Linux-Misc Digest #766, Volume #18 Tue, 26 Jan 99 09:13:13 EST
Contents:
Re: startx not found (Stef)
Re: Consumer Poll Says Microsoft Is Good For Consumers (Daniel Pead)
Key Number for StarOffice5 (Chunli)
startx not found (Vito DeFilippo)
Re: 2038 and Linux (David R. Conrad)
Re: micro-distributions (John Hasler)
Re: Criminally Insane Programmers Are Attracted To Open Source Code (Steven Blunt)
Re: Key Number for StarOffice5 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
where are my files (Dev Null)
Re: Criminally Insane Programmers Are Attracted To Open Source Code (Donal K.
Fellows)
Re: where are my files (David R. Conrad)
Re: Problem (Duncan Simpson)
Free Fortran90 + Parallel? (M Sweger)
TCP/IP connectivity on LAN (Julienna Chu)
Word perfect installation problem. (Odinaldo Rodrigues)
Advice to newbies (Allen Ashley)
Re: Linux Newbie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Can I run a DOS Device Driver in an emulator (Gerard van der Sel)
Re: Criminally Insane Programmers Are Attracted To Open Source Code (Evan DiBiase)
Re: keeping linux filenames unmodified on 95 ("Stuart Updegrave")
Re: How to make wine access ports directly.? (Andreas Mohr)
Re: Help, Kernel too big ("al")
Re: "Prob's" with LILO or other bootmanager ??? ("Michael 'BeLFrY' S. E. Kraus")
Re: PPP is driving me crazy !!!! Plese help me ("Donald C. Becknell")
Re: LILO problem with win98 (Redhat) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Stef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: startx not found
Date: 26 Jan 1999 11:55:45 +0100
: Anyway, I recently reinstalled Redhat 5.1, and now startx doesn't seem
: to want to work. Bash reports "command not found". If I switch shells
: (using "csh") than it works. Why would one shell find the command and
: not the other. And why would this happen with the default installation?
The PATH variables can be set individually for different shells.
See man bash and man csh
But still strange that it doesn't work with the default installation...
Stef
--
WebMaster D-WERK
UNIX and Windows NT administration, SOS-ETH
ETH Zurich
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hoes.li
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From: Daniel Pead <[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: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 23:00:42 +0000
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Chad Dale
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>While I personally share this dream, I don't think Linux could make real inroads
>into the desktop market unless there was substantial control placed over the
>environment. I mean by this that there was a standard API and DE for programmers
>to
>write for and IT guys to support. I don't think this will happen as there are
>too
>many elements out there that seem to think massize fragmentation of the
>community
>is a GOOD thing. While I advocate choice, I also see that in some things there
>has
>to be a level standardization.
I'd agree. However, the advantage of "Open Source" software is that
anybody can hack it to fit a certain user interface standard - and Linux
distributors could take responsibility for producing versions which
comply with their standard desktop environment...
--
Daniel Pead
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.octpen.demon.co.uk/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chunli)
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.rpm
Subject: Key Number for StarOffice5
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 11:04:22 GMT
Dear friends,
I got a CD with StarOffice5 but it needs a key number to register.
Any friends can help?
Thanks in advance
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From: Vito DeFilippo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: startx not found
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 03:34:54 -0500
Hello all,
Thanks to everyone who has answered questions in the past. It's support
like this that makes Linux worth learning!
Anyway, I recently reinstalled Redhat 5.1, and now startx doesn't seem
to want to work. Bash reports "command not found". If I switch shells
(using "csh") than it works. Why would one shell find the command and
not the other. And why would this happen with the default installation?
Never had this trouble before.
Also, I had WindowMaker installed under a user. It would run with
"startx" but not under root.
(RedHat 5.1 with AMD233, 64 Megs RAM)
Thanks for any suggestions,
Vito DeFilippo
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David R. Conrad)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: 2038 and Linux
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 11:39:17 GMT
On Fri, 22 Jan 1999 20:54:10 +0100,
Toon Moene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Keith G. Murphy wrote:
>
>> The ironic thing about all this is that DEC VMS has had a 64-bit date
>> representation all along: since, oh, 1985 or '86? Yet another
>> confirmation of the "Digital has it now" slogan. :-)
>
>VMS uses a 64-bit time field. Its epoch is (somewhere in) 1858, and its
>increment is 100 ns.
