Subject: Linux-Misc Digest #357
From: Digestifier <Linux-Misc-Request@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
To: Linux-Misc@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU
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Date:     Sat, 2 Jul 94 16:15:43 EDT

Linux-Misc Digest #357, Volume #2                 Sat, 2 Jul 94 16:15:43 EDT

Contents:
  Re: Linux better than OS/2 for net surfing (Andy Longton)
  Re: QuickTime-Player (Donald K. Wong)
  Lemacs with term support? (Christian Saucier)
  When was Linux born? (Byron Faber)
  Re: Advice on which large IDE HD to buy .... (las@light-house.uucp)
  Re: Two Questions: INN and NTP (not NNTP) (Matthew Dillon)
  Re: Wordperfect and other Dos questions (Steve DuChene)
  Re: Linux better than OS/2 for net surfing (Jim Robinson)
  Re: VP/ix for Linux? (James B. MacLean)
  BSD-hunt for Linux? (las@light-house.uucp)
  Re: POV-Ray for Linux : it's official (las@light-house.uucp)
  Re: Linux better than OS/2 for net surfing (Leo L Turetsky)
  Re: OS/2 and Linux discussed (Re: TCP/IP: The reason I dumped OS/2) (Leo L Turetsky)
  Storing files on a second harddisk possible? (Wing Chung)
  spurious interrupts on eth0 - why? (Michal Jaegermann)
  Re: Linux better than OS/2 for net surfing (Leo L Turetsky)
  Q. on amnt space and serial mouse (Cynon)
  Re: Linux and UltraStor 34F SCSI Controller (David H Dennis)
  Re: Can a DOS virus harm my linux partition? (David H Dennis)
  Texel / Plextor CD-ROMs (Philippe Steindl)

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From: alongton@clark.net (Andy Longton)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux better than OS/2 for net surfing
Date: 2 Jul 1994 16:16:08 GMT

Chun Hsu (hsuc@msu.edu) wrote:

: I truly hope that I am wrong and that most companies send
: users patches for free.  However, it has not happened for
: me yet.  I am curious, does anyone know which companies
: "send" patches for free and which ones don't.  Is it really
: the norm for better companies or just for more expensive
: products?  I suspect the latter.

Here's my experience with upgrades.  Chime in if you have found it to be 
different....

While this is not always the case, my experience is that if it's a defect 
the upgrade is free or very low cost ($5-10) for any commercial 
software or even adapter ROMs.  Upgrades between major versions, though, 
are almost never free unless the older version was purchased a month or two 
before or after the new version was released.

Usually, if the defect makes the product impossible to use, or if a major 
feature was not included that should have been, the patch/upgrade is 
free.  If it's a minor defect, the upgrade usually covers S&H + materials 
costs -- easily in the $5 - $7 range depending on how they ship and what 
makes up the upgrade.  (Note: If the upgrade cost is below $5, it's often 
worth it to the company to give the upgrade away free -- it would cost 
too much time and effort to cash a $4 check!)

Sometimes, getting the upgrade requires pointing out a problem that the 
technician might not know about or they might believe is user error.  
Proving it's not user error can often be quite a pain since you often 
have to know the product as well as the technician, or the problem has to 
be _very_ obvious.

For example, I have a Supra 14.4 FAX/Modem.  I was unable to use it to 
connect with a few different local BBS'.  After talking to two different 
people at Supra, I was able to convince them that it was not my fault or 
the fault of the phone company that the connection did not happen.  At 
that point, they shipped the upgrade ROMs free of charge.

I have had some companies send upgrade diskettes even though I didn't ask 
for them -- though that's rare.  Both Oracle (Power Edit) and Id (Doom) 
sent out upgrades at no cost that actually added features -- in the case 
of Oracle, adding support for another word processor.

In the case of OS/2, I've paid for Beta releases but not for upgrades of 
released code.  The idea of paying for a Beta release is kinda odd, but 
does not trouble me much since it makes getting a Beta more certian.  
With previous betas, I've either had to prove why I should be on the 
Beta, or I've encountered a fairly relaxed beta staff that basically 
would sign up anyone -- both understandable depending on what's being 
tested.  

