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From: chiu@wk211.nas.nasa.gov (Ing-Tsau Chiu)
Subject: Re: Extended partition is not recongnized when boot from HD
Organization: NAS, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 92 07:46:17 GMT

In article <1992Aug26.144800.6995@cmcl2.nyu.edu> wuwei@acf3.nyu.edu (Wei Wu) writes:
>
>My problem is this. When I boot Linux from floppy, everything is OK.
>In the boot up message, it stated that the primary and all the logical
>partitions are recongnized.
>
>However, if I boot the same image from hard disk, (shoelace installed)
>at boot up, it stated that the primary partitions are OK, the logical
>partition on IDE is recongnized, but for the SCSI disk, the primary
>partitions are recongnized , the logical partitions on the extended
>partitions are NOT recongnized, it gives error messages 'cann't read
>partition table on device 804' or something like that. Then I cann't 
>access the extended partition on SCSI disk.  
>Note that when I boot from floppy everything is fine, I CAN access 
>the extended partition on the SCSI disk just fine.

I had the same problem w/ extended partitions on SCSI disk not
recognized when booted from hard disk.  However, I found that if the
bootimage is built w/o stripping out the symbol table (by commenting
out the "strip ..." statement in the Makefile), the extended partition
on SCSI disk will be recognized when booting from a hard disk.  Note
that I did not have Linux in the extended partitions (only DOS and
OS/2) but the locations of the extended partitions were identified
after I rebuilt 0.97 boot image w/o stripping out the symbol table.

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Ing-Tsau Chiu                       chiu@nas.nasa.gov
From: davep@beav.UUCP (Dave Pifer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: ATI ULTRA AND X ARE HAPPY
Keywords: ATI X MOUSE
Date: 30 Aug 92 01:46:48 GMT
Organization: Volian Enterprises, Inc.


This post is simply to summarize my status with linux, X and my
ATI Ultra card. I have the "standard" (actually it is a Standard)
ATI configuration with the built in mouse port.  For a while, it
was a little rough getting all the pieces together but here's
what I now have ...

Running Linux .97 (pl2) with
Orst's current X (1.1) with
Martin's 8514 driver with
Rantanen's MS bus mouse patches

EVERYTHING FINALLY WORKS JUST FINE!

I guess now it's time to rev everything!! :-)

If I can supply additional information or help on any of these
particular items just drop me mail.  And, thanks to everyone
that dropped me pointers along the way.

-- 

Dave Pifer { davep@beav.pgh.pa.usa
             ...uunet!pitt!darth!beav!davep }
Organization: Administrative Systems, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 09:03:03 -0400 
From: "Brian E. Gallew" <geek+@CMU.EDU>
Subject: Re: SLS is awesome and getting larger
	<1992Aug27.014350.21903@muddcs.claremont.edu>

>Actually, Linux also supports several other SCSI controllers, the
>ST01/2 (Seagate) being among them, and those are s'posed to be dirt
>cheap.

As the proud owner of an ST01, my advice is:
Spend the extra bucks to get a real controller!

I tried to plug a Wang SCSI tape drive into it last night, but the
ST01 only talks to hard drives (and probably Seagate ones at that).
Also, the nicer cards give a lot better performance.

Don't get me wrong, the ST01 is completely function (for what it
does), but I think that in the long run you will be disappointed.


                                  -Brian

You drop the bomb -more-
It goes off... -more-
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From: lfoard@Turing.ORG (Lawrence C. Foard)
Subject: Re: Xenix filesystem available for Linux
Organization: The Turing Project, Charlottesville Virginia.
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 22:37:23 GMT

Neat with the Xenix system call emulation Linux can be used as a Xenix
replacement :-)

(I never heard back from any of the ALPHA testers :(  )

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From: talley@ashleigh.Kodak.COM (Brian K. Talley)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linux on a $999 laptop works
Date: 28 Aug 92 12:09:06 GMT
Followup-To: comp.os.linux
Organization: Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, NY

