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From: stud11@cc4.kuleuven.ac.be (Lode Vande Sande)
Distribution: world
Date: Thursday, 19 Nov 1992 14:14:14 +01
Organization: K.U.Leuven - Academic Computing Center
Subject: Re: Bernoulli Drives with linux?


> I have gotten a Bernoulli 90 to work on my linuxbox, hanging off my
> aha1542b (I don't use it now, I just leant the box to check if it
> would work). Should work with any SCSI adapter, and with the new scsi
> drivers it might even handle disk changes...

Ok I have an old SLS about 0.96 etc ... I tried it on my Syquest 88Mb / 1542B
Adaptec ... Ok booting up and trying FDISK ... but he tells me he "Can't
access partition table"...

Hmmm ? ... I tried FDISK.EXE from MSDOS ... he goes like if nothing is wrong.

Help ?
From: wpwood@blair.austin.ibm.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Loading Linux
Date: 16 Nov 92 18:41:39 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: /home/wpwood/.organization
Mailto: billw@aixwiz.austin.ibm.com


I recently downloaded the boot and root images from tsx-11, rawrote them
onto high-density floppies and tried to boot Linux on my PC.  The PC
boots, I get a 'Loading...' message, and then the screen goes blank.  If
I wait till the disk stops rotating and hit <enter>, the drive will 
start moving again, as if there was a prompt on the screen, but the 
graphics card is not displaying anything.
	The system I am using is a 386DX-40 from Quantex Microsystems.
The CPU is the AMD 40MHz 386DX chip.  The only non-standard pience of
hardware I have is that the SVGA card is based on the NCR 77C22 (think
that's right) chip.
	So, does anyone else have a graphics card based on this chip, or
does anyone have suggestions about what I may be doing wrong?  The NCR
card is usable as a vga card with no special drivers under MS-DOS, but I
still have to suspect the card as being the problem.
	Also, I don't suppose that anyone is working on a driver for X
for that card are they?  I'm finding that I should probably have paid 
extra to get one of the other cards Quantex offered instead of just get-
ting the 'default' one.
	Anyway, any help would be greatly appreciated.
--
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Bill Woodward         |   Erekose the Champion, Defender of Humanity,
AIX Development       |   Greatest of Warriors, lay wretched and sniveling
512-838-4107          |   in his bed and felt very sorry for himself indeed.
billw@aixwiz.austin.ibm.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: ianj@citrus.SAC.CA.US ( Ian Justman )
Subject: Re: Floppy Drives
Organization: Citrus Grove Public Access ( 916 ) 381-5822    Sacramento CA.  USA
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 19:40:21 GMT
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

cs911169@ariel.yorku.ca (Douglas W. F. Acheson) writes:
: HI,

Hi.

: I have just installed linux on my PC and am having a hard time to do
: the following:
: 
: mounting the floppy drives (so I can read write to them)
: using mtools with the floppy drives

First of all, you do not use mtools to mount a disk; you use mount(1) to
mount a disk.  If you're mounting a Minix-filesystem type disk, you use:

mount /dev/fd[0|1] /mount_pnt/path

where /mount_pnt/path is your desired mounting point.

If it's a DOS diskette, you issue the command like this:

mount -t msdos /dev/fd[0|1] /mount_pnt/path

and that's all there is to it.  Not only does that apply to mounting DOS
diskettes, you can mount MS-DOS partitions in this manner.

As for mtools, all it's used for is to do DOS housekeeping under Linux,
including copying, deleting files, formatting disks, making directories,
removing directories, and more.
-- 
Born to void warranties!	ianj@ijpc.UUCP
From: stern@amath.washington.edu (L.G. "Ted" Stern)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Just when I thought I was catching up ...
Keywords: 0.98pl5, SLS
Date: 18 Nov 92 21:17:36 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Nov18.211736.27595
Organization: University of Washington, Applied Mathematics, Seattle

Regarding my LILO question... just saw that someone answered it for
me (Caps lock while booting)
...Funny, I didn't catch that in the README the first time!

But now I have another question... I have installed LILO into the MBR on
/dev/hda, so the DOS booting is superceded.  I.E., when I boot, I see

LILO booting DOS

or

LILO booting Linux

If I try reinstalling Linux from scratch, will I lose LILO and the 
ability to boot, period?
-- 
 ==========================================================================
  L.G. 'Ted' Stern    ---       Mostly a Grad Student Peon . . .
  stern@amath.washington.edu
  lstern@orville.nas.nasa.gov
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: poe@daimi.aau.dk (Peter Orbaek)
Subject: Re: etc/utmp file not updated.
Organization: DAIMI: Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 09:55:19 GMT

runefr@ifi.uio.no (Rune Fr|ysa) writes:


>Hi, I have a minor problem, using the SLS 0.98pl1 package with Linux 0.98pl5.