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From: dkwong@po.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (Donald K. Wong)
Subject: Re: QuickTime-Player
Date: 30 Jun 94 21:47:40 GMT

In article <2uu2qk$jlu@artemis.ai-lab.fh-furtwangen.de>,
Andreas Zeidler <zeidler@ai-lab.fh-furtwangen.de> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>does anybody know, whether there's a player for Mac's QuickTime-Movies
>available for Unix/X11?
>

I am interested as well...please post a location.

-- 
Donald K. Wong
dkwong@pasteur.eecs.berkeley.edu

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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
From: saucc00@DMI.USherb.CA (Christian Saucier)
Subject: Lemacs with term support?
Date: Sat, 2 Jul 1994 16:19:17 GMT

I installed lemacs recently and it comes with these telnet, ftp and w3
goodies.  Is there a way to have these working with term?

Thank you,

Christian


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From: btf57346@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Byron Faber)
Subject: When was Linux born?
Date: 2 Jul 1994 17:04:17 GMT

For the history books.  When did Linux first come into existance?

Anyway, 
Byron Faber
-- 
`Playing this disk at loud volume may permanently damage your speakers or
other sound components.'                                -LFO
                b-faber@uiuc.edu & http://www.cen.uiuc.edu/~bf11620/

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From: las@light-house.uucp
Subject: Re: Advice on which large IDE HD to buy ....
Date: Sat, 2 Jul 1994 12:34:30 GMT
Reply-To: whome!light-house!las@planix.com

Stephen Timson (stimson@stanford.edu) wrote:
: Erik Olson (erik@marge.phys.washington.edu) wrote:
: : kaszeta@arctic.uucp (Richard W Kaszeta) writes:



: Speaking of heat, if you need a new heater in the room try the Maxtor 540A.
: That thing COOKS -- hot enough to burn you if you hold it a while - granted
: it wouldn't be a BAD burn ....  However, it does work fine (for me) in
: both DOS and Linux, with multiple track reading or whatever.  And for speed 
: and price, MAN what a bargain.


You must be joking. I have two Maxtor hard-drives happily chugging away,
and their power consumption is ~2 Watts. 

I am quoting the Maxtor spec sheet for the Maxtor 7546:

Read-Write (W)                  3.7
Idle Acttive (W)                3.7
Standby/Sleep(W)                0.7     

While this is not the exact model you are talking about, I can't believe
that the 540A would draw such a current.



        

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From: dillon@apollo.west.oic.com (Matthew Dillon)
Subject: Re: Two Questions: INN and NTP (not NNTP)
Date: 1 Jul 1994 11:27:43 -0700

In article <2v0s7f$kv@news.u.washington.edu> tzs@u.washington.edu (Tim Smith) writes:
:Michael O'Reilly <michael@iinet.com.au> wrote:
:>      b) something like 'slurp' to actually grab news. this is
:>something you want to avoid it at all possible. In particular, slurp
:>places a pretty huge load on the system you're grabbing news from.
:
:What exactly is it about pulling news that loads a server?  Is it
:the NEWNES command that slurp and nntpxfer use to find new articles?
:(I'm guessing that because the server I connect to from home takes
:about 20 minutes to respond to a NEWNEWS command).

    Got it in one!  When you pull news by date with the 'newnews' command,
    you are basically asking the server to give you a list of all articles
    that came in since date XXX (i.e. since the last time you pulled news).

    Unfortunately, news is not indexed by date, so the poor server winds up
    scanning the article headers.  If you have a couple of people doing this,
    it can effectively halt a machine.

    The problem is directly related to the amount of news the server handles.
    A server handling a full feed can get into trouble almost immediately
    when people use NEWNEWS.

:I've been using a program of my own that doesn't use NEWNEWS.  It
:keeps track of the highest article number in each group I get, and
:determines if there are new articles by entering each group and
:noting the response from the server.  It then gets the articles by
:doing a "xhdr Message-ID" command, specifying and the range all the
:new articles, and then doing "article" commands on each Message-ID.
:(Actually, I get the ID's from all the groups I receive, and weed
:out duplicates, but that's not relevant).  Is this less of a load on
:the server than slurp or nntpxfer?  It seems to be nicer on the server
:I'm using--my newsfeed has been cut from about 2 hours per connection
:via nntpxfer to about 30 minutes via suck (that's my program).
:
:--Tim Smith

    As long as you are careful about INN renumbering its articles, you
    are ok.  Your method will take considerably LESS cpu on the server
    then NEWNEWS since articles are indexed by Message-Id as well as by
    article number.

