Subject: Linux-Activists Digest #219
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Date: Sat, 11 Sep 93 01:13:14 EDT

Linux-Activists Digest #219, Volume #6           Sat, 11 Sep 93 01:13:14 EDT

Contents:
  Direct access to DOS drive (cuong tran)
  Re: Weird network problem with pl12 (Derek Bischoff)
  Anyone port hunt? (Ian Williamson)
  Problems during installation using SLS (travis jensen)
  Re: TCSH -- no pwd? (Nils Nieuwejaar)
  Class B network problem  (Aaron Hightower)
  Re: Linux 'port to 16-bit machines?? (Brandon S. Allbery)
  Re: 2 IDE Drives ? (Robert Cooper)
  Re: Anyone port hunt? (Curtis L. Olson)
  Diamond Viper VLB compatability? (C.A. Peskin)
  Diamond Speedstar Pro (John Carroll)
  Problems during installation using SLS (travis jensen)
  Re: TCSH -- no pwd? (Sreekar Shastry)
  Ultrastore 34F SCSI controller $180 (Ji Zhang)
  CRC ERROR!! when booting from floppy (Sukumar Patel)
  C++ translator? (John Peter Brzezniak)
  Re: D-link ethernet card and et 4000 (Donald J. Becker)
  Can't compile Kernel 0.99.12 SLS 1.03 - please HELP! (sam gentile)

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From: [email-masked] (cuong tran)
Subject: Direct access to DOS drive
Date: 10 Sep 1993 20:26:43 GMT

        Hello folks!  I have dosemu 0.49 working on my machine.
I've gotten it boot up from my diskimage from my floppy
drive.  It has also got a hdimage which is now the C:
drive.  But I want to be able to directly access my hard
drive which is on the partion /dev/hda1.  I was looking at
the helpsheet that trys to explain how to make a hdimage and
so forth but it didn't really give me any clue about how to access
the hard drive.  Maybe I'm just not seeing it.  I've been working
on this for quite some time now.
        So if there is a very kind person in this newsgroup that
can help me out or give me any clues as to how to approach this,
I would appreciate the help a lot.  Thanks in advanced.

Cuong

My email address is [email-masked] or at [email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Derek Bischoff)
Subject: Re: Weird network problem with pl12
Date: 10 Sep 93 02:44:00 GMT

 -=> Quoting John Fauerbach to All <=-

 JF> From: [email-masked] (John Fauerbach)
 JF> Organization: University of North Carolina at Asheville

 JF> I installed pl12 and got pinging to work to one machine, aurora, but I
 JF> can't ping to any onther machine on the same network cable.  There is
 JF> nothing in the hosts, network, or any other file that would distgunish
 JF> aurora over any other machine.  I was able to get nfs working to aurora
 JF> also.  Anyone has any ideas? There are several other machines in my
 JF> hosts file before aurora.  Only the hosts file has aurora in it.

What happens when you ping the ip address directly?

... Sincerely, Derek

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From: [email-masked] (Ian Williamson)
Subject: Anyone port hunt?
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1993 20:41:47 GMT

Has anyone ported hunt to Linux yet?  I have one that works ok, but the
problems it runs into are of a nature taht I don't know what todo about
them.  If you want to have a go, get the source from:
wuarchive.wustl.edu:/usenet/comp.sources.games/Volume05/hunt

EMail responses please, to: [email-masked]

Ian

--
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or
[email-masked] (Our BBS)

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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
From: [email-masked] (travis jensen)
Subject: Problems during installation using SLS
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 93 19:41:20 GMT

I am in the midst of installing Linux on my 486 system and 
I run into the following problem:

After installing disk a2 of SLS v1.03 without any problems,
it dies on a3 and a4 with the following messages:

(a3) base       stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated
                tar: unexpected EOF on archive file

(a3) comms      tar: skipping to next file header
                stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated

(a3) efs2       stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated

...(errors given during attempt to install all files on a3)

(a4) bin        tar: hmm, this doesn't look like a tar archive
                tar: skipping to next file header
                stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated

...(errors given during attempt to install all files on a4)

For specifics, I have a 486dx33 w/a 234 MB IDE HDD and 4 MB RAM.
I am installing off of 3.5" floppies.  The hard drive is configured
as follows:  /hda1 is a dos partition of 120MB, /hda2 is an extended
2 file system of 110k blocks, /hda3 is a swap partition of 6.5k 
blocks.

