Linux-Hardware Digest #223, Volume #14 Mon, 22 Jan 01 12:13:09 EST
Contents:
Re: HOW DO I INSTALLED WVDIAL??????? (Mike Edwards)
Swap size / Memory upgrade (ekk)
Re: sharing IRQ for serial port (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: CD-RW info and recommemdations needed ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: slow printing with hp lj100 and redhat 7.0 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Lexmark Z42 Printer (Mark Bratcher)
Re: To all linux user...... ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Swap size / Memory upgrade ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: win-partition recovery (Andreas Mohr)
Re: HP Colorado (Tony Hague)
Re: [HELP]: LS-120 Setup as Floppy /dev/fd0 (Youngert)
Re: Swap size / Memory upgrade (ekk)
Re: Swap size / Memory upgrade ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: SB Live IRQ problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Swap size / Memory upgrade (ekk)
Re: To all linux user...... (M. Buchenrieder)
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From: Mike Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HOW DO I INSTALLED WVDIAL???????
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 08:49:12 -0600
Tina,
First of all, just relax. I understand that you are very frustrated,
but SHOUTING EVERYTHING IN ALL CAPS doesn't help.
I am no Linux guru, but have learned quite a lot in the five years I've
been using it. When I first started out, I was as lost as you are.
Fortunately, my brother has a lot of experience with Unix and was able
to help me understand *how* to look at the problems in a Unix context,
as much as he helped my solve specific issues. Do you have any friends
or family that you can talk to about this? If not, I think we might
need more information about you and your computer:
- How long have you been using computers?
- Do you have any formal training in computers?
- Are you comfortable with taking the cover off your computer and
installing and removing cards, RAM, etc.?
- You say your modem works well under Windows ME--does that mean you
have a dual-boot machine?
- Exactly what make and model number is your modem? (You may need to
open your computer and read the card--or see what Windows tells you.)
- Just because your modem works with Windows ME, does not mean it will
work with Linux. Some modems rely heavily on software to run properly.
This software (as I understand it--someone correct me if I'm wrong) is
owned by Microsoft and they have not released the source code to it, so
no comparable Linux software has been written. If you can find an
external modem, it should work just fine connected to a serial port.
- Did you have any problems installing Corel Linux?
- Can you use other programs successfully?
- Have you tried re-installing?
- Do you know what the command "man" is for?
...
OK, I just read some of your previous posts and I see you are a 16 year
old Finnish girl living in Canada. I think you need to do some more
reading--especially the documentation that came with your computer.
Also, since Linus Torvalds homself is a Finn, I'm sure there are some
Finnish-Linux sites out there where you might be able to more easily
communicate. Here's a couple:
http://www.plug.netti.com/
http://www.mpoli.fi/flug/
Bon chance!
Mike
Tina Carter wrote:
>
> Try to understand me first please.
>
> I loged in as "root" user.
>
> I am in my gui Kd window.
> Now I Click on Application Starter
> Then, Applications
> Then, Network
> Then Dial-Up.
>
> Now I click on Dial......
>
> Then small window appear saying
> MODEM READY.
> MODEM INITIALIZING.
>
> WHERE THE HELLLL IS DIAL?
>
> Now anyone understand this? Or do I have to do something like configure? I
> can't USE MAKE OR MAKEFILE COMMAND.
> I typed them in In Linux Command Winows and it's says Such command doesn't
> exist....
>
> Why ?????
>
> How do I installed wvdial or whatever I need to do?
>
> Finally
>
> If I buy external modem WILL I GOT THROUGHT SAME DAMMMM THING?
> WHICH ONE IS GOOD MODEM FOR LINUX, WILL I HAVE TO CONFIGURE? AND HOWWWWWW, I
> CAN'T EVEN CONFIGURE THIS ONE......
> I AM NOT VERY STUPID AND NOT LAZY I SPEND ANOTHER 6 FREAKING HOURS AND GOT
> NOTHING... I DON'T KNOW HOW TO RUN MAKE OR MAKE FILE COMMAND....... THERE IS
> NON IN MY LINUX......
> WHY?????????
>
> I am frusteated I read and read and configure HOW DO I INSTALL SOMETHING
> WHICH I DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW TO RUN?
> IN WINDOWS I TYPE SETUP.EXE OR CONFIGURE IN DOS...
