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From: ccasted@prism.gatech.EDU (Edward Deering Boykin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: sls install questions
Date: 17 Dec 92 21:27:23 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

I have to questions. First some beginings
I have the Gateway 2000 66mhz/486dx2 with 325 meg ide hdd and 8meg ram.
15" crystal scan monitor and telepath modem

I downloaded the a,b,c and x sls disks today and put them on floppies.
I had allready installed the base linux system(disks a only) and
everything was working. I went to install the remainder using sysinstall and
the menu system but I was unable to get linux to use my b drive instead of my
a: drive. Drive b is 31/2" a is 51/4 ". Due to this
I repartitioned my hard drive and went the long way around to completely
reinsall linux. I did the doinstall /dev/hda3 and it prompted my for
my disks.
the installation od the A disks went fine when it said to insert disk b1
I did and hit return. This is the error message I got:
<file name> ...tar: Unexpected EOF on archive file
tar: child died with signal 11(core dumped)
it said the same thing for all files on b1 then said
unmount /dev/fd1h1440 Device busy or missing

I am confused> icannot find any reason for this.
I downloaded disks a1-a4 to my pc directly from my school unix account but
I used mtools on a sun sparc to copy b,c,and x to floppies. Could this be the
trouble? Do I need to transfer to my pc then to my floppies? Oh. I also
formatted those b,c and x flopies usinf fdformat on a sun.,.
 
How can I install from b: drive after I have just installed minimal system
and switched to the menus by booting from floppy and using ard drive?

Please help

Ed Boykin
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From: redlel@barh109.its.rpi.edu (Lorenz Wolfgang Redlefsen)
Subject: Hints on Xconfig Video Modes
Reply-To: redlel@rpi.edu
Organization: Rensseltute Polylaer Institechnic
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 02:45:13 GMT


	It seems that a lot of people are having trouble getting the right modes
for their video cards in their Xconfigs. (I had these problems, too.) Not a day
without "Please tell me what to put in the Xconfig for [Trident8900/ET4000/ATI/blah]
card with blah blah..." I was frustrated in the beginning, too, when I couldn't
get X to work, then only with 640x480.

	Then I saw the light at the end of the tunnel!

	There is a spreadsheet called sc that comes with the SLS distribution.
(I think it's /usr/bin/sc, but correct me if I'm wrong.) Anyway, in the same 
directory as your Xconfig, there are two files called modegen1.sc and modegen2.sc.
These are pre-done spreadsheets to generate all those timing delays for the mode
entries. You run it by doing "sc modegen[12].sc". Plug in the appropriate values
for your clock speed, horizontal frequency, and refresh (Frames/sec.). These 
should be in the docs for your video card and monitor. Make sure not to exceed
maximum or minimum values. 

	There is also a readme in that same dir (is it /usr/X386/lib/X11 ?). You
should be able to extract some more info from this. Maybe this advice should be
included in the FAQ on X, as few people seem to be aware of this excellent way 
to get some really funky video modes (1040x700 is as far as I can push my hardware,
although the flicker tends to make my brain drain out of my eyes after about half
an hour...

	With a little playing, you too can become an expert at calculating
video modes for your particular hardware (because I doubt my Xconfig would
be of much use to you even if I posted it here...). 

	Well, hope that helped a bit.

	Lorenz Redlefsen
	(redlel@rpi.edu)

P.S. OOOPS! I just noticed that the window xrn is running in is about 
200 columns wide, so this post is going to look *really* nasty! Sorry! :-)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jlnance@eos.ncsu.edu (JAMES LEWIS NANCE)
Subject: Re: How do I provide the floppys to normal users????
Originator: jlnance@volt.ece.ncsu.edu
Reply-To: jlnance@eos.ncsu.edu (JAMES LEWIS NANCE)
Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 12:40:21 GMT


