Subject: Linux-Activists Digest #275
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To: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 93 09:13:17 EDT

Linux-Activists Digest #275, Volume #6           Thu, 30 Sep 93 09:13:17 EDT

Contents:
  Recap: message #58795 ([email-masked])
  Tape-Streamer Question (Panayotis Fouliras; TA PhD)
  HARDWARE: Mitsumi LU005S CD-ROM anyone? (SEAN MICHAEL SCOGGINS)
  HELP! cannot find font fixed (Bryan E. Glancey Jr)
  Re: WHAT HAVE I TO DO TO SET UP THE .PROFILE (Bryan E. Glancey Jr)
  Help with SCSI installation  (Alexander The Great)
  Installing Linux       (Wes James)
  Sound card problem (Oliver Hernandez)
  Re: Word Processor for Linux (lout) (Peter Mutsaers)
  Help with Linux Dual Boot system (Brian Hampel)
  Re: WordProcessor (~=TEX) for Linux (Tom J Parry)
  Obtaining (Drew Ames)
  Re: HARDWARE: Mitsumi LU005S CD-ROM anyone? (Charles Hawkins)
  DOS based GUNZIP? (Chris Wood)
  Re: SoftLanding Message (Terror on Tape)
  Re: Colorado streamer (Alexander Zangerl)
  kermit drop lines on exit (Laurent Chavey)
  What processors does linux run on? (John Chambers)
  Re: Word Processor for Linux (lout) (Curt L. Olson (Admin))
  Busmice (Tony Cifelli)
  ps doesn't work (Studenten)

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Subject: Recap: message #58795
From: [email-masked]
Date: 29 Sep 93 16:47:53 -0800

Per message 58795 I posted about not being able to get NFS to mount,
I also discovered when I boot .99pl13, it does not say anything about getting
an interrupt.  .99pl9 says GOT IRQ 5.  .99pl13 doesnt say anything.

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From: [email-masked] (Panayotis Fouliras; TA PhD)
Subject: Tape-Streamer Question
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1993 01:07:15 GMT

I have a Colorado Jumbo 250 (QIC-80) 125Mb Tape-Streamer.
My question is: Is there any Linux package system (SLS, etc)
that has a suitable script to install the whole LINUX system
from a tape *directly* (only using a 'disk1' booting diskette)?

Thank you in advance for any information.

Panayotis

:wq

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From: [email-masked] (SEAN MICHAEL SCOGGINS)
Subject: HARDWARE: Mitsumi LU005S CD-ROM anyone?
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1993 23:16:37 GMT

Is anyone using the Mitsumi LU005S CD-ROM with Linux?  I found no
mention of it in the hardware list, and don't want to but it without knowing if it is going to work.

Do CD-ROM with their own interface cards work in general with Linux?

Thanks,
Sean
[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Bryan E. Glancey Jr)
Subject: HELP! cannot find font fixed
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1993 01:34:29 GMT

        x-windows won't start for me. It keeps returning 'font fixed not
found'. Now wait a sec - I tried mkfontdir and I looked in the X11 fonts
dir and font the font.dir and the font.alias file but it doesn't seem to
read it!
        
        Help meeeeeeee.

        Bry

ps. what's even more strange is that it work once this morning and then
not again since then

         

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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc.help,comp.os.linux
From: [email-masked] (Bryan E. Glancey Jr)
Subject: Re: WHAT HAVE I TO DO TO SET UP THE .PROFILE
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1993 01:42:22 GMT

Rachid BELMOUHOUB <[email-masked]> ([email-masked]) wrote:
: Hi,
:  I have succefully now installed the SLS 1.03 release, on my 486DX50 clone,
:  I went through the Linux user's guide in search of informations about how to
:  configur my system but haven't found lot of things about the file .profile
:  I tryed to set the PATH environment variable to run X11, I did like in my
:  .cshrc file on a sun at work but after sourcing the .profile, I have run
:  printenv and none of the changes I've made was taken, I tryed unset PATH
:  and I had an answer that the systen can't unset PATH. Is there any document
:  that explains how to do this, or any one here that could help me.