> BUT HOW TO I INSTALL THIS ? WHY MAKE AND MAKEFILE WON'T WORK IN MY
> COMPUTER?????????????
--
Mike Edwards, MIS
Edwards Graphic Arts, Inc.
2700 Bell Avenue
Des Moines, IA 50321
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From: ekk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Swap size / Memory upgrade
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 10:03:55 -0500
Trying to make a judgement call without enough experience -
I just upgraded from 512 RAM to 1 GB. My swap space is 768. Should
I increase the swap? We do often use all of the RAM available on a
machine, but we of course try to avoid using the swap.
In the same way, I also downgraded a 1 GB RAM machine to 512 (bad RAM).
Do I need to lower the swap space?
In both situations disk space is not a concern.
I assume the best way to adjust the swap is to use Partition Magic?
I don't want to go through a whole reinstall of either machine.
Ken
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: sharing IRQ for serial port
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 11:45:53 GMT
Damien Mattei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>i have run out of IRQ on my computer and i want to share an IRQ between
>the two serial ports under linux. How can i do?
[...]
You can't.
What you'd need was a multiport serial card that knows how to
properly share an IRQ in between two or more serial ports,
but the standard motherboard's serial controller just doesn't
do that.
But there should be no need for that, as long as you're not using
either lots of ISA crads in that system. PCI cards should easily
be able to share an IRQ, assuming the drivers support this as well.
Michael
--
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Lumber Cartel Unit #456 (TINLC) & Official Netscum
Note: If you want me to send you email, don't munge your address.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: CD-RW info and recommemdations needed
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 15:34:56 GMT
Alan Jones wrote:
>
> On Sat, 20 Jan 2001 09:04:02 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >I recently purchased a SCSI Pacific Digital (it's really a Yamaha)
> >8x-8x-24x CDRW. If you look around you should be able to pick one of
> >these drives up for around $159.00+-. I am very satisfied with this
> >CDRW. I have been using those cheap $20.00 for 100 CDRs and haven't
> >gotten a single coaster yet. The cheap CDRs are 700 MB, when I first got
> >them I thought they were 750 MB so I was over burning them and they
> >still work good.
> >
> >jamess
>
> Thanks for your specific recommendation. Where did you buy your
> CD-RW? I looked on pricewatch and the Pacific Digital/Yamaha
> CRW8824SZ (internal SCSI) seem to be about $220. $159 is closer to
> the IDE unit. At $159 I think I'd call it an acceptable best buy,
> although I don't think it uses Burn Proof.
>
> I might rephrase my question to ask what is the cheapest or
> recommended best buy value for an internal SCSI unit with Burn Proof?
> I don't demand the highest speeds, but I think SCSI and Burn Proof are
> two technologies worth having.
>
> Alan Jones
I bought it at a local computer store. I have seen people posting that
they the same unit cheaper than I paid for mine, but I don't know where
they bought them. I don't think this particular drive has the burn proof
feature. So if you have to have this feature I guess this isn't the
drive for you.
jamess
--
"On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section,
it said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux."
-Anonymous
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: slow printing with hp lj100 and redhat 7.0
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 15:39:59 GMT
richard noel fell wrote:
>
> I have just purchased a lj100 which I use with redhat 7.0. However, the
> printer seems to print just one page at a time, that is, it receives the
> data for one page, prints that, receives the data for the second page,
> prints that, etc. Is there anyway of altering this behavior? Is this
> endemic to all laser printers on linux systems?
> Clearly, operating this way, the printer prints at much slower than
> advertised speeds.
> Thanks for any comments and advice,
> Dick Fell
I don't know about the lj100, but I have a lj1100. I think that the
only way to speed it up is to install more RAM in the printer. If you
look around on the net you should be able to find a 16 MB module for
around $50.00, give or take a few bucks.
jamess
--
"On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section,
it said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux."
-Anonymous
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From: Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lexmark Z42 Printer
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 10:47:16 -0500
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I was suggesting that you go to www.linux-printing.org. (See my perhaps obscure
reference below.) They have a thorough database of printers and driver
solutions.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Mark Bratcher wrote:
> >
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> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >
> > > I seem to like buying printers that do not work with Linux. I now
> have a
> > > Lexmark Z42. Lexmark itself came out with drivers for the Z32 and Z52
> > > printers, but not for the Z42. Has anyone gotten this printer to work
> with
> > > Linux? JH
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: To all linux user......
