Linux-Misc Digest #513, Volume #18 Fri, 8 Jan 99 11:13:09 EST
Contents:
test (M Sweger)
Linux v2.1.132 and 2940U/UW Scsi boot problems? (M Sweger)
Problem connecting Windows95 with Linux Samba over SSH ("Vipul P. Gore")
Re: Emacs Questions (David M. Cook)
how to mount fat so everyone can write to it (Sebastian Bo�ung)
Re: Linux: Fight for survival or on victory march? (Simon Kinahan)
Re: Replacing MBR in Windows NT (Patrik Israelsson)
Re: (((((((NEED REDHAT5.2)))))))) (garv)
Re: [Q] Corel WordPerfect 8.0 ... Any experiences? (Irina Rempt)
Re: Newbie Idiocy ("J�rgen Exner")
Re: Consumer Poll Says Microsoft Is Good For Consumers (William Sonna)
Xpert98, AGP, 8M works well, but still some questions (SZ)
Re: Anti-Linux FUD
Re: Shell scripts ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
help needed compiling kernel (Peter Brookes)
Re: Consumer Poll Says Microsoft Is Good For Consumers (Andreas Schwab)
RedHat and Win95 (Matt Cobley)
How do you kill a bash shell script ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
98/Linux install partition question (Kaustav Bhattacharya)
Re: Consumer Poll Says Microsoft Is Good For Consumers (David Martin)
Re: How to HEX DUMP an ascii file? (Juergen Heinzl)
Re: Slackware + RPM ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [Q] Corel WordPerfect 8.0 ... Any experiences? (Michael Perry)
Re: Replacing MBR in Windows NT (Chad Wolfsheimer)
Re: Floppy Disk Drive (Stephen Richard FREELAND)
Re: built kernel (Stephen Richard FREELAND)
dosemu question (Hector Gutierrez)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M Sweger)
Subject: test
Date: 8 Jan 1999 12:35:32 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This is a test.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M Sweger)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Linux v2.1.132 and 2940U/UW Scsi boot problems?
Date: 8 Jan 1999 12:53:12 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
Has anybody gotten Linux v2.1.132 working with the Scsi 2940U/UW Dual
adapter with SCSI Bios v1.33S2 and a 9.1Gig Western Digital hard drive?
Presently, I'm using DosLinux (the latest) and on bootup, the SCSI card
seems to be recognized for SCSIDs configurations (such as terminations)
and interrupts, but hangs forever and never sees the 9.1Gig WD hard drive
on SCSID0. Are there still problems with the 2940 SCSI driver?
The SCSI card has the AIC 7895 chipset too.
I see the Adapatec has agreed to help the Linux driver people out
developing SCSI drivers for Linux. How is this going, particularly
in resolving problems?
Here is my configuration and partition setup.
c:\ MSDOS and Win95 partition of 2Gigs running Doslinux from here
(at least I'm trying to).
d:\ NT4.0 and FAT of 2Gigs
e:\ MSDOS partitions of 2Gigs
f:\ MSDOS partitions of 2Gigs
H:\ MSDOS partitions of the remaining disk space.
NT4.0 works okay when I boot into it and it recognizes the disk.
MSDOS works okay when I boot into it from the boot menu and recognizes
the disk.
After booting into MSDOS and starting setup.bat (the DOSlinux mini
boot before installing the full install) it hangs trying to find
the disk.
I would think that if the SCSI driver can't find the attached
devices it would time out and tell the user that no devices
found or that something may be conflicting/misconfigured instead
of just hanging.
Any help appreciated, since I'll have to revert back to my
100mhz 1Gig IDE machine (thats out of space) and can boot
without problem any version of DOSLINUX from my new 333mhz
9.1GIG ultra SCSI machine (DELL Optiplex GX1) that now the
only Unix that it'll run is NT4.0. :)
--
Mike,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Vipul P. Gore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.ms-windows.networking,microsoft.public.win95.networking,microsoft.public.win98.networking,microsoft.public.winnt.networking
Subject: Problem connecting Windows95 with Linux Samba over SSH
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 10:19:59 GMT
Hello
Hello
I recently bought 1 user license of SSH Tunnel&Terminal for Windows95.
