Linux-Misc Digest #833, Volume #18 Sun, 31 Jan 99 01:13:07 EST
Contents:
Free Recipes <Gourmet & Chili> ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: How to check free disk space available (Michael Perry)
gcc, math.h, and sqrt() function problem (Shaygetz)
Re: How to check free disk space available (Bill Unruh)
Accessing Memory Above 64MB (Chris Plachta)
System V style ps ans printing commands on Linux (Michael Keightley)
Re: Shutdown (Bill Unruh)
Earn $90,000 in 90 days <Guaranteed> ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
QIC02 TAPE, SuSE 5.3.. how to install and read? Thank you fellows in advance!
("Blackey")
Re: Linux instead of Windows - just one problem
Re: local hostname problem!?! (kluster)
PPP slow transfer (Joseph Casey)
Einbinden von Hercules Terminator Beast (Norbert Kraiczy)
Re: encrypted file system (Leslie Mikesell)
Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters (Thomas Zajic)
Re: gcc, math.h, and sqrt() function problem (Shaygetz)
Redhat sites -- Are they down or up???? ("David A. Frantz")
"For a good time..." Fortune cookie (Ross Vandegrift)
Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters (Jay O'Connor)
Re: Accessing Memory Above 64MB (Mircea)
Re: Partitions - and a bug with "df -k"? (Andries Brouwer)
Re: Consumer Poll Says Microsoft Is Good For Consumers (Michel Catudal)
Re: how to access RAM (Gary L. Hennigan)
Re: Redhat sites -- Are they down or up???? (Gerald Willmann)
Re: local hostname problem!?! (Juergen Heinzl)
Linux-installation ("Leif K�ldahl")
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Crossposted-To:
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Subject: Free Recipes <Gourmet & Chili>
Date: Saturday, 30 Jan 1999 12:51:38 -0600
http://www.knownet.net/users/dietden/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Perry)
Subject: Re: How to check free disk space available
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 06:34:49 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 30 Jan 1999 08:38:57 +0100, Juan Riera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Silly newbie question :
>How can I see free disk space available across all my Linux partitions?
>(someting as chkdsk collecting info from all disks)
>Thanks,
>Juan
>
>
Issue the command "df" in an xterm or at the console.
--
Michael E. Perry
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Shaygetz <"s m c q u a l e"@i x.n e t c o m.c o m>
Subject: gcc, math.h, and sqrt() function problem
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 00:16:58 -0500
I thought of posting this message to a C group, but
my problem may actually have to do with Linux, or, more
properly, with the GNU gcc.
I have been teaching myself C programming and have run
up against a brick wall trying to use the square root
function in the math.h include file. I keep getting compiler
errors. In order to simplify my problem, I wrote out the
following code and ran it through the compiler (ie, gcc -g
-Wall sqrt4.c):
/* sqrt4.c using sqrt() function in <math.h> */
#include <math.h>
#include <stdio.h>
double x, y;
int main ()
{
x = 4;
y = sqrt(x);
printf("\nThe square root of 4 is %f.\n", y);
return(0);
}
When I try to compile it, I get the following message:
"sqrt4.c:9: undefined reference to 'sqrt'." I have an
old (version 2) Borland Turbo C compiler, and if I run
this code through it, it compiles cleanly and prints out
"The square root of 4 is 2.00000" with no problems.
I am running Slackware Linux v.3.6, with gcc-2.7.2.3. The
file, /usr/include/math.h is dated April 12, 1997.
Is there something I'm missing here? Was sqrt() left out of
my version of math.h? (I am not far enough along in C
programming yet to be able to interpret header files.) If
I did make a mistake in the above source file, why did it
compile in Turbo C?
--
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Seth McQuale --> "Shaygetz" To reply to to me directly, remove
the spaces in the "Reply to" email address in the header.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Subject: Re: How to check free disk space available
Date: 30 Jan 1999 18:50:36 GMT
In <78ucva$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Juan Riera" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>How can I see free disk space available across all my Linux partitions?