In article <andrewc.724369870@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au>, andrewc@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !) writes:
> 
> S_ESPENLAUB@rzmain.rz.uni-ulm.de (Klaus Espenlaub) writes:
> 
> >Is there any possibility to give normal users the right to mount
> >floppy drives???? I've been trying it with different success (it works only
> >when floppys already in at boot time........)
> 
> 
> So, take your chances if you like, but I don't recommend it...
> i guess you could make a setuid root script that checked what tty they're on
> and what they're mounting, so they can only mount floppies and only when
> they're at the console...
> 

It is possible for normal users to mount floppies under ultrix.  Setuid/setgid
bits are ignored, and users are not permitted to access device files on the
floppy.  I dont see any security problem with this.  Is there one?  It is a 
nice feature.  The only problem is that if a user mounts a file system, the
mount point becomes owned by root, so the user can not write to it, but there
is another program which mounts the floppy and changes the ownership of the 
mount point back to the user.

my 2 cents

Jim Nance
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: tym@dibbler.cs.monash.edu.au (Tim MacKenzie)
Subject: Re: [Q] Bug in select(2)?
Organization: Computer Science, Monash University, Australia
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 14:48:31 GMT

The Wyvern (wyvern@gnu.ai.mit.edu) wrote:
>I've also been noticing some strange behavior which seems to be also due to
>select(2), although it doesn't seem to be of the same type as mentioned
>above. I'm running a client/server program that uses sockets of type AF_INET.
>Up until 0.99 I wasn't having problems but now clients and servers are getting
>stuck. They just hang. ps -l shows the WCHAN for the hung processes as
>tcp_read
>when normally it shows do_select when they're working correctly. The programs

The way in which the tcp code does select has been changed recently.... I would
recommend getting the latest tcp and testing your code with that. The current
version (which is working well for me at the moment, except for asyncronous
connect's which can be fixed with a simple patch) is 0.99pl0 p5. This is
available in tsx-11.mit.edu:pub/linux/packages/tcpip/tcp99pl0-p5.Z

This patch is for 0.99 plain. You do not need 0.99pl0 patches 1-4.
I've tacked on Ross's tcp99pl0-p5.README
--
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--- BEGIN included text tcp99pl0-p5.README
Since some people had problems with patch4, this patch is off of the
stock .99 sources.  DO NOT apply patches 1-4 first.  I won't be able
to work on this for quite a while, so this is the last patch.  In the
interim I suggest those of you who find problems, figure out how to do
a good bug report.  "The daemons don't work," doesn't cut it.  If you
have a problem I need to know precisesly what it is including a syslog
if possible.  If the kernel prints out a message I need to know
exactly what it said including any numbers it happend to print out.  I
also need to know how any addresses relate to YOUR system.map.  Line
numbers would help.  Furthermore if something returns an error you
don't think it should, I need to know preciesly what error (including
the value of errno) and under what circumstances it occured and why it
shouldn't return an error.  Small programs to demonstrate things you
consider bugs would help.  The tcp/ip code has function almost
flawlessly and continuosly for me since the Pre-Alpha days.  Obviously
I can't reproduce problems like ftp doesn't work and I will tend to
ignore them.

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From: tgc@world.std.com (Terry Carlin)
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE]: linux version 0.99
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 02:45:27 GMT

What patch level of TCP made it into 0.99???

My current TCP patch level is p-12.  Everything works great at
pl-12.  NFS Server, telnet, ftp, X, and all that stuff.