Prior to that I was using a trial version for about a month. I want to
set a VPN between my home computer and office lan. The office lan
gateway is Linux (Debian) running samba while at home I use Windows 95.
When I was using the trial version, I was able to tunnel to my company's
lan via my internet connection. After I bought the version, it does not
work at all. I am tunneling port# 137, 138 and 139 (netbios ports). The
gateway machine at our company is Linux box running Samba while I am
using Windows95 at home.
There is also one another strange behaviour. I have two internet
services at home. One is dial-up (28.8K) while another is cable modem
(Ethernet -Static IP Address).
I can map the network drive of Linux on my PC using dial-up connection
but cannot map the same drive if I use Ethernet (cable modem)
I am not sure whether the tunnel is not working or whether samba cannot
resolve the netbios name, etc. etc.
There are some shared directories on Linux machine that I need to access
at home.
Can someone help.Any help will be highly appreciated
Regards,
Vipul
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David M. Cook)
Crossposted-To: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Emacs Questions
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 21:20:11 GMT
On Thu, 07 Jan 1999 19:46:10 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>1) How do you use the metakey in Microsoft Hyperterminal? Right now, it is
>"mapped" a the Alt key, but the alt key hits the menubar in Hyperterminal
>rather than sending it out to my Linux machine
Just a note: you may want to install NTEmacs or JED and a C compiler like
DJGPP locally if you are forced to work on a windows box.
All meta key sequences can be done with the ESC key instead. Alt-x (Alt and
x at the same time) would be ESC x (Escape then x sequentially).
>2) How do you go into "replace" mode in
>Linux?
ESC %
>3) I am using it in C++ mode. Is there an easy way to compile your
>code and run it in a sub-window without leaving Emacs?
Sure, ESC x compile. This will prompt you fro a compile command with a
default of make -k. For a single C++ file, say foo.cc, you can just add foo
without the .cc, e.g.
make -k foo
Or you can use the full gcc command. After that you can use ESC x
recompile. You can step thru errors with C-x ` (control-x backtick).
For a project you'll want to create a makefile.
Dave Cook
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From: bossung@{remove_this}gmx.de (Sebastian Bo�ung)
Subject: how to mount fat so everyone can write to it
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 20:40:19 GMT
Hi,
I'm pretty new to Linux and I'm wondering how you mount a FAT
partition (vfat) so everyone - not just root - can write to it.
Thanks
Sebastian
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From: Simon Kinahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux: Fight for survival or on victory march?
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 13:04:20 +0000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> may be ease of use and good office application and higher quality of end
> user type applications on windows has something to do with it?
In my experience the availability of games, simple technical support, lack
of technical issues (like hardware compatibility), and ignorance are the
main reasons. App availability tends not to figure (Linux has all the apps
end users typically need), and quality, as well as being purely a
subjective judgement, tends to rub the other way.
Simon
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From: Patrik Israelsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Replacing MBR in Windows NT
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 20:41:09 +0100
Neil Martin wrote:
> How do I replace a master boot record that currently has LILO installed
> in it from Windows NT? NT having no 'fdisk'...
>
> If I boot DOS and do FDISK/MBR will I find the NT partitions ever again?
>
> Regards,
> Neil Martin
> Prosig Limited
AFAIK NT, DOS and Win95/98 use the same boot loader (I use the same
bootloader for Win95 and NT.) There should be no problems.
/ Patrik
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From: garv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: (((((((NEED REDHAT5.2))))))))
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 21:28:45 GMT
Jani wrote:
> I need Redhat 5.2 .....on a fast server...please
cheapbytes for $2.00
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Irina Rempt)
Subject: Re: [Q] Corel WordPerfect 8.0 ... Any experiences?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 09:45:46 GMT
Mike Werner wrote:
> In my limited playing with Word Perfect it appears to be able to save
> docs in Word format. Or at least the ones I tried came out fine. Or
> are you doing something funky that WP just can't handle? ;)
Oops, it only asked me whether to save it as WP 5.1, 6 or 7/8, so I
didn't think of looking at what was under "Other"... I'm not doing any
funky things, it's a translation of a book that needs only headings 1
to 3, captions, bulleted lists and body text, bold and italic. No
scientific notation or equations (fortunately), no text boxes or tables
(they convert very badly either from Word to WP or vice versa), so I'll
try next time. Still, I like to look at the conversion in Word itself
because it *always* needs cleaning up. But any time I don't have to
spend under Windows is time gained.
