Linux-Misc Digest #317, Volume #27 Fri, 9 Mar 01 00:13:02 EST
Contents:
mouse pauses ("Sudhakar R.")
help - netstat command result ("datagram")
Re: Parallel port/printer error ("Rodney D. Myers")
Re: How can I swap partition space (Eric P. McCoy)
Re: Netscape 4.75 icons turned black and white (Dances With Crows)
Re: Tk based alarm clock (* Tong *)
Re: ALSA HELP for Sony VAIO PCG-F430 Sound (Yamaha 744 PCI) (Glitch)
Re: help - netstat command result (Michael Erskine)
Re: problems configuring gtk+-1.2.6 on redhat 6 (Glitch)
Re: boot up problem ("cedric")
Extend Keyboard keys: (sound up/down, the "Dell" button, "Play"....) (Lowell
Alleman)
Extend Keyboard keys: (sound up/down, the "Dell" button, "Play"....) (Lowell
Alleman)
Re: How can I swap partition space ("Kevin")
Re: I've downloaded the ISO file. Now what do I do with it? I've burned a CD and
it won't boot with it. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Free Linux account ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Question: setup cable modem, Linux and Windows (Mark Bratcher)
Re: suse 7.1 ("Wong Ching Kuen Frederick")
Netscape eats 100% CPU and hangs when viewing Java pages (Prince)
Re: I've downloaded the ISO file. Now what do I do with it? I've burned a CD and
it won't boot with it. ("Newbie from Win98")
Re: I've downloaded the ISO file. Now what do I do with it? I've burned a CD and
it won't boot with it. ("Newbie from Win98")
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From: "Sudhakar R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: mouse pauses
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 21:09:11 -0500
Of late I have been having this irritating issue of my mouse pointer
pausing while I move it around my desktop. This is certainly not due to
load on my system 'coz it happens even when i have no apps open on my
desktop. i run a 800 MHz P3 and i didn't have this problem until a while
back.
Does any have any clue as to what this cud be due to.
Thanx in advance
-sud
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From: "datagram" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.security
Subject: help - netstat command result
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 02:13:01 GMT
Hi,
I'm doing netstat on my linux box and I'm getting tons of ...
udp 0 0 192.168.1.5:4597 192.168.1.6:53
ESTABLISHED
udp 0 0 192.168.1.5:4591 192.168.1.6:53
ESTABLISHED
udp 0 0 192.168.1.5:4590 192.168.1.6:53
ESTABLISHED
udp 0 0 192.168.1.5:4579 192.168.1.6:53
ESTABLISHED
udp 0 0 192.168.1.5:4573 192.168.1.6:53
ESTABLISHED
udp 0 0 192.168.1.5:4572 192.168.1.6:53
ESTABLISHED
and so on ...
the 192.168.1.5 is my linux web server (internal/intranet)
and the 182.168.1.6 is the DNS Server
by the way these are not the real ip adresses but you get the idea..
** why am I getting so many of the same thing ?? **
thank you for your time!
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From: "Rodney D. Myers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Parallel port/printer error
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 18:18:10 -0800
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Lew Pitcher"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Funny, (ironic) as this printer came off of an OS/2 machine working,
and I have it installed on a windos machine right now, and it is
working.
Now to look in the BIOS, to see if anything can be done.
Thanks
> "Rodney D. Myers" wrote:
>>
>> I had to move my printer from my samba machine (it died) to my Linux
>> machine. When I ran Printtool, it found the parallel port, after I
>> reran the lpd daemon.
>>
>> After a reboot, added another hard drive, the printer does not work.
>>
>> After I ran dmesg | more, I get the following error;
>>
>> lp0: using parport0 (polling) lp0: on fire
>
> "on fire" is an inside joke (of sorts), derived from the times when a
> catastrophic error on a printer might have been that it caught on
> fire
> ;-)
>
>> Any ideas as to what is going on?
>>
>> I know that the printer works.
>
>
> Well, your printer port is asserting certain signals (status info
> supposedly from the printer) that leads the parport driver to think
> that a catastrophic error has occurred on the printer ("on fire").
> You have a hardware problem, either in the setup of the parallel port
> (check your BIOS settings), in the cable to the printer, or in the
> printer itself.
