Re: old wreck

2000-02-23 Thread Dan Olson
Okay...the harddisk burned out, yet it still loads DOS and a graphic shell? Isn't dosshell the one that DOS 5.00 and later included? I suggest starting with at boot disk, and if that works move on to a hard drive install, or a boot loader (I had trouble with a 8086 PS/2, so testing off of floppy

old wreck

2000-02-23 Thread Christian Theil Have
Hi. I've got this old IBM wreck (it's actually a 386 sx, PS/1 type thingy) in my closet. It hasn't been of much use the last couple of years, because the harddisk burned out. I't still got a diskdrive, so I thought i't would be fun trying out elks. Problem is, the computer loads some sort of grap

Re: 8086/88 80286 ||| 80386 80486 Pentium ...

2000-02-23 Thread karunendra
Hi , Do any one had a linux ported to Hitachi processor.can elks can be used for embedded systems is there any one who is intrested for a linux kernel development. Hope to here from the hackers world and for a better development karunendra babu > Hi all elks hackers. > > I am on

Error

2000-02-23 Thread Wolf
Hey all, I'v just recently gotten into ELKS and I have installed it on my 8088. I use 360k disks to boot it and it seems to work well, except for an error that screwes things up. I don't know exactly what it says because it scrools off the screen too quicly, but it has something to do with Inodes

Re: RE: Toshiba T1x00

2000-02-23 Thread semjaza
You'll need to go to this site and boot dos to run the setup utilities http://computers.toshiba.com/tais/csd/support/files/dosutil.htm PWRSAV.ZIP This will allow you to adjust and turn off the power save settings. TOSHUTIL.EXE This is the setup utility which will allow you to adjust all

RE: Toshiba T1x00

2000-02-23 Thread Greg Haerr
:Hacking. I have a Swedish/Finnish keymap if you're interested. I've :been meaning to share for a while, but it's on a machine I can't get :to at the moment. I haven't verified that it works on anything but my :T1200 though. FWIW, I'm still looking for technical data on how the T1200 power manang

8086/88 80286 ||| 80386 80486 Pentium ...

2000-02-23 Thread Christoph Plattner
Hi all elks hackers. I am one of you hackers, and I also develop on elks (look at netboot in elks, etc) But we should never forget the aim of elks ! I am really a linux fan and also hack on linux and so there is a simple rule for me: All computers should run Linux, except for them, whi

toshiba laptop

2000-02-23 Thread Craig Kadziolka
i tried to get elks running on my 486 sx 33 laptop, and it comes up with a few errors. the first one is Unable to open /dev/tty (error 2) which occurs while loading the root floppy the second one is fchown: function not implemented followed by No shell! and then halts. any ideas? -- Craig Ka

Re: Toshiba T1x00

2000-02-23 Thread MagerValp
> "Toby" == Juha Siltala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Toby> I have an old Toshiba T1000 laptop with 512K mem, a tiny LCD, no Toby> HD (actually does have a read-only HD with DOS 2.? on it)... I'm Toby> successfully running DOS 3.3 on it. FWIW I got ELKS running on a Toshiba T1200 (640K mem, 8