Linux-Misc Digest #849, Volume #24 Sun, 18 Jun 00 11:13:04 EDT
Contents:
LILO installation ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
LILO installation ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
can't start kde2 (Sam Wun)
how to share /usr directory? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Installation problem wth nvidia drivers ("FROZEN_Steam")
Re: Rescue disk without rdev? (Floyd Davidson)
Linux floating point/IEEE Std.745-1985 compliancy ("Niek Bergboer")
Athlon problems (James Pearson)
Re: Delete File With Strange Chars (Dances With Crows)
Re: Small Linux (DeAnn Iwan)
Video modes listed by vga=ask (Jason Green)
Re: DOS for Linux (DeAnn Iwan)
Re: Linux 2.0.33 (Dances With Crows)
Re: Running a.out? (Dances With Crows)
Re: Downloading Mandrake 7.1 ("Mauricio Bahamonde Massa")
Re: Tape backup: tar versus dump (Robert Heller)
Mandrake 7.1 question ("Mauricio Bahamonde Massa")
Re: Multiple NICs ("Larry Laffer")
Re: duplex HDD lilo problem (Joeri Sebrechts)
Re: Is this really possible? (Joeri Sebrechts)
Re: Small Linux (Joeri Sebrechts)
Re: Newbie: Shell Script (Joeri Sebrechts)
Re: kernel Makefile bugs? (OldUncleMe)
Re: Linux floating point/IEEE Std.745-1985 compliancy (Robie Basak)
Re: Strange telnet behavior from win98 (OldUncleMe)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: LILO installation
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 11:05:58 GMT
I have a partition on my hdd, for win98 and for redhat6.2.
I just installed 6.2, I cant seem to get the LILO to load. It only loads
up 2 letters, "LI", instead of "LILO boot:"
I am using an VIA Apollo 6XVE+ mboard, with AWARD BIOS. I tried to set
my BIOS to default and reinstall Linux, but it doesnt work.
Somebody help me... PLEASE!!!!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: LILO installation
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 11:06:05 GMT
I have a partition on my hdd, for win98 and for redhat6.2.
I just installed 6.2, I cant seem to get the LILO to load. It only loads
up 2 letters, "LI", instead of "LILO boot:"
I am using an VIA Apollo 6XVE+ mboard, with AWARD BIOS. I tried to set
my BIOS to default and reinstall Linux, but it doesnt work.
Somebody help me... PLEASE!!!!
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From: Sam Wun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: can't start kde2
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 21:18:09 +1000
I"ve just install kde2, but don't know how to start with it.
I have my path to /usr/local/bin, but I couldn't found a suitable kde*
to start wtih.
Sam
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: how to share /usr directory?
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 11:33:26 GMT
In order to save space, I would like to let multiple networked
computers share a single copy of /usr directory using NFS. However,
the RedHat installation program seems to insist that each computer
must have its own /usr directory in the local hard disk. Is there
any way to do it?
Thanks in advance!
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From: "FROZEN_Steam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.x,nl.comp.os.linux.overig,nl.comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Installation problem wth nvidia drivers
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 13:46:02 +0200
Hello,
I'm trying to install the nvidia drivers for my tnt2 ultra. (I downloaded
them from www.nvidia.com)
But when I do a 'rpm -Uvh NVIDIA-kernel-i386.rpm' I get a message saying
that the package needs kernel 2.2.0 or above, but I us 2.2.5!
What could be the problem? should I update any other libs?
I have SUSE 6.0 with only the kernel updated (2.2.5)
Thanx,
Floris
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From: Floyd Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Rescue disk without rdev?
Date: 18 Jun 2000 02:46:48 -0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Edwards) wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Floyd Davidson wrote:
>
>That probably would've worked -- assuming that rdev was statically linked. I
>had a resque image on another machine, so I just made a resque floppy.
That, of course, is the best answer! One really nice thing about
having multiple machines is being able to access documentation and
the ability to come up with solutions like that when one machine
crashes.
>>But I'm not sure what you need rdev for???
>>
>>Are you using LILO?
>
>Yup.
>
>>For one thing you can boot it directly by stopping it at the LILO prompt and
>>entering something like "linux root=/dev/hda3" to boot with the right
>>partition as root.
>
>The fstab entries would still be wrong, but that's easy enough to fix with
>either of the rescue disks.