>
>
--
Rodney D. Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Member of Digital Freedom Alliance
Amateur: KG6ANX GMRS: WPOM592
ICQ# : 18002350 Have A NORML Day
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: How can I swap partition space
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric P. McCoy)
Date: 08 Mar 2001 21:31:27 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Schweitzer) writes:
> Decreasing a partition in size is always a dangerous operation.
The one he wants to decrease is /tmp, which doesn't matter. The init
scripts for Debian, at least, wipe everything in there each reboot
anyway (I believe).
--
Eric McCoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"Knowing that a lot of people across the world with Geocities sites
absolutely despise me is about the only thing that can add a positive
spin to this situation." - Something Awful, 1/11/2001
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Netscape 4.75 icons turned black and white
Date: 9 Mar 2001 02:41:37 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 8 Mar 2001 17:49:16 -0800, J Smith staggered into the Black Sun
and said:
>I have an unusual situation where all the icons in Netscape 4.75 turned
>black and white, in Caldera 2.4 eDesktop and Corel, and in SUSE 7.0
>
>I did fresh installs after reformatting, and keep getting the same
>result.
>
>Any idea why? is it a bad hard drive or CPU, perhaps?
>
>I can't go around trying different CPU's in my motherboard, and the
>hard drive seems fto work fine, and no bad sectors after reloading
>Windows and using Norton to check the hard drive.
>
>Help me, please.
This is not a new problem. It's coming up because Netscape can be very
stupid about the X-server's color depth. Netscape understands 1-bit,
8-bit, 16-bit, and 32-bit color depths, but panics and thinks that
24-bit color is 1-bit color, hence the B/W icons.
This info has been on the SuSE FAQ site since before May 1999; did you
check there? The fix is to run SaX or XF86Setup or whatever and select
32-bit or 16-bit color depth. This should actually speed up graphics
operations as all the pixels will be aligned on word boundaries.
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin' Ctrl-Alt
http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
=============================/ I hit a seg fault....
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From: * Tong * <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.tcl,comp.lang.perl.misc
Subject: Re: Tk based alarm clock
Date: 08 Mar 2001 22:44:39 -0400
"Tom Wilkason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "* Tong *" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> | Hi,
> |
> | I'm planing to write a Tk based alarm clock, and make it open source
> | tool for the public. So the first thing I have to make sure is that
> | there's not such a thing out there. My research is enclosed at the
> | end of this email.
> | [...]
> | FYI, when I say alarm clock, I mean something you can set a time
> | with, and when the time goes off, it pop up and window with the
> | message and sound a alarm sound... When I say Tk based, I mean
> | either Tcl/Tk or Perl/Tk. I'm going to write it in Perl/Tk though.
> |
>
> I think you will find this to be an easy (and fun) task. If you
> are using Tcl/Tk, you can look at
> http://mini.net/cgi-bin/wikit/1011.html for a sample analog clock
> (of course digital is trivial).
Wow, knew tck/tk is powerful but never imaged that an analog clock
would be so simple... I guess the VB and Java swing programmer
would be blew away. :-)
It's really nice, but I wasn't ready to go this fancy yet. All what
I want, as the first version, is something that can let me *set* the
alarm for it to go off... anything out there can do this?
--
Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply)
http://members.xoom.com/suntong001/
- All free contribution & collection & music from the heavens
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Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 22:07:51 -0500
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ALSA HELP for Sony VAIO PCG-F430 Sound (Yamaha 744 PCI)
Kaushik wrote:
> I have a Sony PCG-F430 as mentioned in the subject. I am trying to get
> my sound card to work under linux using the ALSA sound driver. ALSA does
> provide the module for this (ymfpci.o). But after compile, I am a little
> lost on how to enable the card in modules.conf.
>
> The README mentions stuff about OSS Free support and things like that.
> Anyone know what I need to do?
If you want OSS applications to have sound then you need to follow the
section in the README concerning adding OSS settings to modules.conf.
You also need ALSA specific info added to teh same file. YOu just follow
the README for your specific card.
I have a modules.conf on my laptop that uses a similar driver but my
laptop isn't on right now so i can't transfer the file over to this
computer right now. If you would like to see it I can send it to you
later. U can just email me directly.
>
> I tried running sound setup using linux's "setup". The module it
> recogonizes is ymfsb.o
>
> This eventually doesn't work on boot-up. Instead it totally hangs my
> system. Has anyone set this up? Any help would be REALLY appreciated.