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 15:58:41 GMT
Tina Carter wrote:
>
>
> I wanna learn Linux peacefully so let's not get into each other way, if you
> can't help me don't respond but If you can I thank you but don't insult me
> and my Microsoft OS or your linux terrorism and racism will be answer and
> PURGED.
>
> Thank you
>
> Respectfully
> Tina
Go to bookstore, buy Linux book. Best way to learn. I sincerely wish you
good luck.
jamess
--
"On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section,
it said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux."
-Anonymous
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Swap size / Memory upgrade
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 16:41:47 +0100
In comp.os.linux.misc ekk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I just upgraded from 512 RAM to 1 GB. My swap space is 768. Should
> I increase the swap? We do often use all of the RAM available on a
You tell me. Do you need or use it?
> machine, but we of course try to avoid using the swap.
> In the same way, I also downgraded a 1 GB RAM machine to 512 (bad RAM).
> Do I need to lower the swap space?
What for? You probably need to increase it, if you were using all yoru
ram before!
> I assume the best way to adjust the swap is to use Partition Magic?
?? Just add or subtract a few more partitions with fdisk.
> I don't want to go through a whole reinstall of either machine.
??? Now you have got me puzzled! Are you SURE you know anything about
system administration? Why would you ever reinstall a machine just in
order to change a few measly things about it? Edit the ptable to be
the way you like for your swap.
Peter
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From: Andreas Mohr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: win-partition recovery
Date: 22 Jan 2001 16:12:35 GMT
Christoph J�hnigen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> i've got a problem with my win32 partition and can't start or reinstall
> win98, so i try to find a linux tool for checking and repairing my win32
> partitions and their fat, before i need to format them. Can anyone help
> me?
In the worst case, try to use dd to read raw sectors from the device into
a file and use a hex editor like hexedit to correct problems (via a good
FAT32 docu hopefully to be found on the internet !) and write the file back.
Or install dosfstools and *try* to run dosfsck on that device.
Andreas Mohr
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tony Hague)
Subject: Re: HP Colorado
Date: 22 Jan 2001 16:21:03 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Pete Ritter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Gustav J Kramer wrote:
>>
>> Anyone have any luck using an HP Colorado 5GB (Travan) IDE tape drive under
>> linux? Am using RH6.2, Kudzu saw the drive and installed something but
>> neither Arkeia nor Taper seem to support the drive. Any suggestions?
>
>Welcome to the club. This is a frequent question here, as I have seen
>the past few weeks since I've been trying to get my HP Colorado 8GB
>working. Some seem to have success and others lots of problems. I
>unfortunately am in the latter category.
I have the Colorado 4/8 GB ATAPI drive - it has worked with every
kernel from 2.1.90 to 2.2.18 using ide-tape ... but it no longer
works with 2.4.0 - it will write tapes, but not read them. If anyone
knows why, let me know !
It does however work with 2.4.0 and scsi emulation (using modules
scsi_mod, ide-scsi and st). This is not too painful as a work around,
as I am using scsi emulation for my CDRW anyway.
If it matters, I have only used tar and mt to access the drive.
Tony.
--
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From: Youngert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [HELP]: LS-120 Setup as Floppy /dev/fd0
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 16:07:18 GMT
Noble Pepper wrote:
> Youngert wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I finally finished setting up my Linux system with an LS-120 UHD ATAPI
> > Floppy drive and would like to be able to use it as a 1.44MB floppy
> > drive
> > with the mtools utility, i.e. mdir, mcopy, etc. Everytime when I issue
> > "mdir a:", my Linux system complained with the following messages:
> >
> > init: set default params
> > Cannot initialize 'A:'
> >
> > Does anyone know how I can setup the LS-120 drive acts as a 1.44 floppy
> > drive?
> >
> I don't use mtools but my LS-120 works fine with 1.44 floppies and the gnu
> file utilities.
>
> What happens if you use ls instead of mdir?
I can mount the 1.44MB diskette as R/W and us `ls' as well as any other
linux commands to manipulate the diskette. However, what I would like to
do is to be able to access the diskette for R/W without mouting it, i.e.
mdir, mcopy, etc. I remember that with a regular floppy drive, the mtools
package should do it.