That would not stop it from booting though. You can boot without anything
in fstab, manually mount whatever you need, and then edit fstab and reboot.
>>Virtually any parameter you need can be set at that prompt one way or
>>another.
>
>Doh! I _knew_ that, and rdev'ing the kernel on the hard-drive doesn't really
>help when the default LILO configuration overrides it, so I ended up
>rdev'ing the kernel and writing it to a floppy. After booting from the
>floppy, fix the LILO configuration and Bob's your uncle...
There you go! Chalk it all up as a *wonderful* learning experience. :-)
(And if you are young enough the hair will probably grow back in soon.)
Floyd
--
Floyd L. Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska)
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From: "Niek Bergboer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux floating point/IEEE Std.745-1985 compliancy
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 14:10:54 +0200
Hi All,
As I'm planning to use my system for large numerical calculation jobs, I am
a bit worried by rumours that Linux does not
completely conform to the IEEE-745 Standard for Binary Floating Point
Arithmetic (IEEE Std. 745-1985). This means that when doing calculations
with 80-bit floats,
I may lose significant precision.
I take it that compliancy with the IEEE standard should be implemented in
the math libraries, so the question I'm asking may be distribution (and
certainly platform) specific: Is Linux IEEE-745 compliant?
Any comment, help or link to website of related discussion group is highly
appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Niek Bergboer
University of Twente
Faculty of Applied Physics
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
PS: When replying, please reply to my email adress too. Thanks.
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From: James Pearson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Athlon problems
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 11:56:54 GMT
I'm having problems running Redhat 6.2 on an Athlon box - it freezes
when I try to run mkfs on a disk partition.
My set up:
Athlon 700Mhz, Gigabyte 7IX mainboard, 256Mb RAM, 2 IBM
Ultra66 disks (IBM-DTLA-307030).
Redhat 6.2 with kernel 2.2.14-12.
The root disk has a 2Gb root partition, 512Mb swap and the rest spare.
I can install RH6.2, but when I try run mkfs on the large spare
partition, the machine freezes. It also freezes if I try to dd to the
raw spare partition.
I've also tried:
- installing kernel 2.2.15 + ide.2.2.15.20000509 + raid-2.2.15-A0
- using a Promise Ultra66 PCI controller, instead of the on board IDE
controller
.. but with no improvement.
However, if I replace the mainboard/CPU with a Intel based mainboard and
a PII (with or without the Promise controller), it works fine (although
slower).
Can anyone suggest anything else? Could the Athlon/mainboard be faulty?
Is there any other kernel tweak I could make?
For various reasons, I don't want to use a 2.3 based kernel ...
Thanks
James Pearson
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Delete File With Strange Chars
Date: 18 Jun 2000 09:16:44 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 18 Jun 2000 11:02:03 GMT, Henjo
<<8iia7b$fbi$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>>> If your file is really called AAAA/ then you can
>>> narrow it down a bit with something like:
>>> rm -i AAAA*
>It still doesn't work. The dir in question has a really long name with
>about all strange chars I can think of (;\/-*)..
>
>Doesn't anyone know what that method of getting the inode number and
>deleting it with that?
umount the filesystem this weird directory is on, then run "debugfs -w
/dev/hdXX" on it. Read the man page for debugfs. Be careful. The
"rmdir" function in debugfs isn't implemented yet, but you can probably
use the kill_file command on the bad inode. *Run e2fsck after doing
this!*
I believe I said something about using debugfs in a reply to the original
post here. Did it get swallowed up in the Usenet ether, or what?
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows /\ "Man could not stare too long at the face
\----[this space for rent]-----/ \ of the Computer or her children and still
\There is no Darkness in Eternity \ remain as Man." --David Zindell "So did
But only Light too dim for us to see\ they become Gods, or Usenetters?" --/me
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (DeAnn Iwan)
Subject: Re: Small Linux
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 13:24:12 GMT
On Sun, 18 Jun 2000 10:57:30 +0200, Nicholas Murison
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>dru wrote:
>>
>> Is there a Linux installation that will run on a 286?
>
>The Linux kernel was written for the 386 architecture which is
>drastically different from the 286 architecture in some ways, making the
>kernel incompatible with the 286. So, no is the answer, unfortunately.
