From: Digestifier To: Linux-Misc@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Reply-To: Linux-Misc@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Date: Mon, 1 Nov 93 19:13:54 EST Subject: Linux-Misc Digest #260 Linux-Misc Digest #260, Volume #1 Mon, 1 Nov 93 19:13:54 EST Contents: Re: Linux BBS (Steve Pershing) Linux on a Gateway Handbook 486? (Nathaniel Sammons) Does Linux need a primary partition? (Todd J. Ignasiak) Re: Tcl7.0 / Tk3.3 (Michael O'Reilly) Re: I need a program to boot from b: (Mark Cosham) Linux Compatible BBS (Carl Dewey) Please check XFree86 2.0 file sizes before downloading. (Simon Cooper) Re: Bogomip (Ulf Tietz, Tel-2961, tty40) *** PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE POSTING *** (misc-2.07) (Ian Jackson) Re: OpenGL for Linux? (Marc ter Horst) Berkeley compatible dump command for Linux ext2 fs available ??? (Andreas Klemm) Please check XFree86 2.0 file sizes before downloading. (Simon Cooper) LGX and LMS CD-ROM CM-205 (Carsten Franck) Seattle Linux Users Group (Drinks All The Water) Re: Linux Community Divided ? (was: Linux counter) (P Causse) Nec Multisync II (GODERIS KAREL) Filter giving big problems (Michael Cramer) SLIP connects, but IP doesn't work (packet size problem?) (Przemek Klosowski) Re: Don't compile kernel using LGX sources. (Grant Edwards) Re: LGX (Fall) CDROM review. (Grant Edwards) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: sp@questor.org (Steve Pershing) Subject: Re: Linux BBS Date: Sun, 31 Oct 93 19:28:55 PST arsenio@mobix.uc.pt () writes: => I am looking for a BBS package that run with Linux. If you know any => please Email me. Thanks. Well, Waffle compiles fine under Linux, and costs around USD120. There is also UniBoard BBS available from Riccardo Pizzi in Rome, at a cost of approx. USD20 per line (minimum USD40). The UniBoard BBS is only available as binaries, and the current release only runs on Linux up to 0.99pl12, I think. I hope that the author will soon release code that will work on later releases. E-Mail addresses: FOR WAFFLE: dell@vox.darkside.com FOR UNIBOARD: pizzi@nervous.com Hope that helps! -- THE QUESTOR PROJECT - Steve Pershing, SysAdmin FREE access to e-mail & news: Environ, Sci, Med, AIDS, NativeNet and more. via ZyXEL-1496+ Voice/Data/FAX box: v.42bis, v.32bis, up to 19,200bps. {For info about QUESTOR, send e-mail to: mail-server@questor.org} ------------------------------ Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux From: ns111310@LANCE.ColoState.Edu (Nathaniel Sammons) Subject: Linux on a Gateway Handbook 486? Date: Mon, 01 Nov 1993 05:26:56 GMT Has anyone successfully run linux on a Gateway 2000 Handbook 486? How about any other "subnotebooks"?? _any_ references would be greatly appreciated! thanks, -nate sammons +-------------------------------------------------------------------- | Nate Sammons email: nate@VIS.ColoState.Edu | Colorado State University Computer Visualization Laboratory | #include +----------------------+ ------------------------------ From: ignasiak@tji (Todd J. Ignasiak) Subject: Does Linux need a primary partition? Date: 1 Nov 1993 05:53:38 GMT I am trying to set up my hard drive in the most efficient way, and I'm going to re-install Linux. Does the partition Linux boots on need to be a primary partition or can it boot from a extended partition? I am using OS/2 boot manager if it matters. I know DOS needs to be a primary partition to boot. But, OS/2 can be on an extended partition. I would like to be able to put Linux on an extended partition too, is this possible? -tji -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Todd Ignasiak Network Services Michigan State University ignasiak@tji.cl.msu.edu (OS/2) ------------------------------ From: oreillym@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Michael O'Reilly) Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development Subject: Re: Tcl7.0 / Tk3.3 Date: 1 Nov 1993 06:10:23 GMT Robert J. Willard (rjw9917@bcstec.ca.boeing.com) wrote: : Is anyone currently porting Tcl7.0 and Tk3.3 to Linux? WHat port? just tgrab sources, and compile... followups to comp.os.linux.misc : -- : Bob Willard : Boeing Commercial Airplanes : rjw9917@bcsaic.boeing.com ------------------------------ From: inu574f@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Mark Cosham) Subject: Re: I need a program to boot from