>(someting as chkdsk collecting info from all disks)
df
(see man df)
For individual directories etc, du
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From: Chris Plachta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Accessing Memory Above 64MB
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 20:45:02 -0800
Hello,
I was just reading over the Linux LAN & Firewall FAQ
(http://rlz.ne.mediaone.net/linux/faq/index.html) and I stumbled upon
something that surprised me:
Accessing Memory Above 64MB
If you have more than 64 MB of physical memory, Linux won't see
this memory without the following addition to /etc/lilo.conf. Insert the
following line at the top of /etc/lilo.conf before you eventually run
lilo later on.
append="mem=<your memory size in megabytes>M"
eg: append="mem=128M"
Is this true? I don't have this memory in my lilo.conf. I am using
Redhat 5.1, and it built my lilo.conf file for me.
I don't recall ever entering in how much memory I have during
installation....
Do I need to do this? How can I tell how much memory my system is
currently aware of?
Thanks.
Chris
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Keightley)
Subject: System V style ps ans printing commands on Linux
Date: 30 Jan 1999 18:53:06 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Keightley)
Is there a version of the ps command for Redhat Linux that works in
the same way as the normal System V ps? The BSD one that comes with
Linux is a pain if all your other machines running other versions of Unix.
Is there an lp command for Linux anywhere? SGI machines only have
SysV printing commands (lp, lpstat and cancel, not lpr, lpq and
lprm). So SGI users get confused on Linux.
Michael
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Shutdown
Date: 30 Jan 1999 18:55:06 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Jerry Lynn Kreps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Or, /sbin/shutdown -r now
>>
>> How about the three finger salute.
>If you want to risk loosing stuff and watch the fsck program run when
>the computer reboots, go ahead.
NO No No.
Cont-Alt-Del runs shutdown -r
(see /etc/inittab)
(This may be a Redhat oddity so you should check if your system is not
redhat)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.javascript,comp.lang.perl.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.publish.cdrom.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action
Subject: Earn $90,000 in 90 days <Guaranteed>
Date: Saturday, 30 Jan 1999 13:03:02 -0600
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From: "Blackey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: QIC02 TAPE, SuSE 5.3.. how to install and read? Thank you fellows in advance!
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 18:51:36 +0100
Hello!
I have old fashion QIC02 Tape (150MB extended to 250MB) which is connected
through slot as modem etc and then, as a 25pin connector to the external
drive. I think that manufacturer is ARCHIVE.
According instructions I made new kernel but I don't know how to init
(mount) and to read data from tape.
Can you help me because I am very fresh to that Linux (but have some
experience with unix sco).
10ks in advance,
Blackie
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: Linux instead of Windows - just one problem
Date: 30 Jan 1999 19:01:49 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ben Sandler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I'm running an all-Linux shop here. There's someone (the boss) who
: wants one machine for himself just to do data entry in Excel. I'm sure
: if I sat him down at a Linux box with Star Office and told him it's just
: like Windows, he'd be fine. That is, until I told him that he needs to
: type mount /mnt/floppy before he uses his floppy disk, and umount
: /mnt/floppy afterwards. Is there any simple way to have the floppy
: drive automatically mounted and umounted, without running development
: kernels or hacking at it for 3 days and 3 nights? I'm running RedHat
: 5.1, standard install out of the box.
Well, I don't know about 5.1, but my 5.2 came with a handy little
gadget called usermount which puts a button for each user mountable fs
(floppy, cd-rom, whatever is listed in fstab as user-mountable)
on the desktop. Just click one button to toggle mount status.
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From: kluster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: local hostname problem!?!
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 11:42:22 -0600
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I have set the local hostname in /etc/HOSTNAME,
do 'man hostname' and search dejanews.com before posting.... i found the
answer there..
Also... WHY do you cross-post dude??? Think about it dude!!! Waste
bandwith... Piss ppl off... WHY the hell bother reading all newsgroups
if you post to all of them... No F&^*& sense. :)
> and rebooted
ROTFL... This is NOT SHIT ms windows... the *ONLY* time you need to
reboot is when you recompile your kernel!!!
> but it still comes up with the generic hostname: localhost.localdomain.
>
> What gives?
>
Hope you have learned something...
> --
> Mike Cabaniss [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Digital Sea Internet Services - Web Hosting powered by Linux
> http://www.digitalsea.net
--
o My Computer talkz about Linux: "BriNg iT On!!!"
o After the fact: "I'm a LeAn and mEAn Linux machine!"
o Chickz dig Linux...
o Linux... for IQ's GREATER than 98
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From: Joseph Casey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PPP slow transfer
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 18:46:51 +0000
PPP data transfer is very slow. This applies to ftp downlad, web page
download etc.