>--
>Nicholas John Murison
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>Don't mess with penguins
>Registered Linux User #153895 http://counter.li.org
There is, however, MINIX, which is now available with some
sort of open source license. Minix has many UNIX features.
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From: Jason Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Video modes listed by vga=ask
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 14:22:12 +0100
With the vga=ask option set in lilo.conf I get the following list:
Video Adapter: VGA
Mode COLSxROWS
0 0F00 80x25
1 0F01 80x50
2 0F02 80x43
etc.
Can anyone tell me what the 2nd column refers to?
I presume it has something to do with BIOS interupt function used to
switch the adapter to that text mode, but I can't find any such
function that corresponds with the numbers listed.
Entering `scan' results in extra modes listed in the range 01xx.
Is this mode auto-detection carried out by LILO or by the kernel?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (DeAnn Iwan)
Subject: Re: DOS for Linux
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 13:27:02 GMT
On 15 Jun 2000 20:40:04 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Is there a "comercial" DOS emulator that runs under Linux and is able to
>share data with other applications (cut & paste) under linux.
>
>To switch to Linux, I need some DOS programs to run that do not run
>under DOSEMU. This is an excellent program, but not perfected enough
>for my needs.
>
>My programs do run under OS/2 DOS emulation.
>
>Any help??
>
>Paul
>
Caldera still sells DR DOS. A very fine DOS, but one that
eats up quite a bit of normal memory (users have less than 600K left,
which bites for games). Note, you can download a trial version of
DRDOS to see if it will suit your needs.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Linux 2.0.33
Date: 18 Jun 2000 09:28:18 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 18 Jun 2000 06:30:07 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>Is linux 2.0.33 compatible with IIS 4.0
IIS is a Microsoft excretion, therefore it is not going to run on
Linux. However, there is a very nice webserver called Apache which is
available for Linux. It comes with all distros, and docs are available on
http://apache.org/ should you need assistance.
Also, you should really update your kernel. The 2.2.x series has a lot of
improvements, including better hardware support and faster performance.
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows /\ "Man could not stare too long at the face
\----[this space for rent]-----/ \ of the Computer or her children and still
\There is no Darkness in Eternity \ remain as Man." --David Zindell "So did
But only Light too dim for us to see\ they become Gods, or Usenetters?" --/me
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Running a.out?
Date: 18 Jun 2000 09:34:32 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 18 Jun 2000 00:50:56 -0700, Stephen Speicher
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
shouted forth into the ether:
>I have an executable from an older machine in a.out format, and
>when I try to run it on a Redhat 6.1 system I get the error
>message:
> Exec format error. Binary file not executable.
>Is there any way to run these a.out executables on the newer
>RH 6.1 system?
Make sure the module "binfmt_aout" is present under
/lib/modules/KERNELVERSION/fs/ and make sure it's loaded. If it isn't
there, you'll have to compile support for a.out binaries as a module, then
"make modules modules_install".
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows /\ "Man could not stare too long at the face
\----[this space for rent]-----/ \ of the Computer or her children and still
\There is no Darkness in Eternity \ remain as Man." --David Zindell "So did
But only Light too dim for us to see\ they become Gods, or Usenetters?" --/me
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From: "Mauricio Bahamonde Massa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Downloading Mandrake 7.1
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 09:52:15 -0400
the best way will be download a iso image that is 1 file
but if you don't have a cdwriter, it will not work. But any friend of you
that has a external cdwrite drive can lend it to you for a few days.....
Good Luck,
Mauricio.
"Asrhaf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribi� en el mensaje
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I started downloading mandrake 7.1 using absoluteftp 1.7 but some times it
> give me error "failed downloading file" and continue the next .. that is
> mean some files are missed
> my Questions are :
> what is the better way for downloading?
> is there any site contains only one file to download?
> note I have no Cd writer
>
>
>
> --
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From: Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Tape backup: tar versus dump
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 14:03:35 GMT
Craig McCluskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
In a message on Sat, 17 Jun 2000 21:40:40 -0500, wrote :
CM> In reading the tape backup discussions in the comp.os.linux.*
CM> newsgroups,
CM> I read of some using tar for backups and some using dump (of the
CM> standard
CM> Linux commands, that is, 3rd party applications are a different story --
CM> and
CM> unacceptable to my dissertation advisor). We're using an HP 35480A (a
CM> DDS DC [DDS-1 with hardware compression] SCSI drive).