>
>Someone with a slide rule out there to compute when VMS "runs out of
>time" ?
Unless I screwed up, it's good for 58,454 years. If it's a signed number
then they're good for 29,227 years after 1858, which means they'll run
into trouble sometime in the year AD 31,085.
(My slide rule is named "bc".)
--
David R. Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
This is why I love America -- that any kid can dream "I'm going to get
naked with the President" ... and that dream can actually come true.
What a great country! -- Michael Moore
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: micro-distributions
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 04:23:11 GMT
Gamma Rat writes:
> I am thinking of installing a very small linux distribution on an old
> 386-SX with 2 MB of RAM and about 170 MB of disk. I would be using it
> almost exclusively to rlogin/telnet to another machine. The purpose of
> this would be to give me what amounts to a terminal with 12 virtual
> screens. I would like reccommendations for very small linux
> distributions that would fit on a few floppy disks, and would work on the
> machine described above, along with URL's where I could get them.
www.debian.org. Install the base system from floppies and then add a few
selected packages.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steven Blunt)
Crossposted-To:
alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Criminally Insane Programmers Are Attracted To Open Source Code
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 11:48:28 GMT
On Sun, 24 Jan 1999 18:35:12 -0500, in gnu.misc.discuss
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David H. McCoy) wrote:
>In article <78g4p9$c9q$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>says...
>>In article <e$dtm$7R#GA.229@upnetnews03>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>>>
>>>Maybe this would be a good way to find enough programmers to fix the Y2K
>>>problems in Linux.
>>
>>There aren't really any Y2K problems in Linux, this Y2K nonsense for the PC
>>is mostly a problem for software that runs under MickySoft created
>>operating systems....
>>
>>
>>
>
>Right. The entire world is working to fix mainframes because of MS. Why
>not blame MS for all the ills that have plagued the world since the birth
>of mankind?
They killed Elvis you know.
Besides, look at the groups this is posted to - it's hardly going to turn
into a pro MS thread.
cya
--
Steven Blunt
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://enterfornone.simplenet.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.rpm
Subject: Re: Key Number for StarOffice5
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 11:58:25 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 26 Jan 1999 11:04:22 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chunli) wrote:
>I got a CD with StarOffice5 but it needs a key number to register.
You should have a key with your CD, but that's only for the 30 day's trial
period. You must register online: connect to the internet, select the star
office menu help/register. That should do it. You get another key then, print it
out, you may need it later.
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Answers please in this newsgroup!
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From: Dev Null <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: where are my files
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 08:30:11 GMT
i just when over the quota with the number of files i can have on the
server. however in my home dir i don't have a half of thouse files they
must be somewhere else on the system. how can i find all directories that
have my files in them, and if possible how many files in each dir. there
are only 5 days left till the limit kicks in...
null
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donal K. Fellows)
Crossposted-To:
alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Criminally Insane Programmers Are Attracted To Open Source Code
Date: 26 Jan 1999 11:26:09 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
steve mcadams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Jan 1999 19:27:28 +0000, mlw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> It doesn't matter. Almost every internet key word search ends up at
>> either at "hot teens" or a lesbian chatroom anyway, who is going to look
>> a news group posting.
>
> Yeah, it bites, doesn't it. A year ago you could actually find
> something on AltaVista. Now you just find a billion or two references
> to unrelated stuff that happens to match your search keys. Time for
> some new-tech methinks. -steve
I was reading an interesting article on this sort of area in this
week's New Scientist (23 Jan 99 - http://www.newscientist.com/) but
the article itself doesn't seem to be online.
URLs culled from the article (no comment on relevance):
http://www.perspecta.com/indexCorp.html
http://www.objectfx.com/
http://www.inxight.com/
http://www.cartia.com/screenshots/screenshot_menu.html
http://demo.semio.com/public/discover.cgi
Most of the tech seems to be commercial-uses only as yet...
Donal.
--
Donal K. Fellows http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~fellowsd/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, U.K. +44-161-275-6137
--
"And remember, evidence is nothing." - Stacy Strock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David R. Conrad)
Subject: Re: where are my files
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 12:51:14 GMT
On Tue, 26 Jan 1999 08:30:11 GMT, Dev Null <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>i just when over the quota with the number of files i can have on the
>server. however in my home dir i don't have a half of thouse files they
>must be somewhere else on the system. how can i find all directories that
>have my files in them, and if possible how many files in each dir. there
>are only 5 days left till the limit kicks in...
man find
--
David R. Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
This is why I love America -- that any kid can dream "I'm going to get
naked with the President" ... and that dream can actually come true.
