Subject: Linux-Activists Digest #233
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Date: Thu, 16 Sep 93 00:13:06 EDT

Linux-Activists Digest #233, Volume #6           Thu, 16 Sep 93 00:13:06 EDT

Contents:
  Video for HGS in Linux (Tom Rathborne)
  BBS package (Joel Jeffery)
  Re: Need install help on SLS disks! (John Henders)
  NFS Install and CHOWN ([email-masked])
  Re: FTAPE 0.9.5 problem Please help ([email-masked])
  INSTALLATION / USING mke2fs with SLS (CHARLES C WIGHT)
  Help with quota programs (Juan O. Pizarro)
  Re: Modula-2 compiler for linux... wanted. (Matthew Jackson)
  .openwin-init doesn't work (Thomas J Bilan)
  3rd and 4th IDE drive with Linux (Lawrence Fan)
  Re: X ([email-masked])
  Re: SLS 1.03 hangs (Derek Bischoff)
  [Q] Gateway2000 4DX2 66V and Panasonic printers
  Re: Where: Matlab-like Matrix manipulation Package for Linux? (Matthew Hannigan)
  NOT JUST ANOTHER LINUX + 386BSD CD-ROM (Roman Yanovsky  [email-masked])
  X cannot find glyph font (Thomas J Bilan)

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From: [email-masked] (Tom Rathborne)
Subject: Video for HGS in Linux
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1993 22:09:34 GMT

I have a 386/387 machine that should run Linux perfectly, but before I get it, I need to know if it will work with my video card.

I have a Hercules Graphics Station 1024. It has a generic (Intel) VGA
chipset so I know I can run X on it no problem, but I only really
want Linux if I can use the -TIGA 34010- part of this card at
1024x768x256ni. Does anyone know if a driver is available for the
HGS, or even if there is a generic TIGA driver? I could probably
hack HGS support into it if I had the source.

EMail useful replies to me at [email-masked]
or the above address and I will attempt to summarize.

Tom

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From: [email-masked] (Joel Jeffery)
Subject: BBS package
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1993 18:41:00 +0000

* In a message originally to All, [email-masked] said:
TT> From: [email-masked] ([email-masked])
TT> Date: 6 Sep 1993 03:53:23 -0400
TT> Organization: General Videotex Corporation
TT> Message-ID: <[email-masked]>
TT> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux

TT> I was wondering if anybody here knew of a BBS package that
TT> has been ported
TT> to Linux.  I found Eagle BBS, but it would require a couple
TT> hours of
TT> porting work to get up and running.  I am looking for
TT> something that would
TT> be like a mess-dos setup, but allow higher level users to
TT> get to the shell.

TT>         Tom

TT> i

TT> --- QM v1.30 
TT>  * Origin: Internet <-> FidoNet Gateway (2:252/305.1)
 
 Hi.
 I am working (and have nearly finished) a BBS provisionally called 
PoluxBBS. It is a much improved version of LazyBBS by someone else 
(can't remember who). I'll upload from details when I have a 
complete BBS running. (Currently all it lacks is the ability for a 
user to delete mail To or From her - and maybe the odd setup 
utility).
 
 It will be ready RSN :)
 
atb
joel

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From: [email-masked] (John Henders)
Subject: Re: Need install help on SLS disks!
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1993 22:05:53 GMT

[email-masked] writes:

>Upon install, I was given this description of my system:

>/dev/hda1    *    1    1    980    83291+    DOS    16-bit >= 32M

>This looked okay, so I chose "Done" on the menu...  I assume that the "DOS
>16-bit" part is normal, that it recognizes that I have DOS on there already.

    Somehow you've missed the part of the instructions where it says
that linux needs a filesystem to install on. While linux can read a DOS
filesystem fine, it's not possible to install and run linux on one.
    Try to get and read the new Linux Installation Guide, available at
all popular linux archive sites.

-- 
John Henders       GO/MU/E d* -p+ c+++ l++ t- m--- s/++ g+ w+++ -x+
                      Segments are for Worms

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Subject: NFS Install and CHOWN
From: [email-masked]
Date: 15 Sep 93 16:28:21 -0800

I am installing the SLS 1.03 distributiuon on an NFS drive.  I get get on the
drive and mount it and access the druve.

The problem is while the install script is running, it cannot change owner of
any of the files (it says Operation not permitted) and as a result I don't
think the installation is going properly.