Thanks to all the folks who worked on all these fun toys. 8-))

-- 
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From: cvadr021@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: lpr with SLS
Date: 14 Dec 92 02:04:55 GMT
Organization: California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Nntp-Posting-User: jimbo

In article <tlhilde.724285932@roby.ecn.purdue.edu>, tlhilde@roby.ecn.purdue.edu (Troy Hildebrand) writes:

> I also have a printer on /dev/lp1 which fits the description above.  
> My princap follows.  I can do 'cat file > /dev/lp1 &' just fine...
> lpr puts a file  in the queue, but it never goes.  lpd is running,
> lpc cannot force the file to go to the printer.
> 
> lp|panasonic:lp=/dev/lp1:sd=/usr/spool/lp/panasonic:lf=/usr/bin/mail:mc#1:\
>              ft=$$c$$p$$r$$f:hl#2:fl#3:ht=$$c$$n$$r$$t:sh:
> 
> Help.
> --
> tlhilde@en.ecn.purdue.edu

  Be sure you have _both_ /etc/printcap and /usr/etc/princap.  (or one and a
link in the other directory)  This got things going for me.

  Do you know where I can find a complete doc of the printcap file?  The man
page says nothing about mc, ht, or ft.  I'm trying to get the ht to tell my
printer to translate lf->lf+cr, but it seems to be ignoring it.  
 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald)
Subject: Re: MONEY + Linux
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria B.C. CANADA
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 07:03:46 GMT

In article <1992Dec17.232925.6334@midway.uchicago.edu> goer@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>jem@sunSITE.unc.edu (Jonathan Magid) writes:
>>
...
>My apologies.  Linus's work has been, by all accounts, nothing short
>of remarkable.  But with all due respect, what do all the people who
>maintain Linux do for a living that gives them the time to do this
>sort of thing?  I know it sounds silly, but what if Linus gets married

Have you ever spent longer trying to get some vendors solution installed
and working on your site, than you would have just developing the thing
from scratch yourself?

I have, and once I even did implement a better system (a network manager)
AFTER we bought and paid for the commercial system.   I had it up and running
before the vendor went from alpha to beta.  We shelved theirs.  I bet I am not 
alone in this experience.  After that, contributing some of my sweat to a pool
that anyone can draw from, doesn't seem like such a hardship, anymore.

On the other hand, people like Linus claim to do it just for the shear
joy of hacking!  Imagine that.

Peter.
From: gt4260b@prism.gatech.EDU (BLENIS,ROBERT STANLEY JR)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: can't get lilo to work
Date: 15 Dec 92 01:54:01 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

Hello fellow linuxers,
	I'm new at using Linux(coming from DOS and OS/2) and am having some
problems getting LILO to make Linux bootable.  I've install 0.98.5 of SLS
release of Linux and am using OS/2 boot manager.  I've been programming for 
a while, boot am kinda new to make files, and am not quite sure that Lilo
is compiled correctly, but I think it is.  I've read every thing I can get
my hands on(FAQs, etc), but am clueless.  This is my setup:

/dev/hda1	extende partition(OS/2)
/dev/hda2	primary part.(ext linux fs)
/dev/hda3	primary part.(boot manager)
/dev/hda4	primary part.(dos FAT)            

I used the command:

/etc/lilo/lilo -c -b /dev/hda2 -v -v /Image

plus many variants with no success.  Lilo says that it's reading the boot sector

and then says something about not finding valid 
Lilo signature and quits.  Any suggestions would be appreciated.  After this
gets solved, I'll have some questions about getting X windows working - I can't
get it to work, even in mono.  It appears that it is trying to use a VGA mode
(color) that my card doesn't support, saying that my card isn't supported.
My card is a Paradise with 512K though.  When I have some time to investigate,
I'll have a better description, and more questions.

Thanks
    Robert(gt4260b@prism.gatech.edu)

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: tfoley@camaro (Tim Foley)
Subject: FSCK Man Page?
Organization: camaro
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 22:55:26 GMT

 
 Does anyone have a man page for Fsck?  and Mkfs?  as pertains to the Linux 
versions, and what are all the command line options ?
 
[-larms etc...]

							TIm

'reply to 'whome!camaro!tfoley' or in the group.
 


