RE: your mail

2000-06-14 Thread Gregg C Levine
g C Levine > Cc: Darran D. Rimron-Molloy; Linux-8086 > Subject: RE: your mail > > > > > On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Gregg C Levine wrote: > > > Hello from Gregg C Levine usually with Jedi Knight Computers > > I just tried the first link http://www.cs.vu.nl/pub/minix.htm

RE: your mail

2000-06-14 Thread Jakov af Wallby
On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Gregg C Levine wrote: > Hello from Gregg C Levine usually with Jedi Knight Computers > I just tried the first link http://www.cs.vu.nl/pub/minix.html and my > browser returned a 404 error. I thus concluded that is probably no longer a > working site. I then tried the next

RE: your mail

2000-06-14 Thread Gregg C Levine
5:01 AM > To: 'Jakov af Wallby'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: your mail > > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jakov af Wallby > > Sent: 13 June 2000 08:43 >

Re: your mail

2000-06-13 Thread Cristi
I think a userspace process for networking is the right answer here. Keep the kernel small. cristi At 09:43 AM 6/13/00 +0200, Jakov af Wallby wrote: On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Emilio Joel Macias Gomez wrote: > hello > i dont speak english very well but i do my best > i want use the ELKS in my 286

Re: your mail

2000-06-13 Thread William Price
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 5:00 AM Subject: RE: your mail > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jakov af Wallby > > Sent: 13 June 2000 08:43 > > To: Emilio Joel Macias Gome

RE: your mail

2000-06-13 Thread Darran D. Rimron-Molloy
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jakov af Wallby > Sent: 13 June 2000 08:43 > To: Emilio Joel Macias Gomez > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: your mail > You could either try to add TCP/IP support to ELK

Re: your mail

2000-06-13 Thread Jakov af Wallby
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Emilio Joel Macias Gomez wrote: > hello > i dont speak english very well but i do my best > i want use the ELKS in my 286 machine with one ethernet card ne2000 > and i don't know make this. > The ELKS work perfectly with the elkscmd but i need work with the network > and i

Re: your mail (Another bloody netwoking thread)

2000-06-12 Thread Luke Farrar
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Emilio Joel Macias Gomez wrote: > hello > i dont speak english very well but i do my best > i want use the ELKS in my 286 machine with one ethernet card ne2000 > and i don't know make this. > The ELKS work perfectly with the elkscmd but i need work with the network > and i

Re: herc & vga (was: Re: your mail)

1999-09-30 Thread Thomas Stewart
hi >I would offer to test it, but I'm not sure if I will have the time... >Anyway, >if you write something that "likely works", send me the diffs I'll try >to find the time to put a herc into a vga machine and test it. I will test it seen as though I wanted it done and I have a machine with a h

herc & vga (was: Re: your mail)

1999-09-30 Thread Christopher Kovacs
On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 04:17:00PM +0100, Alistair Riddoch wrote: > > writes a '0' to the herc and a '1' to the vga. > > Is it as simple as having a VGA card and a herc, and just writing to them > both separatly? I would have thought there would be problems with > initialising the hardware, and d

RE: your mail

1999-09-29 Thread Darran D. Rimron
> -Original Message- > If you can manage to > find a mono monitor or work out some way to connect it to a composite > video monitor (unfortunately these cards don't have a direct composite > output), I can send you a card... If someone wants to cover postage, I have a mono monitor acting

Re: your mail

1999-09-29 Thread Alex Holden
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Alistair Riddoch wrote: > > Hmm.. I think a mono card costs about $7 now... > Can't get them here for love or money as far as I can tell. I will be on > the lookout for one though. I have four. Three of them unused and in original packaging with manuals (they were going

RE: your mail

1999-09-29 Thread Louis P. Santillan
While on the topic of Video Memory locations...does anybody have good docs on RSIS (something that I just found in Undocumented PC, INT 0x10, AX = 0xFE00)? I was able to move the VGA location from 0xA000:0 to 0x1000:0 (not quite useful their) though there seems no way to control this. I also tri

Re: your mail

1999-09-29 Thread Alistair Riddoch
Greg Haerr writes: > > > : Is it as simple as having a VGA card and a herc, and just writing to them > : both separatly? I would have thought there would be problems with > : initialising the hardware, and detecting which was present. > > I think it's this easy. the bios in some locatio

RE: your mail

1999-09-29 Thread Greg Haerr
: Is it as simple as having a VGA card and a herc, and just writing to them : both separatly? I would have thought there would be problems with : initialising the hardware, and detecting which was present. I think it's this easy. the bios in some location states whether there are one o

