Re: ELKS-0.0.78 ??

1999-09-01 Thread Alistair Riddoch
y on an old "portable" Toshiba T1600 (cpu > Intel 80286, 712Kb of RAM, 40Mb of HD) when the system boot it tells me > "ELKS 0.0.77" against the "image.zip" which well contains a system "ELKS > > 0.0.78". Is it not strange <:)? This is a mistake

RE: ELKS-0.0.78 ??

1999-08-31 Thread Greg Haerr
: About "Dev86src-0.14.9.tar.gz" (or what else release) I reach to : recompile application with a Linux kernel 2.0.x but not with 2.2.x once. : Some newer distributions core dump when running /usr/bin/ar with Dev86-0-14.9. I have rewritten a new /usr/bin/ar that will work for these dist

ELKS-0.0.78 ??

1999-08-31 Thread Soete Joel
ntel 80286, 712Kb of RAM, 40Mb of HD) when the system boot it tells me "ELKS 0.0.77" against the "image.zip" which well contains a system "ELKS 0.0.78". Is it not strange <:)? May be is it why have I to comment out system call "setsid()" into elkscmd/sysut

RE: ELKS 0.0.78 released

1999-07-20 Thread Jeff Stanton
At 09:42 AM 7/20/99 +0100, Luke (boo) Farrar wrote: >On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Dan Olson wrote: >> A few of us had this exact same problem on PS/2 machines, and I believe >> the problem ended up not being the disk drive but rather the keyboard not >> being detected. A simple test, if you can do it, wo

RE: ELKS 0.0.78 released

1999-07-20 Thread Greg Haerr
: I can tell you that it won't work. I know this because I wrote it :) Al : fixed a small part of it a while ago, but afaik, it still doesn't work : properly. Feel free to debug it if you want though, it's fairly simple to : navigate through the source. : If anyone wants another bios k

RE: ELKS 0.0.78 released

1999-07-20 Thread Greg Haerr
: > What is so special about ps/2 keyboards? : : They have blue electrons running thru their chips :-) : That's true. Normal electrons are greenish-gold.

Re: ELKS 0.0.78 released

1999-07-20 Thread David Murn
On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Blaz Antonic wrote: > I have already suggested to use BIOS console instead of direct one on > PS/2 machines long time ago, but noone tried it. > > So, disable dircon and enable bioscon support in config, recompile and > try again. Please let us know whether it works or not (

Re: ELKS 0.0.78 released

1999-07-20 Thread Blaz Antonic
> I just tried it and found the same thing on a ps2. It's the keyboard that > it has a problem with. With the comb image it mounts the root disk fine, > runs init fine, then you can't login because of the keyboard. I have already suggested to use BIOS console instead of direct one on PS/2 machine

RE: ELKS 0.0.78 released

1999-07-20 Thread Luke (boo) Farrar
On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Dan Olson wrote: > A few of us had this exact same problem on PS/2 machines, and I believe > the problem ended up not being the disk drive but rather the keyboard not > being detected. A simple test, if you can do it, would be to try the > combo boot/root image, and see i

RE: ELKS 0.0.78 released

1999-07-19 Thread Dan Olson
A few of us had this exact same problem on PS/2 machines, and I believe the problem ended up not being the disk drive but rather the keyboard not being detected. A simple test, if you can do it, would be to try the combo boot/root image, and see if it hangs or not. Sence you are using 5.25" disk

Re: ELKS 0.0.78 released

1999-07-15 Thread Pino
> > The drive light never goes off on my system either, but ELKS 0.77 runs > fine. Is your problem that ELKS doesn't work, or with the drive light? > > Greg > Hello to everybody. I've been following the list from June. It's the first time I write. I have high hopes about ELKS becaus

RE: ELKS 0.0.78 released

1999-07-15 Thread Jeff Stanton
At 12:16 PM 7/15/99 -0600, Greg Haerr wrote: > >: I downloaded the images.zip and used RaWrite to pu them on 5 1/4" floppies >: from my Win95 machine. I took them down to the basement and fired up an >: old XT clone. Boot messages appear normal (it identifies 2 floppies and 1 >: HDD), but when i

RE: ELKS 0.0.78 released

1999-07-15 Thread Greg Haerr
: I downloaded the images.zip and used RaWrite to pu them on 5 1/4" floppies : from my Win95 machine. I took them down to the basement and fired up an : old XT clone. Boot messages appear normal (it identifies 2 floppies and 1 : HDD), but when it asks for the root floppy, the drive light never

Re: ELKS 0.0.78 released

1999-07-15 Thread Jeff Stanton
>ELKS version 0.0.78 has been released and is available from >ftp://ftp.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pub/elks/elks-0.0.78/. linux.mit.edu currently >has a full disk which prevented me from uploading there. > I downloaded the images.zip and used RaWrite to pu them on 5 1/4" floppies from my

ELKS 0.0.78 released

1999-07-15 Thread Alistair Riddoch
ELKS version 0.0.78 has been released and is available from ftp://ftp.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pub/elks/elks-0.0.78/. linux.mit.edu currently has a full disk which prevented me from uploading there. The release consists of the following files:- elks-0.0.78.tar.gz - Kernel source