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

Travis

-- 
Travis A. Jensen                
[email-masked]  (preferred)
[email-masked]  (next best)
"My elelator! Not your elelator, my elelator!!"--Baby Plucky Duck

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From: [email-masked] (Nils Nieuwejaar)
Subject: Re: TCSH -- no pwd?
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1993 19:46:42 GMT

[email-masked] (Daniel Quinlan) writes:

>A good version of pwd (source and man page) can be found at

>sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/utils/shell/pwd.tar.gz

Ummm...yeah....but wouldn't it be easier just to "alias pwd 'echo $cwd'"?

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From: [email-masked] (Aaron Hightower)
Subject: Class B network problem 
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1993 22:02:57 GMT

Didn't someone say that they had a patch for this problem.  Could someone
send me e-mail with the patch for the bug in libc4.4.1 that prevents
networking from operating properly so I can run linux on a class B network?

Please reply via email.

Thanks,
 Aaron Hightower
 [email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Brandon S. Allbery)
Subject: Re: Linux 'port to 16-bit machines??
Date: 10 Sep 93 21:37:12 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Richard William Jones) writes:
>A useful thing to do would be to run X servers on them, but are
>there any available? The only one I've ever seen is eXceed/W, which
>is obnoxiously slow on a 386, runs under Windows, crashes a lot
>and isn't free (four reasons not to use it).

I don't know of any free ones.  Quarterdeck was claiming this time last year
that DESQview/X-286 would be out Real Soon Now, but I don't know if it ever
actually came out.  Other than that, all your options require MS-Windows...

++Brandon
-- 
Brandon S. Allbery         [email-masked]          [email-masked]
"MSDOS didn't get as bad as it is overnight -- it took over ten years
of careful development."  [email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Robert Cooper)
Subject: Re: 2 IDE Drives ?
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1993 00:13:56 GMT

[email-masked] (Roy Davis) writes:

>Hi all,

>I'm just about ready to toss linux on my 386 (waiting for that new hard
>drive to get here).  Looked at this group for the fist time today and saw
>something about 5-600 articles old about a problem with linux and 2 IDE
>hard drives.  I was hoping to just add the new drive in as the second
>without changing the first so could somebody tell me exactly what the problem
>was.  I think it had to do with using LILO to boot from the different
>partitions (something I hope to do).

>                                       - Roy

>-- 
>The following is the sig that would appear if I knew what he was doing:
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        Roy,

        I just did what your about to do :).  I put the slackware
        release on the second ide drive.  Apart from not being
        able to create greater than 70MB Linux partitions, everything
        went OK.  I use OS/2, so I use the Boot Manager from that
        to boot up Linux and it is working OK.  I can't speak for
        LILO.

        So far the Linux looks quite impressive.  I hope to have
        some more time today to play with it and get things setup.

                                                Rob....

--
=====================================================================
Robert Cooper, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia   [email-masked]

       .....Discoveries are not made by following instructions.....

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From: [email-masked] (Curtis L. Olson)
Subject: Re: Anyone port hunt?
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1993 00:52:43 GMT

In <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Ian Williamson) writes:

>Has anyone ported hunt to Linux yet?  I have one that works ok, but the
>problems it runs into are of a nature taht I don't know what todo about
>them.  If you want to have a go, get the source from:
>wuarchive.wustl.edu:/usenet/comp.sources.games/Volume05/hunt
>EMail responses please, to: [email-masked]
>Ian

I have ported hunt along with many other bsd games.  Andy Teffta has ported
several bsd games himself.  We put everything together in a bsd-games package.

It can be found on sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/games/bsd-games... and
tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/[sources,binaries]/usr.games/bsd-games...