RE: your mail

1999-09-29 Thread Greg Haerr
: That part of the process is now problem. The difficulty comes in writing a : driver which can talk to both cards at the same time. : what about using what someone suggested just changing 0xB800 to 0xB000 on the switch and leaving it at that, using exactly the same driver? Greg

Re: your mail

1999-09-29 Thread Alistair Riddoch
Christopher Kovacs writes: > > On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 10:22:00AM +0100, Alistair Riddoch wrote: > > Thomas Stewart writes: > > > Or is there a better way to use the two cards together? DOS does not do this > > > very well (appart from a few utills that switch the screen, and a few apps > > > t

Re: your mail

1999-09-29 Thread Alistair Riddoch
Luke writes: > > > > > On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Greg Haerr wrote: > > > > > : > Or is there a better way to use the two cards together? DOS does not do this > > : > very well (appart from a few utills that switch the screen, and a few apps > > : > that support it (tcc).) > > : > > : There is

Re: your mail

1999-09-28 Thread Christopher Kovacs
On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 10:22:00AM +0100, Alistair Riddoch wrote: > Thomas Stewart writes: > > Or is there a better way to use the two cards together? DOS does not do this > > very well (appart from a few utills that switch the screen, and a few apps > > that support it (tcc).) > > There is no

RE: your mail

1999-09-28 Thread Luke (boo) Farrar
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Greg Haerr wrote: > > : > Or is there a better way to use the two cards together? DOS does not do this > : > very well (appart from a few utills that switch the screen, and a few apps > : > that support it (tcc).) > : > : There is no current support for this in the ELK

RE: your mail

1999-09-28 Thread Greg Haerr
: > Or is there a better way to use the two cards together? DOS does not do this : > very well (appart from a few utills that switch the screen, and a few apps : > that support it (tcc).) : : There is no current support for this in the ELKS code, but it does appeal : to me. Any idea how it can

Re: your mail

1999-09-28 Thread Habib . Ahmed
Ha! ive been trying to get OFF this list for eons and havent had any luck so far... Alistair Riddoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 09/28/99 02:22:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Stewart) cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (bcc: Habib Ahmed/PK/ABNAMRO/NL) Subject: Re: your mail > Or i

Re: your mail

1999-09-28 Thread Alistair Riddoch
Thomas Stewart writes: > > hi > This many be a stupid idea, > > As far as I know consoles on linux are seperate, ie each can run diffrent > proceses independent of each other? > Is this the same for ELKS? (using the f keys) > > In my elks machine I have a vga card and a herc card, how can I us

Re: your mail

1999-05-21 Thread Alistair Riddoch
Alistair Riddoch writes: > > > I can be found in the dev86 package in linux-86/bootblocks. > > Go into that directory and type make ; make bin. > > You will then have 3 files minix.bin, minixhd.bin and minix_elks.bin. > > minix.bin is the floppy booloader which can be installed using dd in th

Re: your mail

1999-05-17 Thread Diversia
-- > Van: Alistair Riddoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Aan: Diversia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > CC: Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Onderwerp: Re: your mail > Datum: maandag 17 mei 1999 16:03 > > Diversia writes: > > > > > > >

Re: your mail

1999-05-17 Thread Alistair Riddoch
Diversia writes: > > > > -- > > Van: Alistair Riddoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Aan: Diversia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Onderwerp: Re: your mail > > Datum: maandag 17 mei 1999 12:08 > > > > >

Re: your mail

1999-05-17 Thread Alistair Riddoch
Diversia writes: > > Hello all, > > I got three questions: > > 1. > > Wouldn't it be possible that some of the maintainers of the kernel could > send this mailinglist a message when a new kernel comes out so we don't > have to look everytime and thereby decreasing some of the internet load of

Re: your mail

1999-05-04 Thread Louis P. Santillan
Actually, on my PoqetPC Classic, you can specify which you want to boot from if you hold the Poqet logo key at boot up. LouisX On Tue, 4 May 1999, Alistair Riddoch wrote: > David Murn writes: > > > > On Mon, 3 May 1999, Alistair Riddoch wrote: > > > > > The problem is that the only disk drive

Re: your mail

1999-05-04 Thread Alistair Riddoch
David Murn writes: > > On Mon, 3 May 1999, Alistair Riddoch wrote: > > > The problem is that the only disk driver we have working yet is the one > > that uses BIOS routines to access the disk. After DOS is loaded the int 13h > > entry in the VII which initially points to this BIOS routine is rep