>Running w on my system i get something like:
>User   tty    idle
>root    some data
>sync   ttyp1  2days

>Now, sync wasn't supposed to be there. ps -axu doesn't show anyone but root.
>Looking into the wtmp file, I see that sync was logged in at some time, and
>then crash.

>Seems like someone hasn't cleaned up the utmp file propperly. Anyone who knows
>how to solve this problem?


Put this in your /etc/rc script:

	rm -f /etc/utmp ; touch /etc/utmp

this way it'll be cleaned up each time you boot.

>---------===============================================--------------
>Rune Froysa,                 |"Science is the attempt to make the 
>Dept. of Informatics         | chaotic diversity of our sense experience
>University of Oslo, Norway   | correspond to a logically uniform system 
>E-mail:runefr@ifi.uio.no     | of thought" - Albert Einstein.



-- 
Peter Orbaek <poe@daimi.aau.dk>
Hasle Ringvej 122, DK-8200 Aarhus N, DENMARK
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: bmyers@shyguy.lonestar.org (bob myers)
Subject: Help!  newbie questions on SLS!
Organization: 3-B Technology
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1992 21:04:43 GMT


I've just pulled off of the tsx-11 system (four days ago) the SLS distribution
files.  I got a few questions concerning both the disks themselves, along
with general install stuff...

first the hardware I'm trying to install to:

Tandy 4800HD laptop (486sx) with:
      4 mb ram
      LCD VGA display/external 800x600x16 support
      1.44 mb floppy
      have a Thumbolina mouse, along with VIVA 2400/9600 Fax pocket modem

now the questions:

1) I've noticed when I went to copy the files to 3-1/2" distribution, that
   there are some .Z files (ex. - file.ext.Z), which don't map cleanly over
   to a normal dos name.  Am I just supposed to uncompress these before making
   the 3-1/2" distribution? 

2) when loading up two of the xwindow distribution disks, i saw the following
   errors:

   x1 -  installing xbina...:file exists
         tar : could not create symlink to /usr/X386/bindone

   x4 -  installing x75dpi...floppy: Over/Underrun - retrying

   Are these two disks bad?  should I make two new copies?

3) How much room is needed to load up the system with X11 and the i1/i2 disks,
   along with the t1/t2/t3/t4/t5 disks?  obviously 50 mb in one partition 
   won't cut it...

4) on the install of the i-series and t-series disks, I got a 
   magic match failed message popping up on the screen, before asking
   if I wanted to install a file.  is this a warning or error that has
   some meaning?

5) I've also noticed on doing the additional software install, that if
   a screw-up occurs on answering the questions, the floppy drive becomes
   inactive (i have to reboot to re-activate it).  any comments?

6) I've also noticed some strange stuff when running either 'halt' or 
   shutdown commands; graphics show up with shutdown and some weird
   stuff happens with the text with halt.

Overall, can anyone tell me what all the changes are from this distribution
to the latest is that are "for the better"?

-bob

-- 
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Bob Myers                        | Soooo many fields.....
2479 Deer Run #1305              |
Lewisville, Tx.  75067           |    Not enough waves....
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: hlu@eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu)
Subject: Re: 0.98pl5 kills tcsh-6.02:  Where can I find the tcsh source?
Organization: School of EECS, Washington State University
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 19:05:20 GMT

In article <1ehbo8INN9kp@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, sdh@po.CWRU.Edu (Scott D. Heavner) writes:
|> 
|> 	I jumped from pl3 to pl5 and now I can't get tcsh-6.02 to
|> work.  At first I thought it was a big problem with pl5 because I
|> couldn't log in as anyone.  Then I dropped back to pl3 and changed all
|> my login shells from tcsh to bash and pl5 at least lets me in.
|> 
|> 	Now, where can I find sources for tcsh-6.02?  I went and
|> downloaded what I thought was the source, but it turned out to be a
|> binary and a diff file.
|> 
|> 	tcsh doesn't  give me the recompile error that Linus warned of;
|> however, my copy of kermit and man do (but kermit hasn't worked
|> since pl1 -- anyone know where I can find these sources too).
|> 
|> 					Scott
|> 					sdh@po.cwru.edu 
|> 

That is caused by sigaction (sig, NULL, old). It has been fixed in
libc 4.2. However, since it uses gcc 2.3.2 and libg++ 2.3, both of which
are still in alpha, I cannot release them to public. You have a few choices

1. Join GCC channel and use alpha versions. They usually fixed old bugs but
   may have new ones. So far I haven't heard any.