Best I have seen is 800 Bytes/sec, and 500 bytes/sec is typical. It
applies to Netscape, and Mosaic.
I am using Netscape navigator 4.05 on Slackware 3.4 kernel version 2.030
glibc 2.0.5c. Modem is USRobotics sportster 14400 on /dev/cua3. Unsing
Internet explorer on Win95 the transfer rate is typically 1500
bytes/sec
any suggestions ?
Here is the PPP script.
TELEPHONE=1891110110
ACCOUNT=myusername
PASSWORD=mypassword
PROTOCOL=ppp
LOCAL_IP=0.0.0.0
REMOTE_IP=0.0.0.0
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
DIALER_SCRIPT=/etc/ppp/ppp-on-dialer
exec /usr/sbin/pppd debug lock modem crtscts /dev/modem 56000 \
noipdefault defaultroute -detach connect $DIALER_SCRIPT
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From: Norbert Kraiczy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Einbinden von Hercules Terminator Beast
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 22:06:09 +0100
Hi,
Wie binde ich eine Grafikkarte (Hercules Terminator Beast; Chip Type: S3
Savage, Clockchip: interna, Clockrate: 100 MHz, Videomemory: 10 ns sDRAM
8 MB) waehrend der
Linux Installation (ReadHat 5.1, Kernel 2.0.34) ein ? Sie steht leider
nicht zur Auswahl in der Liste der Grafikkarten beim ReadHat 5.1
Norbert
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leslie Mikesell)
Subject: Re: encrypted file system
Date: 30 Jan 1999 23:07:19 -0600
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Personally, I've thought more than once of putting on an encrypted
>file system just because I have a lot of documents that I would prefer
>to be `for my eyes only.' I just haven't gotten around to it.
'Real' vi use the -x option to filter documents through crypt as it
read and wrote files so you could require a password to access them.
I don't think vim does that yet but perhaps some other editors do.
Les Mikesell
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Thomas Zajic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 19:50:27 GMT
Jim Richardson wrote:
> [ ... ]
Phillipines? US Military?! WW II??!! Strange, I could have sworn I was
lurking around in comp.os.linux.* just the other second ...
Thomas (hint: take this crap elsewhere, please!)
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From: Shaygetz <"s m c q u a l e"@i x.n e t c o m.c o m>
Subject: Re: gcc, math.h, and sqrt() function problem
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 14:48:38 -0500
"Andrei A. Dergatchev" wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> You need to link math library.
>
> You compile (and link) using gcc sqrt4.c, right ?
> Add "-lm"":
> gcc -lm sqrt4.c
>
> Andrei
Thank you! For some reason (probably because I'm used to
compiling in an IDE), I had thought that the #include <math.h>
line would be sufficient. :o) <-- Bozo, happy in his ignorance.
Thanks again.
--
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Seth McQuale --> "Shaygetz" To reply to to me directly, remove
the spaces in the "Reply to" email address in the header.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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From: "David A. Frantz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Redhat sites -- Are they down or up????
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 23:50:09 -0500
Hello all;
Does anyone know the status of the REDHAT web sites. I can't seem to get
to any of them, that inclusdes the Home page, the ftp sites, freash meat nor
gnome. Seem to ba able to access every thing else fine.
Anybody know whats up???
dave
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From: Ross Vandegrift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: "For a good time..." Fortune cookie
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 14:57:04 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yesterday, I got a fortune cookie I had never seen before.
For a good time call, <number omitted for privacy>
Well, being that it was in a fortune program, I just had to try it out.
Half expecting it to be a Bell Labs order dept, or maybe a 300bps modem,
I was quite suprised when a man picked up the phone and said "hello?".
I explaioned why I had called him, and where I got his number. He said
he was aware of the progam and of the cookie. He then told me that he
had gotten calls like this before. I apologized and hung up.
So how many of you people have called this poor guy before??
Why on Earth is his phone number in the fortune file??
--
Ross Vandegrift | Eric J. Fenderson
A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power
off and on. Knight, seeing what the student was doing spoke sternly:
"You can not fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no
understanding of what is going wrong." Knight turned the machine off
and on. The machine worked.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jay O'Connor)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 19:57:10 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 30 Jan 1999 14:50:16 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>In the sacred domain of comp.os.linux.misc didst Arthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> eloquently
>scribe:
>: Just as an after thought, you should take a look
>: at some of the TV shows or books by James Burke
>: (The Day the Universe Changed, Connections).