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From: "stephen brown" <stephen.brown@canrem.com>
Subject: re: [help!] sls install p
Reply-To: "stephen brown" <stephen.brown@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: comp
Date: 15 Dec 92 18:10:12 EST

TO: mliggett@silver.ucs.indiana.edu

 -=> Quoting Mister Wizard on 12-14-92  16:59 <=-
[DELETED]
 MW> Okay, so I did all of those things (I used 4096 for mkswap).
 MW> Then I typed "doinstall /dev/hda2"
 MW> It asked for disk a2 in the floppy drive and it was already there
 MW> so I pressed return.
 MW> It said "Installing bin4..."
 MW> I don't know how long this is supposed to take, but it sat there for
 MW> five minutes with the display unchanged.
 MW> The floppy drive whirred at the beginning but not after.
 MW> The HDD activity light blink fairly rythmically.
 MW> It sounded like the HD was spinning but that was all (no click click
 MW> of the heads moving back and forth).
The samething happened to me. My system was i386sx16 with 2mb ram. I
allocated 4096 for swap and went to install exactly as you did. The
installation proceeded as yours and stood there for a long time with
the HD lights going on and off. At one time I was so frustrated that I
left it running for about an hour. I didn't want to restart it all
again. I left for the mall and when I came back it had installed
itself. I guess it took SEVERAL minutes to install. It might be due to
the speed of my HD or the limited memory or Something. Anyway I have
since wiped it off my HD. I'm waiting till I get a good system with
more disk space and at-least 8mb ram to run Linux. I love it, but I
guess I have to give it what it like to run comfortably.

 MW> Q5. The SLS README doesn't seem to say this, but do I have to reboot
 MW> again after I "mkfs /dev/hda2"?

 MW> BTW:  I forgot to mention it, but I _did_ type "swapon /dev/hda3"
 MW> before I started the "doinstall".

 MW> tnx to anyone who takes the time to help me.
Let me know of your successes. Perhaps, there might be a way around it
and I could use it too. Good Luck!

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From: sgccsns@citec.oz.au (Shayne Noel Smith 2245702)
Subject: HELP-URGENT  please!!
Organization: CITEC
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 10:44:59 GMT


Hi. 
I have been struggling with a problem for a couple of days and can't
seem to shake it.

I am compiling X11 code (nothing flash -trivial)
file called a.c

cc -o a a.c -lXaw -lXmu -lXt -lX11

and I get the following error..

ld: premature end of file in strings of /usr/lib/libXt.a(Shell.o)


I have reloaded the X libs and bins but to no evail.


can someone please help me..


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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.windows.x,comp.sysv386
From: mjma@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (michael.j.matthews)
Subject: Re: X / Enhanced VGA Local Bus ET4000
Organization: AT&T
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 15:56:42 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Summary: ET4000 euphemisms please..

In article <1992Dec15.042904.12809@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>, parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry) writes:
> >between myself and the co. who sent me the pc. Thinking that a Tseng Labs 
> >ET4000 card was being sent along with the pc, all seemed well. Well, it turns
> >out they sent me the Enhanced VGA et4000 local bus (I did know it was local
> >bus). 
> I have a card similar to this ("EVgA et4000 local bus") and it works fine.

I have a GainTec (Tiawan) board that does VGA etc. It is supposed to be
IBM compatible (8xxx or something?). But there is no mention of et4000.
Am trying to build X11R5 with drivers etc...
The card is supposed to capable of high resolutions and I want to use as such.
What specifically does et4000 refer to, are most HIRES VGA+ cards of this 
type?