2. Here is the new sigaction (), compile it yourself and make your own
   shared image.

3. Don't use tcsh.

H.J.
---
#include <syscall.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <errno.h>

/* There may be wrong. Do nm libc.a to see what we get there. */
extern void ____sig_restore();
extern void ____masksig_restore();

int
sigaction(int sig,struct sigaction * new, struct sigaction * old)
{
	if (new) {
		if (new->sa_flags & SA_NOMASK)
			new->sa_restorer=____sig_restore;
		else
			new->sa_restorer=____masksig_restore;
	}

	__asm__("int $0x80":"=a" (sig)
		:"0" (__NR_sigaction),"b" (sig),"c" (new),"d" (old));
	if (sig>=0)
		return 0;
	errno = -sig;
	return -1;
}
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller, Linux Device Registrar)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Applications for Linux
Date: 22 Nov 1992 04:27:34 GMT
Organization: Just me.
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.2.33
Summary: There *are*... I just haven't gotten them to work for *me* yet.

ah017@yfn.ysu.edu (John B. Lee) writes:
>
>Are there any applications for Linux (i.e. spreadsheets, wordprocessors, etc.)?

Yes.

As far as spreadsheets go, you've got GNU's "oleo", SuperCalc ("sc"), or
"xspread" (for X-Windows).  For word processors, things get sticky...

There are a number of types of applications which net.geeks^H^H^H^H^Hpeople
tend to *call* "word processors":

1.) Full-screen line-editors (like "vi").
2.) Text processors
    A.) text-to-text ("nroff", "groff", "cawf", "awf", ...)
    B.) text-to-typeset ("troff", "TeX", "LaTeX", "groff"?)
3.) Emacs, which is it's own sort of creature.
    (There are many thick books which try to explain what emacs is.)

None of these is what Joe D. User (the "D." is for "DOS") is looking for
when he says "word processor".  He's looking for WordStar, WordPerfect,
PCWrite, etc.  The only application which I've found to fit this bill is
JOE (currently out as release 1.0.5) which compiles out-of-the-box under
Linux (though you may have to update your /etc/termcap if it's lame).

Rick Miller   <rick@ee.uwm.edu> | <rick@discus.mil.wi.us>   Ricxjo Muelisto
Occupation:  Husband, Father, WEPCo. WAN Mgr., Discus Sys0p, and  Linux fan
Organization: Administrative Computing & Info Services, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 10:04:05 -0500 
From: "Brian E. Gallew" <geek+@CMU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Telnetd

I, too, can no longer telnet to my linux box.  I presume this is
related to the kernel changes?

Will it be possible to get sources to the telnetd/telnet and ftpd/ftp
so we can compile jumptable version?

                                  -Brian

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From: Ron.Howard@f1.n2250.z1.fidonet.org (Ron Howard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Printing on a deskjet ??
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 04:56:00 -0800

HELP!
        I have an HP Deskjet 500C printer and a problem. When ever I 
print from linux all I get is linefeeds no CR. On my printer this prints

one line and then all the rest is off the page.
        Can someone tell me how to get linux to add CR to its lines?

Thanks   Pete


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(1:2250/1.0)

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jting@cantor.math (                        )
Subject: Linux and Stacker
Originator: jting@cantor.math.uwaterloo.ca
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 12:43:52 GMT

Hi All:

There are two dos partitions on my hard drive; drive d is "stacked" by
Stacker, and Stacker had created a drive E.   I am just wondering
if there is a way to install Linux on my machine without reformmating
drive d since there are quite a bit of valuable data on it- I know
someone who can sell me a second ide drive, but I don't know if Linux
will be able to boot from this "drive f" given my current configuration.

Any help is appreciated.  Please email to jting@cayley.uwaterloo.ca.

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: lmfken@lmf.ericsson.se (Kenneth Osterberg)
Subject: Re: XView Problem
Keywords: SLS, compilations, XView programming
Organization: Oy LM Ericsson Ab, Jorvas, Finland
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 06:10:53 GMT

wjin@cs.uh.edu (W. Woody Jin) writes:

>I am a novice in XView programming (just started to read
>O'Reilly's XView programming Book).
>And I have a problem in compiling the first example in the book,

>which is quit.c.