In article <l9rnafINNt14@appserv.Eng.Sun.COM> lm@sun.com (Larry McVoy) writes:
>
>For your information.  I took the Linux boot disk and root disk, I
>think they were .97, and booted it up on an ACER laptop over at Frys
>Electronics.  The laptop is $999, 1MB (can go to 5MB) and a 40MB disk
>(can't expand) and a VGA screen.  It looked OK.  It has to be the
>cheapest laptop Linux system around.  6 pounds or so.
>---
>Larry McVoy			(415) 336-7627			 lm@sun.com

For what it's worth, there's a place called Computer City around here (and
elsewhere, I expect) that sells Victor laptops for $999.  Essentially the
same as the one described above, except it has a 60MB hard disk.

--Brian
__________
Brian Talley, Systems Consultant, Eastman Kodak Research Labs, Rochester, NY
talley@acadia.kodak.com
From: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: help -- math functions not defined in GCC2.2.2
Date: 27 Aug 92 06:37:49 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki

harry@atlas.socsci.umn.edu (Kuo-Chen Chang) writes:
>gcc -m486 -lm -o uxqbp uxqbp91.c

The -lm _must_ be after all source and object files.  Otherwise the
linker doesn't understand that it needs to include anything from the
math library.

(This is probably a FAQ in some other group.)

--
Lars.Wirzenius@helsinki.fi
From: lfoard@Turing.ORG (Lawrence C. Foard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: GNU seeks volunteer to write Linux single-server for Mach 3.0
Keywords: Linux, GNU, FSF, Mach, single-server, volunteer
Date: 27 Aug 92 04:42:10 GMT
Organization: The Turing Project, Charlottesville Virginia.

In article <ROLAND.92Aug24194541@churchy.gnu.ai.mit.edu> linux-ss@gnu.ai.mit.edu writes:
>The GNU Project would like to find a volunteer to work on a
>single-server for the Mach 3.0 microkernel based on Linux.
>
>We want to use Mach, so straight Linux isn't what we are looking for.
>But Linux as a Unix emulator, running on top of Mach, could be just
>the thing to let us work on Mach development with nothing but free
>software.  We could also use it to release a complete free Mach-based
>system soon.

What advantage does Mach have over straight Linux? 
Is it worth loosing the simplicity and smallness of the Linux
kernel for it? The Mach systems I've seen have bigger kernel's than
Linux, and thats not counting the servers.
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From: simonich@uservx.plk.af.mil
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: LILO
Date: 25 Aug 92 20:23:48 GMT
Organization: Phillips Laboratory - Kirtland AFB

In article <1992Aug25.230353.1794@cis.ohio-state.edu>, zwerin@cis.ohio-state.edu (Andrew Zwerin) writes:
> Recently, I repartioned my HD and got the 0.97 boot and root images.
> I ran the install script and have the following partions:
> 
>   /dev/hda1	  # dos
>   /dev/hda2	  # linux root
>   /dev/hda3	  # linux usr
>   /dev/hda4	  # linux swap
> 
> I have read the README file in lilo.b.4.tar.Z and am confused.  As per
> the instructions, I did the following:
> 
> ./lilo -b /dev/fd0 -i boot.b -v -v -v /Image
> 
> If I reboot with the floppy, then the image on /dev/hda2 is loaded and
> /dev/hda2 is the root device.  That works.
> 
> I am confused about where to go from here.  I would like lilo to be my
> MBR and boot sector i.e. I want lilo to be the boot selector and boot
> sector for linux.  Basically replacing shoelace.
> 
> Can anyone tell me how to accomplish this?  It would be a great help
> if you could also explain the options I should be using?
> 
> 
> 
> thanks
> andy
I just did this today for my 2 partition drive.  I followed the README
(or maybe a FAQ) and used bootactv.bin from pfdisk as the MBR.  
I set all partitions to non-bootable and bootactv immediatly
asks which partition I want to boot from.  And it works.