:  Thanx

:  Rachid 
:  

        ME TO!! Also, any information anyone can give me on which are
the auto running shell files (I am used to the .cshrc and .login) would
be apreciated.

                Bryan Glancey
                [email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Alexander The Great)
Subject: Help with SCSI installation 
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1993 01:32:06 GMT

Hey, can you help me I have a 386dx40 with 4 megs of ram (will be upgrading to
8 meg of ram). I have a ISApport guide and when I boot off of a1 and try to run
fdisk it reports that I don't have a hard drive.  I have a seagate 323 meg drive
with 217 or so for msdos and 100 for linux.  I have dos partioned to the above
mentioned.  Suggestions?
 
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Subject: Installing Linux       
From: [email-masked] (Wes James)
Date: 29 Sep 93 15:38:02 MDT
Reply-To: [email-masked]

---
I am trying to install Linux, but it gets stuck on the line:
        Detecting soundcard: AdLib (type 1)

What is going on?  I got the distribution from tsx-11.mit.edu Wed,
Sept 29.  I would appreciate any help.  Thanks.

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From: [email-masked] (Oliver Hernandez)
Subject: Sound card problem
Date: 30 Sep 1993 02:32:53 GMT

Hi,
    I have been running Linux for a while, and it runs great on my 486SX-33
w/ 4Meg of RAM.  But I can't run X because my sound card conflicts w/ my
serial mouse.
    I have an 8-bit Thunderboard sound card and a Logitech serial mouse in
my system.  I know that the problem is w/ the sound card because when I took
it out, X-windows came up fine.  Also, when I boot Linux, it says that it
has found a network card when it does an ethernet probe.  It didn't do this
when the card was removed (I don't have an ethernet card).  I've tried
changing the IRQ address and I/O address, and even inserting the card into
another slot, but with no avail.
    I've heard that I have to re-compile the kernel for Linux to properly
recognize my sound board.  I would greatly appreciate anyone out there that
could tell me exactly how to solve my problem, as I have no idea how to
re-compile the Linux kernel.  Please email me replies, as I don't read this
group often enough, and the files on our news server aren't kept that long
due to tight disk space.  Thanks in advance.

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From: [email-masked] (Peter Mutsaers)
Subject: Re: Word Processor for Linux (lout)
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1993 17:53:13 GMT

>> On 28 Sep 93 12:47:08 GMT, [email-masked] (R. Stewart Ellis)
>> said:

  RSE> Since joe, jove and emacs are all insert-mode editors that understand
  RSE> ^F,^B,^N,^P,^A and ^E, I would arrange them like:

  RSE> vi--elvis-----vile-----------------------joe-------------jove---------emacs

Judging by insert-mode and some keybindings (which can be completely
changed anyways in GNU emacs) I think this view is rather simplistic.
A better arrangement is:

                          -------GNU-emacs-------

                          joe-------------jove---
   vi--elvis-----vile-----

GNU-emacs is of an other order than the rest, with its M-x compile,
the Grand Unified Debugger, tags, ange-ftp, complete configurability
and reprogrammability, so that you can emulate any of the editors that
are more down to earth.

Some may think it is nonsense to read mail and news from within an
'editor', but the same set of keybindings everywhere, and complete
integration with the editor is a great blessing.
-- 
_______________________________________________________________
Peter Mutsaers, Bunnik (Ut), the Netherlands.

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From: Brian Hampel <[email-masked]>
Subject: Help with Linux Dual Boot system
Date: 30 Sep 1993 01:17:55 -0400
Reply-To: [email-masked]

I have installed linux in the past and was never able to get
it to boot up with another OS.  I am once again trying to install
Linux and would like to try to get it to boot up with Dos.
If anyone has  any Tech Notes on making Linux Dual Boot
can you please send them over. Also, any tips or helpfull hints
would be GREATLY appreciated.
                                               Thanks,
                                               Brian W. Hampel
                                               [email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Tom J Parry)
Subject: Re: WordProcessor (~=TEX) for Linux
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1993 04:07:15 GMT