b: Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1993 05:22:23 GMT barspi@wam.umd.edu (Barzilai Spinak) writes: > I need a program that would let me boot from drive b: so I can boot Linux >on the school's computer. I know a program like that exist but I couldn't find >it with archie (tried with the string "boot" but it didn't gave me what I >wanted.) > Now, I can imagine a dozen replies telling me to change the setup to make >the second drive the boot drive, or to open up the computer and change the >cables, etc. CAN'T DO THAT, it's not my computer!!!!!!!!!! If you don't have >an useful answer, please keep the words to yourself! >It seems that there are a lot of people here with some superiority complex and >instead of giving easy answers they start to tell people what they should do. >Like they are doing with the guy who asked for a way to access Linux files >from DOS. >SHIT! >(I'm sorry, I don't usually use that kind of language) You could set up LILO to do this for you. Either have LILO installed on your hard disk, or on a floppy in the boot drive. Put an entry in the config file something like the following (I hope it's right - this is from memory...) other=/dev/fd1H1440 (or /dev/fd1h1200, etc...) label=boot-b: unsafe the unsafe means that it won't check it when LILO is installed - so you don't have to have the disk in when you set up LILO. Hopefully this will work with Linux - I've only actually tried it with DOS. Hope this helps Mark Cosham -- Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty. ===========> <=======> <=======> <=======> <=======> <=======> <=========== Mark Cosham Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia cosham@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au inu574f@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au ------------------------------ Subject: Linux Compatible BBS From: carl.dewey@cld9.com (Carl Dewey) Date: Sun, 31 Oct 93 23:43:00 -0600 Looking for Linux Compatible BBS Software, any suggestions requested. cdewey@cld9.com --- * WinQwk 2.0 a#0 * Unregistered Evaluation Copy ------------------------------ From: scooper@vizlab.rutgers.edu (Simon Cooper) Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.admin Subject: Please check XFree86 2.0 file sizes before downloading. Date: 1 Nov 93 02:51:07 GMT Due to timing and an initial problem uploading to tsx-11.mit.edu some Linux archive sites may have corrupt XFree86 2.0 distributions. The following sites are known to have the correct files. tsx-11.mit.edu sunsite.unc.edu At the time of posting the following sites are known to have problems. ftp.funet.fi src.doc.ic.ac.uk Many other European ftp sites that mirror tsx-11.mit.edu at midnight (their time) are likely to have problems. The error occured on tsx-11.mit.edu between 16:53-19:54 EDT (21:53-01:53 GMT). The following is a list of the sizes of the CORRECT files. The sizes and checksums listed in the README file are also CORRECT. 378703 Oct 20 07:19 XF86_8514-2.0.tar.gz 426953 Oct 25 02:41 XF86_Mach32-2.0.tar.gz 382589 Oct 20 07:17 XF86_Mach8-2.0.tar.gz 336937 Oct 20 07:16 XF86_Mono-2.0.tar.gz 416004 Oct 31 13:45 XF86_S3-2.0.tar.gz 404543 Oct 20 07:12 XF86_SVGA-2.0.tar.gz 356513 Oct 20 07:16 XF86_VGA16-2.0.tar.gz 1405 Oct 31 17:38 XFree86-2.0.lsm 783488 Oct 31 14:52 xf86-bin-2.0.tar.gz 7552 Oct 20 05:52 xf86-cfg-2.0.tar.gz 135027 Oct 31 16:42 xf86-doc-2.0.tar.gz 1738408 Oct 20 05:52 xf86-fnt-2.0.tar.gz 1541262 Oct 31 14:03 xf86-kit-2.0.tar.gz 682069 Oct 20 05:46 xf86-lib-2.0.tar.gz 419262 Oct 20 05:48 xf86-man-2.0.tar.gz 1006837 Oct 20 05:50 xf86-pex-2.0.tar.gz 778145 Oct 20 06:36 xf86-prg-2.0.tar.gz 2659275 Oct 31 13:48 xf86-svr-2.0.tar.gz Simon. ------------------------------ From: ulf@rio70.bln.sni.de (Ulf Tietz, Tel-2961, tty40) Subject: Re: Bogomip Date: 1 Nov 1993 09:52:44 +0100 Reply-To: tietz.bln@sni.de (Ulf Tietz) In <2ar6sl$c2m@peril.zot.apana.org.au> hamish@zot.apana.org.au (Hamish Coleman) writes: >acb@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew Bulhak) writes: >>Christopher Lau (clau@acs.ucalgary.ca) wrote: >>: ericg@nickel.ucs.indiana.edu (Eric Chris Garrison) writes: >>: > In article , >>: > wrote: >>: > >choltje@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Christian Holtje) writes: >>: > > >>: > >>>>>>>Two more datapoints: >>: > >>>>>>>486DX-33 -----> 16.5 bogomips >>: > >>>>>>>486DLC-33 -----> 11.2 bogomips (Cyrix cross between 386 and 486) >>: > >>>>>>386DX-25 --> 3.91 BogoMips(tm). >>: > >>>>>386DX-33/387DX-33 --> 6.03 BogoMips(tm) >>: > >>>> 486DX66/2 --> 34.06 BogoMips (tm) >>: > >>>386DX40 ---> 6.99 BogoMips (tm) >>: > >>486DX50/2 ---> 25.0 BogoMips (tm) >>: > >486SX25 ---> 12.24 BogoMips (tm) >>: > 386DX40 ---> 7.29 BogoMips (tm) >>: Cx486DRx2-40 --> 13.10 BogoMips (tm) (clock doubled 486 upgrade processor) >>386sx-16 --> 2.23 BogoMips (tm) >amd386sx-25 --> 3.38 BogoMips (tm) 486DX40 --> 19.97 BogoMips (tm) Pentium 23,96 Bogomips (tm) ???? booted from floppy -- Ulf-Rainer Tietz | S iemens | EUnet: tietz.bln@sni.de Gustav-Meyer Allee 1 | N ixdorf | USA : tietz.bln@sni-usa.com FRG 1 Berlin 65 | I nformation Systems | Tel: +49/30 4673 2961 Fax: -/2915 ================================================================================ ------------------------------ From: ijackson@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ian Jackson) Subject: *** PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE POSTING *** (misc-2.07) Date: Mon, 01 Nov 1993 11:03:02 GMT Please do not post questions to comp.os.linux.misc - read on for details of which groups you should read and post to. Please do not crosspost anything between different groups of the comp.os.linux hierarchy. See Matt Welsh's introduction to the hierarchy, posted weekly. If you have a question about Linux you should get and read the Linux Frequently Asked Questions with Answers list from sunsite.unc.edu, in /pub/Linux/docs, or from another Linux FTP site. It is also posted periodically to c.o.l.announce. In particular, read the question `You still haven't answered my question!' The FAQ will refer you to the Linux HOWTOs (more detailed descriptions of particular topics) found in the HOWTO directory in the same place. Then you should consider posting to comp.os.linux.help - not comp.os.linux.misc. Note that X Windows related questions should go to comp.windows.x.i386unix, and that non-Linux-specific Unix questions should go to comp.unix.questions. Please read the FAQs for these groups before posting - look on rtfm.mit.edu in /pub/usenet/news.answers/Intel-Unix-X-faq and .../unix-faq. Only if you have a posting that is not more appropriate for one of the other Linux groups - ie it is not a question, not about the future development of Linux, not an announcement or bug report and not about system administration - should you post to comp.os.linux.misc. Comments on this posting are welcomed - please email me ! -- Ian Jackson (urgent email: iwj10@phx.cam.ac.uk) 2 Lexington Close, Cambridge, CB4 3LS, England; phone: +44 223 64238 ------------------------------ From: mht@nuclint.nl (Marc ter Horst) Subject: Re: OpenGL for Linux? Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1993 13:23:37 GMT In article fox@graphics.cs.nyu.edu (David S. Fox) writes: >From: fox@graphics.cs.nyu.edu (David S. Fox) >Subject: OpenGL for Linux? >Date: 28 Oct 1993 21:05:00 GMT >There was one a message about a group doing a free GL library which >will run on Linux. Unfortunately, I've lost the message, anyone know >how to get in touch with those folks? Thanks, Alternatively, what are >the prospects of running OpenGL on Linux? >-- >-david -- fox@graphics.cs.nyu.edu There's a package called ygl (used to be xgl) that I saw some mentions on. Try *.X11.announce or one of the other *.X11 groups. Bye, Marc ------------------------------ From: andreas@knobel.knirsch.de (Andreas Klemm) Crossposted-To: de.comp.os.linux Subject: Berkeley compatible dump command for Linux ext2 fs available ??? Date: 1 Nov 1993 15:08:18 -0000 Hello ! Has somebody already ported the bsd dump program (for ffs backups) to Linux for use with the ext2 filesystem ? I've already looked into the Linux Software map 09/93 and into the index of ftp mail servers in Germany, but found nothing on that topic. Or does somebody know if I can use the amanda-2.1.1 backup program with another program than dump (ie. gnu tar or cpio) ? Please answer via e-mail, I'll summarize if such a program is available ... Thanks in advance Andreas /// -- Andreas Klemm /\/\____ Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH andreas@knobel.knirsch.de ___/\/\/ andreas@sunny.wup.de (Unix Support) ------------------------------ From: scooper@vizlab.rutgers.edu (Simon Cooper) Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.announce,comp.os.linux.admin Subject: Please check XFree86 2.0 file sizes before downloading. Date: 1 Nov 1993 17:25:05 +0200 [ Moderator's note: I'm letting this go to this many newsgroups because the potential impact on downloading time and network load is so high. Normally only .announce would be used. --liw ] Due to timing and a problem with uploading to tsx-11.mit.edu some Linux archive sites may have corrupt XFree86 2.0 distributions. The following sites are known to have the correct files. tsx-11.mit.edu sunsite.unc.edu sunshine.