A quick scan using Archie shows that none of the FTP sites for Linux that it knows about are on the U.S. side of the Atlantic. In the hopes of reducing inter-atlantic traffic and reducing the load on nic.funet.fi, I've made Linux-0.10 available for

linux-activists - Theodore Ts'o - Nov 7 1991 - 10:27

Hi there again David Giller wrote: > PC with an SCSI drive. A no-go with Linux, as of yet. Can I > A: play with Linux from the floppy, at first Yes, I do that all the time (I have an ESDI drive that does not seem to like Linux). You should be

linux-activists - Mika Matti Jalava - Nov 7 1991 - 03:48

I, too, I have managed to bring up Linux without the need of Minux. I have a 40 MhZ AMD 386 with a 200 Meg clone. A couple of notes: N1) The Minix demo disk which you can get from plains.novak.edu only works for 5.25" disks --- this isn't

linux-activists - Theodore Ts'o - Nov 8 1991 - 16:43

Ted Ts'o writes: >N1) The Minix demo disk which you can get from plains.novak.edu only >works for 5.25" disks --- this isn't documented anywhere, but I spent a It should work on 720K disks. The Minix /dev/fd0 does not support 1.44M, /dev/PS0 is

linux-activists - Bruce Evans - Nov 9 1991 - 03:16

G'day, In answering question 3, >3) Lately when I boot linux (with the hard drive as the root >device) I get the message "child 2 died with code 0000" >(or something of the sort). What process was child 2? Should >I be worried? Everything

linux-activists - Nicholas Yue - Nov 10 1991 - 11:31

Marc CORSINI: "help installing linux on hd" (Nov 11, 0:23): > Using Minix I've tried mkfs /dev/hdX with Xgreater than 5 > the only reponse i got was/is > no space on root device 1/0 > Error: file system is too big for minor device > Line 1 being

linux-activists - Linus Benedict Torvalds - Nov 10 1991 - 19:58

Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1991 18:09:31 +0200 From: Linus Benedict Torvalds darken.@cs.yale.edu: > 1) mv doesn't seem to move directories properly. It looks for > something called mvdir and dies. I want to fix

linux-activists - Theodore Ts'o - Nov 11 1991 - 05:21

Robert Blum: "C-Compilers on a 2Meg-Machine" (Nov 11, 18:54): > > I recently ported CvW's C386 to Linux. I can do development on a 2Meg-System > too. (BTW Linus, that caused the gcc-errors..) Wow. Things are moving along... > But C386 is non-

linux-activists - Linus Benedict Torvalds - Nov 11 1991 - 14:49

Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1991 15:53:55 +0200 From: Linus Benedict Torvalds gets symbolic links. I think the easiest way is to move downwards from the "to"-directory via ".." until one hits root (or a mount-point) or

linux-activists - Theodore Ts'o - Nov 11 1991 - 15:12

>Lars Wirzenius writes: > >Wouldn't it be easier to make two header trees: > > /usr/include/ansi > /usr/include/classic > >and either use the -I option to select which tree is used, or put No. Who adds -I to 1001 makefiles? Who keeps all the

linux-activists - Bruce Evans - Nov 12 1991 - 09:28

G'day, On the previous mail you mention -----------stuff deleted---------------- I then take these things (sources and/or binaries) and make them available on tupac-amaru in a directory called beta. If the Linux community -----------

linux-activists - nicholas - Nov 13 1991 - 05:26

I think it would be good to adjourn the discussion to comp.os.misc--if the volume keeps up, it will be apparent to the net.community that a separate newsgroup would be appropriate. (Note that it is generally considered bad form to try to create a

linux-activists - Michael Callahan - Nov 13 1991 - 12:23

Hi, > Can there be a startup file for bash ( I never heard of it before Linux ) > and if so what is its name. It's .profile in your home directory, or in this case (you can only be root) it is /usr/root/.profile Mika

linux-activists - Mika Matti Jalava - Nov 13 1991 - 04:45

Hi, there are as well different startup files, bash is looking for depending on whether it is called as a login shell or not. I could send you more information if needed (my bash docs are at home, not here!).

linux-activists - Wolfgang Thiel - Nov 14 1991 - 13:39

Date: Sat, 16 Nov 91 01:03:49 -0700 From: John T Kohl I just got a new 486/33 today, and linux only seems to want to boot if the "turbo" switch is turned off. If I turn it once I'm running ,it seems to cause

linux-activists - Theodore Ts'o - Nov 16 1991 - 21:58

From: pmacdona@sol.UVic.CA (Peter MacDonald) > - Attempt to implement the stickey bit, to pin an executable > in memory once loaded. Everyone should note that this is not the original meaning of the sticky bit, in the BSD 4.3 sense.

linux-activists - Theodore Ts'o - Nov 16 1991 - 23:47

> As for demand-loaded executables... hmm. There are a couple of problems > with this: the minix filesystem wasn't meant for it, and it would be > MUCH easier to implement if BLOCK_SIZE was 4096 (= one page) instead of > the current 1024. One thing

linux-activists - Johan Myreen - Nov 16 1991 - 14:09

G'day, I had a similar observation when using the 386/387 assembly. I had wanted a mathlib badly so I made try to compile the code from DJ's GPP (for MS-DOS). The maths routine are written mostly in assembly language. I compiled the C and assembly

linux-activists - Nicholas Yue - Nov 17 1991 - 20:20

> The right way to do this is to add an floating-point emulator in >the kernel, even if shared libraries are added. This is a real b**ch. >I'll probably take a look at the djgpp package, but I'd really rather do >it myself (it's an interesting

linux-activists - Theodore Ts'o - Nov 17 1991 - 23:47

> > ..the first of which is: Is there a "Frequently Asked Questions" or similar > for Linux? If not,.. might be handy? Is there an archive of this mailing > list? Lee McLoughlin is 'mirroring' the Linux archive on

linux-activists - Tony Travis - Nov 20 1991 - 06:41