>When compiling it, I get the following error messages :
>cc quit.c -lxview -lolgx -lX11
[misc. compiler warnings deleted]
>/usr/lib/libxview.a(ndet_loop.o): Undefined symbol _svc_fdset referenced from te
>xt segment
>/usr/lib/libxview.a(ndet_loop.o): Undefined symbol _svc_fdset referenced from te xt segment 
>/usr/lib/libxview.a(ndet_loop.o): Undefined symbol _svc_getreqset referenced fro m text segment

>The XView book is the most recent one (which describes ver 3.0), so it 
>should work with the current xview port to Linux.
>BTW, I am using  most recent version of SLS package.

You need the RPC-library by Rick Sladkey, available at least on tsx-11 in
/pub/linux/ALPHA/NFS/sunrpc-bin-4.0.tar.Z. Install it, then add -lrpclib
to your list of libraries when compiling. Another alternative is to use
the dummyrpc.c file included in the xview3 package. Please read the README
in xview3.tar.Z for further instructions.

--
"Remember, the source will be with you... always" | lmfken@lmf.ericsson.se 
          -  Obi-wan teaching GNU CopyLeft        | lmfken@bluese1.ericsson.fi
From: c60c-2gf@web-2f.berkeley.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: tentative release dates?
Date: 19 Nov 92 21:08:44 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley


I was just curious how long it would probably be until the release of
version .99 of the kernel.  I read somewhere that it could be 2 weeks.
Is this true?  I would like to stay current with the various Linux
patches, but if a new version is coming out soon, I could wait.  Thanks
for any hints on the matter.

-David Simpson
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: waardenb@cs.utwente.nl (Jerry van Waardenberg)
Subject: Re: LILO or Shoelace?
Organization: University of Twente, Dept. of Computer Science
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 08:17:58 GMT

In article <1992Nov17.174246.91615@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>, jrc1@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (John Colton) writes:
|> I just installed Linux .98
|> Should I use LILO or Shoelace??
|> Will LILO give me a choice of partitions (DOS/LINUX) when I start my
|> machine?

LILO is the successor of Shoelace, so you should use LILO. 

If you already have an active DOS partition, you can also use the
BOOTLIN.COM/BOOT.SYS combo. It has the advantage that the boot-sector does not
have to be changed. BOOT.SYS lets you choose between different CONFIG.SYS startup
files, BOOTLIN.COM boots Linux from a DOS Image file. It works great!

Jerry

*--------------------------------------------------------------------------------*
Jerry van Waardenberg                                ______ ____  _____   _____
Tele Informatics and Open Systems                      /     /   /    /  /_
Department of Computer Science                        /     /   /    /     -_ 
University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands      /   __/_  /____/  _____/
E-mail: waardenb@cs.utwente.nl                  


Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: hooft@fys.ruu.nl (Rob Hooft)
Subject: An update of the timesrc.tar.Z package
Summary: Who maintains timesrc.tar.Z
Keywords: time clock timesrc
Organization: Physics Department, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 10:58:01 GMT

Hello,

Is anybody maintaining or updating the timesrc.tar.Z package? I have tried
to contact the author of the package by E-mail, but I didn't get a reply
yet.

I have made an update of the clock.c program such that it is able to
correct for systematic slippage of the system clock (9.88 seconds per
day for my machine), and would like to see it incorporated in the
package.

-- 
Rob W.W. Hooft,  Department of crystal and structural chemistry
Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research, University of Utrecht
The Netherlands ===== hooft@chem.ruu.nl (hooft@hutruu54.bitnet)
From: mrd@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Mark Dobie)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: OK, I give in, how *does* an X console work?
Date: 19 Nov 92 11:36:41 GMT


Now that I got my TCP/IP working I have lots of console messages to
look at, but xterm -C doesn't seem to do the business.

I have checked all my devices (tty's ptty's etc) with the list in the
FAQ and it all seems to be in order. /dev/console is a hard link to
/dev/tty0 which has the major and minor numbers 4 and 0, thus,

crw-rw-rw-   2 root     root       4,   0 Nov 19 11:00 /dev/console

All the output to /dev/console appears on the virtual console, so I
get to see it when I leave X. This is all running as an ordinary user.

I read somewhere that the ownership of the console needs to be the
same as the user writing to it. If I 'su' and manually change it,
everything is hunkydory, but if I have it in a setuid shell script
(owned by root) then I get...

'chown: /dev/console: Operation not permitted'

when I run it as an ordinary user.

