Problems encountered with Linux 0.97 - help appreciated.
I have succesfully booted Linux on my pc, root system on hard drive.
However there are some serious problems, here listed in order of
percieved severity.

- mtools does not recognize my G: and H: ms-dos logical drives on my
    extended partition.  I get the error ENOENT for these disks, but
    they are in the proper table, as I can use C-D-E-F disks.  Fdisk
    finds them as hda9 and hda10. 
  Is this an built in constraint in Linux?  I got error messages when
    I tried to use hda10 for a linux disk.

- emacs over a serial port  (/dev/ttys1 or /dev/ttys2) writes in the
    mode line.  Is there an error in termcap (vt100 terminal), or is
    the number of lines set incorrectly?  If it is number of lines,
    where (and how) do I change them?

- where do I find information on what all the options to a command
    does?  (I can find out that there are -abcdefgh... to a command,
    but what do they do?)

- while logged in on a serial port (/dev/ttys1 or /dev/ttys2) and
    doing a cat or cp to /dev/tty, if I repeatedly press ctrl-C
    I get logged out.