Re: OT: Calendar

which Gaius Julius Caesar (the famous one; there were lots of others) attempted to fix. Before then the Romans simply added a few days whenever the relevant priest got round to it, often not often enough. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note

Re: Red Hat GA FTP Pointer

). I expect the order of files is impartant to the checksum calculation too. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition.

Re: LCS drivers for 2.4.9 ?

have become famous (and I rather think) admired for releasing code to the world that may or may not work. You will find users mostly want something that works; many appreciate having the in-principle ability to fix it themselves if it's broken. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid

Re: Red Hat GA FTP Pointer

tried to point rsync to ftp.redhat.com. However, I have come to prefer the images as it's easier to veryfy that THIS iso is the same as THAT one. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me

Re: Red Hat GA FTP Pointer

. Doesn't matter for the install image, does for the updates. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition.

Re: SAMBA help

Thanks for the explanation, I have used it, I am so stupid. Give the man a coffee. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition.

Re: Kernel versioning (was Re: LCS drivers for 2.4.9 ?)

have one handy). -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition.

Re: OT: Linux mad CIOs (was Linux/390 application development)

, the PC's ready to use, nothing more to do. An install of Red Hat Linux that would be close to what you want takes me 20 minutes to install on a Pentium II. I mount /home from a server; I can move from one PC to another, and the only difference is the power of the hardware. -- Cheers John

Re: WordPerfect for Linux

working on the Corel lineup. I exchanged email a while ago with someone who'd worked on the cancelled version for Ventura Publisher for , what was it? OS/2? He must be feeling like one of the characters in Li'l Abner. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com

Re: ext3 Filesystem

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Re: Linux program question

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Re: reasons why management don't want linux

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Re: reasons why management don't want linux

. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition.

Re: RedHat 7.2 Code Changes Between RC2 and GA

local system to tell me what I needed to download. It only looked at file sizes, not dates, but it was enough to save me from downloading the entire GA directory. I can send the Rexx program to you if you want. wget does pretty much that. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS

Re: Networking

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: (Does anyone have a copy of qeth.o for 2.4.35-ac32-pre42-greased-turke y?) The greased turkey (there really was one) was 2.4.15. It was a real dud, good for destroying filesystems. Fortunately for me, I wasn't one caught;-) -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's

Re: How to install RH 7.2 via RPMS on LOCAL HARDISK ???

the ISO images there, at least for 7.1 - I think it may have changed for 7.2 What does your install guide say? -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition.

Re: RedHat 7.2 Code Changes Between RC2 and GA

-Original Message- From: John Summerfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 5:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: RedHat 7.2 Code Changes Between RC2 and GA Mike, There wasn't a lot of difference, but more than just a few files. I pointed my web

Re: RedHat 7.2 Code Changes Between RC2 and GA

Connection: close Content-Type: text/html [summer@numbat summer]$ Mark Post -Original Message- From: John Summerfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 1:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: RedHat 7.2 Code Changes Between RC2 and GA Not when you're

Re: LCS driver weirdness

of the alternatives was HTML) but that's not the case. Only one had more than one part, and that was signed - nothing more. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition.

Re: RH rhsetup server install did not install Samba RPM's

, and only update the master list file with the new names of the RPM files. The method also avoids the need to parse the output of the FTP server, making it possible to use any kind of FTP server for the installation CDs. As does this format. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid

Re: IBM announces LINUX-only 1 to 4 engine zSeries

everything when they know nothing. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition.

Re: Messages Manual

at hand. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition.

Re: Messages Manual

, at least wrt the kernel. In the mainframe world, 3rd-party vendors (and even many shops) have followed the practice because they see its value. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me

Re: Messages Manual

trips start with small steps. Peace. -njg -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition.

Re: System Security; was Re: Messages Manual

languages such as perl. You can probably patch them to recognise your filesystem has no executable content. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition.

Re: System Security; was Re: Messages Manual

an attack on my computer? I saw lots of hits from it. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition.

Re: RedHat 7.2 Install

be too surprised that you get decimal errors. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition.

Re: SuSE: Announcement of beta, trial and evaluation versions of SuSE Linux Enterprise Server for S/390 and zSeries

outlined. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition.