I hestitate to even stick my head out too far, b/c this doesn't seem to be a
terribly civiklised discussion, but there is a smallish group working (slowly)
on a WP for linux - (and any other platoform you care to port it to I suppose) -
we have aimed (in my opinion) fairly high - in that we want to write a WP
based on the Standard Generic Markup Language - what yu would call a structured
word processor. There are a lot of issues, and we are tackling them slowly - 
there will be much noise if/when this thing gets working, but this year isn't
a likely release date. If you wiosh to stir things up (the mail list has been
a bit slow lately) - you can join the linux-activists channel word to hear any
mail. Otherwise, I suggest you start reading the Tex Book - flames will be
unread or dumped in the nearest dev null,

-- 
Tom J Parry.
Your reality is a figment of my imagination.

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From: [email-masked] (Drew Ames)
Subject: Obtaining
Date: 30 Sep 1993 12:24:32 +1000

I am interested in obtaining a copy of linux. Where can I get it?

Drew.

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From: [email-masked] (Charles Hawkins)
Subject: Re: HARDWARE: Mitsumi LU005S CD-ROM anyone?
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1993 10:38:07 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (SEAN MICHAEL SCOGGINS) writes:
|> Is anyone using the Mitsumi LU005S CD-ROM with Linux?  I found no
|> mention of it in the hardware list, and don't want to but it without knowing if it is going to work.
|> 
|> Do CD-ROM with their own interface cards work in general with Linux?
|> 
|> Thanks,
|> Sean
|> [email-masked]
|> 
I am using such a drive with 99pl13 kernel. The driver is included in the
kernel distribution as standard.

Charles Hawkins

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From: [email-masked] (Chris Wood)
Subject: DOS based GUNZIP?
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1993 10:31:20 +0000

        I'd like to test all the .tgz files after ftp'ing before going
        ahead with the installation to make sure they all ftp'ed
        correctly, is there a DOS based gzip/gunzip around I could
        use?

        Thanks,

CW.
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From: [email-masked] (Terror on Tape)
Subject: Re: SoftLanding Message
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1993 04:55:18 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Brett Person) writes:
>
>Yeah. Its easy. UPGRADE to Slackware.
oh no. bickering about different dists. now.  bad enough we got people
comin' in talkin' about _Linux Sux_, etc.

>-- 
>Brett Person
>Guest Account  
>North Dakota State University
>[email-masked] || [email-masked]
-jonM
(posting for no good reason.  either it's late, or Seyon's giving me
a faster 2400 EC connection than i've gotten w/any other comm. program..
it _couldn't_ be the program, huh?)

-- 
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DJ.AllStar
get Linux OS, it's dope! it's free! it's UNIX!

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From: [email-masked] (Alexander Zangerl)
Subject: Re: Colorado streamer
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1993 11:09:09 GMT

[email-masked] (nicolas olle) writes:
:                       
: Hello
: 
: I would like to obtain informations on the following
: subject: I have a 250 Mb streamer (Colorado) connected 
: on my pc (IDE). And i would like to use it under Linux.
: Then i would like to know :
: 
:               1- If it's possible.
:               
:               2- Then how to proceed.....etc.

hi!
i dont know whether yoe read de.comp.os.linux (since its german), but the subject has
been discussed there: it works
take linux0.99pl12 or newer and get ftape-9.6 from any of the major linux ftp-server 
(i believe its in a BETA dir.....)

but as i am only citing from d.c.o.l (i dont have a streamer), i cant guarantee for
exactness. you'll have to try...

so long --- alex

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From: [email-masked] (Laurent Chavey)
Subject: kermit drop lines on exit
Date: 30 Sep 1993 11:51:34 GMT

I am trying to connect to the Univ net through the modem, and then use term
on both ends to establish multiple connect.
steps taken.
linux> kermit
kermit>dial xxxxxxx
kermit>c
login udelnet>
passwd udelnet>
udelnet>term
escape sequence back to kermit on linux
kermit>!term </dev/modem >/dev/modem &
kermit> exit

here is the problem, my connection is dropped.
I do not know if it is the linux side or the udel net side.
any ideas.

