You also have to be 'root' to inadvertantly wipe out whole partitions with a single carelessly typed command.... -Joel

I'm thinking about getting another hard drive (105MB), and using it for Linux. If I do, I don't want to have to putz with more than one partition if I can help it...hence the question: If I'm running GCC with jump tables, there *shouldn't* be any troubles going with the binaries I've got (most of which I made) and an extended file system, is there? Or would I have to recompile most things? Later all, Ken == kenc@sol.acs.unt.edu == kenc@vaxb.acs.unt.edu The revolution will not be ...

Well here's what we did with a TMC885 controller (similar controller, so I'm told). 1) Added ROM signature to the 'signatures[]=' array, rebuilt kernel. On boot, TMC885 Controller found, but no disks found. 2) Changed the st0x_cr_sr and st0x_dr offsets as you did, rebuilt the kernel. On boot, TMC885 Controller found, and found scsi disk. 3) There were still problems with interrupts which caused the boot to fail. Discovered the TMC885 was set to IRQ10 where as ...

In fact, he's already behaved in such a fashion that I don't ever plan on ordering any product from his company. Sorry, Adam, but you lose.

In article <1992Nov28.110855.26288@hellgate.utah.edu>, baford@labhp23.cs.utah.edu (bryan ford) writes: "Encumbrance" and related terms (eg, "encumbered") are legal terms with specific meanings. The GPL is indeed a significant encumbrance. Whether or not it gets in the way of what you want to with the software No. der Mouse mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu

X-windows on the NeXT. There is one free (money-wise) version for the machine I've got, but it doesn't come with source code for the server so I can't recompile it and move up to X11R5. There are something like three or four commercial X servers, all sold for upwards of $250 or so, and all claiming to be better than each other. The basic feature is to have one big NeXTstep window in which an X server runs. Then some offer the "enhancement" of putting each X window in a separate NeXTstep ...

I have a question about serial ports. I'm about to recommend Linux to a friend of mine who is running LPMUD w/ 7 serial lines under MSDOS. I'm wondering what I'll need to do to configure these 7 serial ports under Linux. Most of the port addresses and irqs are nonstandard. Can Linux support more than 4 ports? -- =============================================================================== Ahmon Dancy ...

And announced, and announced, and announced... Adam, I wish you luck with your venture, but your use of the net for marketing has been excessive. comp.newprod is the place to announce new products. Continual posting to seven or eight groups at a time is inappropriate, even with a Followup-To that goes to only one group. How many marketing messages have you posted now? At least five or so. Prime Time Freeware doesn't keep hassling us in this way. Cygnus doesn't post price and service ...

In article <1992Dec1.152604.3905@news.nd.edu>, dmatiske@sophocles.helios.nd.edu (david matiskella) writes: |> How many of those OS function with less than 64k? I would also like to point out |> that CPM did not run of the 8086 under six months after the IBM was released.(Of If IBM had gone with Digital Research CP/M and MP/M would have run on 8086 the day it was released. All MSDOS was at that time was a striped down CP/M port. |> course I know you really want IBM to ...

In article <1992Nov30.041609.14502@leland.Stanford.EDU>, dkeisen@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dave Eisen) writes: |> For all we know, Bill Gates may have greatly advanced the personal |> computer industry. You can't compare DOS to what we would have |> written because we are totally irrelevant. You can only compare |> it to the kind of OS IBM would have gotten if they had gone to |> someone else with similarly powerful marketing abilities. That's |> the only kind of vendor who could land an account like ...

Does Adaptec SCSI driver in Linux support Adaptec 1542C? What is the diff. between 1542B and 1542C? (See PC WORLD, Dec'92, page 104 about Adaptec 1542C) --- ================= Jack Goral, N9ERY Advanced Photon Source Argonne National Lab. 9700 S. Cass Ave. Argonne, IL 60439 (708)-252-8946 ...

Hmm..A simple suggestion is to upgrade to 0.98pl3. I am currently running xdm under 0.98pl3 with no problems. Jeff Little

Does Adaptec SCSI driver in Linux support Adaptec 1542C? What is the diff. between 1542B and 1542C? (See PC WORLD, Dec'92, page 104 about Adaptec 1542C) --- ================= Jack Goral, N9ERY Advanced Photon Source Argonne National Lab. 9700 S. Cass Ave. Argonne, IL 60439 (708)-252-8946 ...