CM>
CM> How can one decide between tar and dump? Both have terse man pages (what
CM> do you expect? :-) ) but dump's seems more inscruitable than tar's. I
CM> know
CM> what tar does (and how to write a short shell script to make it a
CM> proper backup utility), but I don't really have a handle on dump.
CM>
CM> In reading dump's man page, I find it backs up either filesystems or
CM> directories. In backing up directories, it seems to work like tar.
CM> In backing up filesystems, I understand that it works on a partition-by-
CM> partition basis. I have been told that in doing so, it makes an image of
CM> what is on the partition, but have seen no documentation that describes
CM> what's exactly going on.
Dump makes a file-structured backup, but does it at a 'low-level', by
digging 'deep' into the file system structure itself. Tar just walks
the directories.
CM>
CM> In any event, it seems that neither tar nor dump backup the MBR and the
CM> partition size table. Thus in recovering from a total disk loss, one
CM> would
Correct.
CM> have to partition the (new) hard disk, roll the backup tapes onto the
CM> new
CM> disk partitions one-by-one, and then run /sbin/lilo to write the MBR. Is
Right. Generally, the partition table is very disk specific. If a disk
dies, it is more common to replace it with a newer, often larger disk.
This means that the partitioning would be different (differen disk
geometry, etc.). It is thus most often pointless to backup the
partition table. In terms of lilo, what is written by lilo is highly
dependent on *exactly* where the files lilo uses land (physical disk
addresses). Neither dump nor tar will restore files by physical disk
addresses, so the info in the MBR is meaningless from a backup point of
view. All you need to backup is /etc/lilo.conf and whatever files lilo
needs (vmlinux, initrd, etc.), which tar and dump will be happy to backup.
CM> dump better for this than tar? How does one decide?
Dump is OS and OS version dependent. Tar is cross-platform. Dump is faster.
CM>
CM> In addition, the different backup levels of dump are confusing. Why ten
CM> different levels? Why not just two (full and incremental)? And how does
CM> the, "Tower of Hanoi algorithm," help maintain the integrity of one's
CM> data backup?
CM>
CM> As you can tell, I have a lot of questions!
CM>
CM> Craig
CM>
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From: "Mauricio Bahamonde Massa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mandrake 7.1 question
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 10:12:24 -0400
In the new 7.1 version of Mandrake, is it fixed the lilo problem of the 1024
cylinder???I have a 18 gigs hard drive and mandrake 7.0 lilo doesn't
work.......
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From: "Larry Laffer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Multiple NICs
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 14:30:24 GMT
I am curious on what you are using 3 NICs for.
I am planning on doing Masquing as well when I finally get my box up and
running with 2 NICs.
One into my cable modem, the other into my hub's uplink port.
What is your third going to be used for?
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"Zachary M. Morvik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:394b10d5$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Sorry for the x-post
>
> I am just not having any luck with multi-homed systems.
>
> I have a system that has three NE2000(ne) ISA network cards in it. Each
> with their own IO and IRQ. These cards all work. I originally installed
> FreeBSD and had to re-compile the kernel so that these cards would work
and
> just to try something new, I have installed RH, Caldera, Turbo, Slackware,
> and now Debian linux.
>
> I have not gotten all three of these cards to work in any distribution of
> linux that I have installed. That said, I also have not re-compiled the
> kernel because I am told I do not need to if I just load the modules and
> then config.
>
> One card works and is configured now. My intention is to get all three of
> these NICs working and then use IP Masquerade to re-map ports for my DSL
> line. Does anyone have a quick outline of what direction I should head in
> to get these NICs installed? Once they are in, the services part is easy.
> What are the files in the Debian distribution that will allow me to
> configure the IO, IRQ, etc. for the other two network cards? Do I have to
> re-compile the kernel?? I know, for optimum performance, I do, but I
would
> just like to work off of modules for now.
>
> Thanks for any advice,
> Zak
>
>
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From: Joeri Sebrechts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: duplex HDD lilo problem
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 14:33:18 GMT
Strange, if they act like on drive, how could you partition and format
each of them separately ?
What do you mean by duplex ?