TIN

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: riepe@ifwsn4.ifw.uni-hannover.de (Michael Riepe)
Subject: Re: keyboard problems - v.99
Reply-To: riepe@ifwsn4.ifw.uni-hannover.de
Organization: University of Hannover (Germany), IFW
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 02:22:11 GMT

In article 92Dec16212729@lk-hp-6.hut.fi, jem@snakemail.hut.fi (Johan Myreen) writes:
|>In article <1992Dec15.022727.27072@cc.gatech.edu> ammo@cc.gatech.edu (Ammo Goettsch) writes:
|>
|>[lines deleted]
|>
|>On a related note: does anybody know what the following lines in
|>keyboard.c are good for? The same code (in assembler) is in
|>boot/setup.S, too. Is this some kind of standard practice?
|>
|>         pt_regs = (struct pt_regs *) int_pt_regs;
|>         scancode=inb_p(0x60);
|>!        x=inb_p(0x61);
|>!        outb_p(x|0x80, 0x61);
|>!        outb_p(x&0x7f, 0x61);
|>         if (scancode == 0xe0)
|>                 set_kbd_flag(KG_E0);
|>
|>The ins and outs toggle a bit in the keyboard controller's RAM. This
|>RAM location is not documented by IBM, or at least I haven't been able
|>to find it in the Technical References. The only documented i/o
|>addresses are 0x60 (data) and 0x64 (status), and the keyboard driver
|>should work perfectly without this bit fiddling. In fact, I even tried
|>removing them, with no ill effects.

IMHO, this piece of code is of no use; it was used to reset the
keyboard strobe on ancient PC's and XT's which had no keyboard
controller but just a shift register for serial->parallel conversion.

Michael.
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From: ig25@fg70.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Thomas Koenig)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Colorado Tape drive support?
Date: 13 Dec 1992 18:33:42 GMT
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Distribution: world
Reply-To: ig25@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de
NNTP-Posting-Host: fg70.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de

Is there anyone working on support for Colorado QIC tape drives?  I've
got one of these, and I'd really like to make my backups a bit simpler.
Failing that, does anyone know where to get the technical information to
*gasp* *horror* write a driver myself?
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jblaine@garnet.acns.fsu.edu (Jeff Blaine)
Subject: net.o not found when compiling 0.99 with TCP/IP OFF
Organization: Florida State University
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 00:25:26 GMT

After trying to get the 0.99 kernel compiled about 5 times last night at
50 or so minutes per try, I finally saw Linus' "problems with 0.99"
file on sunsite under Incoming and followed the suggestions he made.

I was getting the iso CDROM error upon doing a make dep, so I yanked
the suggested lines out of fs/isofs/inode.c

make dep worked fine.

I was getting the tcpip.o not found error that he described also.
I created the empty tcpip.a archive as suggested.

I am now getting (on the 6TH TRY of this) a "net.o" not found error.

CAN ANYONE please please please please help?
I have spent a good 6 hours now trying to get this to compile properly
and I am truthfully at the end of my rope.  
Someone please suggest something.

Jeff Blaine
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jy10033@ehsn11.cen.uiuc.edu (Joshua M Yelon)
Subject: How do I use "EIP: 0008:B6AC" info? [KERNEL]
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 11:58:31 GMT

I dug through the FAQ trying to find out how to decode one of those
addresses, but it wasn't mentioned in there.

I also tried to dig through old messages, since I knew the answer
was in there _somewhere_, but I couldn't find it...

Perhaps we should add this to the FAQ?

- Josh
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: laakkone@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Tero Laakkonen)
Subject: Re: Wish list for Christmas
Organization: University of Helsinki
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 21:56:32 GMT



>In article <1992Dec15.143844.441@netcom.com> genie@netcom.com (gene choi) writes:


>   Wow, 0.99 works perfectly.  Not one hitch going over from
>   0.97p6.  Now the only problem is that a good amount of all
>   the binaries hate me.  But I expected that..

>   The thing I want/need most now is a working binary of tcsh.
>   I just can't get used to standard bash.  If anyone is working
>   on porting tcsh for 0.99 please let me know!  Thanks.

>   Gene

i am collecting a list of all the old binaries that don't work, 
the issue of getting working binaries
might be addressed therein. please read the c.o.l. article with the
subject 'Old Binaries Summary'.