>
> thanks in advance
> regards,
> Kaushik
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From: Michael Erskine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Re: help - netstat command result
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 22:06:20 -0500
Quantify "tons of" you should expect quit a bit of this if
you are using the .5 machine. Names must be resolved and
all of that business...
-m-
datagram wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I'm doing netstat on my linux box and I'm getting tons of ...
> udp 0 0 192.168.1.5:4597 192.168.1.6:53
> ESTABLISHED
> udp 0 0 192.168.1.5:4591 192.168.1.6:53
> ESTABLISHED
> udp 0 0 192.168.1.5:4590 192.168.1.6:53
> ESTABLISHED
> udp 0 0 192.168.1.5:4579 192.168.1.6:53
> ESTABLISHED
> udp 0 0 192.168.1.5:4573 192.168.1.6:53
> ESTABLISHED
> udp 0 0 192.168.1.5:4572 192.168.1.6:53
> ESTABLISHED
> and so on ...
>
> the 192.168.1.5 is my linux web server (internal/intranet)
>
> and the 182.168.1.6 is the DNS Server
>
> by the way these are not the real ip adresses but you get the idea..
>
> ** why am I getting so many of the same thing ?? **
>
> thank you for your time!
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Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 22:19:08 -0500
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: problems configuring gtk+-1.2.6 on redhat 6
sysadmin wrote:
> I seem to be having problems configuring gtk+-1.2.6 on RedHat 6. I
> really need some help or some input on this. Below is the output of the
> part that is dying in the configure script.
>
> configure:4588:X11/Intrinsic.h:No such file or directory
> configure:failed programs was:
> #line 4587 "configure"
> #include "confdefs.h"
> #include <X11/Intrinsic.h>
> configure:4668:gcc -o conftest -g -02 -Wall conftest.c -lXt 1>&5
> configure:In funtion `maint':
> configure:4664:warning implicit declatation of function `XtMalloc'
> /usr/bin/ld:cannot open -lXt:No such file or directory
> collect2:ld returned 1 exit status
> configure:failed program was:
> #line 4661 "configure"
> #include "confdefs.h"
>
> int main() {
> XtMalloc()
> ;return0;}
>
>
> Thanks for any help on this...
>
> K.
sounds like you are missing Xt libs....did you install the Xt
development package? The Xt libs may be a part of the whole X windows
devel package but maybe not....look for Xt libs on your distro CDs or
try online somewhere, rpmfind.net should have an rpm for Xt libs.
HTH
brandon
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From: "cedric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: boot up problem
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 19:21:18 +0800
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "D. Stimits"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> cedric wrote:
>>
>> After the line, 'Verifying DMI data pool' and before LILO
>> starts during boot up, all that happens is the scrolling
>> of 'x and o' over and over and over. The only way to stop
>> it is 'ctl, alt, del.' LILO never starts.
>>
Thank you for responding to my post.
I found 'mkbootdisk,' figured it out and made two more
bootdisk.
Any ideas on the 'x and o' thing?
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From: Lowell Alleman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Extend Keyboard keys: (sound up/down, the "Dell" button, "Play"....)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 03:19:55 GMT
I have a Dell Insperon 8000 laptop. I'd like to use some of the special
keys to do something useful under linux.... Example: I'd like to make
the Volume-Up and Volume-Down actually control the sound level....
I'm almost positive these are all just keys, and not hard-wired to control
the sound level, because they don't work under linux!? Is this a valid
assumption?
I did a `showkey -s` and found this:
Key Name Down Event Up Event
========== ============ ==========
Play/Pause 0E 01 0E 81
Stop 0E 02 0E 82
Rewind 0E 03 0E 83
Fast Forward 0E 04 0E 84
*note: The Play/Pause button doubles as the "Dell `E`" Button, and the
Stop button is the "i" or "info" (I'm assuming the implyed "info")
But the Volume-UP/Down keys do not seem to generate scan codes, Is there
some other way to use them? (If so, then how do they work under windows?)
Now that i found these scan codes, what do i do with them?
thanks,
Lowell C. Alleman
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Lowell Alleman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Extend Keyboard keys: (sound up/down, the "Dell" button, "Play"....)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 03:24:16 GMT
I have a Dell Insperon 8000 laptop. I'd like to use some of the special
keys to do something useful under linux.... Example: I'd like to make
the Volume-Up and Volume-Down actually control the sound level....
I'm almost positive these are all just keys, and not hard-wired to control
the sound level, because they don't work under linux!? Is this a valid
assumption?