Anyone have any suggestions?

-- 
Eric Levinson
[email-masked]      |  Home computer (UUCP)
[email-masked]         |  Vax
I can also be reached on my BBS system, Color Galaxy Milky Way (415) 883-0696

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Subject: Re: FTAPE 0.9.5 problem Please help
From: [email-masked]
Date: 15 Sep 93 16:29:49 -0800

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (MCREYNPA) writes:
> In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (Nils Rennebarth) writes...
>>[email-masked] wrote:
>>: I have ftp'd the .99pl12 kernel source in its entirety and have gotten the
>>: ftape0.9.5.  I patched the .99pl12 source and re-built the kernel.  On bootup,
>>Get ftape-0.9.6 please.
>> 
>>: What is the problem?  Am I supposed to have an ftape device in my /dev
>>: directory?  I have a Conner Archive 250MQT QIC80 tape drive hooked to my
>>: floppy.
>>Yes. (The documentation is a bit sparse. It's still pre-alpha software,
>>so you should maybe wait a little)
>> 
> 
> 
> Does ftape work for QIC-40 drives?  I've got a Mountain TD-4000 which, at
> present, is just gathering dust (and DOS files under DOS -- same thing).

It should.  You may want to write to the author.  The ftape is still
experimental.  I have used it and it works great, however it doesn't mark bad
blocks on the tape.

> 
> 
> ---
> Phillip McReynolds
> [email-masked]
-- 
Eric Levinson
[email-masked]      |  Home computer (UUCP)
[email-masked]         |  Vax
I can also be reached on my BBS system, Color Galaxy Milky Way (415) 883-0696

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From: [email-masked] (CHARLES C WIGHT)
Subject: INSTALLATION / USING mke2fs with SLS
Date: 15 Sep 1993 19:59:55 -0400

In article ,  <> wrote:
>I am primarily posting this to let users whom are still having the clean/dirty
>problem what I found the solutions to be.
>
>My problem was originally that VFS mounted root always saying that it was
>unchecked.  If you get .99pl10 or higher, you will need to get e2fsck 0.3.  If
>you have less then .99pl10, you wil not be able to mount root readonly.  Get 
>bootutils and follow these steps:
>
>1) Use RDEV and make your kernel flag read only.  This is done by rdev -R
>/dev/xxx 1
>2) edit your /etc/rc file so that the first thing it does is e2fsck -av.  If
>you have more than one ext2 drive, run it once for each drive.  If e2fsck
>encounters an error, it will not be able to fix it cause you mounted read
>only.  Next make your rc file remount root as read/write using the -remount
>flag.
>3) Make sure umount -a works.  It should not say that a device is busy.  This
>will happen if the umount is earlier and does not remount read only
>4) Create /bin/brc and place in it:
>
>#!/bin/sh
>echo "Unmounting file systems"
>umount -a
>
>chmod 700 /etc/brc
>
>Make sure you use SHUTDOWN only!! reboot and halt do not cleanly exit your
>system.
>
>I wanted to once again thanks all who wrote back to me with your suggestions. 
>It is that kind of help which allows us DOS users to trash it for a better
>operating system.
>
>
>
>-- 
>Eric Levinson
>[email-masked]             |  Home computer (UUCP)
>[email-masked]                |  Vax
>I can also be reached on my BBS system, Color Galaxy Milky Way (415) 883-0696
>

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From: [email-masked] (Juan O. Pizarro)
Subject: Help with quota programs
Date: 16 Sep 1993 00:51:17 GMT
Reply-To: [email-masked] (Juan O. Pizarro)

Help with quota programs, the man pages don't have enough info
about it. In special with edquota, what is the format, also
how too deal with the others programs

JOPG 

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From: [email-masked] (Matthew Jackson)
Subject: Re: Modula-2 compiler for linux... wanted.
Reply-To: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1993 00:36:11 GMT

[email-masked] (Axel Wienberg) writes:

>[email-masked] (Todd Holbrook) writes:

>>After poking around in sunsite and tsx-11, I've been unable to find a
>>Modula-2 compiler for linux.  If anyone knows where one is available,
>>please let me know.   
>>                         Todd...
>> 
>>[email-masked]

>I've seen quite a number of requests for linux-versions of Pascal or Modula-2.
>I may be mistaken, but isn't there a GNU version of (at least) Pascal? As far
>as I know, the GNU C Compiler is neatly seperated into front- and backend, and
>so it should be fairly simple to write a Modula or Pascal front end, which
>would automatically give you a working compiler for every system GNU C++ has
>been ported to. Somebody must have done this already!
>  Thing is, I'm looking for Modula-2 too!

