--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 241 LINUX Ref: F1E00023 Date: 01/10/98 From: FANE Time: 05:00am \/To: ALL (Read 4 times) Subj: Best console text news reader? What's considered the best console text UseNet newsgroup readers/posters? Thanks. 1:170/170.0 fane@f170.n170.z1.fidonet.org +1 918 455 5806 -- Fax --- {Mnemonic Oubliette} --- * Origin: Loc (1:170/170) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 241 LINUX Ref: F1F00000 Date: 01/09/98 From: JAME CLAY Time: 10:51pm \/To: ERIK FORSBERG (Read 4 times) Subj: Installation On Jan 07 18:15 98, Erik Forsberg of 2:204/536.2 wrote: ES>> Does this mean that DOS can only be booted from the first ES>> partition (that is, the partition including track 0)? I ES>> seem to recall reading something to that effect elsewhere. ES>> EF> I think (I'm quite sure really), LILO can do some magic to EF> make DOS boot from another partition. It does work, at least with dos on another drive; & since primary partitions can be treated as drives, it would presumably work the same... I currently have two ide drives on this system, neither very big. While I still had dos on the first drive, I copied the dos install over to the 2nd drive & then sys'ed it (sys d:\). I then installed linux from cd (Slakware 3.4) onto the first drive; the install found the dos drive & asked if I wanted it mounted (which I did). And when I got to the LILO install, it also asked about it; at that time I set it up as a boot alternative. Now I can boot to the dos disk without any problems & run dos (I'm doing that now, since I don't yet have linux running ftn programs, much less msg editors...). The dos install thinks it's on the c: drive, even though it's actually on the 2nd drive. Jame --- Msgedsq 3.10 * Origin: ROCASA POINT [Unpublished] Clinton Twp., MI (1:120/481.5) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 241 LINUX Ref: F1F00001 Date: 01/10/98 From: JAME CLAY Time: 11:30am \/To: ALL (Read 4 times) Subj: Linux without a main console Hi All! First, is it possible to run linux without a main console? If so, how would one set it up? Would you have to have the use of it for an initial install, but could then configure it to work just with telnet logins? (Or perhaps rlogins?) If so, where would errors (that are normally sent to the console) be sent? And would the other machine have to be online all of the time? I only have two working monitors at the moment (one's an old monochrome), & in any case I see no particular reason to have a monitor & keyboard on all of the linux boxes I'm going to be experimenting with (386/486's are so cheap...). Unless it can't be done, of course... For instance, I have in mind setting one up as a print server. I have 4 printers of various types (including an old laserjet) that I'd like to set up all on one box; then have it accessible over the network, both for print services & for via telnet and/or rlogin for control/admin/etc. I'm currently working on setting up the 2nd machine I have working as a serial communications server, for ppp/fido/bbs/etc connects. I'd like to set that one up without the need for a main console so that I can start bringing up a 3rd machine. (I've an old pentium 60 motherboard I want to get working...) How feasible is such an idea? Jame --- Msgedsq 3.10 * Origin: ROCASA POINT [Unpublished] Clinton Twp., MI (1:120/481.5) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 241 LINUX Ref: F1F00002 Date: 01/10/98 From: KIRK LANG Time: 09:37pm \/To: EDWIN HERMANS (Read 4 times) Subj: Howdy EH> Undernet always. The peeps on #linux are sometimes a pain, so i try EH> to EH> help the ones they don't (although a lot of nice ppl can be found on EH> #linux) Undernet is nice. I used to always hide out in IRCnet, but there is realitively no moderation, no nickserv or chanserv, etc. Lots of warring..got to be a real pain. KL ... OFFLINE 1.52 --- Maximus 3.01 * Origin: Silent Echo - Coos Bay, Oregon USA (1:356/4) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 241 LINUX Ref: F1F00003 Date: 01/10/98 From: KIRK LANG Time: 09:39pm \/To: DAVID J PORTER (Read 4 times) Subj: Help with Krnl Errors DJ> hda: write_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } DJ> hda: write_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusErroor } I get that all the time when my stupid hard drive spins down. KL ... OFFLINE 1.52 --- Maximus 3.01 * Origin: Silent Echo - Coos Bay, Oregon USA (1:356/4) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 241 LINUX Ref: F1F00004 Date: 01/10/98 From: KIRK LANG Time: 09:40pm \/To: HANS TEGNERUD (Read 4 times) Subj: Problems with Linux Redh On 01-08-98 Hans Tegnerud wrote to Wayne Fallen... HT> How come everyone else has had HD crashes and similar problems HT> during install when all I had was a dull half hour? Could be because some of us play with about 5 different hard drives each month and install an operating system a week :-) KL ... OFFLINE 1.52 --- Maximus 3.01 * Origin: Silent Echo - Coos Bay, Oregon USA (1:356/4) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 241 LINUX Ref: F1F00005 Date: 01/10/98 From: KIRK LANG Time: 09:41pm \/To: LODEWIJK VOGE (Read 4 times) Subj: Re: Upgrades On 01-07-98 Lodewijk Voge wrote to Mathieu Bouchard... LV> Mathieu Bouchard wrote: LV> LV> MB> Intel won't catch me at the P6 level. i got a Cyrix 6x86-133 LV> (pr166+). LV> MB> it's damn quick. LV> LV> just not as damn quick as a P6, in either package. Isn't a 6x86 a 686 instruction set on a 586 chip that'll fit into a 586 board? I think... KL ... OFFLINE 1.52 --- Maximus 3.01 * Origin: Silent Echo - Coos Bay, Oregon USA (1:356/4) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 241 LINUX Ref: F1F00006 Date: 01/10/98 From: KEN REAVERSON Time: 08:04pm \/To: HANS DUMBRAJS (Read 4 times) Subj: Re: Modem problems |08 |07Quoting |15Hans Dumbrajs |07to |15Ken Reaverson |08 ES>> exec /usr/sbin/pppd \ lock modem crtscts /dev/ttyS0 38400 \ ES>> noipdefault netmask $NETMASK defaultroute \ remotename ES>> lightspeed.bc.ca user Username \ connect $DIALER_SCRIPT ES>> /dev/ttyS0 corresponds to DOS COM1. You are using COM2 so you should ES>> have /dev/ttyS1. KR> Hrm, ttys0 and ttys1 don't exist in /dev. Should I change it to cua1 KR> instead? HD> ttys0 and ttys1 won't exist for sure.. check for ttyS0 and ttyS1, HD> or did you enter a typo? Cases are very significant in Unix.. Sorry, should have known better. :) yes, they S's were in proper case when I did the listing looking for them. | Rev. K. Reaverson, ULC (Adrian Blood) / | S: Shadowdale / Team OS/2 / Public Key ID: 39A2DEAD | 'The hate in my eyes always gives me away....' ... Coincidence? No. Cthulhu. --- AshabaToss v1.0 * Origin: Shadowdale (1:133/1004) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 241 LINUX Ref: F1F00007 Date: 01/10/98 From: MAURICE KINAL Time: 02:48am \/To: PER K HANSEN (Read 4 times) Subj: LINUX Hello Per. 09 Jan 98 17:54, Per K Hansen wrote to Maurice Kinal: PH> Hej Maurice PH> Den 09 Jan 98 skrev Maurice til Per og selfoelgelig skulle jeg blande PH> mig. MK>> He is really B. Gates perhaps? PH> ? Maybe ;) PH> Do you think Bill Gates have tried Linux ? If he have, he must be very PH> embarased about his own doze95 ;) that might be why he has changed his PH> name ;) PH> Med venlig Hilsen Per K Hansen (perkhan@usa.net) Either that or he is attempting to sway more users his way. Anyhow I had an aquaintence who met him at a computer conference. He says that Mr. Gates was a total jerk. That is why I thought perhaps the fellow originally posting may have been Bill. Oh well... Maurice ... Flatlanders --- "There can be only fun!" --- GoldED 2.50+ * Origin: Wandering Point - Unlisted (1:351/255.1) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 241 LINUX Ref: F1F00008 Date: 01/09/98 From: KIRK LANG Time: 10:59pm \/To: ERIK FORSBERG (Read 4 times) Subj: Modem problems EF> There is another way, giving chat the -v parameter will EF> print all of it's modem communication to syslog, including EF> passwords.. not good. EF> Couldn't you give the file the permissions rwx______ allowing only root to read it? I think that when you log onto the net, you initiate the chat script as root..I think. Just a thought... KL ... OFFLINE 1.52 --- Maximus 3.01 * Origin: Silent Echo - Coos Bay, Oregon USA (1:356/4)