Re: Linux and Dos - was from Norway

All you need to do on the script is comment out the line that copies a new
lilo.conf file into the /etc directory. Then when the script brings up the
lilo.conf in EMACS you have to manually add the lines for the RT image.

Tim
[Denver, CO]

----- Original Message -----
From: Ray Henry <rehenry@...>
To: <CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@onelist.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 1999 8:50 AM
Subject: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Linux and Dos - was from Norway


> From: Ray Henry <rehenry@...>
>
> Arnie
>
> I ran a PC with win95 and Linux for a couple months and liked it a lot.
> Under Linux the dos partition (1 gig) came up as hda1 and automounted as
> /win. I didn't come up with any errors that I could attribute to the dual
> boot. But I had some problems with rtlinux. Tim's script didn't work.
> When I tried it, Linux and rtlinux would attempt to boot but somewhere in
> the middle of startup I'd get a message that the system could not start an
> initial console - de endungen. Or as 'da youppers (natives of Michigan's
> Upper Peninsula) around me might say in their best Spanish, "nada t'ing."
> Neither the rt nor the original would go. Win95 was fine, after I put the
> reference to it back into Lilo.conf. I know. Tim said his script would
> only work with a RH5.2 workstation install.
>
> I cleaned it all up again and did a manual install of rt. Wow! Is that a
> trick. But I did get emc back on and (run.sim) going. I didn't have a
> machine tool to test it on and didn't know about Matt's 64step stuff then.
> I don't think that sim uses the rt.) I tested the rt modules with /frank
> and got "Frank, Frank, Frank, and Zappa, Zappa.
>
> I wonder if there is a way to modify Tim's script - or write one - that
> will allow you to install a 1 gig or so dos-win partition first. (or use
> fips if you've got the guts and windows already) A workstation install
> will leave the dos-win partition alone - but sets up the Linux partitions
> differently than it would if it were working on a clean drive. Then this
> revised script would install the rt components and Matt's 64step.
>
> Then if we manufactured a little 25 pin terminator with led's (can you see
> a 50 microsecond pulse?) and a couple momentary switches we'd have an EMC
> system that would set up and test out in a couple hours while still
> allowing the faint hearted and single computered to run a windows space.
> Box it up with a donated 5.2 disk, a set of EMC disks, the rt install
disk,
> and some documentation and anyone who wanted to could try it out. We
could
> keep a list of who's next on CAD_CAM_ _ and just ship it around.
>
> BTW - I used to cut up wild rabbits at a hundred yards with an old water
> cooled Browning that we kids had retooled. Definitely ragged cuts and we
> quickly ran out of shells and money - never out of rabbits.
>
> Ray
>