PFDISK is on tsx-11.mit.edu (I think) in source for pfdisk bootactv
and binary form for the bootactv.bin (bootactv is bootactv.asm
i.e. masm is required to assemble it)

One caveat: if a user gets the infamous "hole" problem (you didn't or
you wouldn't be able to boot from floppy) a poster just announced 
a fix -- it works.
From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: VM86
Date: 31 Aug 92 14:28:57 GMT
Reply-To: davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corporate R&D Center, Schenectady NY

In article <1992Aug29.091200.16019@klaava.Helsinki.FI>, torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds) writes:

| SIGALRM_handler()
| {
| 	check the screen memory in the vm86 box, and update the real
| 	screen every now and then. Do any other regular house-keeping
| 	fn's.
| }

  This can get to be fun trying to balance the overhead of fast screen
updates with reasonable CPU usage. One technique used (by Locus) is to
do a CRC of the screen memory in blocks, and only copy what has changed.
At some point I would like to try mapping the screen memory directly (I
haven't looked at the vm86 stuff, can you even do that) or mapping
memory readonly. Then, when an attempt is made to write the memory you
remap r/w and start the timer tick for your update checking.

  Obviously a trap will generate overhead, but not having the timer tick
and checking the screen memory will save it. And if a check shows the
screen memory didn't change, the memory could be remapped r/o again.

  This looks like a nice place to try some algorithms and find a good
compromise between performance and impact. Then we can get it running
under X and have little DOS windows.

-- 
bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
    I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.
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From: c-amb@math.utah.edu (Mark B. Alston)
Subject: Re: Applying patches
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 00:52:08 GMT
Organization: Department of Mathematics, University of Utah

In article <1992Aug30.230611.25036@cis.ohio-state.edu> zwerin@tortoise.cis.ohio-state.edu (Andrew Zwerin) writes:


   I am having trouble patching the 0.97 kernel source code with the
   0.97.patch1

   The kernel source is in /usr/src/linux and the patch is in /usr/src.

   Can someone tell me exactly how to apply the patch?  By the way is
   there more then on version of patch?

Use 'patch -p0 < patch-name'


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  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.
       
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From: ara@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Allan Adler)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: tape drives
Date: 3 Sep 92 23:59:34 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: M.I.T. Artificial Intelligence Lab.


I posted a question about this a long time ago and never got an answer.
Maybe someone knows now.

Suppose that the hard drive is partitioned between LINUX and MSDOS, or that
there are 2 disk drives. Suppose that there is a tape drive that has only
been used with MSDOS. How does one also use it with LINUX ? To be specific,
let's say it is a Phantom BACTRAX 250 MB (really, 125MB) tape drive.

Allan Adler
ara@altdorf.ai.mit.edu
From: IO20585@MAINE.MAINE.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: olvwm questions
Date: 25 Aug 92 14:33:05 GMT
Organization: University of Maine System


Has anyone tried to use the internal olvwm commands DIRMENU or WINMENU?
When ever I had either of these as to my root menu olvwm and X dies
with the error:  "olvwm: Fatal Error:  Memory allocation failure."

Is "owplaces", which is called by SAVE_WORKSPACE internal command available
on Linux? Is "owplaces" and "olwmslave" part of XView? If so, I guess they
will be available when XView is ported to Linux.

So far, I think olvwm is a great wm. It helps out alot for people like me
that don't have 19" or 21" monitors.

Last question...  Would it somehow be possible to use olvwm's DIRMENU
to pass a command line file name option to vi, or some other program?
Thanks in advance to any who can help.
From: UD068690@NDSUVM1.BITNET (Mark Diers)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: tolken ring support?
Date: 26 Aug 92 20:28:48 GMT
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computer Network

Hello,
  Being very new to the *nix operating system, I am very impressed
  with the caliber of the linux system and it's level of support.
  I was able to install linux 0.96 and upgrade to 0.97 with very
  little trouble.