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de The following sites are known to have problems. ftp.funet.fi src.doc.ic.ac.uk Many other European ftp sites that mirror tsx-11.mit.edu at midnight their time are likely to have problems. The error occured on tsx-11.mit.edu between 16:53-19:54 EDT (21:53-01:53 GMT). The following is a list of the sizes of the CORRECT files. The sizes and checksums listed in the README file are also CORRECT. 378703 Oct 20 07:19 XF86_8514-2.0.tar.gz 426953 Oct 25 02:41 XF86_Mach32-2.0.tar.gz 382589 Oct 20 07:17 XF86_Mach8-2.0.tar.gz 336937 Oct 20 07:16 XF86_Mono-2.0.tar.gz 416004 Oct 31 13:45 XF86_S3-2.0.tar.gz 404543 Oct 20 07:12 XF86_SVGA-2.0.tar.gz 356513 Oct 20 07:16 XF86_VGA16-2.0.tar.gz 1405 Oct 31 17:38 XFree86-2.0.lsm 783488 Oct 31 14:52 xf86-bin-2.0.tar.gz 7552 Oct 20 05:52 xf86-cfg-2.0.tar.gz 135027 Oct 31 16:42 xf86-doc-2.0.tar.gz 1738408 Oct 20 05:52 xf86-fnt-2.0.tar.gz 1541262 Oct 31 14:03 xf86-kit-2.0.tar.gz 682069 Oct 20 05:46 xf86-lib-2.0.tar.gz 419262 Oct 20 05:48 xf86-man-2.0.tar.gz 1006837 Oct 20 05:50 xf86-pex-2.0.tar.gz 778145 Oct 20 06:36 xf86-prg-2.0.tar.gz 2659275 Oct 31 13:48 xf86-svr-2.0.tar.gz Simon. ------------------------------ From: cfranck@rama.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Carsten Franck) Subject: LGX and LMS CD-ROM CM-205 Date: 1 Nov 1993 15:39:32 GMT References: <1993Oct20.133333.25505@uwasa.fi> b71588@brando.uwasa.fi (Pekka Juhani Leinola) writes: >I have Hitachi 1750S and tried to install system from the CD with the boot disk, but the installation stops >to message : Kernel Panic : Unable to mount root. >I suppose it doesn't support the 1750S (as the manual says), but does anyone has any solution to this, >exept to buy a new CD-ROM ;) hmm, this seems to be a pertinent problem with lgx. i had the same experience with a philips-lms cm-205 cd-rom. comparing the source code which should work according to the manual claims and an actual debugging of the msdos driver for the last 2 days has revealed severe differences. the only thing in common is the base address 0x340. it is a real pity, but at least there is a 30 day trial period and i guess i'll have to return the cd for a refund. up to this point i have managed to get something of an idea how to access the drive via direct commands, alas it is not sufficient yet to write my own device driver. and then there is the egg & chicken problem, how to compile something for linux, if your system is on a cd ? needless to say, that i am a bit disappointed that the manual claims are only vaporware (at least with my version of a CM-205). sincerely, carsten ------------------------------ Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,seattle.general From: boutell@netcom.com (Drinks All The Water) Subject: Seattle Linux Users Group Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1993 15:52:50 GMT (A thousand pardons for those who wish I had restricted my distribution better, but netcom won't let me use a seattle distribution in the Linux groups. Why, I have absolutely no idea. I would have restricted to US but it might be worth the trouble to a few folks in British Columbia to get involved. I'll keep it short.) I'm forming a Seattle Area Linux Users Group. (What dressing would you prefer on your SALUG, sir?) If you're in the Seattle area and running Linux, or would like to be, drop me a line. Let's have a latte and tweak our /etc/rc.locals together. (Oooh!) WHAT IS LINUX? (for those in the Seattle group who don't know) Linux is a fully Unix- compatible, fully free (yes, that means *no money*, Virginia) Real Operating System you can install on your 386- class or better PC. You get XWindows, real multitasking, all the Gnu utilities, many neat graphical toys, gobs of other neat things. See comp.os.linux.announce and read the FAQ if you're curious and haven't encountered it before. "But isn't MSDOS the be-all and end-all of