                                                -Matt

-- 

    Matthew Dillon              dillon@apollo.west.oic.com
    1005 Apollo Way             ham: KC6LVW (no mail drop)
    Incline Village, NV. 89451  Obvious Implementations Corporation
    USA                         Sandel-Avery Engineering
    [always include a portion of the original email in any response!]


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From: s0017210@cc.ysu.edu (Steve DuChene)
Subject: Re: Wordperfect and other Dos questions
Date: 1 Jul 1994 04:42:46 GMT

        There are hints in the DOSEMU files that come with the source
        distribution for getting SIMCITY working in DOSEMU. That would
        eliminate rebooting for that game at least (or any game that
        doesn't use protected mode although the developers are working
        on DPMI stuff it isn't finished yet). Some have even reported 
        getting Wolf3D working in DOSEMU. 
-- 
| sduchene@cis.ysu.edu  or  s0017210@cc.ysu.edu  Steven A. DuChene  
| Youngstown State University  | Computer Science / Math / Mech. Eng.
|They all laughed at Albert Einstein. They all laughed at Columbus. 
|Unfortunately, they also all laughed at Bozo the Clown. 

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From: jimr@shorty.cs.wisc.edu (Jim Robinson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux better than OS/2 for net surfing
Date: 1 Jul 1994 18:14:54 GMT

In article <ajross.773070798@husc10.harvard.edu> ajross@husc10.harvard.edu (Andrew) writes:
>I know I really shouldn't be ribbing you, since I use all this stuff
>under linux myself, but you do realize that all of the above software
>is available in Native OS/2 ports (except X/Fvwm of course).  There
>are 2 GCC 2.5.8 ports, each one capable of compiling fully native OS/2
>PM code.


Yes I am fully aware of that, and I don't see it as ribbing, I think
it is a very important point.  Some people forget that a lot of free
software is so good that it is ported to other Operating Systems.
Linux hackers wanted the software the had used before, on other
platforms, and either compiled is straight off the source, or ported
it.  Same with OS/2.  If people like it, and it is freely available,
it is going to migrate.  This is a Good Thing(tm).

The question of what real-work applications existed was answered, that
was the point.  Of couse, just for the sake of the thread, my other
point was that the Linux distributions came with that software all
ready to go, and thus had many real applications available fast and
easy the second you get Linux. :) [duck]



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From: jmaclean@fox.nstn.ns.ca (James B. MacLean)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: VP/ix for Linux?
Date: 1 Jul 1994 15:01:46 -0300

In article <Cs3J7n.57B@pe1chl.ampr.org> rob@pe1chl.ampr.org (Rob Janssen) writes:
>From: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org (Rob Janssen)
>Subject: Re: VP/ix for Linux?
>Date: Tue, 28 Jun 1994 07:23:46 GMT

>>Good one. Not yet. Some day though :-) One big obstacle at this point for 
>>many drivers is DMA access.

>You would need to control the DMA controller in a similar way as is done
>for virtual COM ports.

Any DOCs on this around? Do you think we could do it Rob? I thought it would 
be much more difficult from the get go.

>Rob
>-- 
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------
>| Rob Janssen                | AMPRnet:   rob@pe1chl.ampr.org           |
>| e-mail: pe1chl@rabo.nl     | AX.25 BBS: PE1CHL@PI8UTR.#UTR.NLD.EU     |
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------

Later,
JES
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
James B. MacLean                    jmaclean@fox.nstn.ns.ca
Department of Education
Nova Scotia, Canada (902) 424-8438

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From: las@light-house.uucp
Subject: BSD-hunt for Linux?
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 1994 13:54:17 GMT
Reply-To: whome!light-house!las@planix.com


    Has anybody ported the hunt game to Linux?
    
    I have a very old (1985) version, and it doesn't work
    with my domain sockets. 
    
    Thanks for any help you might provide.
    