Well there is a Modula-2 to C convert available. It worked reasonably
well for me but I was not doing any serious work on it. I was using it
for assignments for a course I was doing.

Anyway look for mtcbin.tar.z and mtcsrc.tar.z on tsx-11.

Cheers,
--
Matthew Jackson                        | Computing Officer
[email-masked]                  | School of Banking and Finance
61-2-697-3553                          | University of New South Wales
Linux - The choice of a GNU generation | Sydney, Australia

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From: [email-masked] (Thomas J Bilan)
Subject: .openwin-init doesn't work
Date: 16 Sep 1993 01:46:36 GMT

When I save workspace under openwindows it never restores it when I
go back in later.  I checked in my .openwin-init and it looks good
but it's just not being run.  Is there supposed to be a rc file
somewhere.  I dug through the faq but I couldn't seem to find anything
on this subject.

-Tom Bilan

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Crossposted-To: alt.sys.pc-clone.gateway2000.help,comp.os.linux
From: [email-masked] (Lawrence Fan)
Subject: 3rd and 4th IDE drive with Linux
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 93 22:35:56 GMT

-- 

I have a Gateway 2000 486 which has two IDE controllers built-in
to the motherboard.  I have hooked up 3 drives to it and it
works well under DOS and OS/2.  But under Linux, I don't know
how to access the thrid drive.  All I see under /dev is
/dev/hda* and /dev/hdb*.  How can I get to /dev/hdc* ?
Can I mknod them?  

One other question, is there any way to change the permission on
the dos file partition so that everybody can read and write to them?
I have, for example, /hda3 mounted as /dosc.  I cannot 
"chmod 777 /dosc" so that all users can read and write to it.  Any
suggestion?

Thanks for the help.

==========================================================================
Lawrence Fan                                                (908) 699-8051
Bellcore                     RRC-1D270 444 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, NJ 08854
[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked]
Subject: Re: X
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1993 09:09:10 GMT

Peter P Chiu ([email-masked]) wrote:

: Hi,

: I am running SLS 1.03 with X, Diamond Speedstar Pro, NEC 3FGx monitor.
: I can run X at 640x480 and 800x600 without modifying Xconfig but i get
: problems when trying to run X at 1024x768.

: can anyone please help me?

: please send mail to [email-masked] directly.

: thanks

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From: [email-masked] (Derek Bischoff)
Subject: Re: SLS 1.03 hangs
Date: 15 Sep 93 03:07:00 GMT

 RN> Ray Ngai
 RN> --
 RN> ( Raymond Ngai     <[email-masked]>    )
 RN> ( Senior Applications Engineer   300 Oracle Parkway, #670A  )
 RN> ( Vertical Applications Division  Redwood Shores, CA 94065   )
 RN> ( Oracle Corporation    (415)506-3385 FAX:506-7262 )

Ray, unrelated to your question (sorry, I have heard your
question before, and couldn't help him either, infact, that was
2 or three days ago, and I haven't seen an answer for him yet.

Does this mean that Oracle may be considering porting
to Linux????
(on knees very hopefull look on face)

... Sincerely, Derek

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From: [email-masked] ()
Subject: [Q] Gateway2000 4DX2 66V and Panasonic printers
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1993 01:48:30 GMT

Hi there,

Ever since I met "Linux" I am considering buying a PC. The model I am 
planning to buy is

        Gateway 2000 4DX2-66V

I know that this model is in the Hardware compatibility list but I
would like to hear from people using this PC. More specificaly I have
the following question:

        - Will Linux run "out of the box" or will I have to
          recompile the kernel in order to use the cd-rom ?
          If so which driver will I need?

        - Is the "ATI Ultra XLR VL-bus 1MB VRAM" card compatable
          with X or do I have to "downgrade" to "ATI Ultra Pro VL"

        - How noisy is the computer (Baby AT? Tower ?)

        - What do you think of the computer...

Also, I plan to buy a printer... Gateway2000 sells  Panasonic KX-P1624/
P-2123  I have no idea of what the capabilities of those printers are.
Any info? Advice?

