Re: Help!!!

2000-03-26 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, James R. Van Zandt wrote: > ... Use dd to copy the data from your old disk (the raw device) to one or > more big files on the new disk. ... Then use grep, string, and other > Unix tools to find the useful parts of the data. Ugh. That's data recovery the hard way. I've s

Re: Alpha Linux / Red Hat install

2000-03-26 Thread Rich Payne
On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, Benjamin Scott wrote: > On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, Jeffry Smith wrote: > > After asking about language & keyboard, it asks for the type of CD-ROM, > > with two choices: "SCIS" and "Other". Regardless of which I choose, I > > get a blank list of choices, and choosing "OK" drops me

Re: Help!!!

2000-03-26 Thread James R. Van Zandt
Adam Wendt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Well I think that I'm (for lack of a better term) fscked. I don't >have the partition table information on hand and I don't think I can >pull it out of my head. Any other ideas? If not just tell me I'm >fscked and I'll deal with reinstalling (wont be the e

Audio Editing Software

2000-03-26 Thread Kenneth E. Lussier
All, I'm looking for software for editing audio files, among other things. What I want to is 1) rip music from CD's to an audio format (.au, .wav, .mp3) 2) edit the file to take out leading and trailing silence 3) (optional) strip the lyric tracks and music tracks apart and 4) burn it back to

Re: Alpha Linux / Red Hat install

2000-03-26 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, Jeffry Smith wrote: > After asking about language & keyboard, it asks for the type of CD-ROM, > with two choices: "SCIS" and "Other". Regardless of which I choose, I > get a blank list of choices, and choosing "OK" drops me back to the CD-ROM > choice menu. That really se

Re: I need a soundcard recommendation.

2000-03-26 Thread tom r
On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, Derek Martin wrote: > Yesterday, Charles Farinella gleaned this insight: > > > I need a new soundcard. > > These are my requirements: > > 1: It must play sounds from both speakers. > > 2: It must fit in an ISA slot. > > 3: It must work in Linux. > > Does anyone ha

Re: help on install

2000-03-26 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, Chris Bourassa wrote: > The first time I tried it, it gave me a RAM disk error on track 0 ... Sounds like either bad media or bad hardware. Are you booting from floppy? Floppy diskettes are notoriously unreliable. Try creating a new boot floppy from fresh media (there

Alpha Linux / Red Hat install

2000-03-26 Thread Jeffry Smith
OK, looking for some help. I have the Linuxmall (cheap) version of RH6.1 for Alpha that I'm installing on a "noname" (axpci33) system, with the following configuration: IDE CDROM IDE hard drive (10GB, unformatted currently) SRM Version X4.1-1955 Jun 13 1995 06:33:10 Devices (from show device comm

Re: Everyone uses RPM

2000-03-26 Thread Jeffry Smith
And, as one who's been following the LSB on lsb-discuss, it looks like the LSB requirement will be to handle RPM formats, although the method is not specified (i.e. using rpm or alien to convert debs). jeff smith Benjamin Scott wrote: > > On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, Randy Edwards wrote: > > In terms

help on install

2000-03-26 Thread Chris Bourassa
I tried to install Redhat 6.0 on my one of my systems this weekend. The first time I tried it, it gave me a RAM disk error on track 0 after it went thru most of the intial "autodetect" stuff. This was on a 386. So, I took the HD and CDrom out and put it in the 486 I had laying around. This time

Re: this list

2000-03-26 Thread Thomas Charron
Quoting tom r <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Folks, > If you reply to the list, you don't really need to copy me also. So far > three > people have sent helpful suggestions and I've received two copies of each. > I'd also be VERY happy to accept private email and then inform the list of > just > the inte

compile problems

2000-03-26 Thread Adam Wendt
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Mar 26 12:35:31 2000 Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 12:16:15 -0500 (EST) From: Adam Wendt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: compiling problems Hi, after reinstalling my whole system, and the 10 hours of problems that entailed (we won't go into that) I'm finall

Re: Everyone uses RPM

2000-03-26 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, Randy Edwards wrote: > In terms of sheer number of software packages, the ~4500 packages of > Debian's soon-to-be-released "potato" version dwarfs the size of Red Hat. I believe Red Hat has stated that they want to keep their base distribution small enough to fit on a singl

Re: this list

2000-03-26 Thread Rich Payne
On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: > Benjamin Scott wrote: > > > > [ Self-Appointed Net Cop Mode = On ] > > > > Okay, folks. Reply-To Munging has been switched off and it is > > going to stay that way. > > Unless it comes up again and another vote reverses it. > > > If you di

Re: Everyone uses RPM

2000-03-26 Thread Randy Edwards
> Change that to almost everyone. Debian still uses the Debian Package > Manager (dpkg). Debian does support RPM, but their packages and > installations use the debian packages. And not just Debian. Debian-based distributions (e.g. Storm Linux and Corel) use the *.deb file format too. In te

Re: Everyone uses RPM

2000-03-26 Thread Jerry Feldman
Change that to almost everyone. Debian still uses the Debian Package Manager (dpkg). Debian does support RPM, but their packages and installations use the debian packages. Most of the rest of the world uses RPM. -- -- Gerald Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Boston Computer Solutions and Consulting I

Re: rpm question

2000-03-26 Thread Jerry Feldman
I personally prefer SuSE. Caldera is good for the first time newbie, but lacks many things, such as emacs. SuSE installs are slower than Red Hat partially because SuSE contains more packages. (6 CDs in all). tom r wrote: > I'm thinking of replacing my Red Hat with Caldera just because Redhat se

Everyone uses RPM

2000-03-26 Thread Bruce Dawson
tom r wrote: > I'm thinking of replacing my Red Hat with Caldera just because Redhat seems to > think that they can assume it's a Redhat world. I want everyone to assume > that they can't assume anything about the target machine. "Free software (free > as in speech) means that big market share

Re: Long Lasting Linux Laptops?

2000-03-26 Thread John Abreau
"Caruso, Ken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: http://www.solluna.org/~bookwyrm/pcg-c1x.html > My name is Ken Caruso and I subscribe to the NHLUG mailing list. I > read your email about running Linux on C1x picture book, and was wondering > if you could point me to some FAQ, or how to's on inst

Re: I need a soundcard recommendation.

2000-03-26 Thread Derek Martin
Yesterday, Charles Farinella gleaned this insight: > I need a new soundcard. > These are my requirements: > 1: It must play sounds from both speakers. > 2: It must fit in an ISA slot. > 3: It must work in Linux. > Does anyone have a recommendation? Depends what you want. If y