Re: GNU Public Licence

support. It could be that Red Hat would be invited to support SuSE Linux. It wouldn't be so different from Amdahl providing MVS support in the mainframes it supplied. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed

Re: SuSE: Announcement of beta, trial and evaluation versions of SuSE Linux Enterprise Server for S/390 and zSeries

what all the options are would be a good way to spend the time, because there are _lots_ of options. :) Not 'man wget' use 'info wget | less' -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me

Re: SuSE: Announcement of beta,

and the MD5SUM computers I'm fairly sure I have the real thing. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition.

Re: SUSE install on a OS/390 LPAR

recommend. The report goes to a file instead of cluttering the screen and obscuring whatever the program has to say. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition.

Re: Messages Manual

pages. A developing problem is the number of formats of documentation - 1 manpages 2 plain text 3 HTML 4 info -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition.

Re: RedHat Login

for this prompt for a system that lives behind a corporate firewall? Thanks for the help, lokkit allows you to choose the ports to leave open. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my

Re: RedHat Login

closes. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition.

Re: AW: RedHat Login

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Now I can telnet into the system, but only from the user I created during the install, not root. Design choice, made with security in mind. ssh doesn't have that 'problem.' -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley

Re: Microsoft Takes a Break to Clean Its Code

into how their code may be broken. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition.

Re: RH 7.2 install - lcs issue

your email client to not indent everything? It makes your contributions hell to read. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition.

Re: AW: AW: RedHat Login

I tried the chkconfig telnet on and it came back to say No such file telnet. I also checked my /etc/xinetd.d directory for the telnet file but it was nowhere to be found. Please assist moloko Is the telnet server installed? rpm -qa | grep telnet -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's

Re: FW: Mainframes are More Expensive Than Racked Servers

for yourselves what valuable insights are offered by M. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition.

Re: Yahoo News Article - Linux security auditing to get a boost

it unless pressed really hard, or for reasons other than those Chairman Bill might expect. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition.

Re: sharing the disk space

gracefully. I was going to boot the possum and try it, but I've taken to putting everything into one partition these days. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition.

Re: Making rpm files?

Netscape's done but it doesn't sound to me the Right Way) or simply untar it into the /usr/local (or some freshly-decided) structure and ensure my PATH is set to get it. It's easy to revert that - simply ensure PATH doesn't include it. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http

Note to spammers

with my interests would always be received gladly - I'm sure most people here would like that kind of message. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition.

Re: sharing the disk space

that have builtin ideas about where their components are will fail if their expectations are not met; gcc, perl and exmh are candidates (I suspect they're okay) as is dhcpd which I suspect will fail. Of course, software you build yourself you can coerce into shape. -- Cheers John Summerfield

Re: mysql

Hi, I have the 3 CDs from SuSE and would like to install mysql. Can anyone help me with the following: (1) Is mysql on one of the CDs? (2) If yes, how can I install it? I don't understand why you'd not put the CDs in your CD drive and look. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most

Re: sharing the disk space

it would be okay. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition.

Re: sharing the disk space

personal (machinal?) version of /etc /var. I'm assuming VM will page as much of the RAM disk out as is not often required. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition.

Re: dbench - bottlenecks

? (Seem to be OK often isn't) 20 MB/sec is about 5,000 I/O per second assuming 4K Blocks. How many logical devices? You are likely seeing very high connect times due to linux chaining I/O together, and 100% device utilization. What SHOULD you get on a modern mainframe? -- Cheers John

Re: Redhat ISO Images?

not installing from NT servers. (A bootable DVD might be even handier;-)) The software for your CD burner might not package the files convenently. Red Hat's procedures do. Downloadable CD images are GOOD. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley

Re: Redhat ISO Images?

\n; + warn flock not available, running unlocked\n; } } [summer@dugite summer]$ Distribution vendors should incorporate these changes; I've probably not reported them to anyone other than the author and he doesn't respond. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid

Re: Redhat ISO Images?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: CD images are a convenient way of I should also mention they're especially handy for Hercules users too. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my

Re: Redhat ISO Images?

recall others here had problems downlaoding the SuSE images, and the advice was to check the MD5sums. If he doesn't need that level of confidence, fine. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended

Re: Public web sites on Linux for S/390

. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition.