I know I'm nearly there. Can anyone give me that last little clue?

Thanks,				Mark.


-- 
Mark Dobie                              M.R.Dobie@uk.ac.soton.ecs (JANET)
University of Southampton		M.R.Dobie@ecs.soton.ac.uk (The World)
From: tdunbar@vttcf.cc.vt.edu (Thomas Dunbar)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: ANNOUNCE: dvi2pcl (with PaintJet XL support) uploaded
Date: 23 Nov 92 22:23:53 GMT
Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA

i've uploaded dvi2pcl binary to tsx-11.mit.edu
 /pub/linux/packages/TeX/dvi2pcl-bin.tz

it includes support for the HP PaintJet XL.

since the pj is supported, it may also work with a deskjet..someone please
try it with a deskjet:
 dvi2pcl -3 -o/dev/prn tst    or maybe
 dvi2pcl -3 -f0 -o/dev/prn tst  
 
source code avail at hybrid.irfu.se /pub
author: Bo Thid\'e (bt@irfu.se)
  

  thomas (tdunbar@vttcf.cc.vt.edu)


ps: looks for fonts in /usr/TeX/lib/tex/fonts just as the rest of 
    the stuff in my TeX package.
From: root@slave.uwe.ac.uk (Operator (Phil/Dylan))
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: FAQ: ps patch for 0.98.4?
Date: 16 Nov 92 01:58:22 GMT
Reply-To: p_copela@csd.uwe.ac.uk
Organization: The New University in the West of England, Bristol (WEB)

In article <2B0431C5.575D@tct.com>, chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
|> I know that looking for "ps" patches is the world's favorite Linux
|> game... so I'm joining in!

it's due for release as an MB game. 8-)

|> See, I'm about to apply 0.98 patch 4, but I don't want to proceed
|> until I can patch my ps so it will work...

thats a reasonably shrewd move

|> Will whoever has the ps patch (1) mail or (2) post it?  It can't be
|> that big, and posting it will help everyone come up to speed.

from my fuzzy memories, I believe that you can find it on
nic.funet.fi:/pub/OS/Linux/PEOPLE/Linus

Phil
=--=
From: probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Limiting Core dumps
Date: 19 Nov 1992 22:38:21 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

glenw@remus.rutgers.edu (Glenn Wasserman) writes:

>Does anyone know how to limit or eliminate core dump sizes? 
>I know with the C shell at school there's a variable:

>	set limitcoredumpsize=0

>I would like to do the same for my system. I believe that when the drive fills
>up, (Usually during a really nasty core dump - ~ 2meg or more) the system
>halts and dies. I figure if I can keep these core dumps from happening, then
>maybe the system won't crash entirely.

>-Glenn

Under bash there is a useful feature known as help. It will do pattern
matching if you don't know the exact command you are looking for.
Here is the output from help *limit*


Shell commands matching keyword `*limit*'

ulimit: ulimit [-SHacdmstfpn [limit]]
    Ulimit provides control over the resources available to processes
    started by the shell, on systems that allow such control.  If an
    option is given, it is interpreted as follows:
    
        -S	use the `soft' resource limit
        -H	use the `hard' resource limit
        -a	all current limits are reported
        -c	the maximum size of core files created
        -d	the maximum size of a process's data segment
        -m	the maximum resident set size
        -s	the maximum stack size
        -t	the maximum amount of cpu time in seconds
        -f	the maximum size of files created by the shell
        -p	the pipe buffer size
        -n	the maximum number of open file descriptors
    
    If LIMIT is given, it is the new value of the specified resource.
    Otherwise, the current value of the specified resource is printed.
    If no option is given, then -f is assumed.  Values are in 1k
    increments, except for -t, which is in seconds, and -p, which is in
    increments of 512 bytes.

So to set your limit on coredumping to zero you would just do a

ulimit -c 0;

Hope this helps

James

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: mdgauthi@mothra.syr.EDU (Mad Dog)
Subject: Need X advice
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 92 17:13:15 EST

Can anymone tell me if there is a source distrabution of X windows available
for linux.  I would really like to fool around with X.  (and try to add 
some graphics to my plain Linux set up :)

Also, will X run on my current setup which is:

40M linux exfs
4M ram with 5M swap partition
486sx/20 with oak vga

I realize that this isn't a real speedy computer by today's standards but 
I can be flexible with disk space.  (that DOS partition keeps getting smaller
every day:)  However, more ram is probably out of the question for a little
while.

-Matt Gauthier
mdgauthi@mailbox.syr.edu