I did a `showkey -s` and found this:
Key Name Down Event Up Event
========== ============ ==========
Play/Pause 0E 01 0E 81
Stop 0E 02 0E 82
Rewind 0E 03 0E 83
Fast Forward 0E 04 0E 84
*note: The Play/Pause button doubles as the "Dell `E`" Button, and the
Stop button is the "i" or "info" (I'm assuming the implyed "info")
But the Volume-UP/Down keys do not seem to generate scan codes, Is there
some other way to use them? (If not, then how does it work under windows?)
Now that i found these scan codes, what do i do with them?
thanks,
Lowell C. Alleman
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Reply-To: "Kevin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Kevin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: How can I swap partition space
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 03:35:27 GMT
Split your /tmp partition. Then create a softlink to the additional
directories you put on the new partition from within /usr.
"Chakravarthy K Sannedhi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9894nt$o66$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> I am having two directories /usr(/dev/hda6) which is almost got filled
up,
> whereas the /temp(/dev/hda11) which is almost empty. I want to swap
some
> free space form /tmp directory to /usr directory so that i can install
few
> more programs on my machine. Can i do that using fdisk, if so how can
i do
> that. I know it will easy with Partition Magic, but i don't have that
> software.
>
> TIA
> Chakravarthy K Sannedhi
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: I've downloaded the ISO file. Now what do I do with it? I've burned a
CD and it won't boot with it.
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,uk.comp.os.linux,alt.os.linux.suse,linux.redhat
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 03:51:59 GMT
In comp.os.linux.networking Newbie from Win98 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There is no mention anywhere on the SuSE FTP site of how to burn the ISO
> image or make the ISO file write itself and aself expand at the same time.
> I've spent 2 days searching the internet and reading the HOT-TO's. None of
> them specifically say the whole steps involved to successfully download an
> ISO, burn it to a CD and make it a suitable start up disk - under Windows.
Hmm... You've caught me with a CD writing app that I know nothing about...
Search the help on that program, or see what you can find on the manuf. site
regarding writing a "disk image" to the CD, since that is what the ISO is -
as you have probably already gathered, from your own research and the messages
here....
If you had Adaptec's Easy-CD Creator, well - then I could help, and maybe
even with Sony Hotburn... But...
Good Luck!
Kris
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Free Linux account
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.perl.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,de.comp.lang.perl.misc
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 03:57:43 GMT
In comp.os.linux.networking Alfred Schetelig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does anybody know of a free linux account offer on the WEB? Alfred
They may hate me for this one.... Compaq developer alliance... Check out
their site - you'll find more info there...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Bratcher)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Question: setup cable modem, Linux and Windows
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 04:08:40 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Dubchak wrote:
>I've purchased a Linksys Router/Hub with the capacity to act as a hardware
>firewall, along with necessary ethernet cards for the Windows and Linux
>machine as well.
>
>Do I need to configure the Linux and Windows machines to use DHCP? Is that
>provided the Router/Hub?
That's up to the router/hub. Mine allows me fixed IPs on the LAN side.
Check the manual for your Linksys.
>Given this configuration, will it be possible to use the Linux and Windows
>boxes in a normal networked configuration? i.e. share files and ftp from
>Windows to Linux?
Absolutely. Your Linux and Windows box are on the LAN which has either fixed
IPs or use DHCP (using either Linux or the LAN-side of the router as a DHCP
server). All network functions should work.
--
Mark Bratcher
To reply direct, remove both underscores (_) from my email name
===============================================================
Escape from Microsoft's proprietary tentacles: use Linux!
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From: "Wong Ching Kuen Frederick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: suse 7.1
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 12:11:58 +0800
but there is no evaluation iso for 7.1 in the ftp seite yet. just the live
one.
"Dances With Crows" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ¼¶¼g©ó¶l¥ó
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Thu, 8 Mar 2001 15:30:53 -0800, jmtd staggered into the Black Sun and
> said:
> >How can I download SuSE 7.1 in iso format? I am looking for the
> >download installable distribution, not the cheesy demo they have on
> >their ftp site
>
> The "cheesy demo", otherwise known as "evaluation-7.1.iso", is basically
> the first CD of the 6-CD set of 7.1, plus a couple of freely
> distributable commercial programs like Netscape 4.73 and Acrobat Reader.
