🚀 go-pugleaf

RetroBBS NetNews Server

Inspired by RockSolid Light RIP Retro Guy

Article View: aus.computers.linux
Article #59036

Re: Assistance required for Linux Newbie

#59036
From: Craig Irvine
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 00:00
49 lines
2351 bytes
In article <4kdup4$ofd@news.mel.aone.net.au>, 
peter.aikins@acslink.aone.net.au says...
>
>In article <4kcip6$47a@altus.speednet.com.au>, deezee@speednet.com.au 
says...
>>

<snip>

>
>>2) I've installed LILO and everythings seems to be going fairly well.
>>On boot up I get an option (after pressing CTRL or ALT) which asks me
>>what OS I want to use - DOS or LINUX. Whilst it is booting there are
>>several lines of info that come up prior to arriving at the prompt. I
>>have noted these few lines thinking that there may be problems with
>>initial set up. Could someone please explain what they mean and if I
>>must change certain parameters ?
>>
>>CHECKING 386/387 COUPLING....OK, FPU USING EXCEPTION 16 ERROR
>>REPORTING 
>>
>>PARTITION CHECK HDA: MULTIPLE MODE TURNED OFF
>>                                 HDA: HDA1, HDA2, HDA3
>>
>>CHECKING FOR CD....UNABLE TO IDENTIFY CDROM FORMAT
>>END_REQUEST: I/O ERROR, DEV 2100, SECTOR 64
>>ISOFS_READ_SUPER:BREAD FAILED, DEV 0x2100
>>UNABLE TO IDENTIFY CDROM FORMAT
>>
>>STARTING PCMCIA SERVICES: INITIALISATION OF i82365 FAILED CARDMGR
>>
>
>This looks a bit fishy. Unfortunately I can't help you here. I think 
there's a PCMCIA HOWTO, but do you need one of these?
>

There appears to be two problems here.  The first is that the CDROM isn't 
being recognised.  The second is the kernel you have installed is looking 
for a PCMCIA adaptor.  These can be fixed by reconfiguring the kernel for 
your machine and then recompiling (check the kernel how-to).

>>Lastly could someone be kind enough as to answer a silly question like
>>what is the command under LINUX which acts as TREE for MSDOS ?
>>

Not being a unix guru I would use the command du.  This gives a listing of 
 each directory under the current one with it's size (in blocks I think). 
 Anyone got any better ideas???
Craig
Technical Details
Message-ID: <4kg68t$g0n@grissom.powerup.com.au>
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!unknown!not-for-mail
References: <4kcip6$47a@altus.speednet.com.au> <4kdup4$ofd@news.mel.aone.net.au>

Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: 102983,ab52fa2fab23723f
X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public
From: cirvine@powerup.com.au (Craig Irvine)
Subject: Re: Assistance required for Linux Newbie
Date: 1996/04/10
Message-ID: <4kg68t$g0n@grissom.powerup.com.au>
X-Deja-AN: 147673405
references: <4kcip6$47a@altus.speednet.com.au> <4kdup4$ofd@news.mel.aone.net.au>
organization: PowerUp
mime-version: 1.0
newsgroups: aus.computers.linux