    
    
    


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From: las@light-house.uucp
Subject: Re: POV-Ray for Linux : it's official
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 1994 14:08:12 GMT
Reply-To: whome!light-house!las@planix.com

Christopher Cason (cjcason@yarrow.wt.uwa.edu.au) wrote:
: As mentioned in comp.os.linux.announce, an officially-supported POV 
: binary is to be released for Linux. At this stage, I want to know -

: which is the best port of POV to Linux ???
: - or -
: what are the best features of each port ???

: as I have been told that there are several ones out there ...

: regards,

: -- Chris

Great to hear from you!

I am using Jeff Eppler's SVGA display driver with POV 2.2.

For xpov, I am using your xwindows.c. I do not know if there are other
versions around, but I got mine from ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/linux/slackware_source/
graphics/extra/raytracing.

Regards,

    Laszlo
    
P.S. Is anybody writing a POV modeler for Linux/X ?    


 

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From: Leo L Turetsky <professor+@CMU.EDU>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux better than OS/2 for net surfing
Date: Fri,  1 Jul 1994 14:14:34 -0400

Excerpts from netnews.comp.os.linux.misc: 30-Jun-94 Re: Linux better
than OS/2 .. by Mike Dahmus@news.gate.ne 
> Provide some supporting evidence, or stop making these wildly nonsensical
> claims. Only a complete idiot would claim that NextStep currently supports
> more hardware than does OS/2.

Okay... why don't you ftp to the NeXT site and get the hardware FAQ. I
did provide evidence, or where to look for it anyway. Only a complete
idiot would disagree with the fact that NeXT drivers work when they are
released as opposed to OS/2 drivers. Also because NeXT is so hardware
intensive it can't use low end hardware, like the Adaptec 1522. Because
OS/2 supports this card doesn't mean anything... NeXT can't even use it.
What I am comparing is high end hardware like the new Adpaptec 2742 (?)
and cards along that end.
  
> And what do you call CSD1 and CSD2? Taken together, they provide all of the
> "fixes" necessary to upgrade OS/2 2.0 to OS/2 2.1 level (without upgrading
> Win-OS/2 to 3.1, or giving multimedia).

I call this defective, moronic, and poor computing from IBM.
  
> Cost of these fixes: $0.00

Yeah, if you have internet access.... 0.00 my foot.
 
> Cost of service pack 1 for OS/2 2.1: $0.00

Whatever...
  
> And if you think Next has never released versions of NextStep with bugs, I'd
> like to sell you some land in the Everglades.

I never claimed this. I said NeXT wouldn't complain about releasing free
patches. I'd like to sell you a clue... nah... take one free, you need
it.

-Leo

+----------------------------------------------------------+
| Leo Turetsky          |  1) leo@professor.pc.cc.cmu.edu  |
| Sigma Nu              |  2) professor@cmu.edu            |
| 1055 Morewood Ave.    |  Carnegie-Mellon University      |
| Pittsburgh, PA 15213  |  Sophomore, ECE\CS Double Major  |
| (412) 862-2963        |  Nugget: SPIN BHBHY, YAXY?       |
+----------------------esp---------------------------------+


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From: Leo L Turetsky <professor+@CMU.EDU>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: OS/2 and Linux discussed (Re: TCP/IP: The reason I dumped OS/2)
Date: Fri,  1 Jul 1994 14:21:25 -0400

Excerpts from netnews.comp.os.linux.misc: 30-Jun-94 Re: OS/2 and Linux
discusse.. by Andrew@husc10.harvard.ed 
> >Actually, I hate OpenLook. I use fvwm. Same difference in functionality
> >but fvwm is faster and uses les RAM. Use Ez if you want an editor, it's
> >like six times smaller than emacs with more editing features. Fine PM is
>                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >an addon. Now what do you have left... nothing. I eliminate X and I
> >still have unix...
>  
> Ahem...  Now you are _really_ getting out of hand.  Are your _sure_
> about that? ;)

Are you making a point? Emacs' full distribution is over 25 megs... ez is six.
  
> Also, if you are using (or not using, as the case may be) OpenLook as
> a window manager then you are missing the point.  OpenLook, like the
> WPS, is an OO (sort of) environment.  It does more than manage your
> window borders and launch programs.

Yeah, I use the libs, but the windows manager is useless. Libs and GUI's
are different things.
  
