Professor Nemoto-san was so kind as to present me, on my request, a copy of MXBoot for Linux (the same as now posted, I guess). It works fine, but there are a few snags: 1. The first trap I fell into is that you should not use a symbolic link for the image to boot from (/system/linux.sys by default). 2. The second bit is the reason why Lilo is so nice: MXBoot does not know about holes in the image, which most likely will be there because of the 'cp' used to put the image in place. I...

it's easy! You only have to change the editor setting in your elmrc. For example my elmrc: ======================= Begin ============================================= # # .elm/elmrc - options file for the ELM mail system # # Saved automatically by ELM 2.3 PL11 # # For yes/no settings with ?, ON means yes, OFF means no # where to save calendar entries calendar = /home/kg/calendar # what editor to use ("none" means simulate Berkeley Mail) editor = /usr/bin/emacs # the character to...

After screwing around for a few days with the kernel code and large ftp transfers I've finally decided its beyond hope for the near future. I decided to try KA9Q instead but the ethernet driver doesn't work with new Linux, I fixed the file-ops differences and a few other things but it is unable to recieve packets. I keep getting bad packet errors and the packet length gets longer with each one. However it will send packets. I'm using an SMC elite 16 card. -- ====== Join the Pythagorea...

I ported a version of the finger command from BSD, and it seems to work very well. I was running linux 0.96c when I grabbed it, so all of the tcp/ip stuff is commented out. Several other trivial changes were also needed to get it to run correctly. I also wrote a simple chfn program so that user names, offices, etc can easily be changed. If anyone is interested, I could upload these to sunsite and tsx-11. You might have more fun hacking this stuff out for yourself, though. Up to you. You mi...

I don't know which version you're using (of gcc), but one of them notes that when configuring as a cross-compiler, to specify --use-gas or something like that. (I also realize that it says that that doesn't matter for certain configs, but I don't have INSTALL around right now to read it). If the loader or 'file' is barking about a bad magic number, it sounds like either the wrong assembler or the wrong loader is being envoked. (Or both). I also think (but I'm probably wrong) that the as86 should be in...

f2c works; the following patch worked for me: (Of course you still need the libraries; source of them should be available the same place you got f2c.tar) ================== procedure for extracting and patching f2c ======= tar -xvf f2c.tar cd tmp uncompress * patch -p0 < patch.f2c ===================== begin patch.f2c ============== *** makefile.del Sat Oct 24 11:37:22 1992 --- makefile Sat Oct 24 11:35:22 1992 *************** *** 1,7 **** # Makefile for f2c, a Fortran 77...

NO - THERE IS NO PUBLIC DOMAIN X SERVER FOR diamond stealth! Please take your card back and get something more user friendly like Actix's GraphicsEngine or Orchid's Farenheit 1280. The GraphicEngine can be obtained for $210 from Palo Alto

Umm excuse your ignorance but Fidonet runs (mostly) on DOS machines and I doubt that it would be that easy to do in Perl under dos impossible with sh. Dos also does not support symbolic links and therefore requires that each message be separate. I also agree that that is Fidonet's problem not the net's and has NO bearing on whether to seperate the groups. We need not let fidonet's shortcomings affect the way the net is run. Scott System Administrator Paradox Alley F&SF BBS and...

Well, I finally tracked down the source of many (but probably not all) of the problems which people were complaining about. There were too problems. The first was that change_speed was being called in the wrong place, so that if you were using the UART at 2400 baud for the first time after bootup, the UART would not be initialized correctly. (Thanks you, Linus, for calling this bug to my attention!) The second bug had to do with how the serial driver handled programs which set the baud rate to z...

Hello. I finally managed to figure out what was wrong. It turned out that my rgb database was corrupt. I got another copy and everything works fine now (even Xtetris!). Thanks for everyone's help, Mike

Will that XS3 driver run X on a Diamond Stealth (it's S3)?? Matt -- *-----------------------------------------------------------------------------* * Matthew C. Mead * * * * mmead@vtssi.vt.edu "To know everything would be impractical; *

Greetings all, Is there a command equivalent to the ubiqitous 'finger' command available for Linux? I hope this isn't a stupid question but I need something which displays the users' actual names, when they last logged on and everything else. I currently have an alias to the 'w' command but it's not enough. Also, how can I get the 'w' command to display what the users are doing? Merci beaucoup, C. Armour-Kidson cs911461@ariel.yorku.ca

I need 16MB of swap and my partition is only 8MB. Can I make an 8MB swap file or do I have to disable the swap partition and make a 16 MB swap file?????????? BTW, how does one make a swap file?? Thanx -- maThiEu a. LeWis This sentnce has threee errors. cyber-mercenary Thieves Like Us "love is a gamble/kissin' is a game" mal11@Po.cwru.edu Twins fan ------> by default :)

The solution is easiy. You have to define your special keys in default.el and everything is running well. My default.el looks like this... =========================================================================== (if (= (length load-path) 1) (setq load-path (cons "/usr/emacs/lisp/local" load-path))) ;; handle any linux console if user hasn't done so already (or term-setup-hook (setq term-setup-hook (function (lambda () (if (string-match "^console...