What a great country! -- Michael Moore
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Duncan Simpson)
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Problem
Date: 26 Jan 1999 12:52:49 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff Grossman) writes:
>Hello,
>I am having a problem. Let me first explain my situation.
>I have a small lan with about 5 computers. I have DSL service through
>PacBell which gives me one static IP address. I have a Sonic Systems
>SonicWall acting as my firewall with NAT enabled so each computer can
>access the internet. I have one Linux machine which is set to accept
>all incoming traffic to the IP address through the SonicWall. I have
>a domain name which points to this one statis IP address. Each
>machine on the network is using a 192.168.168.* IP address.
>Here is my problem. I have set up a mail server on the Linux machine.
>If I am on one of my other machines and set up an account to access my
>mail through POP, I just put in the 192.168.168.* IP address for the
>Linux machine and it works fine.
Computers do not have IP address, only network adapters have IP
addresses. Most comouters only have 1 network interface over than
loopback and 1 set of IP numbers that refers to that interface. These
IP numbers are generally refered to as the machine's IP address.
Gateways, routers, etc with multiple network interfaces usually have
one or more address per interface. Naturally tour clients should be
using the 192.168.*.* address as that is the interface they can
reach. They should also use this as the default route since there is
no other way they can reach the outside world.
There is sadly a good chance your routing table thinks something on
eth0 is a good gateway to use which is patent nonsense---fix this
using RH's control panel or editting of whatever startup scripts and
config files set up the routing table. (I have editted the routing
configuration on a RH box by editting the text files directly but it
is not a method of choice).
>But it does not work when I am
>dialed into an ISP through Dialup networking on one of the machines on
>the local network. If I put in either the static IP or the domain
>name, it just hangs there. How shall I setup the other machines, so
>it does not matter if I am using the local network or a dialup to gain
>access to my mail server?
Usually it does not except unless you want to use the box as a general
purpose relay, which is only allowed if your IP addresses is on an
approved network (look it /etc/mail for the files which say who is
allowed to relay mail to anywhere and what domains are acceptable
destinations for other people).
Duncan (-:
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M Sweger)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Free Fortran90 + Parallel?
Date: 26 Jan 1999 12:11:05 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all,
Just came across these sites that are useful for FOrtran90 and
Ratfor people. There are free Fortran to Java converters, Fortran90 and
Ratfor 90 compilers plus other stuff. Of interest is the free parallelization
Fortran library at www.linpac.ac.uk but this site must have moved since
the URL can't be found anymore; anybody know where it went?
Overall Fortran site stuff with links to the others mentioned below,
http://www.fortran.com/fortran and select free s/w
Free Fortran90 for x86 Linux and multiple parallelization fortran etc.
http://www.psrv.com
Ratfor
http://ww.sepwww.standford.edu/sep/prof
--
Mike,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Julienna Chu)
Subject: TCP/IP connectivity on LAN
Date: 26 Jan 1999 09:13:25 GMT
Guys,
I don't want to use SAMABA. I want to just use TCP/IP.
I have a Win NT machine 192.168.1.1 and subnet 255.255.255.0
and a Linux box 192.168.1.2 with subnet 255.255.255.0
What should I use for their default gateway?
I want the NT boxto be able to launch a telnet to 192.168.1.2
This is just a LAN with no Internet connectivity.
Thanks! Can someone please e-mail me the answer?
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From: Odinaldo Rodrigues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Word perfect installation problem.
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 11:07:51 +0000
Dear All,
Has anyone out there had installation problem with Word Perfect
for Linux ?
Mine seems to install fine, but when I try to run it, it reports
a missing file: "admintxt.us", which is actually there, but wp
simply can't find it. I'm running Red Hat 5.2.
I read about a problem with libc compatibility, so I installed
libc-5.4, but it still doesn't work.
Any help would be much appreciated.