Do you mean that if you take any one physically out that the other one
has mysteriously vanished into thin air ?
motti wrote:
>
> since i've installed lilo on a 0.5 gb HDD on my computer that works with
> another 6.4 GB,the two cannot be seperated from each ather.the computer
> does not identify any of them in the P.O.S.T if it's each one on it's own.
> i've tried fdisk /MBR,and maybe i used it wrong.Even after partitioning and
> formating both HDD's they still act like siamic twins.
>
> please help!
>
> motti
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Joeri Sebrechts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is this really possible?
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 14:48:09 GMT
Well ...
I don't know if windows _needs_ to be on the first bootable drive. But I
doubt it.
You could place windows (only the os) and the linux boot stuff on the
scsi drive. 2 gig is enough, since 1 gig for windows ONLY, and 1 gig for
any linux boot stuff will long outlive it's usefull life.
And then you could make one ide drive the windows apps and data drive,
and the other one the linux drive.
Know however that the chance is very, very small you'll ever need more
than 5 gig for linux (unless you'll be copying large chunks of data
files (like mp3's and images) onto your linux volume). So you'd be
better off keeping one drive for data (which grows the fastest), and the
other one for linux (5 gig), and windows apps (only the apps, 5 gig). Or
do it however you want.
Windows does not need to have it's OS and it's apps installed on the
same partition, remember that.
Also about splitting up linux over the two drives. There's not much use,
except for one detail. If both drives hang off different controllers
(ide cables) then you can make a swap partition on each drive. If you
give these swap partitions an equal importance, then that'll increase
your swap speed, and since swapping is important you'll probably
effectively notice it.
But remember that if you hang a drive off a controller together with a
regular cdrom it'll slowdown, since both ide devices on the controller
need to be in comparable modes (although that's not exactly true, let's
just say you can't mix a udma and a regular ata device, and still have
the udma working at udma speeds).
good luck,
Joeri Sebrechts
Thirsty McGuinness wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have the following configuration:
>
> 2 x 20GB HD EIDE
> 1 x 2 GB HD SCSI
> SCSI-before-EIDE-booting capable BIOS
>
> 1.) I now want to make my SCSI-drive the boot-drive, putting LILO, /boot,
> /home and swap on it.
> I want to have Win98 on one EIDE-HD, the rest of Linux on the 2nd, or maybe
> seperate Linux to both the first and the 2nd.
>
> 2.) I now read sth. about having to tell LILO explicitely to order of the
> disks to have it work with this configuration.
> But I also read that since Win98 wants to be booted from the first drive, I
> have to swap the drive-numbers (0x81 to 0x80 etc.) in the specific
> "others"-section in LILO for Win98.
>
> So my questions are:
>
> Is it possible to do both 1.) and 2.) without coming into trouble?????
> Wouldn�t point 2.) lead to problems because the drive-numbers are different
> from those specified in the BIOS, I mean BIOS specifies SCSI for 80h, first
> EIDE for 81h etc., and then Win98 would start with settings 1st EIDE 80h,
> ...?????
> At last I don�t want to come into troubles that force me to reinstall
> everything sooner or later....
>
> Thanks for any helpful ideas.
>
> Bye, Frank
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From: Joeri Sebrechts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Small Linux
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 14:49:35 GMT
There is a port to the 286 architecture of linux, but I don't remember
it's name or location.
Find it on freshmeat.net
Nicholas Murison wrote:
>
> dru wrote:
> >
> > Is there a Linux installation that will run on a 286?
>
> The Linux kernel was written for the 386 architecture which is
> drastically different from the 286 architecture in some ways, making the
> kernel incompatible with the 286. So, no is the answer, unfortunately.
> --
> Nicholas John Murison
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Don't mess with penguins
> Registered Linux User #153895 http://counter.li.org
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From: Joeri Sebrechts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie: Shell Script
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 14:50:59 GMT
Is ksh in /bin ?
type "whereis ksh" to find out
Alex Loew wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I just installed Linux and have a little problem running shell
> scripts:
>
> When I try to run a script it only runs when I explicitly call the
> shell which is used:
>
> e.g. ksh <file>
>
> although in the first line the shell to called is specified.:
> #!/bin/ksh
>
> What's going wrong? Do I have to configure something?