> You also seem be missing the fact that OS/2 _also_ has extensive
> character mode features, and can be booted using CMD.EXE (or 4OS2, or
> even bash) as the shell.  There are quite a few character mode
> applications out there that make no use of PM -- including most of the
> gnu stuff.  Eliminate X and you still have Unix.  Eliminate PM and you
> still have OS/2.  Where is the difference?

Show me one OS/2 system that runs without PM; I mean never loads it at all.
   
> >> And a one disk installation of Linux can't really do anything, can
it?  OK,
> >> you could feasibly make a boot disk with a few TCP/IP clients on it,
> >but you'd
> >> have to remove so much stuff that it would be severely crippled.
>  
> >It can do plenty.
>  
> OK, come on now.  If we are going to have rabid flame wars here, you
> are going to have to try harder.  The poster above made the point that
> you really can't do much with a one-floppy unix system (or OS/2
> system, for that matter).  He even went out of his way to admit there
> might be a few things you _could_ stick on it -- telnet, etc...
>  
> You responded:  It can do plenty.
>  
> Plenty of what?  Come on now, _that's_ not advocacy.  Let's see some
> effort ;)

This is a lame post, I didn't see you do any advocating either.
Physician heal thyself. You can have a bootabkle kernel on disk that
will have full ethernet functionality and sound suppost and whatever.
This kernel is about 250K which leaves about 1150K for apps. Sounds like
plenty to me.

-Leo

+----------------------------------------------------------+
| Leo Turetsky          |  1) leo@professor.pc.cc.cmu.edu  |
| Sigma Nu              |  2) professor@cmu.edu            |
| 1055 Morewood Ave.    |  Carnegie-Mellon University      |
| Pittsburgh, PA 15213  |  Sophomore, ECE\CS Double Major  |
| (412) 862-2963        |  Nugget: SPIN BHBHY, YAXY?       |
+----------------------esp---------------------------------+


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From: wing@research.canon.oz.au (Wing Chung)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Storing files on a second harddisk possible?
Date: 30 Jun 94 02:25:19 GMT

Hi all,

I ran out of harddisk space on my first HD and wonder if I can
use my second HD for storing linux files.

I have two harddisk installed on my PC. Drive C: is 420 MB and
Drive D: is 80 MB (referred to using MSDOS terms). MSDOS on 
/dev/hda1, Linux is installed on /dev/hda2, swap on /dev/hda3.

At the moment the 80MB HD is a MSDOS drive and is not used.

In a previous discussion, it was mentioned that it is possible
to store files on another partitions (maybe these are not system
files) and run Linux on another. My situation is similar but I
need to put the partition on another HD. Is this possible, and
how can I do this?

Thanks in advance

Wing C.

p.s. BTW I posted a question on LJ4L setup earlier. I'll post the
     replies here next week to the others who are having trouble
     setting up their LJ4L can share the results.
-- 
Wing Chung                                   wing@research.canon.oz.au
Canon Information Systems Research Australia Phone +61 2 805 2976
P.O. Box 313 North Ryde, NSW, Australia 2113 Fax:  +61 2 805 2929

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From: michal@gortel.phys.ualberta.ca (Michal Jaegermann)
Subject: spurious interrupts on eth0 - why?
Reply-To: michal@phys.ualberta.ca
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 1994 18:37:29 GMT

Everything worked fine for a while and all of sudden my
/var/adm/messages are flooded with entries like below:

....
Jul  1 11:05:53 ellpspace kernel: eth0: unknown interrupt 0x1
Jul  1 11:05:53 ellpspace last message repeated 3 times
Jul  1 11:10:22 ellpspace kernel: eth0: unknown interrupt 0x1
Jul  1 11:15:59 ellpspace kernel: eth0: unknown interrupt 0x1
Jul  1 11:21:01 ellpspace kernel: eth0: unknown interrupt 0x1
Jul  1 11:21:46 ellpspace last message repeated 4 times
....

Does anybody has an idea what happened and why?  No visible changes were
performed.  A few days ago I got some 10 messages like that in 24 hours,
after that was a lull period which lasted a day, or so, and later this
storm started.