Where can I vote? Please! I haven't been able to read this group since June! I'd like to know what's going on with the linux world, cause I'm still running 0.96a with X 1.1. I've heard there's better out there, but I don't have the sheer mass of time to wade through this group to look for something pertinent. Linux is HUGE now. There is no sane reason this group shouldn't split. Not all of the 20,000 + users of Linux care about half of anything that's being discussed on here.

In article <BwLuuC.B22@fc.hp.com> rwp@fc.hp.com (Bob Proulx) writes: Kamal Foudil-Bey (foudil@npac.syr.edu) wrote: > I added a user to my system to avoid working as root. > Everything is fine except for the fact that when I use > "vi" I get a message "/tmp file does not exist". What do > I have to do to solve that? You probably have the permissions on /tmp messed up. chmod 777 /tmp chmod 777 /usr/tmp Make that chmod 1777 /tmp chmod 1777 /usr/t...

It's much closer to the SpeedStar +. The SpeedStar 24 is basically a SpeedStar plus with the same layout and the same ET4000 with a different RAMDAC capable of 24 bit color @ 640*480, plus a different ROM to add a new mode number to support this mode. The SpeedStar 24X is really a completely different card designed around a different chip, ie. the Western Digital 90C31 Graphics Engine + frame buffer + 24 bit RAMDAC chip. But I do believe that all the SpeedStars, including the Stealth, do in...

AARRRRrrrgh!!! Away for 4 days and I have 637 unread news!!!! In one newsgroup. In comp.os.linux. 100 unread in 6 groups would be alot better cause I would only read one group. Come one someone, toss in an cfv! /Kristian

I've seen the same behavior. Let us all know when/if anything gets discovered.

You are right: older versions of the msdos fs have problems with holes in files. The easy solution is to upgrade: 0.98.x shouldn't have this This one too seems to be gone: I just copied over 1M+ files with 'mv' to check it out, and it doesn't happen for me. Upgrade time. Linus

lilo (and all its relatives) should be in /etc/lilo for the following reasons: - it is consistent with the good tradition to keep files that are needed for system recovery on the root partition. - it doesn't get in the way with other things (thus is isn't in /etc) and there is room for expansion (e.g. new chain loaders) - typically, /etc/lilo/lilo isn't invoked directly by the user. - /etc/lilo/install runs /etc/lilo/lilo. It's sort of an executable configuration file (like /...

I remember a while back someone running into the problem of sysinstall canceling after 3 tries without even accessing the floppy drive. I've just now installed SLS and am having this same problem. Furthermore, when I try to use mtools, I get an error message to the effect of "Can't access fd0. No support for 18 track 2 heads 80 sector floppies". I have one 1.44Meg 3.5' IDE floppy. Mtools works with the DOS partition of my HD. Does anyone have any advice ? I'm just at beginner at this, so ple...

I've mounted my DOS partition using "mount -t msdos /dev/sda1 /dos", and most things work fine. But I have had trouble copying some large from the Minix file system to the DOS file system. When I try to copy my boot image file across, using "/bin/cp /linux-0.97.1 /dos/linux-97.1", it goes into an infinite loop. I can't kill the process even with kill -9. The hard disk is being continually accessed, and performance on the other virtual consoles is terribly slow. "ls -l /dos/linux-97.1" shows the file ...

Anyone up to creating a minimal X as described in an earlier article (the BSD guy who talked about the 2.3 MB X). I think a lot of the X'less are so because the Xfree86 distributation is 25MB! (and a lot of it seems to be fonts...really fonts are nice if you have the space, but really only a couple I imagine are really needed.

OK, I did that - now how can I use it to boot up Linux? The "Add new Operating System" option seems to work only for DOS. I think I saw a suggestion in the readme for LILO saying that you could put something in config.sys to boot Linux via DOS, but it didn't say exactly what. -- Fergus Henderson fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU This .signature virus is a self-referential statement that is true - but you will only be able to consistently believe it if you copy it to your own .signature ...