-------- > Has linux bootstrapped (Ie the loading..... mesage finished)? > > Do you get hex numbres too - or a single character? > > > No, that's the problem... It starts to say "Loading..." but only gets to "Loa" when it freezes. At first I thought it was a bad download but I went and downloaded the file again, compared the file size to the original but it still won't work. So basically I get a single graphics charact...

Maybe not :-). I've just got round to installing linux on my hard disk, after being suitably impressed with the 0.11 bootable images. I've today ordered a second disk so until that arrives I'm sorry that I won't be doing any programing. A couple of points: In the INSTALL documents it asks you to (in a for loop): cp -r /dev /user Not surprisingly this hangs as cp trys to read the devices and doesn't cp special devices (well it didn't for me!). Can I suggest the documentation changes to: ...

Greetings, Does anyone know of any current work underway on a Linux SCSI driver for the Adaptec 154x series? I'd really be interested in Linux but all I have available to me is a SCSI drive ( have to cross-develop and experiment on the same disk, not good.. ). I'm also not really clear on what type of setup was needed under Minix(?) to do cross development for Linux if I under took working on this myself. Thanks! Steve -- ...

Ok, I forgot to mention this in my last post, but I'm afraid I'll have to warn all of you that want to implement a new feature: I will not accept big non-localized patches to 0.12. This doesn't mean you cannot implement something neat, but it does mean that it probably won't be in 0.13 unless it's so neat I cannot live without it. There are good reasons for this: I'll have to do some studuing that I missed the last semester due to working on linux, and the courses start tomorrow. That was one of...

From: Peter Gober <qed@cs.tu-berlin.de> Date: Wed, 15 Jan 92 19:48:32 MET Having not much knowledge about UNIX devices I tried to port "mtools", a PD collection of MS-DOS read/write-tools for Unix. It compiled well, but didn't work, obviously, because it requires a raw disk device instead of a block disk device. A driver for this seems to be missing from the Linux kernel. No, you can just use the block disk device. It's already been ported to Linux, however. (although it...

I've said this on the list before, and I'll say it again now. I am NOT working on BSD networking. I _WAS_ doing some work to port various utilities that come on the BSD networking _release_. John

I'm interested in a UK keyboard too. The American one is infuriating. I've just repaired my machine (faulty RAM) so I have enough memory to compile, so I can probably do one within two days or so. Ian Wells.

Greetings, Being a novice at fun stuff like kernel development and device driver design, I'd like to know under what circumstances I'd need a SCSI driver. I have a 20Meg floptical disk drive that MS/DOS thinks is just another drive. No device drivers are needed, etc... It is, however, a SCSI device. Does this mean that I'll need a driver for it under Linux? Yes. Most definately. The current SCSI situation is that I'm working on a multi-tiered dri...

Greetings, Being a novice at fun stuff like kernel development and device driver design, I'd like to know under what circumstances I'd need a SCSI driver. I have a 20Meg floptical disk drive that MS/DOS thinks is just another drive. No device drivers are needed, etc... It is, however, a SCSI device. Does this mean that I'll need a driver for it under Linux? Does anyone have any good kernel and driver design books that they can refer me to? ...

Well, I think you must mean the Quantum 210, since they don't (to my knowledge, and I know the quantum line pretty well) make a 240 meg drive. I've got a Quantum (Plus Impulse) 210AT, and while I haven't tested Linux on it, Mach likes it quite a bit. The geometry of the drive is 873 cyls, 13 heads, 36 secs/track. Maybe this will help people who know more about what Linux likes and doesn't like answer your question. I haven't, to be honest, brought Linux up yet myself, but I intend to use a Qua...

Ok, the subject says it all. The kernel source and the disk-images are available on nic.funet.fi, and I'm assuming they will migrate to other places in a couple of days. There is a RELNOTES-0.12, but installation is similar to 0.11, so the installinfo in relnotes is pretty minimal. Note that even users of 0.11 should boot up from floppy first and copy all the binaries to their proper places on the harddisk partition: fsck, ls etc have changed with symlinks, and bash (/bin/sh) due to job control. ...