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From: [email-masked] (John Chambers)
Subject: What processors does linux run on?
Date: 30 Sep 93 10:52:35 GMT
Reply-To: [email-masked]

Well, I finally found the newsgroup, and digging around via rn didn't
enlighten me, so I thought I'd up and ask ...

A couple of friends are looking at a project that needs a reasonably
small kernel that they can hack with their own real-time stuff, and
box for some customers.  They'd like to have as much Unix stuff on it
so as to make their own lives not too horrible, and they're looking
around at available kernels.  They are, of course, horrified by such
things as Sys/V and BSD, but they've heard some rave reviews of Linux,
along with a comment that "It only runs on Intel 80-whatevers".

So the question is:  Is this true, or has it been ported to other
processors?  If so, which processors (and how might one go about getting
in touch with the Right People)?  If not, well, suppose someone were
to take on the job of porting it to, say, a Motorola or MIPS or Alpha,
would this likely be a 3-month project, or a 10-year project?  Where
would the portability problem likely lie?

As usual, please respond via email; if I get queries of the "me too"
sort, I'll post a summary...

-- 
If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.
  -- Dan Quayle

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From: [email-masked] (Curt L. Olson (Admin))
Subject: Re: Word Processor for Linux (lout)
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1993 12:44:45 GMT

[email-masked] (Peter Mutsaers) writes:

>>> On 28 Sep 93 12:47:08 GMT, [email-masked] (R. Stewart Ellis)
>>> said:
>  RSE> Since joe, jove and emacs are all insert-mode editors that understand
>  RSE> ^F,^B,^N,^P,^A and ^E, I would arrange them like:
>  RSE> vi--elvis-----vile-----------------------joe-------------jove---------emacs
>Judging by insert-mode and some keybindings (which can be completely
>changed anyways in GNU emacs) I think this view is rather simplistic.
>A better arrangement is:
>                          -------GNU-emacs-------
>                          joe-------------jove---
>   vi--elvis-----vile-----
>GNU-emacs is of an other order than the rest, with its M-x compile,
>the Grand Unified Debugger, tags, ange-ftp, complete configurability
>and reprogrammability, so that you can emulate any of the editors that
>are more down to earth.
>Some may think it is nonsense to read mail and news from within an
>'editor', but the same set of keybindings everywhere, and complete
>integration with the editor is a great blessing.

I prefer the following arrangement:

Operating Systems:     ------Linux-------
                       ------Emacs-------
                              ...
                              ...
Editors:               -joe-jove-vi-elvis-vile--

:)

Curt.
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Eliminate theft:  the government can't stand the competition.        .
Try Linux ... if you own a [34]86.  If you own a mac ... :(      \__[0]__/

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From: [email-masked] (Tony Cifelli)
Subject: Busmice
Reply-To: [email-masked] (Tony Cifelli)
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1993 12:42:07 GMT

Has anyone got the busmouse that comes with the ATI Graphics Ultra Plus
(NOT the Pro), to work with X on Linux?  It uses IRQ2.  This can be 
changed if necessary.  Right now the mouse pointer sits in the middle 
of the screen, and is locked up.

Once this is figured out, I will publish my Xconfig and the magic
formula to make this work for all others in the same predicament.

regards,
Tony. 
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From: [email-masked] (Studenten)
Subject: ps doesn't work
Date: 30 Sep 1993 12:57:46 GMT

  I have installed SLS on a 486DX/33 8MB 75MBHD everything worked fine 
  (except at bootup the computer hang after reporting that I have no
  wd80XXX, but after changing my NE2000-card from another computer 
  and changing the IRQ from 5 to 12 the install worked correctly
  (a bug ?))
 
  Now my problem:

    When I used ps it said, I need the directory /proc and
    the line "/proc /proc proc defaults" in /etc/fstub (or something
    like that). After doing so and rebooting (after shutdown) everything
    was the same. I still get the above message.
    Can anybody help me?

                                            Alex
                                    [email-masked]

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