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- From: levin@cosmic.physics.utah.edu (Chris Levin)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: New user Linux questions and summary of answers
- Keywords: CD-ROM SCSI X MODEM LILO
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.204216.29491@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 20:42:16 GMT
- Sender: news@fcom.cc.utah.edu
- Distribution: comp.os.linux
- Organization: Cosmic Ray Physics Group, University of Utah
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- This is a repost of my origonal message. It contains my questions as well as
- the working answers I have received so far. It also contains new questions.
- I hope this helps others with similar problems and I also hope someone can
- answer the questions that remain unanswered.
-
- Hello,
-
- I am using LINUX version 0.98.Pl5-41 installed using the SLS package.
-
- 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.
-
- UPDATE: I have learned about the mknod command. From a previous mail message
- I tried the following:
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- mknod /dev/cdrom b 11 0
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- This works fine, but trying to mount the drive results in a system lockup.
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- I did see a mount command of the following form: mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /rom
- but mount does not seem to know what iso9660 means. HELP!
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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!
-
- UPDATE: I have not gotten any response on this. Is anyone using LILO?
-
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- Three: ANSWERED!
- 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?
-
- UPDATE: The SLS instructions are wrong! Copy X386mono to X not X386 and everything
- will work just fine. (on my hardware anyway)
-
- Four: ANSWERED!
- I have man and man2 but there seem to be man pages missing.
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- UPDATE: I have been told by several sources that man pages are still being
- created and should be available soon.
-
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- Five: STILL NEED HELP WITH THIS!
- 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?
-
- Six: STILL NEED HELP WITH THIS!
- How can I make my own man pages and add them to the system?
-
- UPDATE: I have not tried this but I am told that you can just copy a new man
- page into the appropriate man directory and it will work. Man pages
- can be regular text. Can anyone confirm this?
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- -------------------------- END OF QUESTIONS -------------------------
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- If anyone can help with these problems I would appreciate it.
-
- Also, for anyone interested, I have got the following working (I understand
- that some people have problems with the following)
-
- 1. I have no trouble accessing my SCSI dos partitions under Linux. The default
- settings set during the SLS install work fine.
-
- 2. Modem communications using V.32 and minicom work fine (although minicom seems
- to have a minor bug with line feeds.)
- UPDATE: I am using XC and it is working fine. Also, it seems that if the
- modem port is listed in inittab your com program will not function.
- Can someone confirm this?
-
- 3. Zmodem is working with #2. ( I am using the zmodem from coherent which compiles
- with warnings but works fine)
- UPDATE: XC comes with its own zmodem which is working just fine.
-
- 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. This is the
- first drive in the system.
-
- 5. Gcc is working great.
- UPDATE: It was working great, I can't seem to write any C++ code.
- I am working on figuring this out.
-
- 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.
-
- Thanks again.
-
- 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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- I will keep posting summaries of the answers as I receive them.
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