   Thanks for any suggestions,
   Michal

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From: professor+@CMU.EDU (Leo L Turetsky)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux better than OS/2 for net surfing
Date: 30 Jun 94 22:33:02 GMT

Excerpts from netnews.comp.os.linux.misc: 30-Jun-94 Re: Linux better
than OS/2 .. by Scott Michel@whirlwind.s 
> As if frequent patches arent upgrades? Linux is hardly free, if you
> cost in the time it takes to get the thing downloaded and installed.
> There are some good installation packages, but that depends who you
> get your distribution from.

Frequent patches being available doesn't mean you should upgrade. If you
join #linux on irc and type linuxbot: version, you'll get the following
message:
    The current version of Linux is 1.0.9. The most recent test kernel
is 1.1.24.

Notice the words test kernel.
  
> But I'd hardly say that I'd bet my enterprise on Linux. There's no
> "compelling" application to make Linux attractive. In fact, that's the
> reason why some of us bet on OS/2 or SCO (I'm in the SCO camp). It
> may not be that SCO is perfect [in fact, far from it], but it is known
> for some stability and has a volume market. Linux is a hacker's dream.

Linux is free. All applications are compelling. It wasn't designed to be
used in the office, and yet there are plenty of companied who do so.
OS/2 is broken; the only thing you depend on it to do is not be
compatible (like Linux) and cost money (not like Linux). SCO is SCO.

-Leo

+----------------------------------------------------------+
| Leo Turetsky          |  1) leo@professor.pc.cc.cmu.edu  |
| Sigma Nu              |  2) professor@cmu.edu            |
| 1055 Morewood Ave.    |  Carnegie-Mellon University      |
| Pittsburgh, PA 15213  |  Sophomore, ECE\CS Double Major  |
| (412) 862-2963        |  Nugget: SPIN BHBHY, YAXY?       |
+----------------------esp---------------------------------+

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From: crobinso@clam.rutgers.edu (Cynon)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Q. on amnt space and serial mouse
Date: 2 Jul 94 18:52:50 GMT

I was wondering if I could get a good install of Linux w/the x-win s/w
on about 40 or so meg of HD space.  In the faq it says you can get
a workable install using 80 meg, but I don't have that available.  I'd
like to try out Linux, but can't drop dos (oh how I'd like to!) or
OS2.

Also, can you use a serial mouse for Linux?

And, is WINE out of beta yet?

Thanks in advance
 

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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
From: dhd@netcom.com (David H Dennis)
Subject: Re: Linux and UltraStor 34F SCSI Controller
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 1994 04:38:40 GMT

Begin quoted text:

      I get exactly this problem when my cdrom is plugged in.  If I disconnect 
the scsi cable to the drive, it works fine.  This is not a solution, this is a 
problem.  Is this similar to your problem?  I have one scsi hd at id 0 and one 
cdrom drive at id 2.

End quoted text.

According to the UltraStor manual, certain brands of SCSI CD ROMs - including
specifically certain NEC models - will work only if parity checking (or some
similar sounding thing - I don't have my manual here) is turned off.  Check
the manual and see if doing that will cure the problem.

I have an Ultrastor 34F CD with 2 1.8GB Quantum SCSI drives and the thing
works flawlessly other than a propensity to leak odd messages to the console
("Ux4F: Multiple commands completed").  This started happening after 
installed my second drive, and apparently Linux is very proud that it's
using one of the controller's special features.

D

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From: dhd@netcom.com (David H Dennis)
Subject: Re: Can a DOS virus harm my linux partition?
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 1994 04:44:32 GMT

I wonder what happens when you run DOSEMU under Linux.

I believe that DOS and Linux partitions are considered separate drives by
the operating system, so unless the virus called the hardware directly it
would not be able to tamper with Linux data; the OS would not be able to "see"
it.

A virus that called the hardware directly would be rather dysfunctional
due to the wide variety of hardware used on PCs (SCSI versus IDE drives,
for example).  You'd have to have some particular grudge against people
who used DOS and another operating system on one computer to want to
write such a virus.

D


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From: psteindl@il.us.swissbank.com (Philippe Steindl)
Subject: Texel / Plextor CD-ROMs
Reply-To: ilg@imp.ch
Date: Sat, 2 Jul 1994 18:53:44 GMT

Hullo,

does anzbodz know the newer 4x speed scsi2 Texel/Plextor CD-ROM? I need
informsation about the drive. WIll it run under linux?

thanx

Philippe Steindl


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