In our "for what it's worth" department, I had trouble with linux finding lots of bad spots on my hard disk until I changed the interleave from 1:1 to 3:1. -- Ed Carp erc@apple.com, erc@saturn.upl.com 801/538-0177 "There is nothing to seek and nothing to find. You're already enlightened, and all the words in the world won't give you what you already have. The wise seeker, therefore, is concerned with one thing only: to become aware of what he already is, of the True Self ...

Hi, I have recently seen some ads over here for some SCSI "Floptical" drive that, as well as normal 1.44Mb 3.5" floppies, also takes 21Mb 3.5" read/write optical disks. I have requested some technical info for this, but I wondered if anyone else has seen one of these beasts and has some comment, especially around access times and transfer rates, or if anyone knows if the Linux SCSI drivers would be capable of handling it? E-mail is probably best - I'll post a summary. This might just ...

First, type "ls -l /dev/ttys*"... You *should* see ttys0 through ttys3. These are supposed to correspond with COM1: through COM4: and should have the minor numbers 64 through 67. COM2: is /dev/ttys1, but make sure that your /dev/ttys1 has minor number 65. Otherwise, you can type: rm -f /dev/ttys1 (forces removal of old ttys1) mknod /dev/ttys1 c 4 65 (creates ttys1 as it should be) To set it in kermit, type "set line /dev/ttys1" or use the ...

I have never seen this. I would be very surprised if X windows were at fault. "do not work" doesn't help much in giving you suggestions. What is the output of ps and free in and out of X? Do they dump core? You are running .98pl4... Do you have the pl4 patches to ps and friends? - Ken

Gag. Do I really want to get into aNOTHER religious war? Yeah. I guess. It is the net, after all... "Post Scarcity" is a myth; a paradox; a utopia of mathematical but not physical form. We're soon to be too many for the petri dish we inhabit, and we won't be able to convert the detritus into nutrients fast enough, even if we evolve into something that knows how. If we're fortunate, some intergalactic vector will appear that will enable us to propagate to other planets, but ...

if you compile with -nojump, it works. there still is no stream i/o in the jump table version of the library. Kolja -- ============================================================================== Kolja Kaehler <kk@cs.tu-berlin.de>

Here is the result of the votes I received regarding the proposed split of comp.os.linux. yes no abs diff ratio result why to change .announce 479 131 3 348 3.6564885 PASS 249 .questions 380 217 16 163 1.7511521 FAIL (ratio) 54 .bugs 390 212 11 178 1.8396226 FAIL (ratio) 34 .misc 390 207 16 183 1.8840580 FAIL (ratio) 24 diff = number more ...

Hi there! Does anyone know whether Adaptec 1542-B works with LILO? I am thinking of switching to Linux but I still wanna use DOS for some applications. Is there any other multibooter thats Kwun Han cs011177@cs.brown.edu

Dear Linux lovers, I recently noticed (and one of my colleagues, too) that "gcc (g++)", sometimes, generats such error message (as in subject line) and fails to compile any programs afterwards. The only way to cure this problem is to reboot the Linux. I am running SLS 0.98p1, and the "gcc" which comes together with the package. Does anybody have the same experience, and tell me what is the problem, and also how can I solve this ? Thanks a lot in advance. -- -- Dae-kyun ...

Well, I admit my processor is somewhat faster than yours (a 486 33) but I run X with 8Mb RAM and a 1Mb S3 based video card. Speedwise it beats the hell out of Windows 3.1/DOS 5.0, even when using S3 video drivers. Tim. -- -- Tim.

Quick question: my modem is on Com port 2 what device is this equivalent to on Linux? And how do I set it in Kermit? Thanks -Brian -- ================================================================================ Brian D. Fritz Email Address: RME81977@ZACH.FIT.EDU ================================================================================

In <BoB2uB2w165w@mintir.new-orleans.la.us> craig@mintir.new-orleans.la.us (Craig Johnston) writes: |Ok...I'm having major Linux problems. Got the SLS release off tsx-11 |last week, and the installation was easy and all that, but now half |the stuff won't run. UUCP dumps core, minicom dumps core, LOTS of |stuff dumps core, all with segmentation faults. I was having the same |problem with mail until I applied the zbfix.taz patch...is there I got SLS 0.98pl5 from a local BBS a few days ago ...