So as not to waste bandwidth, email me your answers, flames, ... If you
want to know the answers, ask me and I'll forward you any answer I get.

Thanks,

                Francois

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From: [email-masked] (Matthew Hannigan)
Subject: Re: Where: Matlab-like Matrix manipulation Package for Linux?
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1993 02:52:19 GMT

[email-masked] (Matthew Grant) writes:
>I am looking for a Matrix manipulation numerical analysis package like
>Matlab for running under Linux.  I intend to use this for electrical 
>engineering/image processing/filter analysis under Linux for my
>belated Masters in Electrical Engineering

"Octave" is a matlab clone.  I _think_ it has been ported to Linux.
Look in the standard places, (tsx-11, sunsite) or ask archie.

--
        -Matt

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From: [email-masked] (Roman Yanovsky  [email-masked])
Subject: NOT JUST ANOTHER LINUX + 386BSD CD-ROM
Date: 16 Sep 1993 03:19:19 GMT

=====================================================================

        NOT JUST ANOTHER LINUX + 386BSD CD-ROM.

Trans-Ameritech presents LINUX SLS/Slackware AND 386BSD and MULTYMEDIA CD-ROM.

A new Linux CD-ROM is available! But not just Linux. Also 386BSD and more.
Here is a brief summary of why we think this CD-ROM is the best.
As the price of only $30 puts it in the same price category as the JANA 
product, I'll base my comparison on it.

We provide 2 versions of SLS distribution - a very stable 1.02 and the new 1.03
and also the SLACKWARE distribution! Linux installs directly from the CD-ROM
on almost any hardware configuration.

1. The Trans-Ameritech Linux CD-ROM is not just a mirror of some ftp site. 
In addition to the full SLS distributions we supply a "live" image of a 
configured system. This is great if you don't want files that are not used 
very often to garble your hard disk. One example is manpages - use them 
directly from the CD-ROM. Same applies to emacs lisp files, info files etc.
How many fonts do you need? Have them all! Space is no problem.

2. Uncompressed sources are available for instant reference.

3. Several versions of the Linux kernel are provided precompiled to cover 
different hardware options including drivers for Sony-31A and Sound Blaster 
CD-ROMs.

4. Patches to support sound cards are included. Take this compiled kernel IF 
YOU WANT. If not - use a small kernel with no unused ballast.

5. Install Linux directly from the Sony-31A or Sound Blaster CD-ROM drive as
well as standart SCSI and Mitsumi types.

6. We are running Linux on several PCs to make sure that our configurations
really work. We don't wait for official SLS release for certain extra drivers
and utilities. If they work here, we include it as an option on the CDROM.

7. For your convenience a full recent distribution of 386BSD *NIX is provided
on the same CD-ROM.

8. Some space is dedicated to what takes too much room on hard disks - 
sounds and pictures. They are usable with the Linux sound/gif tools and under 
MS-DOS too!

9. A few choice MS-DOS applications are included in the assumption that the
majority of Linux users run DOS occasionaly. Or use it from dos-emu!
Most of the MS-DOS stuff comes from the SIMTEL20 archive. Naturally only part 
of it made it to the first CDROM. However the new releases will include other 
files from SIMTEL20, GARBO etc. So if you subsribe to the Trans-Ameritech 
Linux+ CDROM, you will not only get updated Linux, but over a year you will get
the full SIMTEL20 collection as an extra bonus.

10. Trans-Ameritech is a well established company with efficient organization
to guarantee on-time printing and shipping of this product. There will be a
significant discount if you subscribe for future releases.

But the best part is that YOU will decide what to put on the next edition!
We'll count votes and provide most popular software on the next one.

Credit card orders are wellcome. Call Trans-Ameritech at (408) 727- 3883.

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From: [email-masked] (Thomas J Bilan)
Subject: X cannot find glyph font
Date: 16 Sep 1993 03:35:56 GMT

I am getting errors in X when I try to run a program that looks for the
olglyph-10 or olglyph-19 font.  My olglyph-14 & olglyph-12 fonts
work fine.  Does anyone have any suggestions?

I used xfontsel and it had a combination to create:
-sun-open look glyph-*-*-*-*-19-190-75-75-p-154-sunolglyph-1
but of course, I have no idea what xfontsel REALLY does so this
probably isn't telling me a thing.

Thanks,
Tom
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