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From: ekk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Swap size / Memory upgrade
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 11:31:12 -0500
"Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
> In comp.os.linux.misc ekk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I just upgraded from 512 RAM to 1 GB. My swap space is 768. Should
> > I increase the swap? We do often use all of the RAM available on a
>
> You tell me. Do you need or use it?
As I said, we often use all of the RAM on the machine. We don't like to use
the swap for obvious reasons - it bogs down the machine. If the process is
to big for one machine, we move it to another machine with more RAM.
Although, I don't claim to be an expert on how the machine uses swap, that's
why I'm asking for a judgement call!
>
>
> > machine, but we of course try to avoid using the swap.
>
> > In the same way, I also downgraded a 1 GB RAM machine to 512 (bad RAM).
> > Do I need to lower the swap space?
>
> What for? You probably need to increase it, if you were using all yoru
> ram before!
I don't need to increase it. It is already set to 1024 MB. I said, the
machine had bad RAM, and this is just a temporary downgrade until I can get
another 512 module. Again, I'm not claiming to be an expert on swap.
>
>
> > I assume the best way to adjust the swap is to use Partition Magic?
>
> ?? Just add or subtract a few more partitions with fdisk.
Okay, fdisk can preserve the data? Obviously I will back it up first.
>
>
> > I don't want to go through a whole reinstall of either machine.
>
> ??? Now you have got me puzzled! Are you SURE you know anything about
> system administration? Why would you ever reinstall a machine just in
> order to change a few measly things about it? Edit the ptable to be
> the way you like for your swap.
>
What is this? The first line of my message stated that I don't have enough
experience!!! I don't think asking for a judgement call on potentially
corrupting the partition table on a machine with crucial data on it is
'measly'.
>
> Peter
Thanks (yeah, right) for the help!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Swap size / Memory upgrade
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 16:53:47 GMT
ekk wrote:
>
> Trying to make a judgement call without enough experience -
>
> I just upgraded from 512 RAM to 1 GB. My swap space is 768. Should
> I increase the swap? We do often use all of the RAM available on a
> machine, but we of course try to avoid using the swap.
>
> In the same way, I also downgraded a 1 GB RAM machine to 512 (bad RAM).
> Do I need to lower the swap space?
>
> In both situations disk space is not a concern.
>
> I assume the best way to adjust the swap is to use Partition Magic?
> I don't want to go through a whole reinstall of either machine.
>
> Ken
I have 256 MB RAM and 128 MB swap on my box. It hardly ever uses any of
the swap at all except for programs like Netscape, and then it uses very
little swap. I don't think that you need more than 128 MB of swap when
you have a lot of ram.
jamess
--
"On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section,
it said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux."
-Anonymous
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: SB Live IRQ problem
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 16:49:51 GMT
Hate to interrupt, but I seem to be having the same problem. from
lspci -vv...
00:0e.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10000
(rev 07)
Subsystem: Creative Labs CT4830 SBLive! Value
Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 32 (500ns min, 5000ns max)
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 0
Region 0: I/O ports at 1860
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-
,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
And that ain't no typo. Oddly, I also have a Lucent LT Winmodem (that
I'm not using) that was also assigned to IRQ 0.
>From cat /proc/pci:
Bus 0, device 14, function 1:
Input device controller: Unknown vendor Unknown device (rev 7).
Vendor id=1102. Device id=7002.
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable.
Latency=32.
I/O at 0x1880 [0x1881].
No IRQ info. From /var/log/messages...
Jan 21 16:52:21 cpe-x kernel: Creative EMU10K1 PCI Audio Driver,
version 0.6, 13:20:10 Oct 5 2000
Jan 21 16:52:21 cpe-x kernel: PCI: Enabling bus mastering for device
00:70
Jan 21 16:52:21 cpe-x kernel: emu10k1: IRQ in use
Clark
In article <947fn0$q6g$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Lee Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Can you catch the boot up error messages (look in /var/log/messages)
please?
>
> I did an lspci -vv on my machine, which spewed out the following:
>
> 00:0b.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10000
(rev
> 07)
> Subsystem: Creative Labs CT4830 SBLive! Value
> Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr-
> Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
> Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium
>TAbort-
> <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
> Latency: 32 (500ns min, 5000ns max)
> Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10
> Region 0: I/O ports at a400
> Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1
> Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA
> PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
> Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
>
> When you did your lspci -vv, I notice that you Interrupt line said:
>
> "Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 0"
>
> Notice that it says IRQ 0. Please tell me that that is a typo ;-)
>
> $ cat /proc/pci
>
> <snip>
> Bus 0, device 11, function 0:
> Multimedia audio controller: Unknown vendor Unknown device (rev
7).
