Linux-Misc Digest #817, Volume #18 Sat, 30 Jan 99 01:13:07 EST
Contents:
Re: StarOffice vs. Applixware vs. WordPerfect (Mike Werner)
Re: How to set RTS and DTR on serial port (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: Memory associated Crash on SUSE 5.1 with StarOffice 5.0 ("Dr A Medina S]")
Re: linux on thinkpad? (MasterD)
Re: How much space needed? (Stephen Wilson)
Unable to mount cdrom (Doug)
Proxy able ftp or xftp (Claudio Thomas)
Re: COM for Linux? (Matthias Warkus)
Re: Xforms (Rolf Skowronek)
Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters (Christopher Browne)
Re: Adding new SCSI hardware? (Robert Heller)
Re: Whats Linux's equiv. of WIN98 Registry? (Mark Grosberg)
Re: LINUX PPP on a SPARC10 (Bill Unruh)
Re: ps aux oddity ("David Wall")
Local Network / DNS ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters (Arthur)
Linux 2.0.36 and Hard Drives > 8Go (Damien Ercole)
Re: COM for Linux? (Christopher Browne)
Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?) (Richard Steiner)
making backups with Zip dives (Neil Zanella)
Re: kernel 2.2.0 and too fast MIDI play (Chad Wolfsheimer)
Re: Linux OS Imaging (Leslie Mikesell)
Re: (Symbolic) Links Again (Robert Nichols)
Re: Newbie help with Linux, IBM PS/2 30-286 ("Charles Sullivan")
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From: Mike Werner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: StarOffice vs. Applixware vs. WordPerfect
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 01:13:15 -0500
FWIW - WordPerfect 8 is not a suite. It is just the word processor.
But it does import Word 7 files quite nicely. Export work fairly well -
the result will need a bit of tweaking in Word. Or at least the ones
I've done needed it. And admittedly I have not done much - maybe a half
dozen files or so.
--
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ICQ# 12934898 | "As far from Redmond as possible!"
'91 GS500E |
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: How to set RTS and DTR on serial port
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 22:30:22 GMT
Shiuh Deh Liew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Folks,
>It would be great if someone out there could tell me or point me to where
>I can get information on how to set and reset the RTS and DTR pins of a
>serial port.
Hmm . "man stty" perhaps ?
Michael
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Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 00:10:09 -0600
From: "Dr A Medina S]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Memory associated Crash on SUSE 5.1 with StarOffice 5.0
Jerry Lynn Kreps wrote:
>
> Hi Doc,
> I did a DejaNews search for you for "Startoffice + memory leaks" and
> found only five entries.
> All were in German and refered to memory leaks when SO runs under NT.
> It required SP4 to fix that problem.
>
> In your case a question comes to mind: SO comes with glibc libraries.
> Did you install them?
>
> SuSE 5.3 has problems if the SO glibc libraries are not installed
> because its glibc libraries are older than SO's. I surmise that SuSE
> 5.1 glibc libraries, if it has them, are also "out of date". I run SuSE
> 5.3 but I have no experience with SuSE 5.1.
> You may want to join the SuSE maillist server and ask there.
>
> If you have installed SO's glibc libraries then I would suggest that you
> upgrade to SuSE 6.0 and reinstall SO.
> Good luck!
> Jerry
>
> Dr A Medina S] wrote:
> >
> > Using a P166, 64Mb, 1.8Gb for Linux, SUSE 5.1, StarOffice 5.0
> >
> > I open a new presentation and and Office 97 presentation I had, and
> > begin working on them. Only had opened StarOffice, one xterm and xmem.
> > Slowly the memory diminishes, and when I only have red/yellow, the Swap
> > memory begins increasing progressively, and I have to kill StarOffice,
> > losing all changes on my document (so I save every 3 minutes). This
> > happens after about 10-15 minutes. If I don't kill StarOffice, either
> > the computer freezes totally, or this terminal freezes, and when I go to
> > another to reboot as root, I only get xmalloc : unable to alloc 10
> > bytes, or something like that, and segmentation faults. Eventually the
> > system freezes anyway. I can't even login on another terminal.
