From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Nasrat Subject: Re: thanks from elks newbie...!! Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 10:37:59 +0100 Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20020727093759.GD32090@raq465.uk2net.com> References: <20020727090209.GA32090@raq465.uk2net.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Seemanta Dutta Cc: Paul Nasrat , linux-8086@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Jul 27, 2002 at 03:00:24PM +0530, Seemanta Dutta wrote: > hello paul... > thanks for ur tip...that started it to work....now i can at go on to write > my programs for my seminar....and who said that people on mailing lists > don't reply....once again thanks a zillion for ur help... No problems, happy to help. > > as u said i did 'insmod' for the modules u said.. > but a few questions still arise in my mind... > > 1. why did *those* modules have to be loaded..where did u get the > documentation for it?? It's in the dev86 tar ball in the readme (well the magic binary line). But as for the aout one, that was somewhere else, can't remember. > > 2. the last of ur commands....the one where u told to redirect the echo > statement into the proc fs didn't work.. the error i got was this > bash: /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/register: No such file or directory Hmm, it might be that you hadn't loaded binfmt.o, or it may have moved under 2.4. > but even then my 8086 programs are > working fine...but my curiousity is killing me...why?? is the question i > want to know!! It's possibly in a magic file somewhere. > where can i find these subtle things on the net...i tried googling it but > failed to get any documentation on either elks or dev86 It's in the tar ball for dev86, possibly in the rpm under /usr/share/dev86-%version/Readme Paul