--
Odinaldo Rodrigues
Department of Computer Science
King's College - Strand
London WC2R 2LS
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Allen Ashley)
Subject: Advice to newbies
Date: 26 Jan 1999 12:44:23 GMT
Keep a journal, written or on disk, of the special steps
you take to install or configure your linux. Make note of
problems you have and their solution. If a point comes up
that might be of interest to others post it. I have tried
to follow these points, and whenever I fail I have to
re-invent the solution when the problem arises again.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Linux Newbie
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 13:03:56 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 26 Jan 1999 03:58:29 -0000, "Sveinn Gunnarsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Hello I�m a fed up Microsoft Win98 user and am thinking to switch to Linux
>but am unsure what kind of Linux to get. My system looks like this
>
Anyway it's a good idea to keep the windows system running, until you feel
alright with linux. Depending on your free space, create a linux partition with
1-3 GB and a Linux swap partition of 128 MB. The Linux Loader LILO can boot both
systems.
Good luck, Eggert
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Answers please in this newsgroup!
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From: Gerard van der Sel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Can I run a DOS Device Driver in an emulator
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 10:09:10 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Norm Dresner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> I have a special video card that needs to be initialized by a DOS device
> driver. There's nothing else available (unless you count windoze). (For
> the curious, it's a Targa+ overlay card.)
>
> Once the initialization is done, I could throw DOS away and run CP/M-86
> (only joking).
>
> I might be able to boot DOS, initialize the board, and then boot Linux, but
> that stinks, especially if I have to modify the settings.
>
> Is there any way that I can call (perhaps hack up a DOS-style
> load-device-driver-from-the-command-line program) the driver from a DOS
> emulator in Linux to do the job.
>
> All suggestions, hints, and even sympathy, gratefully accepted.
>
> Norm D.
>
See the Linux <-> Windows HOWTO.
You can initialise any card in Dos/Windows and then use a batch file to
start Linux.
In short:
Copy LoadLin.exe and the kernel "vmlinuz" to your DOS/Windows
enviroment.
Make a batch file with the following contents:
loadlin.exe vmlinuz root=<linux boot>
for my system it is:
e:\linux\loadlin.exe e:\linux\vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb8
(I am using Red Hat 5.2, kernel 2.0.37)
--
Met vriendelijke groet,
Gerard van der Sel
Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"De dinosaurussen hadden hun komeet, wij hebben de computer" - me
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From: Evan DiBiase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Criminally Insane Programmers Are Attracted To Open Source Code
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:00:35 -0500
Netnerd wrote:
>
> Maybe this would be a good way to find enough programmers to fix the Y2K
> problems in Linux.
I think I've finally figured out Netnerd. What he wants to do is screw
up searches that people perform on Usenet (with DejaNews, for example).
If I want to see about Linux's Y2K compliancy, I'd look for "Y2K Linux".
Somewhere in the results would be Netnerd's post here. If I were a
clueless newbie, I'd assume that A) OSS is criminal in some way
(criminally insane people develop with it) and/or B) that there are Y2K
problems in Linux in such huge numbers that _even the criminally insane_
are working to fix them. These are both, at least to a reasonable
degree, incorrect.
-Evan
(comp.os.os2.advocacy snipped)
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From: "Stuart Updegrave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: keeping linux filenames unmodified on 95
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 14:05:04 -0800
Aaron Walker wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
:I have two computers, one is redhat 5.2 and the other is 95.
:I am doing a fresh install on my linux box, and made a tar archive of my
:home dir.
:Then I transfered that archive to my 95 box via FTP. Is there anyway to
:keep the filenames
:in the archive from being modified?
:
:For example, say there is an archive example.tar.gz.
:In that archive is three files:
:
:EXAMPLE1.html
:EXAMPLE2.txt
:EXAMPLE3.pdf
:
:If I transfer it to my 95 box, those filenames change to:
:
:example1.html
:example2.txt
:example3.pdf
:
:is there any way to prevent this?
I believe that this is merely how it is displayed in Windows. If you open a
DOS terminal and cd to the correct directory, then 'dir', you should see the
files with names unmodified.
HTH
~stuart
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Mohr)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: How to make wine access ports directly.?
Date: 26 Jan 1999 08:01:02 GMT
Miernik ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I run a program under wine which controls my local PBX telephone
> exchange. It uses the COM2 port, but it accesses it directly. Linux
> doesnot allow wine to do that. What can I do?
Sorry, wrong.
Just read documentation/ioport-trace-hints
Good luck !