>: Eventually you can trace this all back to the
>: first ape who cut himself on a sharp rock.
>
>Good grief.... James Burkes connections.
>I rememeber watching that series when I was a kid.
>
>For some reason, it's never been repeated.
Actually I've seen Connections sevearl times on PB (Public TV)
He also did "The Day The Universe Changed" and "Connections 2".
Connections was still the best, though
>: Just to forestall any accusations of bias,
>: Burke is British, or at least he talks funny.
He had a certain tone to his voice but it didn't really sound like
much of an accent
>
>Yes, he's british. No, he doesn't talk funny.
>(that's what americans, australians and all those other bally foreigners are
>for)
I'm going to stay out of this one. I'm an American and I h ave a hard
enough time understanding my fellow countrymen from other parts of the
country!
>______________________________________________________________________________
>|[EMAIL PROTECTED]| "Are you pondering what I'm pondering Pinky?" |
>| Andrew Halliwell | |
>| Finalist in:- | "I think so brain, but this time, you control |
>| Computer Science | the Encounter suit, and I'll do the voice..." |
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Take care,
Jay O'Connor
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.roadrunner.com/~joconnor
"God himself plays on the bass strings first, when he tunes the soul"
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From: Mircea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Accessing Memory Above 64MB
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 00:40:54 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
As you well noted, it's a FAQ. To find out about memory, type:
cat /proc/meminfo
MST
Chris Plachta wrote:
> (...)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andries Brouwer)
Subject: Re: Partitions - and a bug with "df -k"?
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 20:13:21 GMT
"Will Brickles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
: I've now installed Red Hat 5.2 twice and both times have had the same quirk
: pop-up.
: When using Disk Druid and fdisk, I partition my 8.4Gig hard drive so that I
: have
: hdb6 - 100M - /
: hdb7 - 1500M - /usr
: hdb8 - 500M - /home
: hdb9 - 127M - swap
: Well, that's all fine and dandy, and when I run linuxconf, that's what is
: reported. However, when I run "df -k", it reports that "/" is mounted on
: the 1500M drive (at 2% capacity), /usr is mounted on the 500M drive (at 47%
: capacity) and "/home" is mounted on the 100M drive (at 14% capacity).
: Obviously, something is wrong. I'm hoping it's a bug with "df", but I'm not
: sure. Can anyone help me out with this?
You do not give fdisk or cfdisk output, but
(i) df is right.
(ii) The kernel boot messages tell you all about the situation.
(iii) Last I looked at it, Disk Druid was buggy, in the sense that
it did not number partitions the same way the kernel does.
(The Disk Druid author thought the kernel is buggy. :-))
(iv) I am not aware of such discrepancies between fdisk partition
numbering and kernel partition numbering (but would not be very
surprised if there are some). But
(v) The numbering of your partitions may depend on whether your kernel
was compiled with support for BSD disklabels and the like, in case you
have such stuff on disk.
In case you think anything is wrong with fdisk, you can mail
output (of cfdisk -Ps /dev/foo; cfdisk -Pt /dev/foo
or of sfdisk -l -uS -x /dev/foo together with fdisk output
and kernel boot messages about the disk) to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
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From: Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Consumer Poll Says Microsoft Is Good For Consumers
Date: 30 Jan 1999 20:48:07 -0600
Mayor Of R'lyeh wrote:
>
>
> I didn't say that Linux is a ripoff. I said that if you're being
> charged $50 for it you're being ripped off. Since its available at a
> national chain for $13 less why pay $50 for it?
>
$50 is for the service, Linux itself is free or almost free.
Actally I paid $1.99 for mine since I didn't need the service that RedHat sells.
> > redhat linux is still a commercial operating system.
> >hence, it makes all the sense in the world to include it in your
> >comparison.
>
> I'll go along with that if you admit that it is a valid competitor for
> Windows. Many of the Linux guys want to have it both ways. When
> discussing price they want to claim that it is competition and want to
> include it but when you cite it as competition for Windows they claim
> that it doesn't count since it isn't a monolithic product from a
> single company. All I'm looking for is some consistency.
