drive) and I always get "mnt busy" errors.
>  
> Second, when I pipe to head I get a "Broken pipe" message.  I tried:
>  
>    ls -al | head -20
>  
>    it displayed the first 20 lines, and then gave the Broken pipe message.
> :w
> :q
Actually the mount -t msdos command works very well.  The correct
command is
        mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt
                ^^^^^^^
in my case.

I don't use the forces format dev's very often (autodetect always
gets it right).

I'm new to unix, but isn't the ls etc. pipe doing exactly what you
asked?  I.E. printing the first 20 lines of a file (head -20) where
file is (ls -al).  In other words the first lines of the directory? 
    xD
From: purtill@idacrd.UUCP (Mark Purtill)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Recommendations for a PC to support Linux and X386
Keywords: Linux, X386, munlin
Date: 26 Aug 92 20:40:09 GMT
Organization: idacrd, princeton, nj

shaun@scs.leeds.ac.uk (S Fletcher) writes:
>I am considering buying a 486DX 33Mhz machine specifically
>for running Linux and X386. Before I part with my money, I want to be
>certain that the machine I choose will be suitable. 
	On a related note, is anyone keeping track of which machines
Lunix/X386 is known to run on?

^.-.^ Mark Purtill, purtill@ccr-p.ida.org; uunet!idacrd!purtill. (609)497-0526.
((")) \@_: IDA/CCR-P, Thanet Road, Princeton NJ 08540;           (609)924-4600.
From: mvdfd1@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (donald.f.dodier)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: STACKER
Date: 1 Sep 92 18:08:45 GMT
Organization: AT&T

Is there a way to mount a DOS partition that is STACKER drive????????


		Don Dodier
		mvdfd1@mvgpk.att.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: hammond@kwhpc.caseng.com (Kevin W. Hammond)
Subject: ps for 0.97pl2
Reply-To: hammond@kwhpc.caseng.com (Kevin W. Hammond)
Organization: The Internet
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 06:59:40 GMT

I FTP'd ps-0.97 from tsx-11 and I cannot get it to compile under 0.97pl2.
The first error I received was that stddef.h did not exist in /usr/include.
I took the cheap way out and sym linked it to /usr/include/linux/stddef.h
I then got errors about some LIBRARY_n defines not defined.

Is there are working version of ps for 0.97pl2 out there some where or have
I botched the compile job with the version I downloaded??

-kwh-
-- 
Kevin W. Hammond
hammond@kwhpc.caseng.com

  CASE Engineering * 575 W. Madison #1601 * Chicago, IL 60661 * (312)902-2161
From: harp@netcom.com (Gregory O. Harp)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Newbie GCC Problem -- PLEASE HELP!
Date: 3 Sep 92 19:45:49 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

To all those potential responders:

The problem is solved.  It was one of stupidity on my part, probably
brought on from staying up most of the night working on installing
evrything.

Yes, of course, I didn't have the current directory in the path.
*bonk*

Now that I've _really_ embarrased myself [ ;) ] I'll get on with 
things here.  Thanks, Linus, for a wonderful system!

Greg
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