> Vendor id=1102. Device id=2.
> Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 10. Master
Capable.
> Latency=32. Min Gnt=2.Max
> Lat=20.
> I/O at 0xa400 [0xa401].
>
> Again, there's something missing in your /proc/pci: no IRQ outputted.
>
> You say you've got Mandrake 7.2: I'm running that as well.
>
> Hmmm...
> This is one stubborn problem.
>
> Lee.
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From: ekk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Swap size / Memory upgrade
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 11:47:38 -0500
Thanks, Jamess for your advice. The person whose job I inherited told me
that the swap space should be double the amount of RAM for up to 512 MB,
1.5x for 512 - 1024, and 1x for above 1024 MB. I'm not terribly sure why he
thought so much swap was required, but I think he arrived at those ratios
through experience dealing with many different machines and RAM amounts.
The machines he set up are stable and rarely get bogged down, as long as the
users don't push them over the RAM!
Thank you kindly,
Ken
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> ekk wrote:
> >
> > Trying to make a judgement call without enough experience -
> >
> > I just upgraded from 512 RAM to 1 GB. My swap space is 768. Should
> > I increase the swap? We do often use all of the RAM available on a
> > machine, but we of course try to avoid using the swap.
> >
> > In the same way, I also downgraded a 1 GB RAM machine to 512 (bad RAM).
> > Do I need to lower the swap space?
> >
> > In both situations disk space is not a concern.
> >
> > I assume the best way to adjust the swap is to use Partition Magic?
> > I don't want to go through a whole reinstall of either machine.
> >
> > Ken
>
> I have 256 MB RAM and 128 MB swap on my box. It hardly ever uses any of
> the swap at all except for programs like Netscape, and then it uses very
> little swap. I don't think that you need more than 128 MB of swap when
> you have a lot of ram.
>
> jamess
> --
> "On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section,
> it said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux."
>
> -Anonymous
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: To all linux user......
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 16:28:51 GMT
[Xpost and FollowUp-To: set to col.misc]
"Tina Carter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Sidenote: This whole thread is drifting into a typical Usenet flamewar
now.
>Once again you have come up with another idiotic fraudulent argument. My
>English is just fine, It's my spelling, I'm from Finland.
Hm, I always thougt that correct spelling is a major part of
handling any language - regardless of the fact whether or not
it was a foreign one. Nevermind.
>But now I live in
>Canada, I can speak in Russian, Finns, French. and little bit English.
>And I
>am not a child, I'm 16, going to 17.
That's just fine, but keep in mind that you're not talking to people
of your age exclusively when posting in any Usenet group. Especially
readers and posters of the groups in the comp.os.* hierarchy will
most likely be much older than you - and probably have a lot of
experience running and administrating computer systems. That's not
giving them the right to flame you for your lack of age - but it
doesn't give you the right to flame them just because they're
not able to help you in "simple words" _because_ of your own
lack of basic understanding.
>I maybe a girl but I can beat the hell
>out you....
Pointless.
>You know, you live in most strange bizarre place or it's just something
>in
>you picking up someone weakness, you say my English is bad, but what
>about
>you huh? You read less and "talk" which eventually become "barking' now
>don'
>t get offensive.
>I stated I CAN'T USE MAKE. I extract folder, Now I know I don't have make
>command and I just downloaded.
Tina, as Peter and others have already pointed out: You shouldn't
really have to do that. From what I have read, you're using a Linux
distribution (which is the correct way, especially for beginners),
and your distribution certainly comes with preconfigured packages
including all the development stuff needed (libraries, compiler,
executables, header files etc.) . Please refer to your distribution's
manual for details on what to select and install. The advice
you're already received has been useful, but depending from your
computer skills and experience (or lack thereof) may or may not
be useful for you at this time.
>Maybe you need to educated yourself and learn HOW TO READ AND THEN
>RESPOND,
>otherwise people will think you are an educated ignorant.
And if you don't stop insulting the readers of the groups you're
posting to, nobody will listen to you anymore.
Michael
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