Accessing Linux from DOS bbs

Accessing Linux from DOS bbs

Post by Derick Qua-Gonzal » Tue, 30 May 1995 04:00:00




->  Gday everyone
->  
->  im trying to work out how to allowusers to "jump" to a linux box via a dos
->  bbs program. Is there any easy way to do it?
->  
->  thanks
->  
->  ps; im desperate at this stage! :)
->  
->  adam

Well, let's see... here's ony way:

1) Throw out DOS(*) and install Linux and a Unix BBS;
2) Convert User info files;
3) Have fun...

...here's another way:

1) Throw out DOS and install Linux and a Unix BBS;
2) Convert User info files;
3) Have fun...

:-)

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(*) DOS=Defecient (or Debilitated) Operating System

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Accessing Linux from DOS bbs

Post by Adam Ne » Wed, 31 May 1995 04:00:00


Gday everyone

im trying to work out how to allowusers to "jump" to a linux box via a dos
bbs program. Is there any easy way to do it?

thanks

ps; im desperate at this stage! :)

adam

 
 
 

Accessing Linux from DOS bbs

Post by Bob Hau » Wed, 31 May 1995 04:00:00




>im trying to work out how to allowusers to "jump" to a linux box via a dos
>bbs program. Is there any easy way to do it?

I've never done this, but it seems that you should be able to
provide a telnet or rlogin via a "door" program and some DOS
tcp/ip software.  Lan Workplace and the newer versions of Kermit
come to mind.

There is a program called "doorway" that should be able to let
your bbs users operate a telnet session remotely.

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 Bob Hauck                              Wasatch Communcations Group

 
 
 

Accessing Linux from DOS bbs

Post by Riku Saikkon » Tue, 06 Jun 1995 04:00:00



>im trying to work out how to allowusers to "jump" to a linux box via a dos
>bbs program. Is there any easy way to do it?

Assuming the machines are networked together, I've written a program for it.
It's in the SimTel MS-DOS archive in SimTel/msdos/pktdrvr/stlnt100.zip. FTP
oak.oakland.edu: /pub/SimTel/msdos/pktdrvr/stlnt100.zip or ftp.funet.fi:
/pub/msdos/Simtel/pktdrvr/stlnt100.zip. It's free, with source (GPL).

The program is a telnet client for MS-DOS that uses a serial port for I/O.
It wants a FOSSIL driver for the serial port and a packet driver for the
network adapter.

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1. lilo error L BB BB BB BB BB

Hello,
I am trying to install debian potato on an elderly system, where
hda-disk is 120MByte and therefore shall host only the /boot - section,
which is mounted to a
10MByte-Partition (/hda1). The rest resides on hde, which a 30GB-HD on
an
promise-controller.

My Problem: After installing debian with some boot parameters for the
controller
and the hde-disk it boots well from the rescue-floppy, but not from hard
disk.
Lilo hangs, showing on the screen:
L BB BB BB BB
and adding a new "BB" every second.

I checked the geometry of hda against BIOS, fdisk, bootmessage and lilo,
they
are identical. I used another location on /hda (perhaps some blocks are
bad?),
but it didn't help.

Could anyone help? What does the Lilo-Message mean? How can I fix this
problem?

Thanks,
Uwe

My output from lilo -v -v -v is

LILO version 21.5-1 beta, Copyright (C) 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger
'lba32' extensions Copyright (C) 1999,2000 John Coffman

Reading boot sector from /dev/hda
Merging with /boot/boot.b
Device 0x0301: BIOS drive 0x80, 5 heads, 901 cylinders,
               53 sectors. Partition offset: 53 sectors.
Secondary loader: 8 sectors.
Device 0x0301: BIOS drive 0x80, 5 heads, 901 cylinders,
               53 sectors. Partition offset: 53 sectors.
Boot image: /vmlinuz
Device 0x0301: BIOS drive 0x80, 5 heads, 901 cylinders,
               53 sectors. Partition offset: 53 sectors.
Setup length is 8 sectors.
Mapped 0 sectors.
Added Linux *
    <dev=0xb0,hd=0,cyl=11,sct=112>
    "ro root=2101 BOOT_FILE=/vmlinuz ide2=0x1030,0x1042
     ide3=0x1038,0x1046 hde=59554,16,63"
Skipping /vmlinuz.old
/boot/boot.0300 exists - no backup copy made.
Map file size: 13824 bytes.
Writing boot sector.

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