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- From: lien@lysator.liu.se (Jan Lien)
- Subject: Beginners problems
- Message-ID: <1564@lysator.liu.se>
- Sender: news@isy.liu.se (Lord of the News)
- Organization: Lysator Academic Computer Society, Linkoping University, Sweden
- Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 11:16:29 GMT
- Lines: 26
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- Problems encountered with Linux 0.97 - help appreciated.
- I have succesfully booted Linux on my pc, root system on hard drive.
- However there are some serious problems, here listed in order of
- percieved severity.
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- - mtools does not recognize my G: and H: ms-dos logical drives on my
- extended partition. I get the error ENOENT for these disks, but
- they are in the proper table, as I can use C-D-E-F disks. Fdisk
- finds them as hda9 and hda10.
- Is this an built in constraint in Linux? I got error messages when
- I tried to use hda10 for a linux disk.
-
- - emacs over a serial port (/dev/ttys1 or /dev/ttys2) writes in the
- mode line. Is there an error in termcap (vt100 terminal), or is
- the number of lines set incorrectly? If it is number of lines,
- where (and how) do I change them?
-
- - where do I find information on what all the options to a command
- does? (I can find out that there are -abcdefgh... to a command,
- but what do they do?)
-
- - while logged in on a serial port (/dev/ttys1 or /dev/ttys2) and
- doing a cat or cp to /dev/tty, if I repeatedly press ctrl-C
- I get logged out.
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