>
> Alex
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (OldUncleMe)
Subject: Re: kernel Makefile bugs?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 14:51:30 GMT
It was: 14 Jun 2000 20:36:05 GMT and with STARTLING insight, "Jeff Lacki
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"
posted "kernel Makefile bugs?"
to "comp.os.linux.misc" :
-->Ok, Im new enough to Linux to be dangerous, but smart enough
-->to realize something is going on ;)
-->
-->Installed a Sound Blaster 512 Card 2 weeks ago just fine
-->(RedHat 6.2). Then, I bought a NetGear Ethernet card and found
-->an article on how to get it to work, so I read the article, followed
-->the instructions on make xconfig (ONLY setting the appropriate
-->ether module etc) in this exact order (via the instructions):
-->
-->make clean
-->make xconfig
-->make dep
-->make clean
-->make bzImage
-->make modules modules_install bzlilo
-->shutdown -r 0
-->
-->NetGear card now works, Sound Blaster Module emu10k1.o is now
-->toast. I get a lot of undefined symbols.
-->
-->I saw this problem in the past as well. It appears that the
-->Makefile or some derivation of it all is not compiling or loading
-->in the same stuff consistantly after a make clean is done.
-->
-->Anyone know how I can correct this? Is Kernel 2.2-16 the answer?
-->
-->Thanks
I have this card, the sb 512 that uses emu10k1. Whenever I upgrade the
kernel by recompling, esp when it's to higher version of kernel (currently
2.2.16), then I have to recompile emu10k1 and reinstall, manually. After
compiling the sounddriver, emu10k1, then locate the current modules install
directory, which can be something like (on my redhat box):
/lib/modules/`uname -r`/misc You can put in place of the backticked
command: /lib/modules/2.2.xx/misc where xx is your specific version; could
be like 2.2.15-20 or whatever uname -r shows you.... Anyway, change to
this directory and copy emu10k1.0 and emu10k1-joy.o from wherever you
compiled them to the present directory. Edit /etc/modules.conf or
/etc/conf.modules to include a line such as:
alias sound emu10k1
You could then run depmod -a and perhaps reboot, though not necessarily,
but it will indicate how the system will work after boot, from then
onwards.... This info is pretty much all included in the README and
INSTALL files that come with the emu10k1 source tree..... It has worked
for me to do as above over about 4 or 5 kernel upgrades and recompiles....
Good luck, /ts
tenox @ home dot com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robie Basak)
Subject: Re: Linux floating point/IEEE Std.745-1985 compliancy
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 18 Jun 2000 14:57:29 GMT
On Sun, 18 Jun 2000 14:10:54 +0200, Niek Bergboer said:
>Hi All,
>
> As I'm planning to use my system for large numerical calculation jobs, I am
>a bit worried by rumours that Linux does not
>completely conform to the IEEE-745 Standard for Binary Floating Point
>Arithmetic (IEEE Std. 745-1985). This means that when doing calculations
>with 80-bit floats,
>I may lose significant precision.
>
> I take it that compliancy with the IEEE standard should be implemented in
>the math libraries, so the question I'm asking may be distribution (and
>certainly platform) specific: Is Linux IEEE-745 compliant?
The math library is part of glibc, which is the same/common across all
sane distributions (apart from old ones). Try:
http://www.gnu.org/software/software.html
for a link to glibc (also called the C library).
Robie.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (OldUncleMe)
Subject: Re: Strange telnet behavior from win98
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 14:58:07 GMT
It was: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 17:15:35 -0400 and with STARTLING insight, "Dave
Rolfe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"
posted "Strange telnet behavior from win98"
to "comp.os.linux.misc" :
-->I have a win98 machine and start the version of telnet that comes with
-->win98 and connect just fine to a linux machine. But when I try to vi a
-->file I get into trouble. Most things seem to be working but when I go
-->into insert mode and hit enter to create a new line .... I enter the
-->twilight zone. Instead of a new line, I get a sort of truncated copy of
-->the current line! Nothing I do lets me create a new line. So what is
-->going on? Any thoughts?
-->
-->Thanks, Dave
Let me second the vote for TeraTerm Pro, and raise with Netterm. I use
Tera mostly, but Netterm has even more flexibility and features than any
other telnet client I've seen -- though I'm not sure it does ssh which was
a simple matter to set up with Tera.... /ts
tenox @ home dot com
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