Irina
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From: "J�rgen Exner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie Idiocy
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 13:31:28 -0800
Irina Rempt wrote in message ...
>Christopher Mahmood wrote:
>> ...and be sure not to type 'cat /dev/null > /dev/sda1'
>
>Before I can't resist trying... what *happens* when one does that?
The first partition on the first SCSI drive will be overwritten with zeros,
including boot sector, data and super blocks.
By the way this is a nice feature if you want your old data to be physically
erased from the partition (instead of just removing the directory entry
using "rm").
It's not bullet-proof (companies or agencies with a lot of time and money
and the right equipment can still restore the content), but it'll do for the
vast majority of us.
jue
--
J�rgen Exner; microsoft.com, UID: jurgenex
Sorry for this anti-spam inconvenience
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Sonna)
Crossposted-To:
alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Consumer Poll Says Microsoft Is Good For Consumers
Date: 8 Jan 1999 13:19:58 GMT
On Fri, 8 Jan 1999 05:50:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Mading)
wrote:
> Jeff Read ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> : Netnerd wrote:
> : >
> : > The latest consumer poll shows that 81 percent of consumers think Microsoft
> : > has been good for consumers, and 52 percent think the case was brought to
> : > help Microsoft's rivals.
>
> : Polls also show that Bill Clinton is a good president. Is public opinion
> : more valid than the facts? I think not.
>
> A more accurate complaint would be to say that these polls don't
> actually reflect public opinion at all. I do *NOT* find a high
> approval percentage of Clinton amongst the people I talk to on a
> daily basis, and neither do most people talking on-line either.
> This is a mix from across the whole political spectrum from left-wing,
> to right-wing, and even some various "third wing" parties like
> libertarians. I have no idea how these "polls" are being conducted,
> but they don't reflect reality.
>
That's PRECISELY why we have elections - to protect us from those who
know better.
Unfortunately, we seem to have an entire political party that doesn't
think the results matter if a legal loophole can be found to undo
them.
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From: SZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Xpert98, AGP, 8M works well, but still some questions
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 14:50:20 -0600
Hi, there,
I just installed a Xpert98, AGP version (8MB) on my Pentium II PC and
the card
works excellently with XFree 3.3.3 (Mach 64 server). The server can
probe the card
correctly for everything, memory size, chip set, clock type (internal),
ete.
But I still have some questions. I was using color depth of 8 for my old
video card and all
the X colors were set properly in the .Xdefaults file.
With the new card, the colors look the same only when I keep using the
color depth of 8 bits.
But if I set the color depth to 16 or 32 bits (with resolution of
1024x768) in the XF86Config
file, the colors change completely after I initiate the X windows.
The colors were specified in .Xdefaults file like following:
.....
*background: #C6C6B2
......
I also tried to increase the length of the color code to something like
#C600C600B200 for the color
depth of 16 bits. But still the same ugly colors appear in X.
What am I missing?
Thanks a lot
SZ
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Crossposted-To: alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: Anti-Linux FUD
Date: 7 Jan 1999 21:38:51 GMT
On Sun, 27 Dec 1998 06:12:35 GMT,
Brian Knotts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Sat, 26 Dec 1998 05:03:50 -0600, Richard Steiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Here in comp.os.linux.misc, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>> spake unto us, saying:
>>
>> >I had an OS/2 lockup once while working, hit the reset button and it
>> >would not reboot after that. A chkdsk run did not work at all.
>> >
>> >I did a WPS restore from a backup that I had.....this backup was made
>> >with third party software by the way....and I was fine. The ini files
>> >got corrupted somehow. I guess the OS/2 ini file concept and structure
>> >should be ditched as well eh?
