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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.announce:89 comp.os.386bsd.questions:4453 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!agate!usenet From: burgess@hrd769.brooks.af.mil (Dave Burgess) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.announce,comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: FAQ Master Index. Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.questions Date: 17 Aug 1993 19:56:13 -0700 Organization: Armstrong Laboratory, Brooks AFB, TX Lines: 245 Sender: cgd@agate.berkeley.edu Approved: 386bsd-announce-request@agate.berkeley.edu Message-ID: <199308131716.MAA00766@hrd769.brooks.af.mil> NNTP-Posting-Host: agate.berkeley.edu Here is the master index/table of contents for the current version of the FAQ. It is available from hrd769.brooks.af.mil:~/pub/FAQ in its entirety. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 0.0 Introduction 0.1 About this FAQ. 0.2 Is 386bsd better than (your favorite operating system name here)? 0.3 How to add your pet answer to the FAQ. 0.4 Administrivia. 0.5 Master Index. 1.0 What is 386BSD? (Taken from the INSTALL.NOTES by the Jolitz's) 1.1 Feature summary 1.2 The future of 386BSD. 1.3 386BSD software projects in progress 1.3.1 Contacting software authors 1.4 Minimum hardware configuration recommended 1.5 Where to get the source and binaries 1.5.1 Forms available (floppy, FTP, CD-ROM) 1.5.1.1 Where can I get the distribution on floppy or tape? 1.5.1.2 Where can I get the distribution via FTP? 1.5.1.3 Where can I get the distribution on CD ROM? 1.6 Electronic Information Groups for 386BSD 1.6.1 Usenet newsgroups 1.6.2 Newsgroup archives. 1.6.3 386bsd mailing lists. 1.6.4 Other electronic resources. 1.7 Documentation available 1.7.1 BSD manuals 1.7.2 BSD books 1.7.3 The Jolitz Book 1.7.4 Dr. Dobbs' journal 1.7.5 Other FAQ's on the net that are relevant 1.8 FTP sites for 386BSD 1.8.1 FTP Site List 1.8.2 Official distribution sites 1.8.3 Reference sites 1.8.4 Unofficial archive sites that have neat stuff! 1.8.5 X for 386BSD 0.1 Ported Software List 2.0 Install process 2.0.1 Tiny boot disk (versions and media formats) 2.0.1.1 Where does extract go when I reboot? 2.0.1.2 I put the floppy in and try to boot, and nothing happens. What now? 2.0.1.3a The floppy booted, but now the hard disk won't boot? 2.0.1.3b I am trying to reinstall. I run install and it loops asking me if I want to use the whole disk? 2.0.1.4 There are a bunch of flashing colored things on the screen. Now what? 2.0.2 Fix-it boot disk 2.1 Binary distribution 2.2 Source distribution 2.3 Additional software distribution 2.4 Patch-kit 2.5 Configuration 2.5.1 Partitions 2.5.1.1 What is a 'disklabel' and why do I need one? 2.5.2 Common Disk Label Problems. 2.5.2.1 Swap space. 2.5.2.2 Increasing the 386bsd partition size. 2.5.3 How do I set up the system so that I can boot from more than one operating system/file-loader without using floppies? 2.5.4 How do I disklabel my second hard drive? 2.5.5 386bsd/NetBSD cannot handle disk geometry translations, but it turns out that my disk geometry is translated. It has five zones, each with a different sec/track! What kind of things can I do about the disk translation my hard disk controller uses? 2.6 Common installation problems. 2.6.1 Swap space not identified correctly. 2.6.2 Endless reboot cycles. 2.6.3 The computer just sits there, or 'that isn't right'. 2.6.3.1 The boot disk works all right on one computer but not another. 2.6.3.2 The screen has "flashing multicolored characters and ptdi81061 prompt" error? 2.6.3.3a I get the error "isr 15 and error: isr 17" on an NE2000 card. 2.6.3.3b I have some card on IRQ2 and it doesn't work; why? 2.6.3.3c I am getting lousy performance out of my network card. What are some of the other possibilities? 2.6.3.4 What is the difference between IRQ2 and IRQ9? Are they really the same, or are they really different? 2.6.3.5 Some of my SCSI devices (like a tape drive) don't work; why? 2.6.3.5 I try to run 'ps' or 'w' and get ': cannot get namelist' from the TinyBSD kernel. What did I do wrong? 2.6.3.6 Why don't the man pages for "magic" and "file" work? 2.6.3.7 Why is apropos broke? 2.6.3.8 I get a 'Floating point constant out of range' when I try to compile package 'n'. What is broke? 2.6.3.9 I want to use the Adaptec 1542C SCSI controller. What are the problems/tricks you need to know to get it working? 3.1 Kernel 3.1.1 How do I build a kernel? 3.1.2 I want to do one of the following things: * add a device not in the distributed kernel (third com port, additional disk or tape, line printer driver, etc). * use a patch from the net or the patchkit to fix a kernel bug. * add another swap device. * recompile the kernel to remove extraneous devices so that it takes up less space. * configure more pseudo-terminals to allow for more xterms or network logins. 