The current port of hunt still is not perfect, but if you have problems
with it, let me know.  Maybe we can figure it out.  (I have the email address
of one of the co-authors.)

Curt.
--
   .
--o0o--  Curtis Olson     ([email-masked])

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From: [email-masked] (C.A. Peskin)
Subject: Diamond Viper VLB compatability?
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1993 22:42:35 GMT

I read in one of the Linux intro read.me files that Diamond video cards
are not supported by X windows for linux.  This is because Diamond
Systems will not release the information?  has anyone pursued this
information?  I have just ordered the Diamond Viper w/2mb VLB, and was
hoping it would be compatable with linux.  Will I be able to run
X-Windows in a non-SVGA mode sucessfully? Or will the card not work at
all under X-windows?  Anyone happen to write a driver?
Please respond soon, because if I am going to change the card, I should
do it in the next day.

Thanks!

-- 
+------------------------------------------------------------------+
|  Rochester Institute of Technology              Chris A. Peskin  |
|  Electrical Engineering                                          |
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From: [email-masked] (John Carroll)
Subject: Diamond Speedstar Pro
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1993 00:33:00 GMT

I'm currently in the process of 'ftpmail'ing the SLS distribution disks and
haven't seen any listings of video boards that XFree is compatible with.  I'll
be using the above card on a Gateway DX2-66VLB and wanted to know whether it
would work at all, and if so, are there any gotchas?

Thanks in advance,

John

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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
From: [email-masked] (travis jensen)
Subject: Problems during installation using SLS
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 93 01:28:43 GMT

I am in the midst of installing Linux on my 486 system and 
I run into the following problem:

After installing disk a2 of SLS v1.03 without any problems,
it dies on a3 and a4 with the following messages:

(a3) base       stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated
                tar: unexpected EOF on archive file

(a3) comms      tar: skipping to next file header
                stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated

(a3) efs2       stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated

...(errors given during attempt to install all files on a3)

(a4) bin        tar: hmm, this doesn't look like a tar archive
                tar: skipping to next file header
                stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated

...(errors given during attempt to install all files on a4)

For specifics, I have a 486dx33 w/a 234 MB IDE HDD and 4 MB RAM.
I am installing off of 3.5" floppies.  The hard drive is configured
as follows:  /hda1 is a dos partition of 120MB, /hda2 is an extended
2 file system of 110k blocks, /hda3 is a swap partition of 6.5k 
blocks.

I downloaded all of the floppies again, putting them on freshly
formated disks, but nothing changed.

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

Travis

-- 
Travis A. Jensen                
[email-masked]  (preferred)
[email-masked]  (next best)
"My elelator! Not your elelator, my elelator!!"--Baby Plucky Duck

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From: [email-masked] (Sreekar Shastry)
Subject: Re: TCSH -- no pwd?
Date: 10 Sep 1993 21:30:39 -0400

>>>>> On Fri, 10 Sep 1993 19:46:42 GMT, [email-masked] (Nils Nieuwejaar) said:

        Nils> [email-masked] (Daniel Quinlan) writes:

>A good version of pwd (source and man page) can be found at

>sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/utils/shell/pwd.tar.gz

Nils> Ummm...yeah....but wouldn't it be easier just to "alias pwd 'echo $cwd'"?

That wouldn't show symlinks.
-- 

Sreekar Shastry
[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Ji Zhang)
Crossposted-To: misc.forsale,misc.forsale.computers.other,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,misc.forsale.computers.pc-clone,misc.forsale.computers.workstation
Subject: Ultrastore 34F SCSI controller $180
Date: 11 Sep 1993 02:46:31 GMT

Ultrastor 34F SCSI, SCSI-2, local bus controller.

Less than 4months old. latest bio chipset 200080.006 (not the
earlier buggy version, which has problems with MS-DOS)

Worked perfectly with DOS, Linux (but it is supposed to work with OS/2,
SCO and other commercial UNIX systems).

In original packaging, with all software drivers (one floppy disk) and
documents included. (just one brochure)

Paid $279 +s/h from DC Drives.

Price reduced to $180, and I'll pay shipping.