Re: Linux/390 Community Members

your name with an 'E' or with an 'I?' My name, is 'Hill. I have to admit to an all-round good crop of hair. Years ago my boss observed that daughters seemed rather common in the same subgroup. I have three daughters, no sons. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http

Re: Export

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Re: DNS info

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Re: Message

/arch/sparc64/kernel/binfmt_elf32.c /var/src/linux/arch/sparc64/kernel/binfmt_aout32.c /var/src/linux/arch/ia64/ia32/binfmt_elf32.c /var/src/linux/arch/mips64/kernel/binfmt_elf32.c /var/src/linux/arch/s390x/kernel/binfmt_elf32.c [summer@numbat summer]$ -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most

Re: Anybody running the on demand timer patch?

(cdrecord I think) for RHL and discovered some minor install errors. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition.

Re: Anybody running the on demand timer patch?

-2.4.17-s390x-tape.config kernel-2.4.17-s390x.config linux-2.4.9-s390-54390.patch linux-2.4.9-s390-ac14.patch linux-2.4.9-s390-dasd.patch linux-2.4.9-s390-rh.patch [summer@numbat summer]$ -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered

Re: Anybody running the on demand timer patch?

On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, John Summerfield wrote: Still there will be configuration choices that may impact how well the binaries fit in. But that should not make a kernel built from the public generic source tree not work on any given distro. (As you say further on.) How many would take

Re: FW: linux and vmsecure

, as root I couldn't change critical system files, and as a regular user I couldn't even see the contents of /etc. I only got a quick look, the computer has other duties. The distro hss a 2.2 kernel, but LIDS is also available on 2.4 kernels (up to 2.4.16 I think). -- Cheers John Summerfield

Re: Couple of problems with RedHat LOADER install

the directory entries (that I mentioned in prev email) ARE in modules.dep But...why would I have to rerun thatshouldn't that be part of the OCO install instructions or part of what instoco script does ?? On desktop systems, depmod gets run every time one boots. -- Cheers John Summerfield

Re: My distro's better than yours! (was: Anybody running the on d emand timer patch?)

John Summerfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How many would take source from ftp.kernel.org and build it for their production S/390 system? I would. Here at Computer Associates we run a mixture of initially-Marist and SuSE systems under VM. The Marist systems have all had their kernels

Re: Couple of problems with RedHat LOADER install

. It doesn't take long, and it does clear up potential problems for those who've installed Brand-X modules such as IBM's OCO drivers. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my

Re: THE Profile for ISPF users (closer)

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: And it is leagues beyond Vi (I'm back from break) Who uses vi? I use vim and assumed everyone else did too! -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my

Re: VM for Intel?

than have nothing to do with anything other than where a device happens to be plugged in. In some sites, a name such as 'srp-lan' (Special Research Projects) would be far preferable to either. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail

Re: THE Profile for ISPF users (closer)

= more_save : unlet more_save :endif :e bugreport.txt thanks Joan -Original Message- From: John Summerfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 5:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: THE Profile for ISPF users (closer) [EMAIL PROTECTED] said

Re: VM for Intel?

the power's cycled. Possibly this would allow addition of jellyware support for something akin to SIE etc. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition.

Re: Updating Python

discussion of that issue on Red Hat lists; a lot of python code shipped with RHL 7.x does not work with python 2.x. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition.

Re: VM for Intel?

machine this means some on-board devices such as serial ports, printer, IDE controllers. I have no ISA slots. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition.

Re: REDHAT 6.2 available for download??

I have a middleware developer client who has a requirement for a S/390 RedHat 6.2 system so that we have a build environment that targets that kernel as a minimum Is that level of RH available for S/390 ?? Isn't that what Marist is and Thinkblue was? -- Cheers John Summerfield

Re: ftp client

it (as can Perl but I can never remember the incantation). To add them, use unix2dos. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition.

Re: REDHAT 6.2 available for download??

that shipped with Redhat 6.2 did not have s/390 support, so I do n ot believe there is any way you can do this. The early unofficial ports including Marist were based on RHL 6.x. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me

Re: Updating Python

packages on RHL. I picked out a python-2 package when I replied to Rod and I think that won't coexist. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition.

