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["Ron Clarke" <ariadne AT acepia.net.au>]

Hi Steven,

On Wed, 30 Apr 2003 02:33:16 +1000, qwms-avib AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Ron Clarke wrote:

>> fstab:

>> /dev/hda1    /      ext2   defaults  1  1

> That tells the kernel to mount /dev/hda1 at /
> (the root filesystem) as an ext2 filesystem
> with default settings.  The 1 at the end of
> the line is the fsck flag.  It specifies that
> the filesystem should be checked (by e2fsck).

   Thanks for that info.

> If /dev/hda1 is your DOS partition, then that line
> is very, very wrong.

   Yep.   :(

>> (after I have mounted my C DOS drive to /c) when I
>> enter df, both my hard disks show up as

>> /dev/hda1      118194   32221   79870  29 %  /
>> /dev/hda1      515792  133880  381912  26 %  /c

> That is definitely wrong.  You need to sort that
> out urgently (before something gets corrupted by
> the conflicting designation).  You need to determine
> which partition is actually DOS and which is ext2.

   Oh, I know which is which.

> Hopefully, this will tell you:
> --------
> fdisk -l
> --------
> Then edit /etc/fstab so that it shows the correct
> location of the ext2 partition.

   My fstab now reads:
/dev/hdb1   /       ext2   defaults     1     1
none        /proc   proc   defaults     0     0

  On boot up, all went well except that I was told /hdb1 was not
umounted properly and a check was forced. That seemed to go well and I
was able to log on without trouble, and without the previous error
messages.

Question - should I include:

/dev/hda1   /c      msdos   defaults     0     0
                 or FAT16

in fstab, between the two ?

> Are you using DrDOS, by any chance?  I had something
> similar happen to me using the DrDOS version of fdisk.

   Nope.  MS-DOS 6.20

BTW: Links 2 is installed and running. But couldn't do graphics when
invoked from the CLI as "Links -g" - messages say that some library,
some .config and some -mode is not set or missing.  Can I only do
graphics in icewm ?   Or do I need to configure something ?  Or do I
need to install the extra video package over vga16.tgz ?

  It DOES run under icewm with the -g parameter, but the colours are
absolute crap, and the speed of display is pretty glacial at 33 MHz.

  And neither in CLI or icewm will it display any of the graphics. Just
text and some pretty ferocious colours. Do I need to get seejpeg.tgz ?
Or libpng.tgz and such stuff ?

  Will it help if I get and install the S3 video driver for my Tseng
card with 1 MB video RAM ?

Regards,
        Ron

Ron Clarke
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Ron Clarke wrote:
> 
>    My fstab now reads:
> /dev/hdb1   /       ext2   defaults     1     1
> none        /proc   proc   defaults     0     0

That's much better.

> On boot up, all went well except that I was told 
> /hdb1 was not umounted properly and a check was forced. 

That's OK.  Because (previously) /dev/hdb1 was missing 
from /etc/fstab, so it wasn't umounted when you shutdown.

> Question - should I include:
> 
> /dev/hda1   /c      msdos   defaults     0     0
>                  or FAT16

If /c exists and you want your DOS partition to be there, 
yes you can put it in /etc/fstab.  It will be mounted 
automatically at startup and umounted automatically at 
shutdown.  As far as the filesystem type goes, msdos 
is fine (if it is a pure DOS partition).  To see what 
filesystem types are valid (or to check the spelling):
---------------------
cat /proc/filesystems
---------------------
That will show you the types your kernel knows (this can
vary from kernel to kernel).
 
> BTW: Links 2 is installed and running. But couldn't 
> do graphics when invoked from the CLI as "Links -g" 
> - messages say that some library, some .config and 
> some -mode is not set or missing.  

In order to do graphics from the CLI, you need svgalib
and its config file (configured for your system).  You
also need a version of links2 that was compiled for 
svgalib.

> Can I only do graphics in icewm ?   

Unless you install (and configure) svgalib, you can 
only do graphics in X.  BTW, BL1 came with a cut down 
version of svgalib that could do graphics from the CLI.  
BL2 doesn't have this (it was one of the things that
was removed to make room for glibc2).

> Or do I need to install the extra video package over 
> vga16.tgz ?

A hi-res Xserver will give you a better display, but it
can be tricky to get the configuration right.  It took
me several hours of trial and error to get my first
XF86Config right.  I recommend that people stick with
the vga16 Xserver for a while before trying a hi-res one.

> It DOES run under icewm with the -g parameter, but the 
> colours are absolute crap, 

Indeed.  Even 256 colors isn't really enough for links2.  
Somebody seems to have gone crazy with the colors -- 
a standard color pallet would be much more practical. 
I notice that links2 does allow some control of the colors.  
If anybody finds a way of reducing the color range to a 
simpler pallet, please report back here.

> and the speed of display is pretty glacial at 33 MHz.

Don't give up yet.  We have only just started with links2
-- we may discover ways of improving its performance on
the vga16 Xserver.  Or, it may be better to use svgalib
(however, it is not certain that links2 will run faster
on svgalib than on X).
 
> Do I need to get seejpeg.tgz ? 
> Or libpng.tgz and such stuff ?

No, those were used by the old links to display individual
images.  links2 is a real graphical browser.
 
> Will it help if I get and install the S3 video driver 
> for my Tseng card with 1 MB video RAM ?

You will certainly get better graphics and it might be 
faster too.  

Cheers,
Steven