We've had some problems with Linux recognizing our SCSI Always Technologies (IN-2000) card and (MAXTOR) drive. It is supposed to be SCSI II compatible. Some questions follow: 1. Should we just partition the drive and ignore this boot up message? 2. How do we partition the SCSI drive ? 3. Has any one else had the same problem with this kind of interface? PLEASE RESPOND WITH EMAIL :^) William A. Calderwood (wcalderw@nmsu.edu) Don Sitze (dsitze@nmsu.edu)

I see it every time I try and save or load a file. Eight-letter filenames? Oh, yuck! Even MINIX has 14-letter filenames, and that was supposed to be a "toy" OS for teaching with. It's faster, too. mathew

And why should you? *They* made those changes and improvement, it's *their* work, not yours. The fact that they started off with your free code is irrelevant. Sure, you can say "I only want you to use my code if you're going to let me use your code", which is basically what the GPL tries to do; but I see no reason why this is fundamentally the One True way of doing things. Oxford Publications don't demand the right to my articles just because I use words and grammatical structures I've ...

Can you start giving us examples? Then we'll start thinking of counterexamples... mathew

I've a Tseng ET4000 1MB Graphics card, and X386 (the one which comes with the SLS distribution) crashes in the High resolution. the system just 'freezes', the mouse does not move anymore, and Control-Alt-Backspace does not work either. This never happend yet in lower resolution (I've tried 800x600 and 640x400). Also I'm loking for a Xconfig to get 1296x1000 interlaced mode working with my Graphics card. Peter

Hello, I have been trying to bring up linux - SLS .98 pl5-42 on a 386 based Gateway machine (motherboard is from the American Megatrends era). I believe that I have installed linux successfully, however I am having trouble bringing X up. I was unable to find my video hardware in the vga.dbase, so I attempted to design a driver configuration based upon Chin Fang's tutorial. My driver, however, resulted in a screen that resembled a television with the horizontal hold mistuned, and a cpu ...

I'm fairly certain that other FidoNet-folk have already done something similar, and I'd advise you *not* to give him a gateway'd feed since it sounds like he wouldn't know how to properly handle it. The Usenet Newsgroup "comp.os.linux" may *already* be gateway'd onto FidoNet as an Echo or mailing-list... he should find out how to get it. (Try asking the folks who post to comp.os.linux with return addresses ending in "*.fidonet.org", eh?) ...or tell him to get Waffle 1.65 and a *real* ...

I ignore if this question belongs to this newsgroup, or if it would rather fit whithin the frame of the gnu.gcc groups. Anyway.... According to a manual of mine, the 386 is supposed to produce double precission integers (64 bits) in edx:eax out of multiplying two single precision integers (32 bits). By observing the asm code produced by gcc I have come to the conclusion that the compiler does not take advantage of that fact, even when assigning the result to long long numbers. One simple ...

Hi, I have an SCSI disk (CD94171-344) with an adaptec 1542 controller. After installation of the 'usr' software and an normal reboot the filesystem seems to be corrupt. With efsck -a /dev/sda1 I get many fault messages like: block allocated but not in use. I set the following parameters with 'FDISK': /dev/sda1 1 1 550 140799 Linux/MINUX /dev/sda2 551 551 1100 140800 Linux/MINUX /dev/sda1 1101 1101 1220 30720 ...

Hi everyone. I need some help with clock timings in Xconfig. I've read the documentation about Xconfig and I think I understand it. I also read the specs on my card (Tseng SVGA - ET4000 - 1 Meg) and monitor (Shamrock, multifrequency, will do 800x600 non interlaced and 1024x768 interlaced), and wrote my clock tables in Xconfig. Well, 640x480 and 1024x768 interlaced work more or less ok (the latter still could do with a bit of tweaking). At any rate, I'm not interested in pushing the ...

Hi, I am looking into getting a few more serial ports, but here in holland it looks as if nobody has any of these devices. I also bought a BYTE magasine, but couldn't find any adds in there either. Is there no market for these kinds of things? Anybody know what I'd have to pay for one, and where I could by it? Roger. -- **** a 486 in V86 mode is like a VW buggy with a 6 litre V12 motor. **** EMail: wolff@duteca.et.tudelft.nl ** Tel ...

============================== Start of body part 1 ============================== Start of body part 2 I tried to make GSPreview (a X front end for Ghostscript, similar to Ghostview). The program was unable to interpret its app-defaults file, I got warnings like Warning: cannot convert string "*LayoutBox" to type Widget and there were missing buttons and weired dialog boxes. Playing around I linked with -static. Now I have a 830K monster, but it works. I would be glad for an ...

Hello all. After some further digging about, I have tracked down the problems with Dominion 1.07, dominion1.06 and the floating point emulation in 0.98 pl 2 and above. It seems that the emulator does not get along with casts between ints and floats & doubles. On earlier kernels both 1.06 and 1.07 compiled happily, and worked happily. I went back to 1.06 after finding that something strange was happening to certain floating point values in stored files. With 1.06 i can build a world, add ...

