floppy disk multitasking problems

1999-01-22 Thread Sasha Gutfraind
Hello fellow users! I've a rather general technical question. Floppy drives have been around for who knows how much time. But even more, it seems that they originated not from multitasking OSs like UN*X and Linux, but from Macs and PCs running DOS. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems that whenev

fixing the charset in a terminal

1998-11-28 Thread Sasha Gutfraind
Hello fellow users! I've been experiencing a weird and recuring problem in my debian system: When a program fails to read a data file for example, or somhow abnormally exits, the terminal starts to use some weird charset, and becomes unreadable. That, of course, affects only one terminal or xterm.

large kernels

1998-11-06 Thread Sasha Gutfraind
Hello Guys! I have problems compiling the kernel. Using normal make config I configured the kernel and it came to be around 970K. As far I understood, LILO (not only) requires kernels <500K. So, I read about big images, and made one with "make bzImage". however, it was of no lesser size. I must h