> >
> > This happens both in KDE and FVWM2. What can I do?. Is this a problem
> > with SUSE 5.1, StarOffice 5.0, or the use of a Office97 presentation?.
> > Thanks
Yes, I installed the new glibc libraries. And no, SUSE 5.1 doesn't have
any glibc libraries, unlike 5.3. I have seen some people commenting
crashes when using SO 5.0 with low memory. I have 64 Mb + 117 Mb Swap,
but maybe the Power Point presentation requires more?
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From: MasterD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: linux on thinkpad?
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 10:47:23 -0500
StLSD2000 wrote:
>
> Is anyone out there running slackware on a thinkpad 1450 i? I'm having
> some problems and am having a hell of a time getting them solved...
>
> StLSD2000
>
> "Don't be such a dick in the M.U.D."
A friend of mine ran Lynix on a thinkpad, but he had to boot from a
floppy all the time. Something wierd with the IBM bios in it, as I
recall. Other than that it ran pretty well.
-MasterD
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From: Stephen Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How much space needed?
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 18:04:22 +1100
Cmdr_Joe wrote:
> As you may have noticed, I am going to install RedHat Linux soon, more
> specifically, the Mandrake distro. Now what sized partition should I
> make for this distro? I know I should make it as big as possible, but
> I only have 350 megs left on my hard drive. Will this be enough for me
> to play with it, or will the initial installation leave me no space
> left over?
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
>
> Visit me on the web:
> http://ijump.cjb.net
> ------------------------------------------------
> "Live every day as if it were your last, because
> some day you'll be right"
I doubt very much if this can be done. More problems when you want to
add more software can be see lurking.
My suggestion would be to try and get another hard drive and devote it to
Linux completely.
Regards. Steve
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From: Doug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Unable to mount cdrom
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 22:39:06 +0000
When I go to mount my cdrom from user mount tool or by commands i get.
mount: block device /dev/cdrom is write-protected,mounting read only.
mount: wrong fs,bad option,bad superblock on dev/cdrom or too masny file
systems.
I have 2 other cd's that came with redhat 5.2 . One has programs which i
would like to install can not install them.
I have redhat installed on2.1 gig seperate Hard Drive.
Please any advise would be appreciated!!! If possible email me and the
group.
Thank You in advance
Doug
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Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 17:32:08 +0100
From: Claudio Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Proxy able ftp or xftp
Hy everybody,
Im searching for an ftp client which is able to go over a
prox-server.
Do someone have any idea, or better, can help me?
CU
Claudio
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Warkus)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: COM for Linux?
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 00:40:27 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It was the Fri, 29 Jan 1999 15:11:43 -0400...
..and Aaron Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does anyone know if a Component Object Model (COM) port is available for
> linux?
> If not, is any group or company planning or developing such a port?
>
> I'd like to work on some applications for linux that would utilize
> distributed COM
> components, and I want to know if this is possible.
There is no COM under Linux[*].
On Unix platforms, one uses CORBA, which is a real standard, as opposed to
COM.
mawa
[*] If you don't count the COM implementation in the Crystal Space 3D engine.
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lowers your social status...
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From: Rolf Skowronek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Xforms
Date: 29 Jan 1999 07:56:59 GMT
Mark Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Where can I get the xforms library?
from http://bragg.phys.uwm.edu/xforms
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 04:46:06 GMT
On 29 Jan 1999 20:47:03 GMT, Larry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Anyone who thinks the U.S. isn't the most technologically advanced
>country in the world is living in a vacuum.
But not nearly as advanced as the societies that are in fact living in a
vacuum...
--
"The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to
lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the
fact that it was he who, by peddling second-rate technology, led them into
it in the first place." - Douglas Adams in Guardian, 25-Aug-95
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/msprobs.html>
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Subject: Re: Adding new SCSI hardware?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Heller)
Date: 29 Jan 1999 23:28:25 -0500
Anders Nilsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
In a message on Fri, 29 Jan 1999 18:45:09 +0000, wrote :
AN> What is the basic procedure for adding new SCSI hardware? (Is there
AN> any?)