>>
>> I'm jumping in the thread late. But IMhO yes, it probably should. :-)
>>
>> I hate centralized binary configuration files (time bombs, I say), and
>> AFAIC OS/2 as just as guilty as Windows 9x and NT.
>
>I agree. I'm another long-time OS/2 user, and I have to say that
>pretty much every problem I had with OS/2 had to do with the WPS and
>those gol-durn binary configuration files (OS2.INI, OS2SYS.INI).
>
>I've switched pretty much full-time to Linux, and have no regrets
>other than missing the slick functionality of the WPS. But I certainly
>don't miss its flakiness.
>
>/etc is the way to go, IMO. And open source. :-)
Especially since in the newer Unix systems (such as Linux and HP-UX 10.2)
the binary (executable) crap has been moved to /bin, /sbin,
/usr/bin, or /usr/sbin.
This means that /etc is now all text, directories, and symbolic links. :-)
I rather doubt C:\WINDOWS or C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM can make similar claims. :-)
>
>--
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Brian Knotts http://www.europa.com/~bknotts/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
----
[EMAIL PROTECTED], wondering why they didn't do that years ago
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Shell scripts
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 12:36:05 GMT
In article <DnKk2.714$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Rick Glunt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The man pages fro sendmail and fetchmail both indicate they return codes
> that will tell a script wheter they have completed properly or not. How do
> I access these codes from a shell script? I want fetchmail to run, then
The return value is stored in the variable $?
Example:
#!/bin/sh
# illegal option
ls -z > /tmp/foo.txt 2> /tmp/errors.txt
echo "Return value is $?"
# legal option
ls -l > /tmp/bar.txt 2> /tmp/errors.txt
echo "Return value is $?"
Yields:
jbuchana@zaphod$ ./foo.sh
Return value is 2
Return value is 0
jbuchana@zaphod$
--
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================= http://members.iquest.net/~jbuchana ====================
"Shell programming is a 1950s juke box -great if it has your song
already" -Larry Wall
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Brookes)
Subject: help needed compiling kernel
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 21:37:18 GMT
Hi folks,
I have a wierd problem and wondered if their is a guru out their that
could help me. I am running suse 5.2 on a p200+ and to date have been
using the kernel that was installed by the setup program that i think
is a generic one for all x86 machines. I want to compile a new kernel
for my p200 and sound card but have he following problem.
I have done the following:
make xconfig
Set all the parameters correctly, got no errors, have a .config file
with all the right settings in it.
make zImage
BUT no zImage is created on my hdrive
Anyone got any ideas please
regards
peter
A geriatric but enthusiastic user trying to keep up with the rest of
the world.
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From: Andreas Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Consumer Poll Says Microsoft Is Good For Consumers
Date: 08 Jan 1999 15:12:36 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Mading) writes:
|> Jeff Read ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
|> : Netnerd wrote:
|> : >
|> : > The latest consumer poll shows that 81 percent of consumers think Microsoft
|> : > has been good for consumers, and 52 percent think the case was brought to
|> : > help Microsoft's rivals.
|>
|> : Polls also show that Bill Clinton is a good president. Is public opinion
|> : more valid than the facts? I think not.
|>
|> A more accurate complaint would be to say that these polls don't
|> actually reflect public opinion at all. I do *NOT* find a high
|> approval percentage of Clinton amongst the people I talk to on a
|> daily basis, and neither do most people talking on-line either.
|> This is a mix from across the whole political spectrum from left-wing,
|> to right-wing, and even some various "third wing" parties like
|> libertarians. I have no idea how these "polls" are being conducted,
|> but they don't reflect reality.
Why do you believe that your poll is closer to public opinion than any
other one?
--
Andreas Schwab "And now for something
[EMAIL PROTECTED] completely different"
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matt Cobley)
Subject: RedHat and Win95
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 14:20:38 GMT
Hi,
I'm a bit of a newbie when it comes to setting up Linux, and I
want to install RedHat 5.2 and Win95 together.
I have 2 ide hard drives, Primary Master :- 1.2Gb and Primary
Slave :- 2.1Gb.