existence?" Not. -T -- i'll be under the floorboards with my face in the sun ------------------------------ From: caussep@westminster.ac.uk (P Causse) Subject: Re: Linux Community Divided ? (was: Linux counter) Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1993 15:59:04 GMT dan@archimedes.lance.colostate.edu wrote: <<<< Stuff deleted >>> : I believe without the commercial apps, linux will *never* be : anything but a toy : operating system. Have you ever seen a toy providing a so large mount of applications: Languages - C, C++, lisp, prolog, perl, smalltalk, fortran, pascal, etc... Typesetting - TeX / LaTeX / Interviews / Ghostview&Ghostscript / XFig CAD/CAM - The "chipmunk" VLSI CAD tool, spice (analog simulation pgm), ocean(VLSI silicon compiler) Database - ingres / postgres Spreadsheet - XSpread is more powerful than microsoft's multiplan / excel And many, many other applications freely available. I feel my 'toy' is not so bad. Ya should order one for X-mas !!! : |> Flame protection suits on, everyone :-) This ain't no flame. Just reality... -- Enjoy the Linux way of life ! /\ /\ ============================ / \ ^ ^ / \ / ( O O ) \ ------------------------------ From: tw41770@vub.ac.be (GODERIS KAREL) Subject: Nec Multisync II Date: 1 Nov 93 15:41:52 GMT Hi, Is there anybody out there still using a second-generation nbec multysinc II? C I mean d ththe model before nec multysinc 2A. Can you pass over ya Xconfig file? I know there's a entry for the monitor in the database with Xfree but that doesn't work properly.... Karel Goderis tw41770@vub.ac.be 2:291/736@fidonet.org c ------------------------------ From: cramer@exg106.rh.psu.edu (Michael Cramer) Crossposted-To: comp.mail.elm Subject: Filter giving big problems Date: 1 Nov 1993 16:35:35 GMT I am running a Linux box with patchlevel 13 of the Kernel, and have recently run across a problem with filter. I am also running Elm 2.4 PL23 and all the associated stuff. The problem is the following: Mail is sent to me from a LOCAL user, test: echo blah | elm cramer i have a .forward in my home directory of the followoing: "| /home/cramer/bin/filter -o /home/cramer/Misc/filter-errors" After the mail is sent I get the following on the end of /home/cramer/Misc/filter-errors: filter (Mon Nov 01 11:23:52 1993 test): Couldn't read filter rules file "/home/test/.elm/filter-rules"! And the mail is put in test's incoming mailbox. Why would filter try to look into test's filter-rules, when it should be looking into mine? None of this happens when remote mail is sent to me. It is only when it is mailed from on this machine. -- Michael Cramer | "Why does man kill? He kills for food. MikeCramer@psu.edu | And not only food: frequently there must Finger for PGP 2.3 public key... | be a beverage." -- Woody Allen ------------------------------ Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help From: przemek@rrdbartok.nist.gov (Przemek Klosowski) Subject: SLIP connects, but IP doesn't work (packet size problem?) Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1993 16:34:41 GMT Hello, I have been trying to set up my home Linux 0.99p13 386/25 to use SLIP. I used SLS 1.03 distribution. In short, I think I get the route and ifconfig part right, because I can _ping_ both my slip server and arbitrary IP adresses; however, the TCP/IP programs (telnet, ftp) do not work. There are also problems for pings when I set a large packet size. Here are the details: I have a Practical Peripherals v32b internal modem on ttyS1. I configure the modem with disabled compression negotiation because it did cause me problems in the past; this setup works under DOS/Clarkson SLIP/NCSA Telnet. Under Linux, I used dip to connect to our slip server. BTW, I had to patch dip source because I needed to 'send' a multiword command to the server as a part of the dialup sequence, and the distribution version of dip does not allow to 'send' a space within a string. I can't include the patch here because my Linux's IP doesn't work yet :^( In my dip script I tried MTU sizes of 1500, 1000 and 500: it did not seem to change the behaviour described below. I connected to the slip server and set mode to slip. Next, I needed to change some ifconfig parameters (we are on a subnetted class B network, so the default ifconfig broadcast/netmask is wrong). I also did 'route add default gw '. Now I have an 'almost works' situation: 'ping ' shows packets being returned. Ping'ing hosts beyond our slip server works too. Even name resolving using our local nameservers works. However, telnet and ftp hang, AFTER printing a message about successfull connection to a host. I also noticed that 'ping -sxxx ' fails in mysterious ways, for the packet size xxx larger than some number that I correlate with anything (on one occasion, xxx was exactly 565; on another try I got ICMP packets as large as 800 bytes through; I may have changed the MTU in the meantime) The failure mode of ping is interesting: it says that a byte in the packet (byte number 565 when it fails for 565 byte packets, as far as I remember) is 0x00 while it should have been 0x20, and then it spews hex numbers on the screen that look like the packet contents. I suspected that I may have problems with the MTU, but I tried MTU of 270, 500, 1000 and 1500, without apparent change in the symptoms, except perhaps change in the treshold at which ping fails. I did not investigate this correlation systematically, because it was late at night, and my wife told me to quit immediately :^). -- przemek klosowski (przemek@rrdstrad.nist.gov) Reactor Division (bldg. 235), E111 National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA (301) 975 6249 tel (301) 921 9847 fax ------------------------------ From: grante@hydro.rosemount.com (Grant Edwards) Subject: Re: Don't compile kernel using LGX sources. Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1993 16:43:50 GMT Juha Laiho (jlaiho@ichaos.nullnet.fi) wrote: : grante@hydro.rosemount.com (Grant Edwards) said: : >After much messing about trying to get a new kernel built using the : >Yggdrasil LGX source files, I finally gave up on the LGX sources and : >kermitted a clean distribution of patch level 13. : >The LGX sources have several problems. The high points are: : > : >1) The /usr/src/linux/fs/proc directory is missing completely. : > : > (Once I got the .99.13 proc stuff, it wouldn't compile with the LGX : > header files -- which I _assumed_ were .99.13, since their : > advertisements claim it's a .99.13 kernel.) : $ ls /cdrom/usr/src/linux/fs/proc : Makefile base.c inode.c link.c net.c : array.c fd.c kmsg.c mem.c root.c : And the cdrom is Yggdrasil Fall-93 LGX distribution. : Strange that they exist on my CD but not on yours.. They weren't installed on the hard disk by the "install" script. Somebody else also said to manually copy the files from the cd to my hard disk, but I don't _have_ the cd anymore. That's why I grabbed the proc stuff off sunsite, which led to my discovery that the LGX sources weren't really pl13. -- Grant Edwards |Yow! I just got my PRINCE Rosemount Inc. |bumper sticker.. But now I |can't remember WHO he is... grante@rosemount.com | ------------------------------ Crossposted-To: aus.computers.linux From: grante@hydro.rosemount.com (Grant Edwards) Subject: Re: LGX (Fall) CDROM review. Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1993 16:53:17 GMT Rick (pclink@qus102.qld.tne.oz.au) wrote: : I've been working with the LGX CDROM for a for a fortnight now, and I'd : thought I'd share my experiences. [...] : The install script allows you a choice of installations - cd_dependant : (1Mb), runtime (27Mb), complete (235Mb) and everything (700Mb). I : installed the runtime system, with a view to customizing my system with : the control panel, an application that allows you to selectively install : packages. Some of the problems I encountered may have been due to this : partial install - it's possible that users doing the complete install : would have less trouble. I think you're right. Comparing my experience with ta complete install with another's experience with a runtime-then-selectively-install setup, I had fewer problems. Of course you've got to have 235MB to spare if you're going to do a complete install then delete what you don't use. The main problems I had were in trying to rebuild the kernel. I finally grabbed the real pl13 soruces from sunsite. -- Grant Edwards |Yow! Isn't this my STOP?! Rosemount Inc. | | grante@rosemount.com | ------------------------------ ** 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-Misc-Request@NEWS-DIGESTS.MIT.EDU You can send mail to the entire list (and comp.os.linux.misc) via: Internet: Linux-Misc@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-Misc Digest ******************************