AN> Say you are running Linux Redhat 5.0 with a kernel supporting loadable
AN> modules.
If you are already booting off a disk on the SCSI controller and are
just adding additional devices on the existing controller, you just
shutdown, power the machine down, hookup the new hardware (being
careful about termination and SCSI ids), and the power back up. Some
older SCSI controllers might need to have termination turned off if you
are adding new external devices when there was no external devices
before. 'Standard' flavors of devices - disks, tape drives, and
CD-ROMs/CDRs are automatically picked up by the kernel when the SCSI
controller is initialized and its bus(es) are scanned. These standard
devices will get the proper general SCSI handler (sd, st, scd)
associated. All devices will get the 'sg' (Generic SCSI) device
associated. Things like scanners and CDRs (in write mode -- CDR's show
up as CD-ROM drives) generally don't get general kernel-level handlers
and use user-mode drivers (which do I/O via a /dev/sgX device).
If it is a new SCSI controller, you might want to configure kerneld to
load the driver needed -- this depends on if it is a to support a
boot-time mounted device or not. If it is a rarely used device, one can
always just use 'insmod' manually when needed. Note: if you are adding
a second SCSI controller that uses the same driver as the primary SCSI
controller -- eg your system comes with a 2940W and you boot off of SCSI
ID 0 on this controller and then add a 2940AU, the system will
automatically see the second controller and connect to its devices with
no additional configuration.
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From: Mark Grosberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Whats Linux's equiv. of WIN98 Registry?
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 04:52:18 GMT
Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED],
> In a message on Thu, 28 Jan 1999 07:18:40 GMT, wrote :
> o> I've been mucking around in the Win98 registry lately, and I wondered what is
> o> the Linux equivilant of the registry (or if there even is one)?
> The 'WinXX registry' is unique to MS-Windows.
> AFAIK, it serves two *main* functions. The first one 'emulates' some of
> the functionality that MacOS gains from the HFS file system (MacOS's
> native file system, which implements things like resource forks (not in
Actually, I have wondered about this for a while. The registry looks
"suspiciously" like a file system, doesn't it? I mean, it is
hierarchical. It contains leaf nodes that contain data.
Why couldn't Microsoft just make a directory somewhere and the registry is
just a set of files under there. In actuality, there is no difference
between Microsoft's registry and Linux's file system. Except perhaps that
the layout of your standard U*NX filesystem is much less of a mess than
the inside of the registry.
My guess as to Microsoft's logic is that for the file
system could not deal with so many small files.
L8r,
Mark G.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware,alt.os.linux,comp.protocols.ppp,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: LINUX PPP on a SPARC10
Date: 29 Jan 1999 08:10:54 GMT
In <78qsci$k8u$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Moe) writes:
>I'm trying to connect via PPP to the University of Wisc PPP server. The modem
>connects and then I see garbage chars (in /var/log/messages that is).
>What would I see if they're assuming I'm going to start using PPP right away?
>And how do I login?
You would see exactly that. The user authorisation will then be done via
PAP (probably) or CHAP. Your username and password then go inot the
/etc/ppp/pap-secrets or /etc/ppp/chap-secrets file.
So, have the chat script finish after it sees the CONNECT message, and
let pppd take over. Look in /var/log/messages for a
<auth pap> or <auth chap> in one of the lines. That will tell you
which.
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From: "David Wall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ps aux oddity
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 21:13:52 -0800
>Does strike me as odd as well, but try the "w" flag to ps, so it becomes
>ps auxw. I think that each w adds 80 chars to the outpur of each line,
>if there are those 80 chars.
Thanks. Works like a charm! What's sad is I missed this despite reading the
man pages...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Local Network / DNS
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 05:15:04 GMT
Here is the scenario:
Say I have 50 Win9x clients and a single Linux machine
as the server and implement a DNS on a local network.