Booting ELKS from DOS Re: your mail

1999-05-04 Thread Shane Kerr
On Tue, 4 May 1999, Alistair Riddoch wrote: > David Murn writes: > > > > On Mon, 3 May 1999, Alistair Riddoch wrote: > > > > > The problem is that the only disk driver we have working yet is the one > > > that uses BIOS routines to access the disk. After DOS is loaded the int 13h > > > entry in

RE: Booting ELKS from DOS Re: your mail

1999-05-04 Thread Araujo, Isaque G.
Well, I'm lost in a lot of emails and I don't know if I've sent you this, but there is a routine made by Dr. Richard L. Dubs (www.erols.com/rld): "Unfortunately, the HP200LX boots its operating system from ROM; it has no need to boot from either a floppy disk or a hard disk. For this reason, the

RE: Booting ELKS from DOS Re: your mail

1999-05-04 Thread David Murn
On Tue, 4 May 1999, Araujo, Isaque G. wrote: > Shane, I don't know if you read my old mails which I've sent to Alistair > Riddoch and to the ELKS-list, but this already exists (BOOTELKS by Steffen > Gabel), what is need is a effort to change this code for don't write any > VII, just start ELKS. T

RE: Booting ELKS from DOS Re: your mail

1999-05-04 Thread Araujo, Isaque G.
uld have a solution faster. Isaque. > -Original Message- > From: Shane Kerr [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 1999 8:05 AM > To: Alistair Riddoch > Cc: David Murn; Mailing List > Subject: Booting ELKS from DOS Re: your mail > > On Tue, 4

Re: your mail

1999-05-03 Thread Alistair Riddoch
David Murn writes: > > On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Alistair Riddoch wrote: > > > We could really do with a tool that looks at the vector interrupt table > > so we can try and sort out how to boot ELKS on these strange palmtop > > machines. It may be possible to load ELKS from DOS without replacing the

Re: your mail

1999-05-03 Thread David Murn
On Mon, 3 May 1999, Alistair Riddoch wrote: > The problem is that the only disk driver we have working yet is the one > that uses BIOS routines to access the disk. After DOS is loaded the int 13h > entry in the VII which initially points to this BIOS routine is replaced. > > BootELKS gets round

Re: your mail

1999-04-30 Thread Alistair Riddoch
Wenzel Jakob writes: > > Am Thu, 29 Apr 1999 schrieb David Murn: > >On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Wenzel Jakob wrote: > > > >> my palmtop boots from DOS from ROM (argh) and i can't create a boot disk > >> for generating the ints.bin file. i need a dos-version of this program > >> or perhaps somebody can

Re: your mail

1999-04-30 Thread Alistair Riddoch
Wenzel Jakob writes: > > > We could really do with a tool that looks at the vector interrupt table > > so we can try and sort out how to boot ELKS on these strange palmtop > > machines. It may be possible to load ELKS from DOS without replacing the > > VII on some machines. > > > > Al > > This w

Re: your mail

1999-04-30 Thread Alistair Riddoch
Perry Harrington writes: > > > > > We could really do with a tool that looks at the vector interrupt table > > so we can try and sort out how to boot ELKS on these strange palmtop > > machines. It may be possible to load ELKS from DOS without replacing the > > VII on some machines. > > There ar

Re: your mail

1999-04-29 Thread Wenzel Jakob
Am Thu, 29 Apr 1999 schrieb Wenzel Jakob: >Am Thu, 29 Apr 1999 schrieb David Murn: >>On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Wenzel Jakob wrote: >> >>> my palmtop boots from DOS from ROM (argh) and i can't create a boot disk >>> for generating the ints.bin file. i need a dos-version of this program >>> or perhaps s

Re: your mail

1999-04-29 Thread Wenzel Jakob
Am Thu, 29 Apr 1999 schrieb David Murn: >On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Wenzel Jakob wrote: > >> my palmtop boots from DOS from ROM (argh) and i can't create a boot disk >> for generating the ints.bin file. i need a dos-version of this program >> or perhaps somebody can explain me how to generate this file

Re: your mail

1999-04-29 Thread David Murn
On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Wenzel Jakob wrote: > my palmtop boots from DOS from ROM (argh) and i can't create a boot disk > for generating the ints.bin file. i need a dos-version of this program > or perhaps somebody can explain me how to generate this file and I'll > write the program. I'm guessing

Re: your mail

1998-12-11 Thread Bradley Bell
Okay, that one broke my brain. -brad On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, G. Sudhanva wrote: > ususcribe linux-8086 >