I would think that you still have a getty spawned on /dev/tty1. You will have to clear that out before xdm can access the input devices. Comment the corresponding line in your /etc/inittab, so the getty does not get respawned, make a kill -1 1 to inform init of the changed inittab, and the kill the getty on /dev/tty1. That should give you input for xdm. Hank.

Hello, well i have installed SLS 98+5 and things have gone well BUT.... uucico and uuxqt just give a Segmentation Fault. Some other programs like minicom does this as well. Please help as I need uucp very badly. Other than that, nice package. Thanks saloffree@jeeves.uwaterloo.ca

I would appreciate it if somebody could send me a copy of Xconfig file which works correctly with the speedster plus card and/or Sony 1304 monitor. Tong tgao@cs.uiuc.edu

I recently compiled miinicom fine but when trying to run it I get a message of the sort: error creating lockfile. What did I d o wrong or what must I do to correct this?

HELP... I am having some really wierd problems when trying to install Linux for the first time using the SLS distribution. First off, here is the configuration: 386sx 2MB ram 2 Quantum 105M SCSI drives with a Seagate ST-02 Controller. plain ol' VGA I am using patch level 5 of the SLS distribution. Okay, here is what happened. 1) removed all existing partitions on /dev/sda 2) repartitioned entire drive as follows: device start end ...

Last week, I announced the alpha test distribution of a turnkey Linux/GNU/X11 unix clone on CDROM for PC's. To the best of my knowledge, this is the first directly installable free operating system CDROM ever. I think that this an important milestone in the history of free software. Reaction to the CDROM offer has generally been favorable, but a number of people have expressed what I consider to be reasonable concerns about support, documentation and price. As I ...

Ok. I was wondering if there is anyone out there successfully running Linux on a FastData 486 machine... I'm having sinking feelings that my machine and Linux are incompatible. If anyone can say otherwise, please do. It's a 33mhz, ISA bus, IDE drives. I thought someone out there had said that slow memory w/fast machines was causing some Linux problems, and to try without the turbo on (how silly--where's the turbine? I WANT MY MONEY BACK!!) ..I did, to no avail. Heck, if there is someone ...

Are you using ftpmail or ftp? Telling tsx to compress files, via ftpmail, does NOT work if they are already compressed. The doubly compressed files cannot be reliably recovered. I wasted about a week figuring this one out. It is not in the ftpmail help, and (of course) it is not in any FAQ. Uncompress on SunOS thought the corrupted files were just fine. My first clue was that some of the recovered MCC files didn't fit on a 1.44 MB floppy. Perhaps this is a problem with compress ...

"No longer telnet" means that telnet loopback EConnection closed by foreign host is the result of an attempt to telnet to my local machine (also if I use telnet gallew.slip.andrew.cmu.edu) -Brian ========================================================================= | "Are they dead?" | | "Does it matter?" | | - Pugsley and Wednesday in "The ...

Well, join the club. Apparently this is not uncommon. I have a 486 that I am trying to get Linux to go on. It has a 210MB West. Digital HD, and I get the same errors all the time. I think Linux is a bit pickier as to the behaviour of the HD controller. Only the frequency of the errors in my case is enough to bring the system to its knees. I am about to try another HD controller to see if I can figure out where the problem is. I have already shifted the partitions around a bunch, and ...

Hello everybody I have a question. Let's say there are patches for some source code, that have been numbered for example, patch1,patch2,patch3.. etc. Do I have to apply them one by one, like: patch < patch1, patch < patch2 and so on, or the last one will contain all the previous ones and so would be enough? Thank you in advance Serafim Maroulis UNL -- Makis

Evidently no one knows how to get xdm to read the xdm-config file, so I'll try a different approach. Can anyone tell me where I can obtain the source for xdm? I'd like to try compiling it from scratch myself. I have a feeling that the binary I have was compiled from source that was modified somehow. (This feeling is based on a "strings" comparison of the Linux xdm binary and a Sunos xdm binary on a Sun 3/60). Thanks for any help, Jeff Little operjsl@rosevc.rose-hulman.edu

Matt's Guidelines for Linux Users, Number One: Never, NEVER use intimidation to fix problems with your Linux system! Remember, this system is still in beta, and is quite impressionable and will bend to even the slightest exertion of force. Your system will get you back for it later. mdw :) -- Matt Welsh mdw@tc.cornell.edu +1 607 253 2737 "We're going away now. I fed the cat."