I don't intend to connect it to the internet for
security reasons. How would I do it? I have read the
the DNS HOW-TO and I'm not convinced it's complete.
I have read somewhere that it's possible to configure
a local nameserver with it's own map for the local
domain. How shall I do the mapping? If I create a local
domain is it valid?
I want to run all the services on the single
Linux server machine due to economic constraints.
Someone can offer wisdom? Please.
I'm running on Linux-Mandrake 5.2 (Leelo).
Thanks in advance.
Bud
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From: Arthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 17:54:57 -0800
Matthias Warkus wrote:
>
> It was the Thu, 28 Jan 1999 15:17:05 -0800...
> ..and Arthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >
> > > In the sacred domain of comp.os.linux.misc didst Matthias Warkus
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> eloquently scribe:
> > > : I suppose this wasn't any different even in pre-trauma Germany... At first I
> > > : thought you were USAmerican, that's why I was so bewildered.
> > >
> > > Nah. UK.
> > >
> > > You pledge
> > > : allegiance to the flag at *school* in the USA AFAIK.
> > >
> > > Yup. I think they do.
> > > Stupid, isn't it?
> >
> >
> > We Americans may be stupid, but you Brits would be
> > singing "God Save the Queen" auf Deutsch without us. :)
>
> No they wouldn't. Britain won her part of the war on her own.
I said this more to be funny (or perhaps lame), but you
guys seem to take it pretty seriously. History (however
you want to read it) can stand on its own, but I will
point out that:
1. "God Save the Queen" and the cult of royalty is as
humorous here as the "Pledge of Allegiance" seems to
be to you. I don't have stock in either one. I'd like
to see a Monty Python skit about the Pledge as much as
one about the Queen or the Spanish Inquisition (might as
well offend another nationality while were at it).
2. Which "part of the war" was it that Britain won on
"her own" - Dunkirk?, North Africa?, logistics (I seem
to remember something about "Lend-Lease")? perhaps it
was in Asia? - it seems to me that WWII ended in an
_Allied_ victory. A lot of people died from a lot of
countries, perhaps more in Russia than anywhere else,
and Normandy would not have been successful without US,
Canadian or British participation, as well as the Russian
activity on the Eastern front. To be a little more on
topic, it's like saying Linux is:
a. Finnish - because of Linus
b. British - because of Alan Cox
c. German - because of KDE and SuSE
d. Mexican - because of Miguel and GNOME
e. American - because of Red Hat and Caldera
f. All of the above and more
Take your pick - one answer wins and the others all lose.
3. My grandfather, who was a sergeant in the Kaiser's
cavalry and immigrated here about 1905, still got
misty eyed every time he and his friends sang
"Deutschland Uber Alles" - well into the 1970's.
I'm sure his cousins back in Essen probably did the
same, new constitution or not. No nationality is
either immune to or has risen above this kind of
stupidity.
Arthur
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From: Damien Ercole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.rpm
Subject: Linux 2.0.36 and Hard Drives > 8Go
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 09:27:42 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all !
I have successfully installed both Linux and Win 98 on the same Hard
Drive...
Everything works fine (Lilo boot and so on ..) but i still have a little
pb with
my hard drive ... Indeed when I load Linux, it detects the correct hard
drive
(IBM Deskstar) but with the wrong geometrical parameters .... It says
1024/255/63 for CHS ... which gives me around 8Go of space .. but
normally
it's a 10Go with 1232 Cylinders .... I have tried to pass some
arguments when
booting on the Lilo prompt, like Linux Linear, or Linux
/dev/hda=1232/255/63 ...
but nothing works .....I have a kernel 2.0.36 .. nomally it's supposed
to handle
Hard Drives bigger then 8Go isn't it ? I know it's not due to my BIOS ..
cause
it's a recent one (98) that recognizes HD > 8Go ... so anyone as an idea
?