> SuSE do not make their entire commercial distro available as ISO images
> because their commercial distro includes payware like OSS.
>
> The evaluation ISO installs a fully functional system. You will have to
> fill in the holes from their download site, since everything except the
> payware is available there. If this doesn't work for you, try
> Cheapbytes. HTH,
>
> --
> Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to
see
> Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin' Ctrl-Alt
> http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
> -----------------------------/ I hit a seg fault....
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From: Prince <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Netscape eats 100% CPU and hangs when viewing Java pages
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 23:13:55 -0500
I've seen a few posts on this one but I didn't see any conclusive solutions.
I
wonder if someone could throw some light on this problem or direct me to an
archive.
Netscape hangs (consumes 100% CPU) when I view Java pages. I use RedHat6.2
and
have 320Mb Ram and Pentium III. I am able to consistently reproduce the
problem on many web sites (for example the 'Game of the Day' link on
www.merriam-webster.com). Initially I thought it was a RAM problem because
all
my 64MB would be consumed as well. I also read that netscape did not release
the memory properly. I upgraded my RAM, but no luck.
The only way out for me is to kill the process (Incidentally does anyone
know
wy netscape opens two processess).
Thanks,
|\/|
( . .)
-
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From: "Newbie from Win98" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,uk.comp.os.linux,alt.os.linux.suse,linux.redhat,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: I've downloaded the ISO file. Now what do I do with it? I've burned a
CD and it won't boot with it.
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 04:22:40 -0000
The problem is with the Wizard that starts at runtime of Nero. It asks do
you want to burn a Data/Audio/Mix CD. If you answer the wizard questions
then the option for Burn Image is not in the drop down file menus. Instead
you must cancel the Wizard immediately.
Then click on File, now you can see an option called Burn Image - select
this.
Then choose the file you want to burn - ISO is not the default file it
searches for so change the "*.nrg" for the option "*.* all files". This
will allow your ISO files to be visible.
Select your ISO file.
Drag it across.
Click the usual Burn button.
Follow the usual comments and your ISO will be burned!
Regards.
"Dean Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> Hi!,
>
> [..]
>
> > I've downloaded the SuSE EVal 7_0 ISO file. Now what do I do with it?
> > I've burned a CD and it won't boot with it. Do I need to unzip it or
> > something? I can see the ISO file on the CD under Windows 98.
>
> No a ISO file is a complete file system which is a binary representation
of a
> CDrom. What you need to do is find a package which allows you to "Burn a
> image".
> >
> > I used Nero Burning ROM software v4.0.5.0 that came free with my
Creative
> > CD-RW. I can see the ISO file on the CD in Windows. There was a
mention
> > in the Nero Help File of being able to Burn an Image but this option was
> > not where the help file said it would be so I could not do a "Burn
Image".
> > Something tells me this is my downfall.
>
> It would seem that if this is truly the case then you have a crimped
version
> of Nero. I would suggest that you get the latest version of Nero which
can be
> found at: http://www.nero.com/en/demo.asp
>
> Load it up and select the burn image option from the "File Menu". Then
> specify your ISO file and put in a blank CD-ROM. This should load the
file
> from your disk and burn the binary image to the CDROM drive which in most
> cases will be a bootable CD-ROM.
>
> See ya
>
> Dean Thompson
>
> --
>
+____________________________+____________________________________________+
> | Dean Thompson | E-mail - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|
> | Bach. Computing (Hons) | ICQ - 45191180
|
> | PhD Student | Office - <Off-Campus>
|
> | School Comp.Sci & Soft.Eng | Phone - +61 3 9903 2787 (Gen. Office)
|
> | MONASH (Caulfield Campus) | Fax - +61 3 9903 1077
|
> | Melbourne, Australia |
|
>
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From: "Newbie from Win98" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,uk.comp.os.linux,alt.os.linux.suse,linux.redhat,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: I've downloaded the ISO file. Now what do I do with it? I've burned a
CD and it won't boot with it.
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 04:22:55 -0000
The problem is with the Wizard that starts at runtime of Nero. It asks do
you want to burn a Data/Audio/Mix CD. If you answer the wizard questions
then the option for Burn Image is not in the drop down file menus. Instead
you must cancel the Wizard immediately.
Then click on File, now you can see an option called Burn Image - select
this.
Then choose the file you want to burn - ISO is not the default file it
searches for so change the "*.nrg" for the option "*.* all files". This
will allow your ISO files to be visible.
