Re: Re: fdisk utility and others

>[kan@netcom.com (Kan Yu) writes:]
>
>>1) How can I mount the second partition on the drive? Is "dos" the utility
>> to use? What is the command convention?
>
>Well, first you'd best take a look at what partitions the driver found.
>Assuming this is an IDE disk, you'd:
>
>vsta$ mount disk/wd /wd
>vsta$ ls /wd
>
>and you might get a list including:
>
>wd0 wd0_dos0 wd0_dos1
>
>Then you could unmount /wd from your private namespace:
>
>vsta$ umount /wd
>
>And start up a DOS filesystem server for the second partition (in background):
>
>vsta$ /vsta/boot/dos -p disk/wd:wd0_dos1 fs/dos2 &
>
>Hopefully it won't complain. Then mount the new service in your namespace:
>
>vsta$ mount fs/dos2 /dos
>vsta$ ls /dos
>
>and you should see your DOS files on the second partition.

Currently I have VSTA 1.3.1 installed (from vandys/vsta at ftp.cisco.com) and
I couldn't find the "mount" command from the "/vsta/bin" or any of the *.tz
files. Is there newer release of VSTA?

>>3) I have changed the login program so that it reads machine name from a
>> file under "/vsta/etc/machid" and use it as the login prompt. Would
>> this be alright? In the same program, I also skip printing out the
>> "Password" prompt if user has no password associated with his/her
>> login.
>
>Well, the former is more usually handled with the "banner" file in
>/vsta/etc. The latter has already been added to the 1.3.2 source. Host
>names are tricky, as we want it to fit with networking, which may have
>multiple interfaces with distinct IP addresses for each (and by implication,
>distinct hostnames).

Maybe I see the "banner" file a little different here. I though the "banner"
file was like the "motd" file and will be printed out to the screen when
the machine first came up. Is there other way to customize the login prompt?

>>4) Is there vi-clone available? How'bout the windows system? Will the next
>> release include these and possibly KAQ9? I plan to run SLIP client on
>> my VSTA machine.
>
>SLIP will take more work; ne2000's work pretty well. This will be in 1.3.2.
>vi will, too.

Will 1.3.2 be available any time soon? Also, is there anything I can help
with? I am currently running two 486 PC's connected by a Lantastic network.

>Thanks, but it's not public domain. I continue to hold copyright to the
>system, and allow (plural) you to use it under Copyleft. See /vsta/license
>to see what the terms of the system's use are.
>
>Hopefully this is acceptable to you; it's the same terms as GNU C uses, for
>instance.

Sorry, this is my mistake and yes, I have read the copyright statement. Also,
is there a porting going on for 68K? What is the possiblity of using VSTA in
a commerical word? For instance, use it in a demo package for MPEG-2
decoder development kit?

Thanks.

Jacob
Received on Wed Sep 28 12:30:24 1994