I wonder if i have to recompile the kernel with some kind of options for
big Hard
Drives ?
here is my config :
******************************************************************
BIOS : primary master : 1232 Cylinders, 255 Heads, 63 Sectors, LBA
mode
LINUX :
Type | Dev | Cylinders| Blocks | Id| Id
================================================
Primary| hda1| 1 638 | 5124703| 83| Linux Native
Primary| hda2| 639 1218| 4658850| c| Win95 FAT32(LBA)
Primary| hda3| 1219 1232| 112455| 82| Swap
And i'm running RedHat 5.2 (kernel 2.0.36 ) on a Celeron A333 with 128Mo
Ram
******************************************************************
Note : I have tried to use fdisk(linux) to redeclare my partitions but
it says
something like :
/hda2 has a logical ending at 1218 and a physical at 1023
....
and other similar messages for /hda3 .... (i don't remember
exactly)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: COM for Linux?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 04:46:07 GMT
On Fri, 29 Jan 1999 15:11:43 -0400, Aaron Perrin
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Does anyone know if a Component Object Model (COM) port is available for
>linux?
>If not, is any group or company planning or developing such a port?
>
>I'd like to work on some applications for linux that would utilize
>distributed COM
>components, and I want to know if this is possible.
Microsoft has released a version for "toy" use.
See:
<"http://www.sagus.com/prod-i~1/net-comp/dcom/dcom-avail.htm">
<"http://www.sagus.com/prod-i~1/net-comp/dcom/linuxbeta.htm">
<"http://www.softwareag.com/corporat/solutions/entirex/entirex.htm">
There is *ZERO* interest in actually using this for anything important,
as this is the sort of thing whose adoption puts any applications built
into a forcible dependancy on Microsoft's good graces. Licensing the
applications for release outside your site would require licensing COM
for Linux from MSFT, and that is something that I wouldn't trust enough
to spend a single *hour* of my time on on coding.
There is, in contrast, a rich set of tools for working with the Common
Object Request Broker Architecture; see the URL below for links. There
exist both free and commercial tools that can be deployed on Linux for
development in a whole variety of languages.
If you build interesting CORBA client/server code, people may prove
interested. DCOM-related efforts are unlikely to be of much interest.
--
"The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to
lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the
fact that it was he who, by peddling second-rate technology, led them into
it in the first place." - Douglas Adams in Guardian, 25-Aug-95
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/corba.html>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Steiner)
Crossposted-To:
comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 00:44:41 -0600
Here in comp.os.linux.misc, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jason T. Nelson)
spake unto us, saying:
>According to Ken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>> Ken Pizzini wrote:
>> -- snip --
>> > Was this based on some *real* issue(s) with Linux, or just a
>> > blind presupposition that "Linux is merely a hobbyist OS"?
>> > I am at a loss to think of how Linux would be a security
>> > risk in a manner that FreeBSD would not also be.
>> >
>> It was probably B.I.F. - believing in FUD.
>
>Maybe they read bugtraq.
There are bugs for all UNIX flavors listed in BUGTRAQ, and I'm not sure
that Linux receives any more reports than others do. Of course, I've
onlt been reading it a short while...
--
-Rich Steiner >>>---> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>---> Bloomington, MN
OS/2 + Linux (Slackware+RedHat+SuSE) + FreeBSD + Solaris +
WinNT4 + Win95 + PC/GEOS + Executor = PC Hobbyist Heaven!
Darn, these socks have a hole in them.
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From: Neil Zanella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: making backups with Zip dives
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 03:56:50 -0330
Hello,
I am wondering whether it is OK to simply do a mk2efs /dev/sda on
a parallel port Zip drive, and back up studd with cp after mounting
with mount -t ext2 /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip ?
What's the best way to make backups? Are there any advantages to using
bru to do this? Is what I am doing safe?