--
Andreas Mohr
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From: "al" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject: Re: Help, Kernel too big
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 22:07:13 +1100
The only other thing I can suggest is to redownload the kernal code or you
may be missing something or need a later version of something(lilo).Which
version of slackware are you running?And which version of lilo.It sounds
like you may need to update lilo and the kernal.
Try reposting your ealier message to alt.os.linux as it has more people on
it.
http://www.linuxhq.com/ good spot for kernal patches etc if downloading go
to local mirror
kernal 2.2.0 has been released(stable)
Wael Sedky wrote in message ...
>No unfortunately it didn't make the file a bit smaller.
>
>Iam using a PPro on a supermicro motherboard with 32MB and 1GB partition
>
>>Try make bzImage.
>
>
>
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From: "Michael 'BeLFrY' S. E. Kraus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: "Prob's" with LILO or other bootmanager ???
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 00:45:38 +1100
G'day...
> These are the partitions we've ment in the bootmanager :
> ---------------
> Volume Type Size MB Used MB
> FREE MB Status
>
> *: Boot Manager 7,8
> 7,8 0,0 Active
> *: BACKWIN98 Hidden FAT 1066,8 529,9
> 536,9 Hidden
> *: WIN98 FAT 1066,8
> 521,9 544,9 Bootable
> *: Extended 1968,9
> 1968,9 0,0 None
> *: Linux Ext2 1741,4
> 1741,4 0,0 *None
> *: Linux Swap 227,5
> 227,5 0,0 Bootable
>
> ----------------
>
> Wich "linux" must normally boot ??? The ext2 or swap ???
I don't know the answer to your other questions, however, the ext2 filesystem
is the one you want to boot.
The swap partition is the swap device used by linux (for virtual memory). It
should not be bootable.
ext2 is Linux's native filesystem.
All the best.
Michael.
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From: "Donald C. Becknell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: PPP is driving me crazy !!!! Plese help me
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 07:27:46 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Hi everybody, I've been trying to set up a PPP connection,
> > but it doesn't work.
> >
> > I think I read all the documentation I found 10 times and nothing seems
> > to work, so if you can help me, I'd really appreciate it.
> >
> > This is how it goes:
> > I use EZPPP to connnect, it dials the number, sends the right login and
> > password, the server starts the ppp connection ( i see all those symbols
> > like {{())
> > and everything seems to be fine, but it doesn't work!!
> >
>From the output you just described it looks like your ISP is using PAP.
Take a long look at the PPP HowTo (I got mine from the Red Hat 5.1
CD-Rom). The section where he uses minicom to make the connection and
then switches to pppd worked for me after I setup the pap-secrets file
properly with my userid and password. I also had to identify my ISP's
DNS addresses, the HowTo tells you where to put them.
--
Donald C. Becknell
AlliedSignal - Electronics and Avionics Systems
699 Route 46 East
Teterboro, NJ 07608
Phone: (201) 393-2223
Fax: (201) 393-6735
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: LILO problem with win98 (Redhat)
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 13:47:28 GMT
Felix Lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> hi there,
>
> As a newbie in Linux, I tried installing redhat 5.1 on the
> Sony Vaio 505 notebook. After days and nights, it finally
> installed ... :)
>
> The problem now is with booting my linux kernel. Booting
> off disk is fine, but no luck with lilo. When I went thru the
> step of setting up lilo during installation, it always reported
> "an error has happened ..." and I eventually aborted this step.
>
> I have fiddled with my /etc/lilo.conf file but with no luck.
> It always boot straight into win98 instead. When I run /sbin/lilo
> , it always return
>
> Added Linux *
> Partition entry not found.
>
> Here is a copy of my lilo.conf
>
> boot=/dev/hda
> map=/boot/map
> prompt
> timeout=50
> image=/boot/vmlinuz
> label=linux
> root=/dev/hda5
> read-only
> other=/dev/hda1
> label=win98
> table=/dev/hda
>
> Thanks a lot in advance. It has been bugging me many nights now ... :(
>
> P.S. When I run fdisk in Linux, it reports "unknown" type for my win98
> partition, will this have anything with this problem??
>
just on that p.s. bit: the reason linux fdisk reports 'unknown' as your win98
partition type is that win98 uses FAT32, not FAT16 like older windows and
msdos. linux can only read FAT16 (unless there is some patch i don't know
about).
fidichi
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