--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 241 LINUX Ref: EGS00015 Date: 12/21/97 From: WARREN HRACH Time: 01:39pm \/To: KEN REAVERSON (Read 6 times) Subj: uhm, help. :) Ken Reaverson said on LINUX at 20th of December 1997: Ken, You will find it far easier to just buy a RedHat CD Rom. You can usually find in a tech bookstore or order from 'www.cheapbytes.com' I just ordered the RedHat V 5. $1.99 + $5.00 ship/handling via US first class mail. I bought my first CD Rom set, 6 CD roms from Infomagic at $30 locally. It included RedHat 4.1, Debian, Slackware and lots of other goodies. Actually all I used was RedHat. A brief printed man was all I needed to get started. Info such as how to partition your disk for Linux, how to make a linux floppy boot to get started and install from the CD rom. It actually went easier than I anticipated. Hope this helps. Warren +---------------------------------------------+ | Warren Hrach, San Diego, CA 92107 | | warren@ocnbeach.maximumaccess.com | | Linux BBBS and UUCP on an AMD K5 | | Fido BBS at (619) 224-4878 | +---------------------------------------------+ --- BBBS/L v3.33 How * Origin: Ocean Beach Linux BBBS (619)224-4878 (1:202/745) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 241 LINUX Ref: EGS00016 Date: 12/21/97 From: HANS TEGNERUD Time: 06:10pm \/To: SCOTT MCNAY (Read 6 times) Subj: Memory problems.. SM> If you can boot up from floppy, you can do without the setup SM> partition. I've tried that, but the only things I'm able to change are the logon password, powermanagment and the likes.. :( SM> I'm not sure, but I think that the setup partition is SM> normally at the end of th drive. The program for managing the setup partition says that it's supposed to lie at the beginning. SM> If you have an email address, I can archive these two SM> diskettes (assuming that I can find them ;) and email them to SM> you. thanx, but I think I have them. SP4711.EXE and SP1723.EXE - both english versions for the ProLinea 5133. /HasseMan --- * Origin: Outer Citadel (2:201/293.24) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 241 LINUX Ref: EGS00017 Date: 12/22/97 From: ED SUDA Time: 08:03am \/To: PATRICK MORAN (Read 6 times) Subj: DOSLinux and Slack Patrick Moran wrote in a message to Willie McKemie: PM> waste that console as a line monitor. Can't get serialmon, or modem PM> mon to work, they say the kernel doesn't have ppp. ppp is loaded as PM> a module and even when I check to see if it's loaded and is loaded, PM> I still get that error. I had a similar problem. When I typed ppp-on as a normal user I would get "This kernel does not have PPP support" or something like that, even though PPP was compiled in (no modules). However I found that it would work if I typed it as root. Now my ISP has switched me to a different server and since enabling PAP the problem no longer occurs. Odd. Ed eds@lightspeed.bc.ca --- timEd/386 1.10+ * Origin: What's the point of sleep? * Vancouver, BC * (1:153/831.1) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 241 LINUX Ref: EGS00018 Date: 12/22/97 From: ED SUDA Time: 06:56am \/To: CLEMENS ANHUTH (Read 6 times) Subj: Lots of questions Clemens Anhuth wrote in a message to Steve Quarrella: CA> but you have to learn to use the documents, they are not polished CA> and consistent like books usually are, so for a start, to prevent CA> frustration, i usually suggest a few good books. Books are also more convenient because they stay where you put them. ;-) But a serial terminal can be handy for things like looking at man pages (or info pages for those that prefer them). I have a couple; one of them is in the living room and the other is here beside me. Words do not describe the convenience! And they are dirt-cheap. Some folks give them away. Ed eds@lightspeed.bc.ca --- timEd/386 1.10+ * Origin: What's the point of sleep? * Vancouver, BC * (1:153/831.1) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 241 LINUX Ref: EGS00019 Date: 12/22/97 From: ED SUDA Time: 06:54am \/To: WILLIAM MCBRINE (Read 6 times) Subj: Mail software William Mcbrine wrote in a message to William Hurn: WM> Some good QWK-compatible readers are JMR, SkyReader, and (if I do WM> say so myself) MultiMail. SkyReader and MultiMail also do Blue WM> Wave, and SkyReader throws in some other formats as well. Don't forget my favourite, atp. :) Ed eds@lightspeed.bc.ca --- timEd/386 1.10+ * Origin: What's the point of sleep? * Vancouver, BC * (1:153/831.1) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 241 LINUX Ref: EGS00020 Date: 12/22/97 From: ED SUDA Time: 07:43am \/To: SCOTT MCNAY (Read 6 times) Subj: Installing from CDRom Scott McNay wrote in a message to Jim Balcom: SM> Correction: new 100x CD-ROM drives are now less than $80. Maybe, but what good is it? The CD flies apart at 50x. Ed eds@lightspeed.bc.ca --- timEd/386 1.10+ * Origin: What's the point of sleep? * Vancouver, BC * (1:153/831.1) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 241 LINUX Ref: EGS00021 Date: 12/22/97 From: ED SUDA Time: 07:58am \/To: EDMUND WONG (Read 6 times) Subj: Internet Edmund Wong wrote in a message to Paul Ford: EW> In DOS/Win3.x environment, Communicator sludges(ie. very slow) EW> in loading. To me, it was a pain running it. Plus the fact that EW> while I do like the suit of apps(news reader, etc..) I much prefer EW> it when it's seperate. You can get the "Navigator" portion alone (minus all the detritus). That's what I have. It's an 8MB download. EW> Btw, what's the optimal system requirements(not min. req, but EW> recommended) for Communicator 4.04? I have a 486 and I'm worried EW> it might be a tad bit slow, both in loading and running, as well as EW> being a major hog. Am I justified in worrying about these, or EW> not? Probably the main concern is memory. You should probably have at least 32MB for acceptable performance. If your 486 is one of the slow ones (<66MHz) then even that may not save you. How much RAM do you have, and how many BoboMIPS? Ed eds@lightspeed.bc.ca --- timEd/386 1.10+ * Origin: What's the point of sleep? * Vancouver, BC * (1:153/831.1) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 241 LINUX Ref: EGS00022 Date: 12/22/97 From: JIM BALCOM Time: 07:08pm \/To: ERIK FORSBERG (Read 6 times) Subj: 2.0.33 and Nx586 Erik Forsberg at 2:204/536.2 wrote in a message to All on 21 Dec 1997 at 00:04: EF> I have a Nexgen Nx586 Processor, and my problem is the EF> kernel code doesn't recognize it, it believes it is a 386, EF> and I'm really quite sure the processor has a few more EF> instructions than a 386. EF> According to a doc I saw, the 2.0.33 kernel should be able EF> to recognize a few non-intel CPU's but, apparantly not the EF> Nexgen family. A friend of mine bought a Nexgen motherboard explicitly to run linux on. He never got it to work. Cyrix and AMD both work well. ++ Jim ++ ...DISCLAIMER: The statements in this message are the personal opinions of the author and should not be construed as having any official connotations of any kind. ... "Bother!" said Pooh, as he found out his symbiont hated "huuny." --- Alexi/Mail 2.02b (#2) * Origin: Bottomless Pit - balcomj@idkent.com - Alexandria, VA (1:109/334)