  I am currently accessing our mainframe from my dos partition
  thru a tolken ring card and was wondering if there exists any
  support for this card on linux. If so, I'd appreciate any help
  in locating such software.

thanks,
mark diers  (ud068690@ndsuvm1.bitnet)
technical support specialist, U of North Dakota
From: uhl@oracle (Walter Uhl)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Benchmarking under Linux (was Re: New 486 Suggestions?
Date: 1 Sep 92 13:50:19 GMT
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Ari Lemmke (arl@cs.hut.fi) wrote:
: 
: In article <1992Aug31.210041.21832@novell.com> bboerner@novell.com (Brendan B. Boerner) writes:
: :   I've got a 386/16Mhz w/a tad under 5MB of
: :   RAM and it takes me somewhere between 3-4hours to build the kernel.  On
: :   my girlfriend's machine, a 486/33 w/8MB RAM, it takes under 10
: :   minutes.  I'd like to get an idea of where I could improve
: :   performance.
: 
: 
: 	But .. having faster disk, >2 MB swap, more memory (~8MB)
: 	would make the kernel compile faster.
:
I did a bit of quick testing to determine the following;
my machine  386-DX-33 with 387 and 8 meg of ram plus 64k cach
sieve test under Linux 0.97pl1
time   8.x
user   4.x
system 0.x

this time was taken while building the kernel.  With the system idle
the only thing that changed was the time.  Dropped to match user.  What
does it mean?  4 seconds to run sieve without having to access the 
disk drive,  so I think that time shows processor & OS speed.  Hope that
this helps a little.

Walter Paul Uhl
uhl@solaria.hac.com
From: ujlh@pool.info.sunyit.edu (James Henrickson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: getting "bogus do_no_page"; strange vi behavior
Date: 2 Sep 92 05:10:30 GMT
Article-I.D.: pool.1992Sep2.051030.24587
Organization: State University of New York -- Institute of Technology

In article <1992Aug31.145123.20915@novell.com> bboerner@novdpd.uucp (Brendan B. Boerner) writes:
>
>Also, after upgrading to 0.97, I noticed that vi has been acting
>funny.  While inserting into a line, it starts adding spaces.  Using ^L
>will redraw the screen and show that the spaces really don't exist.
>

My copy of elvis has been doing this since I started using it with Linux
0.96.  I thought it was a sloppy compile but I see I'm not the only one.

I have a more serious problem.  I keep losing my scrolling on the 25th
line!  This would happen to me occassionally with earlier versions of
Linux, but I'm getting it much more frequently now with 0.97 patch2.
I'm not sure when it started, but it is getting quite annoying now.
Does anyone know if there is a command to reset a VC after it stops
scrolling on the 25th line?  

-- 
Jim H.
*
* James L. Henrickson
* ujlh@sunyit.edu        "Some day I might have a real .signature!"
From: kermits@pasifae.cc.uch.gr (Aggelos Keromyths)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: 0.97p2
Date: 28 Aug 92 12:38:17 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department, University of Crete HELLAS
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3

I just tried 0.97p2 from the disk drive and it seemed to me a lot
 slower than 0.97 (no patch at all!!!)....When i did an `ls` it
 started reading the drive,then stopped,then again reading and finally
 presented the directory...but it was SLOW....
What could be the problem ?
Aggelos
From: shamus@eskimo.celestial.com (Jay Mottern)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: How do you install programs?
Keywords: Linux, newbie, FAQ?
Date: 30 Aug 92 03:10:10 GMT
Organization: -> ESKIMO NORTH (206) For-Ever <-


Greetings, all.
I've gotten Linux 0.97l1 installed on my hard drive, and it seems to
work OK. Now my problem is, what do I do with it? :)

I'd like to install the manual, Elvis and a comm program (minicom) but
can't get them onto my Linux partition (hda2, root and user, 30 MB).
The files are currently on my DOS partition. I've tried rawriting the
files to floppies and using dd, and tried mounting the DOS partition
and copying them directly, but nothing works.