Thanks,
Neil Zanella
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chad Wolfsheimer)
Subject: Re: kernel 2.2.0 and too fast MIDI play
Date: 29 Jan 1999 08:04:12 GMT
Glenn PM ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I made and installed kernel 2.2.0 including the second patch, last
: night. All seems to work well except for MIDI sounds. They are being
: played at about what seems to be, 50% faster than they should. I run
: them with timidity. Has anyone else experienced this?
Yes. This problem began around kernel 2.1.120. Upon discovering that playmidi
did not have the same problem, I realized it was probably not a kernel bug,
but a bug with timidity. You need to upgrade timidity. Last I checked, the
maintainer was not going to continue work on it, but a group of Japanese
developers picked it up. Look for "timidity-0.2i+AC3-modified.tar.gz" or
newer. It is a well-organized package with many more options than the
original package (and it works).
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leslie Mikesell)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Linux OS Imaging
Date: 28 Jan 1999 22:36:17 -0600
In article <01be4aca$508fc080$2b6e60cf@thehelm>,
Charles Wilkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am looking for solutions that allow easy transfer and archiving of the
>linux OS.
>
>Is there a utility that allows copying or archiving/imaging of the linux
>native and linux swap partitions for the purpose of upgrading harddisk
>sizes?
Dump, tar, cpio all work to archive to tape or can be piped to
the corresponding restore either on the same machine or over
a network. Rsync works pretty well over a network or to
alternate disk partitions. 'Cp -a' works acros disk partitions
on the same machine and could probably work over NFS (but
I prefer rsync for network copies). None of these will make
the target disk bootable, but all you need is a boot floppy to
bring the machine up after transferring the filesystem contents
and then run lilo to make it bootable.
Les Mikesell
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Nichols)
Subject: Re: (Symbolic) Links Again
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 05:16:37 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Alistair Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:Now, in modern-day Unix/Linux, what happens if there are zero (or
:less) hard links to an i-node but one (or more) soft links to it? Does
:the kernel zap the node, leaving some rather useless soft links, or
:does it keep the node?
The inode gets released when the link count goes to zero, and the
symbolic links are left dangling. Recognize that the symbolic link
might be on a different file system, a file system that is not currently
mounted, or even on a different machine in a networked environment.
There is no way for the kernel to know whether such a link exists. It's
really no different than someone remembering the name of a file and, on
trying to read that file, getting an "oops" because it has been deleted.
:I suppose that my real problem is in understanding why anyone thought
:that another type of link might be useful at all. I just cannot get
:why one might want to create a soft or a hard link to a node (in
:preference to the other type) at all. Just what do they offer and how
:are they different from hard links (or what I would just call links)?
The principal reason for symbolic links is to allow links that cross
file system boundaries. One rather important one on my system is
/usr/tmp -> /var/tmp, which allows legacy programs that use /usr/tmp to
continue to run even though my /usr file system is mounted read-only.
Occasionally there is also a need for a link to a file with a specific
name, for example a link that continues to point to the current version
of "myfile" even if I rename "myfile" to "myfile.old" and create a new
"myfile".
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From: "Charles Sullivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Newbie help with Linux, IBM PS/2 30-286
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 00:25:10 -0500
Mike Werner wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Charles Sullivan wrote:
>>
>> If memory serves, the IBM PS/2 uses the microchannel bus, which is
>> not supported by Linux.
>
>Actually, quoting from http://www.linuxhq.com/wonderful22.html
>]2) System Busses and Assorted Ilk
>]
>]Although somewhat less crucial and cutting edge, Linux 2.2 will support
>a
>]larger proportion of the existing x86 computers with the addition of
>complete
>]support for the Microchannel bus found on some PS/2s and older
>machines.
>
>If that fails, then there is http://www.dgmicro.com/mca/ This appears
>to be the site for MCA development - based on a modified Slackware.
>--
>Mike Werner KA8YSD | "Where do you want to go today?"
>ICQ# 12934898 | "As far from Redmond as possible!"
>'91 GS500E |
>Morgantown WV |
Good to know Mike, thanks for the update.
Regards,
Charles Sullivan
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