Re: PL/I for Linux?

remove the technical and legal impediments. That's not entirely right;-) It's available for OS/2 and Windows. I think it's actually written in PL/X. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended

Re: Job Scheduling on Linux

Other than cron and at, are there any job scheduling packages available on Linux (not just Linux/390)? Something perhaps significantly more sophisticated than cron and at? I should also mention that GNU has something - I think it's called queue. See www.gnu.org. -- Cheers John Summerfield

Re: Job Scheduling on Linux

- it runs one job at a time. Usually I run one initiator per queue. I wrote it principally so as to serialise my ftp and similar jobs - there's no point in running a dozen ftp jobs at once;-). -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail

Re: Linux 390 and 2003

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: well. Stay away from anything that smells like Java, because from first hand experience I can tell you that you WILL be disappointed. Perl probably won't fly well either, except in those case where you can use Integer; -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most

Re: MD Software Raid Question

the original message or any copy of it from your computer system. Thank You. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition.

Re: Third Party Apps

CD. Eye it, ask vendors about anything there that interests you. You might check sourceforge for freeware. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition.

Re: Sun Banging the FUD Drum Loudly

provide for recording contact details!). Take the opportunity - I did. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition.

Re: SSHD at boot

I am trying to start sshd at boot time. Currently I can only start it manually by: ./etc/rc.d/init.d/sshd start Where is it normally initialized at boot? Red Hat? chkconfig --list chkconfig sshd on man chkconfig -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http

Re: SSHD at boot

don't like the CLI, take a look at webmin. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition.

Re: SSHD at boot

/etc/init.d too. It used to use the other, but changed before S/390. There's a bit of symlinkery in some circumstances for compatibility with things that understand the old way better. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail

Re: SSHD at boot

and it wouldnt be appropriate to break old third party apps -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition.

Re: Cobol and IMS for Linux

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Re: create an ISO from a CD

How can I make an ISO image from a CD? I would like to be able to then mount that ISO image as loopback device. That way I don't have to have the CD mounted all the time. cp /dev/hdd enigma-disk1.iso etc -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com

Re: time config

to be able to use a GUI to configure on the mainframe or does RH just not get it? 4.) I also need to configure NTP. is there a tool to do both? regards, j-me -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed

Re: create an ISO from a CD

/ of=MyLovelyMVSImage.iso I don't know why everyone recommends dd for this purpose. I've been using the easier cp command and it works perfectly well. dd has extra options, but they're not needed in this case. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley

Re: create an ISO from a CD

Under SuSE 7.2 (SLES) there is a package called mkisofs to create ISO images. I have used it successfully by mounting my cd-rom from my PC via smbfs and running the command. Carlos :-) That's another way. The MD5SUM won't match, so it won't be an authentic copy though. -- Cheers John

Re: create an ISO from a CD

cp /dev/hdc mycdimage.iso Hm, I don4t think so. Try dd for block-by-block copying or mkisofs for the generation of a iso9660 image from a directory of files. Goetz Goetz You should try it;-) -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com

Re: create an ISO from a CD

takes care of all that and makes a verifiably authentic copu. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition.

Re: Cobol and IMS for Linux

What are the ISAM options on Linux/390 and Linux/86? There's nothing called ISAM. (actually ISAM is a standard defined by the open group) More likely here people are referring to ISAM as implemented in the 1960s on OS and (presumably) DOS. No, Alan, not PCDOS or MSDOS. -- Cheers John

Re: More linuxvm.org Updates

I'm up to 02/11 now. Only a little over two weeks behind. Mostly 2/11 is September in most countries. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition.

Re: Cobol and IMS for Linux

DOS as a VM OS. I have long since learned to not make suppositions about such things at all. (I don't always remember the lesson though.) I don't see much of what I learned from OS at all in Linux. Even the definitions of paging and swapping don't seem very similar. -- Cheers John Summerfield

Re: More linuxvm.org Updates

I'm up to 02/11 now. Only a little over two weeks behind. Mostly 2/11 is September in most countries. Try November 8) blush -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my

Re: More linuxvm.org Updates

it COMPASS. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition.

Re: Samba users

found are reasons not to post it as site specific material. I just want to know what is suppose to look like and I'll modify it to my site. regards, j-me -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed

Re: create an ISO from a CD

. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition. == If you don't like being told you're wrong, be right!

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