If you have to give your software away for free to become a competitor there
is a problem. Linux should not really be seen as a competitor since it is not
going after Microsoft's market. Had Linus charged for Linux Microsoft would likely
be a small player in the OS world.
> >
> >for all the investment microsoft has in windows, it is curious how
> >poor the quality is in comparison to gnu/linux. sure windows has more
> >applications written for it, but as far as operating systems go, they
> >may be compared by rational people on their features.
>
> This si the heart of the matter. Most people don't compare OSs. They
> look to see what apps they want and find something to run it. You can
> have the technically best operating system in the world but if it
> doesn't have the software I want out for it I'm not going to use it.
>
Joe blow with use whatever software he can get for free. A company will use software
that works or software that management told them that works whether or not it does.
--
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gary L. Hennigan)
Subject: Re: how to access RAM
Date: 30 Jan 1999 13:39:35 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Siemel Naran) writes:
| Hello. I just installed 128MB on my computer, up from 32MB that I had
| previously, for a total of 160MB. However, doing the 'free' command
| gives me the following:
|
| [sbnaran@localhost] [~/Program/quick] >> free -m
| total used free shared buffers cached
| Mem: 62 61 1 18 0 8
| -/+ buffers/cache: 53 9
| Swap: 86 62 24
|
| It appears that I only have 62MB RAM. What has happenned to the other
| 100MB?
First, you need to spend a little time learning how to use the net and
the LDP (Linux Documentation Project).
Utilizing Usenet resources:
Before posting a question like this go to http://www.dejanews.com and
see if the question's been asked before. This particular question is
probably THE most frequently asked question on the Linux newsgroups
and mailing lists. It's literally been asked 1000's of times!
Using the LDP:
You should also at least make an effort at seeing if your question is
answered in the Linux LDP (http://www.ssc.com/linux/LDP) which is also
searchable. In fact, performing an Excite search of the LDP
(http://amelia.db.erau.edu/Excite/AT-LDPquery.html) with the keywords
"64" and "memory" yields these URLs that are relevant to your
question:
http://amelia.db.erau.edu/ldp/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO-5.html
http://amelia.db.erau.edu/ldp/HOWTO/INFO-SHEET-3.html
It's also covered in the BootPrompt HOWTO
http://www.ssc.com/linux/LDP/HOWTO/BootPrompt-HOWTO-3.html#ss3.3
And probably other places that I'm missing.
The answer to your question, BTW, is that you need to add
append="mem=xxM"
to your /etc/lilo.conf file, where you change the "xx" to whatever
amount of memory, in megabytes, you have, and rerun lilo.
By the way, any kernel version greater than 2.0.36 fixes this problem
on PC's that have more recent BIOS implementations.
Gary
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From: Gerald Willmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Redhat sites -- Are they down or up????
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 21:42:22 -0800
On Sat, 30 Jan 1999, David A. Frantz wrote:
> Does anyone know the status of the REDHAT web sites. I can't seem to get
> to any of them, that inclusdes the Home page, the ftp sites, freash meat nor
> gnome. Seem to ba able to access every thing else fine.
> Anybody know whats up???
seems that they have been moving - at least that's how they excused the
downtime on their webpage when I visited it this morning.
Gerald
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Juergen Heinzl)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: local hostname problem!?!
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 20:56:43 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I have set the local hostname in /etc/HOSTNAME, and rebooted
>but it still comes up with the generic hostname: localhost.localdomain.
... ignoring the other reply to this posting ...
hostname -F /etc/HOSTNAME
... must be called somewhere in the init scripts. If possible pretty
soon. Your setup for sure differs from mine but here it looks like this ...
/etc/init.d/init
================
#!/bin/bash
if [ "$1" = start ]
then
if [ "$3" = N ]
then
##
# lots of this and that
/bin/hostname -F /etc/host
...
...
Bye, Juergen
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From: "Leif K�ldahl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux-installation
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 21:42:50 +0100
Hello.
I have a problem.
I wanna install linux on my computer. I have the RedHat-CD's.
So what's the problem ?
On my computer i have Windows98 installed, and i wanna keep it that way. Do
i have to make separat partitions for w98 and linux ? Can i do it some other
way ? I have so much stuff on my computer it would take days to copy all my
files to floppy. Is there some OS-manager i can use?
Can someone give me advice?
Leif K�ldahl, Stockholm, Sweden
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