I would, Ideally like to have RedHat and it's swap on the 1.2
disk, and Win95 on the Slave, but Win95 doesn't seem to want to
install on this disk. Can anyone help me?
Matt
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: How do you kill a bash shell script
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 22:01:49 GMT
Ok guys, I know this one is basic, but I don't know how to get a process
number for a bash shell script. For simplicity, here is a simple bash shell
script that I wrote:
echo sleeping
sleep 25
echo end sleep
When I run "ps" though, the computer gives me something like this:
PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
472 1 S 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty1
473 2 S 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty2
474 3 S 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty3
475 4 S 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty4
476 5 S 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty5
477 6 S 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty6
940 a0 S 0:00 su root
941 a0 S 0:00 bash
1659 a0 S 0:00 bash
1660 a0 S 0:00 sleep 25
1661 a0 R 0:00 ps
How do I know which process number is associated with the script I just ran?
The "bash" description listed is quite undescriptive. I know that the process
number is given right after I type "test&", but sometimes I may want to close
a process after that numebr disappars from my screen. So how can I find out
the proces number of the script I just ran?
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From: Kaustav Bhattacharya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 98/Linux install partition question
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 14:58:11 +0000
Reply-To: k, dot, bhattacharya, at, bbc, dot, co, dot, uk
Hi,
I have a 10Gb FAT32 hard disk with Win98 on it. I'm going to purchase
Red Hat 5.2 in about two hours. I wanted to ask before I bought 5.2 if
when I purchase it, will the installation CD allow me to easily
partition my 10Gb HD without destroying my Win98 data? i.e. can I
install Linux onto a FAT32 disk and be safe in mind that Win98 will
continue working after Linux is installed? Or do I have to backup the
Win98 bits, format the entire HD, partition it into two and then copy
back the Win98 stuff and then install Linux onto the second partition?
Kozzey
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Martin)
Crossposted-To:
alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Consumer Poll Says Microsoft Is Good For Consumers
Date: 8 Jan 1999 14:26:31 GMT
> That's PRECISELY why we have elections - to protect us from those who
> know better.
Thats democracy for you: the one person who really knows what is going on
is outvoted by the 99 emotional hysterics.
..d
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Juergen Heinzl)
Subject: Re: How to HEX DUMP an ascii file?
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 22:14:39 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Vern wrote:
[...]
>What is the command and syntax to do a simple hex dump of an ascii file?
od -t x1 file
>I would like to pipe it to a file and then use it to proof read a file we are
>having problems with to see if there are any transparent or imbedded extra
>cr, lf tabs etc....
Have fun 8)
Juergen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Slackware + RPM
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 15:08:03 GMT
Hi
Please point me to the site where I can get the How to for installing RPM on
slackware. Thanx
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello,
> I installed rpm on my slackware box via the Slackware + rpm
> mini-howto. I am assuming rpm was installed since every time I try to
> install a rpm package i get failed dependencies to libs/files that are
> already installed. I am pretty sure that there should be a file to tell
> rpm where these libs are? /usr/etc/rpm contains some interesting files,
> but no lib= entry. Anyone know how to tell rpm that the libs are already
> installed?
> Thanks,
> Navi
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Perry)
Subject: Re: [Q] Corel WordPerfect 8.0 ... Any experiences?
Date: 7 Jan 1999 22:14:06 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 06 Jan 1999 21:41:28 GMT, Augusto Cardoso
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I plan to install WordPerfect 8.0 under SuSE Linux 5.3
>As anyone tried that ? I'm still using LIBC5...
>Any caveats?
>Thanks for the inputs
>
>Augusto
I just did it by downloading the entire file as one big chunk. No
problem; except I cannot get the registration thing to accept the number I
got. Tried a few variations. I did manage to get wp8 to support my epson
stylus color by monkeying around a bit with the regular corel printer
drivers from their ftp site. Just cannot seem to comply with their
registration stuff yet. Anybody got the registration program to work?