3.1.3 I don't have the source distribution -- how can I rebuild the kernel? 3.1.4 Now that I have a kernel, how do I install it? 3.1.5 After installing the patchkit and recompiling the kernel with the option "WD8013", i am no longer able to reboot the machine. A cold boot (power on) runs fine, but after a reboot no boot drive is found by the BIOS. Besides having a 16-bit WD/SMC Ethernet card installed the machines try to boot using either a Adaptec 1742 or 1542 SCSI board to boot from. 3.2 What exactly is this config file, anyway? What are all of these cryptic notations? 3.2.1 Okay, fine. Why shouldn't I just add every device I can find to the kernel, so I'll never have to recompile this again? 3.2.2 What should I remove from the kernel? 3.2.3 I can't get enough remote login sessions or xterm sessions. What can I do? 3.2.4 How do I get ddb, the kernel debugger, compiled into the kernel and running? 3.2.5 Can I have more than one config file? Should I rename it to something else? Any other hints? 3.2.6 What is the meaning of the trap codes I get in panic messages? Sometimes this message appears in the form "trap type nn". 3.2.7 I have been getting a lot of "virtual memory exhausted" errors when I am compiling a program with a really big static array. I have 128Meg of memory and 8Gig of swap. How can this be happening? 3.2.8 Where can I learn more about all this? 3.3 X11/XFree86/XS3 3.3.1 What options should I define to get the X extensions included? 3.3.2 Where can I get the FAQ for 'X'? 3.3.3 Why does X drop characters when using xdm? When I run xdm from the console, it keeps losing keystrokes and the shift keys don't always work. Why? 3.4 Compiler and Library routines 4.0 Introduction 4.1 Common Kernel-related problems 4.1.1 Where are the commands "rpcinfo" and "rpcgen"? 4.1.2 Where can I get a working "netstat"? 4.1.3 How can I fix NFS to work with my NE2000 board? 4.1.4 How can I get "ps" and "w" to work? 4.1.5 Where are re_comp and re_exec? 4.1.6 Where are stty() and gtty()? 4.1.7 The system hangs with the HD light on after intense disk usage. 4.2 Available kernel add-ons 4.2.1 The Patch-Kit 4.2.2 Shared Libraries 4.2.3 Sound Blaster Drivers 4.2.4 Bus Mouse Drivers 4.2.5 PPP Support 4.2.6 re_comp and re_exec library functions 4.2.7 Intel i82586 Ethernet Controller driver 4.2.8 PC Speaker driver for Nethack 5.0 Introduction 5.1 Available Kernel Replacements 5.1.1 keycap/codrv 5.1.2 pcvt 5.1.3 syscons 5.1.4 Fast Symbolic Links 5.1.5 npx fixes 5.1.6 CGD's COM drivers 5.1.7 Tom Ivar Helbekkmo's wd.c replacement 5.1.8 Interruptless LPT Driver Kit 5.2 Floppy Disk problems. 5.2.1 How do I get a bootable floppy? 5.3 Unit Record 5.3.1 Printers 5.3.2 Terminals/Keyboards 5.3.3 Modems 5.4 Network 5.5 Marc Mengel's <mengel@fnal.gov> driver list 6.1 Formatting a floppy 6.2 Sharing the Disk with MS-DOS 6.2.1 How can I partition my drive to support both MS-DOS and 386bsd? 6.2.2 I can install using the whole disk, but I can't install when I try to share the drive between 386bsd and MS-DOS. Why? 6.2.3 I can use either MS-DOS or 386BSD on my hard drive, but shutdown -todos doesn't seem to work. 6.3 Accessing the MS-DOS filesystem 6.4 NFS/PC-NFS support 6.4.1 Can I use 8K packets for NFS? When I try, I have all kinds of problems. 6.4.2 How do I get around the NFS "Permission denied" error? 6.4.3 What does the message "BAD MNT RPC: RPC Authentication error; why = Invalid client credential" mean when I try to mount something from another machine? 6.4.4 What does the message "Bad MNT RPC: RPC: Authentication error; why = Client credential too weak" mean when I try to mount something from another machine? 6.4.5 Is there any PC software that will allow me to use my enormous PC with all of the unsupported hardware as a PC-NFS server? 7.0 Communications 7.1 SLIP 7.2 CSLIP 7.3 PPP 7.4 TCP/IP 7.5 UUCP 7.5.1 TIP/CU 7.6 Terminals 8.0 What hardware is 386BSD known to run on and support! 8.1 System brand names 8.2 Motherboards 8.3 Video cards 8.4 Mice 8.5 Serial Cards 8.5.1 How do I configure multiport cards? 8.6 Disk Controllers 8.7 SCSI Controllers 8.8 Network Cards 8.9 Printers 8.10 TAPE Drives 8.11 CD-ROMs 9.1 Software known to run under 386BSD 9.2 List whether patches are needed 9.3 List version/release of program 9.4 List who is supporting it if anyone 9.5 List where you can get it -- ------ TSgt Dave Burgess NCOIC AL/Management Information Systems Office Brooks AFB, TX -- Please send submissions for comp.os.386bsd.announce to: 386bsd-announce@agate.berkeley.edu