If interested, please contact:

Ji Zhang
518-276-6483 (day)
or 518-371-4154 (evenings),

Email: [email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Sukumar Patel)
Subject: CRC ERROR!! when booting from floppy
Date: 10 Sep 93 13:34:43 GMT

Hi,
        I just installed SLACKWARE 1.0.3 on a Comtrade EISA/VLB 486/66 with 2
ide drives,
Mitsumi CD-ROM drive and Sound blaster 16 card.

        I did a full install of everything and the boot floppy was created. But
when I boot
from this floppy I get:

                Loading.....................................
                Uncompressing Linux
                CRC Error
                System Halted

        I have rebooted from the distribution "bootdisk" and successfully
mounted the
partitions created on the ide drives during the installation process.
Everything on the
ide drive partitions seems ok.

        I also tried to run lilo to enable booting from the hard disk instead of
the floppy
but I get:

                can't open device: /tmp/dev.0

        There is a block device created dev.0.
        
        What, if anything, can I do to fix this problem.
        
        Thanks very much for any assistance.
        
Sukumar Patel
--

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From: jb7026@eehpx11 (John Peter Brzezniak)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: C++ translator?
Date: 11 Sep 1993 03:17:45 GMT

Is there a C++ translator for linux like CC which translate C++ source
code to C source code? CC uses cpp, cfront, and cc for preprocessing,
syntax and type checking, and codegeneration respectively.

I don't see any utilities like this for linux. The reason i need CC is
for debugging code with UPS which has just been ported to linux. I've gotton
very used to UPS and would like to keep on using it. I've debugged
C++ code generated with CC with UPS and its harder than straightforward C
code but its still better than xxgdb IMHO. UPS cannot debug C++ code
generated by linux C++ compilers. It crashes every time one wants to
access a class. If CC for linux does not exist then are there any other
debuggers other than xxgdb, xgdb for debugging using X11?

Thanks
        John 

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From: [email-masked] (Donald J. Becker)
Subject: Re: D-link ethernet card and et 4000
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1993 02:21:13 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
horng ming tai <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
>
>Is there anyone has such problems? I have a sound blaster pro card and a
>Dlink ether net card on my machine. Each time I boot linux from the floopy 
>disk, the linux will stop when it is checking the sound cards and CD-ROM 
>drives. If I take the Dlink network card out, the linux runs very well.
>Are there anybody know what the problem is?

The problem is that some NE2000 clones have an always-active dataport
that traps probing drivers, and the new CDROM drivers aren't careful
about where they probe.  There should be a work-around in pl13.

-- 

Donald Becker                                          [email-masked]
IDA Supercomputing Research Center
17100 Science Drive, Bowie MD 20715                        301-805-7482

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From: [email-masked] (sam gentile)
Subject: Can't compile Kernel 0.99.12 SLS 1.03 - please HELP!
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1993 03:51:01 GMT

From mr4dec::sgentile Fri Sep 10 22:36:16 1993
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1993 22:36:00 -0400
From: mr4dec::sgentile (Aho Mitakuye Oyasin)
To: sbgpx7::gentile
Subject: Can't rebuild Kernel
Status: R

         <<< SYSMGT::CLU$FOLK_ROOT:[NOTES$LIBRARY]LINUX-USERS.NOTE;1 >>>
                                -< linux users >-
================================================================================
Note 149.0                    Can't rebuild kernel                    No replies
MR4DEC::SGENTILE "Aho Mitakuye Oyasin"                 15 lines  10-Sep-93 16:18
================================================================================
    I am trying to re-compile my Linux kernel to fix the SoundBlaster
    Problems. I have SLS 1.03. I run thru the configure and that works
    great. Then I set up the logical links correctly. Then make dep which
    completes fine. But then when I do make or make zImage, I always get:
    
    gcc ... /init/main.c
    cpp:: /usr/tmp/cca01042.i: No such file or directory
    make: *** [init/main.o] Error 1
    
    Every time I run it, the cca number changes. There is a /usr/tmp dir
    and the protections allow read/write. What is wrong?
    
    Thanks,
    Sam

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