Select your ISO file.
Drag it across.
Click the usual Burn button.
Follow the usual comments and your ISO will be burned!
Regards.
"riceman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Unfortunately I don't have NERO on this win98 machine, but I'll try to
help you
> anyways.
>
> Consider the ISO file sorta like a ZIP file ( without compression).
The ISO
> has all the directories and files needed to install Suse on you computer.
>
> Consider your CD burning software sorta like winzip. However, your
Nero
> software won't allow you to extract the ISO file to your hard drive, ( at
least
> not that I know of. IF anyone knows that nero can do this please correct
me. )
> Nero should however take that ISO file and open it up to your blank cdr or
cdrw
> disk by burning it to CD. Go into Nero, look in your drop down menu's (
and
> possible sub menus ) for an option called "create disk from image file".
They
> may phrase it differently. Also if I remember Nero correctly ( it's on my
office
> server but I haven't seen it in months) there's a list or CD making
options on
> the left column of the screen. There may be an option there to make a cd
from an
> ISO file. If you can find that option point Nero to your ISO image and
click
> burn.
>
> I hope this helps somewhat. Unfortunately I won't be at the office
anytime
> soon or I would try this myself and give you a step by step. Perhaps some
in
> these news groups that uses Nero could write a mini-How-To?
>
>
Good
> Luck, Jeremy
>
> Newbie from Win98 wrote:
>
> > An example of a frustrating How To is here. The question asks exactly
what
> > I want to do, the reply mentions how to do it under Linux and points to
an
> > out of date, non-Windows way of doing it. Then the person who asked the
> > original question writes back saying:
> >
> > "Jim,
> >
> > Thanks for your information. And ironically, shortly (next day) after I
> > wrote you the email, I did find out what was going wrong and how to fix
it.
> >
> > WinOnCD did have the capability, but it was somewhat a "hidden" feature
of
> > sorts.
> >
> > I do appreciate your response, though.
> >
> > -Lewis"
> >
> > He didn't even mention how he did it in WinOnCD!!!! ARRggghhh!
> >
> > Please please please can some one help me to make my ISO file, which
took
> > hours to download, into a bootable CD so that I can install my first
ever
> > Linux OS.
> >
> > And my PC is bootable from CD. I've been able to run YAST2 (setup
program
> > from SuSE) on a floppy and it can detect my hardware so I am confident
the
> > install will be okay once it gets going. YAST2 stops when it gets as
far as
> > asking for the boot CD, I tell it my CDROM and it says that the CD is
not a
> > valid, please insert CD 1. I also tried out a floppy from SuSE with the
> > "bootdisk" file and that also asks for a CD. It must be that the ISO
file
> > copied onto a CD is not enough.
> >
> > Basically I've copied the ISO straight to a CD. Should I do something
else
> > to put it on the CD? Please remember I do not have any Linux on my PC,
just
> > Windows 98.
> >
> > "Newbie from Win98" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:986t5o$ba0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > Dear All,
> > >
> > > please can you help me? I've included more information as well as
adding
> > > another Newsgroup (alt.os.linux) so I am re-posting this. Please see
if
> > you
> > > can help me as I have now spent over 2 days searching the internet and
> > > reading everything I can get my hands on but so far it hasn't helped
me.
> > >
> > > I've downloaded the SuSE EVal 7_0 ISO file. Now what do I do with it?
> > I've
> > > burned a CD and it won't boot with it. Do I need to unzip it or
> > something?
> > > I can see the ISO file on the CD under Windows 98.
> > >
> > > I used Nero Burning ROM software v4.0.5.0 that came free with my
Creative
> > > CD-RW. I can see the ISO file on the CD in Windows. There was a
mention
> > in
> > > the Nero Help File of being able to Burn an Image but this option was
not
> > > where the help file said it would be so I could not do a "Burn Image".
> > > Something tells me this is my downfall.
> > >
> > > I do not have any copies of Linux on this box and I have not installed
> > Linux
> > > before. All the HOW-TO's mention making an ISO bootable from within
> > Linux,
> > > none actually specify how to do this completely under Windows.
> > >
> > > The filename is: live-evaluation-i386-70.iso
> > >
> > > It's my first time trying Linux so please be gentle with me, no flames
> > > please.
> > >
> > > Thanks for any help you an give me.
> > >
> > > Martin.
> > >
> > >
> > >
>
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