From: Digestifier To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Reply-To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Date: Wed, 8 Sep 93 00:02:51 EDT Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #39 Linux-Admin Digest #39, Volume #1 Wed, 8 Sep 93 00:02:51 EDT Contents: Install on a ARC Pentium (Arno Strittmatter) BBS for Linux! (David Savlin) Re: Where's the PostScript stuff for groff? (Erik Heinz) Re: Mitsumi CDROM problem... (Michael Boesch) Re: Backup to QIC-80 tape drive (Colorado) (Craig T Manske) POLL RESULTS, PART 0/7 (Matthew Dillon) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: stm@spatzi.rni.sub.org (Arno Strittmatter) Subject: Install on a ARC Pentium Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1993 17:57:15 GMT Hello I tryed to install Linux 99pl12 SLS 1.03 on an ARC Pentium System it did not work! The Bord was a combitype EISA / VLB, 1542C 32MB RAM It hanged at boottime after that line whis trying Alib.... sorry about my English Thanx Arno -- ==================+=================================+======================== Arno Strittmatter | Tel.: +49-621-24655 | I'm a single and would C2, 16, 220 | Box: +49-621-155162 | like to be a double or D-68159 Mannheim | E-Mail: stm@spatzi.rni.sub.org | at least a float. ------------------------------ From: dhs1@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (David Savlin) Subject: BBS for Linux! Date: 7 Sep 93 17:01:34 GMT Okay now. Since I've gotten Linux up and running on my machine (alas, w/out a HD bootstrap), I've started porting the C framework to my BBS-package-to-be to Linux, removing all the DOS-specific junk. IT IS NOT A BBS YET. Don't ask me for a copy because it don't do much. However, here are the features I had planned to incorporate: o Standard UNIX login, controllable sh access by user o FidoNet front-end and mail tossing/packing (big job tho) o Any termcap emulation supported, including AVATAR (which I will probably have to write myself .. *sigh*) o File transfers with Zmodem via SZ/RZ I was also thinking of writing a very simple message editor with obvious control/function keys along the bottom of the screen, since I only know of two UNIX editors, and both have a steep learning curve (EMACS and VI). My main goal with this was to write a FidoNet front end, actually, since I'm reasonably well versed (and stocked) with the specs for Fido mailers, having run one for several years. I have no plans to put in Usenet mail, because I have *no* connections to get it, and haven't got a clue how to even set up something like nn, let alone code one. What features would you folks like? The system would probably start beta-testing around January. (Hey, folks, I'm taking a full courseload and working a half-time job, too! :-) Small features, no major modules just yet, please. I'm going to have a hell enough of a time with the FidoNet front-end and working with database structures for the user/msg/files databases. And I don't even yet know how to use the termcap library .. :-) If anyone has "useful" source code (C or C++, please), mail me, wouldya? It'd be appreciated. Useful meaning something that might be of value in a project like this. I'm a diehard sysop but I want Linux and only have one machine! Wah! Solution: write a BBS in Linux. There we go. Contact me at dhs1@lehigh.edu, or at 1:2607/203@fidonet. I'd really like to get this project rolling, time constraints notwithstanding, so send in your comments and suggestions! BTW, someone told me Binkley (the DOS fido front-end) was originally written for UNIX. If this is true, does anybody have the source code? I saw the DOS version up on a programmer's bbs near me, but it was for DOS .. Dave -- * PCMCIA: People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms! --- "The segment of our population most visibly susceptible to myth and most productive in this regard are those who are `coming of age,' the young." .............................. David Savlin '. Michael Benedikt, ------------------------------ Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help From: pih@rz.uni-jena.de (Erik Heinz) Subject: Re: Where's the PostScript stuff for groff? Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1993 20:02:27 GMT rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller) writes: >I've got all the nifty groff stuff that came with the SLS-1.03, but it >doesn't seem to include a directory needed by "groff" to produce PostScript >output. ... >So, where do I find this directory? (...and why wasn't it included in SLS?) I recommend you to get the original groff sources from prep.ai.mit.edu (pub/gnu/groff-1.08.tar.gz) and install it yourself. It's quite simple. Besides the PostScript stuff you get some other things, that are missing in SLS, too. For example, a nice groff previewer for X11. Hope, that helps. Erik ------------------------------ From: root@exodus.abg.sub.org (Michael Boesch) Subject: Re: Mitsumi CDROM problem... Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1993 08:14:59 GMT In article 93Sep6000309@uhdux2.uh.edu, dennis@uhdux2.uh.edu (Dennis Gray Jr.) writes: > I have a Mitsumi cdrom drive configured for IRQ 9 and address 0x300 > according to the jumper settings. I took a virgin level 9 kernel and > patched the driver software into it as described in the mcd driver > docs. Did you change the default settings for irq and i/o-port in the sourcecode to your settings ? > I then compiled everything and rebooted and I get: > > ll_rw_block: Trying to read nonexistant block device 1700 (32) > isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev 0x1700 iso_blknum 16 > mount: wrong fs_type, /dev/mcd/ already mounted, /cdrom busy, or other error > > when I try "mount -t iso9660 /dev/mcd /mnt". Did you made the right device for /dev/mcd ? These are the 2 problems I also had installing the mcd-driver. After checking these two things all worked ok. Bye Mike -- Michael Boesch root@exodus.abg.sub.org "God not only plays dice, He sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen." (S. Hawking) ------------------------------ From: albion@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Craig T Manske) Subject: Re: Backup to QIC-80 tape drive (Colorado) Date: 8 Sep 1993 00:40:03 GMT Reply-To: albion@csd4.csd.uwm.edu From article , by hedrick@geneva.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick): < If you mean Berkeley dump, it is specific to the Berkeley file < system. It reads the raw disk. Even on Suns, dump can only be used < with Berkeley file systems. I suspect most people use tar to do < backups under Linux. On Linux, tar is Gnu tar. It has additional < facilities that make it more reasonable for backups than the old Unix < tar. (It can save devices, and can handle long filenames.) At < Rutgers, we use dump when we can, but a lot of our Unix and Unix-like < machines end up being backed up with Gnu tar. I also have a Colorado, and know that the driver is alpha. But, is there a way to use GNU tar to backup to floppy? Kinda like MeSsyDO's backup and restore, or Fullback? Thanx albion albion@csd4.csd.uwm.edu ------------------------------ From: dillon@moonshot.west.oic.com (Matthew Dillon) Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.development Subject: POLL RESULTS, PART 0/7 Date: 7 Sep 1993 18:42:23 -0700 POLL RESULTS Well, for my first major poll I think I did pretty good. There were approximately 213 respondants, we got lots of good stuff! There were a number of problems in the poll... answers not on lines containing "->" could not be handled. There were two exceptions: question: questions 1F and 1D. Answers placed next to the question rather then to the right of the -> WERE handled. Next time I will try to make it clear that you MUST answer to the right of the "->" fields. My statistics program doesn't care about other garbage to the left of the "->", but it needs the "->" to determine where the answer begins. People who removed or shortened the first line of the question... about 5 people, I think... sorry. I forgot to ask for serial and mouse info... maybe next time! (like in 6 months to a year, or somebody else can poll for that info). In 1F I made the mistake of sayiung 'EISA or ISA computer? (if not an intel 486)'. 486 machines CAN have ISA busses. Fortunately, most people with that sort of setup typed in ISA anyway for that question. Also, some people put in long answers for questions expecting short answers... those stats will get chopped off a bit in the generated tables, sorry. THE POLL RESULTS ARE POSTED IN THE MAIN LINUX GROUPS AND ARE ALSO AVAILABLE VIA ANONYMOUS FTP. THE ORIGINAL MAIL MINUS THE HEADERS IS ALSO AVAILABLE VIA ANONYMOUS FTP: ftp idiom.berkeley.ca.us cd pub/linux/poll ls mget * ... whatever -Matt PART 0 - header / comments PART 1 - BASE HARDWARE PART 2 - BARE HARDDRIVES PART 3 - HD CONTROLLER PART 4 - HD/CONTROLLER SPEED PART 5 - VIDEO HARDWARE PART 6 - VIDEO MONITORS PART 7 - ETHERNET CONTROLLERS 213 mail messages Question 1 A:212 B:180 C:197 D:213 E:202 F:174 G:211 H:211 I:182 J:165 Question 2 A:191 B:176 C:171 Question 3 A:191 B:166 C:176 D:167 E:138 Question 4 A:134 B:159 Question 5 A:199 B:176 C:190 D:190 E:198 F:192 G:185 H:163 Question 6 A:184 B:171 C:180 D:68 E:142 Question 7 A:92 B:59 C:67 D:55 E:26 232 people answered question 0 0A. Joe end user with little technical knowledge: 0 0.00% 0B. Joe end user with some application knowledge: 2 0.86% 0C. End user, able to install boards : 3 1.29% 0D. Power PC user, little UNIX knowledge : 11 4.74% 0E. UNIX user : 56 24.13% 0F. expert UNIX user : 15 6.46% 0G. expert UNIX user + system manag. abilities : 70 30.17% 0H. power expert UNIX user, knows most things : 49 21.12% 0I. UNIX guru : 24 10.34% 0J. UNIX god : 2 0.86% Matthew Dillon dillon@moonshot.west.oic.com 1005 Apollo Way dillon@overload.berkeley.ca.us Incline Village, NV. 89451 ham: KC6LVW (no mail drop) USA Sandel-Avery Engineering (702)831-8000 [always include a portion of the original email in any response!] ------------------------------ ** FOR YOUR REFERENCE ** The service address, to which questions about the list itself and requests to be added to or deleted from it should be directed, is: Internet: Linux-Admin-Request@NEWS-DIGESTS.MIT.EDU You can send mail to the entire list (and comp.os.linux.admin) via: Internet: Linux-Admin@NEWS-DIGESTS.MIT.EDU Linux may be obtained via one of these FTP sites: nic.funet.fi pub/OS/Linux tsx-11.mit.edu pub/linux sunsite.unc.edu pub/Linux End of Linux-Admin Digest ******************************