I've read the latest Linux FAQ but didn't see anything to help me. What
I need, I guess, is step-by-step instructions of the "type-this-then-
hit-enter" variety. Perhaps the Maintainer Of The FAQ could add
something along these lines, so newbies can start using Linux right
away.
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     shamus@eskimo.celestial.com          (Jay Mottern)

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From: weberj@dia.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de (Weber)
Subject: Re: Stacker like file system
Summary: A way to do it ? 
Organization: Informatik, Uni Stuttgart, W.Germany
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 12:46:12 GMT

I think there is a way to implement a stacker like file
system without having to change much of the kernel.

Hook the low-level routines for reading/writing one block
from/to disk and insert a compression algorithm between.

 natural-size  -----> compression ----> compressed block
               <----- decompression <--

For (de)compression use the LZW algorithm with variable size
(look at the sources of compress to learn how to do it). If 
you use block sizes of 4K it should be easier as in compress
as you don't have to recycle codes (every block is done inde-
pendently so a code table of 4K is always enough for a block of 4K).

I think the main problem in doing this is that the compressed
blocks have a "random" size <= 4K and you encounter the same
problems as with memory management. To write you have to look
for a fitting free space on the free list by doing some of the
XXX-fit strategies. If there is not enough free space at one
continuous location you even may have to do a kind of garbage 
collection.
Initially each block has a "not yet written" flag. On second 
write the old location is added to the free list again (and 
merged with neighboring free blocks if possible).
Blocks that can't be compressed should be written unchanged.
Reading should be easy. Just look up its position in a Block
Allocation Table (an array of pointers to compressed blocks).

But what should df tell? I think the double of the physical
amount. But there may be problems with blocks that can be 
compressed not or only little (e.g. *.Z). I think superstore
signals a write protect error if the superstore partition is
full ? 
-- 

Juergen G. Weber
Student am Institut fuer Informatik
Universitaet Stuttgart - Germany
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: cummings@tiger1.prime.com (Kevin J. Cummings)
Subject: Re: How to run a second modem on COM3, IRQ5
Organization: Prime Computer, Inc.
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 17:26:17 GMT

In article <u31b3hs.715505811@cip-s02>, u31b3hs@cip-s02.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Michael Haardt) writes:
> bjones@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (William A Jones) writes:
> >I just obatined a Gateway Telepath modem from a coworker who decided that he
> >didn't want it anymore.  So, now I have two high speed modems.  But, after
> >reading the documentation, I discovered that the Telepath can be configured
> >to use any of the 4 COM ports as IRQ5.  So, what I was hoping to do is
> >keep my current installation (Microsoft Mouse on COM1, IRQ4; modem on
> >COM2, IRQ3) and run the Gateway on COM3 (or COM4) using IRQ5.  Is this
> >possible?  If so, what changes (I'm sure there are some) would I need to
> >make to the kernel?  What else would I have to do to get this to happen?
> 
> I use a usual serial card aat COM3 with IRQ 5 without any problems.  I
> changed only the interrupt number in the table, somwhere in the kernel
> sources (serial.c?)  Anyway, that is all you need to do.
> 
> It might be a nice idea to see which device uses which port addresses
> and IRQs during boot, having kind of a unique format like:
> 
> ttys? at 0x??? using irq ?
> 
> Btw: I can't find any more free interrupts in the range from 0 to 7,
> are there any?  Using interrupts from the second irq controller would
> mean that I have to solder something :(

And solder it to something in the 16-bit bus connector to boot!  Anyone got
a CHEAP "16-bit" IO card (I'm talking < US$50 for two serial ports!)?  I got
a single port similar to what I want with my Mouse Systems "bus mouse"
interface card.  It's a single serial port configurable as COM1-COM4 (or two 
other non-standard serial port addresses) and IRQs 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 11, 12, 13,
or 15.  It requires a 16 bit slot in order to use IRQs above 7.  It should
also do 16 bit IO address decode (not 12 bit like the 8-bit XT cards do).

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