--
Michael E. Perry
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chad Wolfsheimer)
Subject: Re: Replacing MBR in Windows NT
Date: 8 Jan 1999 15:15:42 GMT
Patrick Wray ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
:
: Neil Martin wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
: >How do I replace a master boot record that currently has LILO installed
: >in it from Windows NT? NT having no 'fdisk'...
: >
: >If I boot DOS and do FDISK/MBR will I find the NT partitions ever again?
Yes, if you run fdisk /mbr, NT will continue (or start again, if you were
getting the inaccessible_boot_device error) to boot.
: I've always had problems dual booting NT and Linux using Lilo on the MBR. I
Lilo v21, the newest version, solves the NT-Linux dual boot problem, so you
can now use Lilo to boot both (or more) operating systems.
: dd if=/dev/hdaX of=/winnt/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1
: (where X is the number of your root partition and /winnt is a FAT partition
: that you can see from both NT and Linux).
: Then, in NT, copy the newly created bootsect.lnx to your C:\ drive and add a
: line to boot.ini as follows:
: C:\BOOTSECT.LNX="Linux"
This works too, if you prefer the NT bootloader.
//============== Chad Wolfsheimer ===== Brown University ==============\\
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From: Stephen Richard FREELAND <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Floppy Disk Drive
Date: 8 Jan 1999 15:17:43 GMT
Jerry Lynn Kreps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Paul Davies wrote:
:>
:> When I try and remount, I keep getting a "device is busy" message which
:> takes about 20 mins to disappear before it reads the new floppy.
:>
:> Surely there must be a simpler way to read new floppies!
:>
:> Any help appreciated.
:>
:> Paul
: Your mount command is right. Where you are tripping up is when you
: remove or change the diskette in the drive without unmounting it. Also,
: I would do a SYNC commmand before I unmounted if I had changed anything
: on the diskette.
Sync? Bof, that's being a little paranoid IMHO. Still, it can't
hurt.
I might add that you can use DOS floppies in much the same way you
would in DOS, thanks the the mtools utilities. mdir a:, mdel a:, mcopy,
mmove, etc. etc. will all work without having to mount the floppy
manually.
Come to think of it, it'd be nice if there were utilities to do that
with ext2 or other floppies, as well.
Hmmmmm.... . SNF .
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Steve 'Nephtes' Freeland | Okay, so maybe I'm a tiny itty little
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | bit of a minimalist.
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From: Stephen Richard FREELAND <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: built kernel
Date: 8 Jan 1999 15:11:48 GMT
Christian Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: hl wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
:>HI!
:>
:>I need a kernel with APM support for my notebook (Slackware - it is
:>working fine, but no APM). I build a kernel from my desktop (RedHat,
:>/usr/src/linux) How can I config the kernel and transfer it to the
:>notebook? I did try zlilo, zImage, zdisk. None works.
:>
:>The problem: "Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:01"
:>
:>Thanks a lot
:>
I assume you set the APM options correctly in the configuration (make
config or menuconfig or xconfig). As for the panic problem...
: You could also look where the kernel wants the root by issuing: rdev zxxxx,
: where zxxxx is the kernel name. I dont know the device name of your
: notebooks harddisk. But let's say it ought to be /dev/hda1 and you compiled
: the kernel on your desktop scsi /dev/scd1. Change with
: rdev zxxxx /dev/hda1
Uh huh. Since the kernel is looking for major=3 minor=1, it's
already set to hda1, though.
Is the laptop a dual boot system? If so, that's likely to be the
problem; your root is not on the first hard drive's first partition.
Ciao... . SNF .
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Steve 'Nephtes' Freeland | Okay, so maybe I'm a tiny itty little
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | bit of a minimalist.
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From: Hector Gutierrez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: dosemu question
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 16:38:19 -0400
Hi, everydoby.
I have just installed Redhat-5.1, and installed dosemu-0.66.7 and I
dont now how to acces my linux partition from dosemu. I have tried de
following command:
lredir d: linux\fs/
but this don't work. After this command I can't chage to disk D: (my
root partition)
and if I try:
dir D:
dosemu die with the following message:
general protection at 0x14b2: 26
ERROR: SIGSEGV, protected insn...exiting!
What's wrong with dosemu?
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