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- From: levin@cosmic.physics.utah.edu (Chris Levin)
- Subject: Some linux hardware questions for a new user
- Message-ID: <1992Dec26.212656.1739@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
- Keywords: SCSI PRINTER LILO
- Sender: news@fcom.cc.utah.edu
- Organization: Cosmic Ray Physics Group, University of Utah
- Distribution: comp.os.linux
- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 92 21:26:56 GMT
- Lines: 93
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- THIS IS A REPOST OF MY ORIGONAL MESSAGE. I MADE A FEW ERRORS
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- Hello,
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- I have just installed LINUX version 0.98.Pl5-41 using the SLS package.
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- I have to say that this is an excellent product. I plan on using it at home
- for school projects, programming etc.
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- I am running Linux on the following hardware:
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- 486DX-33 with AMI bios
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- 8 Megs of RAM
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- A Maxtor IDE harddrive (124meg) with 3 Linux partitons and a swap
- partition (about 10 megs).
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- An Ultrastore 14F SCSI controller card with a Maxtor 340 meg SCSI
- and an NEC CDR-77 CD-Rom drive.
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- An Orchid Farenheit1280 Video card.
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- Overall the system is working VERY well (Coherent is now gathering dust!)
- but I am having a few problems that I hope someone here can help with.
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- One:
- How can I access the rom-drive? When Linux boots it sees the drive but
- there seems to be no entry in the /dev directory to mount it to.
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- Two:
- I want to use LILO so that I can boot without a floppy but the instructions
- refer to a kernal image. What is this? There is a file in / called Image and
- when I use this, the system starts to boot and then locks. Help!
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- Three:
- I can not get X working. I have tried the VGA mono settings but every time X
- starts it says that VGAcolor stuff can't be found. However, if I just type
- X386 I get a graphics screen and a working mouse cursor (but no shell of any
- sort). This seems to be a problem with a config file but I can't find it.
- Any ideas?
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- Four: QUESTION WAS ANSWERED!
- I have man and man2 but there seem to be man pages missing.
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- Five:
- I have gotten my HPlaserjet series II working by sending a control string to
- it. However I want to use LPR but I dont know how to make a printcap file.
- The directions I have are not readable so can someone explain the settings?
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- Six:
- How can I make my own man pages and add them to the system?
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- If anyone can help with these problems I would appreciate it.
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- Also, for anyone interested, I have got the following working (I understand
- that some people have problems with the following)
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- 1. I have no trouble accessing my SCSI dos partitions under Linux.
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- 2. Modem communications using V.32 and minicom work fine (although minicom seems
- to have a minor bug with line feeds.)
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- 3. Zmodem is working with #2. ( I am using the zmodem from coherent which compiles
- with warnings but works fine)
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- 4. The drive Linux is on has no dos partitons at all and it seems to work fine.
- Initaly, it had one partition and that also worked fine.
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- 5. Gcc is working great.
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- Thanks again for any help you can give. If anyone wants to know how I got the
- above working feel free to send me e-mail.
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- Thanks again.
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- Chris Levin
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- Ps. Please reply via email since I loose many messages in this group
- before I can read them. My address is:
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- levin@cosmic.physics.utah.edu
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