Linux-Misc Digest #364, Volume #19 Mon, 8 Mar 99 06:13:07 EST
Contents:
Re: KDevelop 0.3 released - an IDE for application development under Unix
(Christopher B. Browne)
Moving /home to /usr/home
Re: No-Win Modem Situation (Bill Unruh)
Re: tar question ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Database for Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: best offline newsreader? (David Steuber)
Re: RealPlayer crashes. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: chrony and hardware clock (fred smith)
Re: modutils for 2.2.2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: GTK/Xwindows No such file (jik-)
Re: No-Win Modem Situation ("Ernie")
Re: No-Win Modem Situation (Todd Ostermeier)
Re: Help: Newbie doesn't know where to start with GNOME! (jik-)
CD emulators for GNU/Linux? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Running behind your back: Crontab defaults? (oak)
Re: HELP! D drive disappeared after installed RedHat5.2 (Jan van der Lee)
Gnome not cooperating (Jeff Hansen)
Re: Help: Newbie doesn't know where to start with GNOME! ("Bob Taylor")
Partitioning without destroying data
Re: NT-linux dual boot (**Nick Brown)
Re: Database for Linux (Jason Clifford)
Re: NT-linux dual boot (**Nick Brown)
Re: Serial Mouse problems with suse 6 (**Nick Brown)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher B. Browne)
Crossposted-To: comp.windows.x.kde,comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Re: KDevelop 0.3 released - an IDE for application development under Unix
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1999 05:06:43 GMT
On Sun, 7 Mar 1999 22:23:36 GMT, Ralf Nolden
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted:
>I wish to announce that since Monday, March 8th, the KDevelop Team is
>proud to present its new version 0.3 of the KDevelop IDE for Unix
>development.
>
>KDevelop is a KDE application that allows creation and development of
>KDE, Qt and C/C++ terminal applications that are compliant to the FSF
>standards
I find it interesting that KDevelop claims to be "compliant to the FSF
standards;" in browsing <http://www.fsf.org/prep/standards_toc.html>
and comparing it to what's at the KDevelop web site, it notably
doesn't seem that KDevelop provides functionality relating to the
standards described at:
<http://www.fsf.org/prep/standards_28.html> concerning the use of
TeXInfo for documentation;
<http://www.fsf.org/prep/standards_40.html> concerning the structure
surrounding the creation of "configure";
<http://www.fsf.org/prep/standards_9.html#SEC9> concerning choice of
languages.
It is well and good to suggest the notion of complying with standards;
it is probably wiser not to claim compliance unless the system is
deliberately supportive of a significant proportion of those
standards. That may be planned, but I don't see that it's there
yet...
--
Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
-- Henry Spencer <http://www.hex.net/~cbbrowne/lsf.html>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - "What have you contributed to free software today?..."
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Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 03:27:49 -0500
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Moving /home to /usr/home
I'd like to move my /home directory to /usr/home and
would like to know the correct way to do it and what
problems this may create. I've just installed RH 5.2
and have not setup any user accounts yet. I created
a small partition for the / directory and a large
partition for the /usr directory. Should I first
delete /home, then create /usr/home, then create a
symbolic link for example 'ln -s /usr/home /home'?
What other directories should be moved from / to /usr
and linked back to /? And how large should the partition
be to hold the / directory? My / directory occupies
about 30 MB. In future installations, if I set the
partition to 50 MB would it ever grow to more than this?
Greg
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: No-Win Modem Situation
Date: 8 Mar 1999 08:28:50 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hugh
Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>(make & model)? What about the Zoom 2919? www.zoomtel is no-tell.
>Where can I find this info? Thanks.
>From what they say on the page at zoomtel, it is highly likely this is a
winmodem. Get an external.
(Although they do make the claim
Internal models are Plug and Play or
jumper-selectable for Windows NT
(excluding 3.51 with RAS applications), 3.11,
3.1 DOS and other operating
systems.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: tar question
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 09:37:47 +0100
$ tar cvf /dev/"tapedevice"/ /"archivedirectory"/
will create a recursive tar-archive and send it to the tapedrive.
$ tar tvf /dev/"tapedevice"/
will list the tar-archive on the tapedrive.
$ tar xvf /dev/"tapedevice"/
will restore the tar-archive on the tape back to the original location.
Ron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I have a harddrive that is almost full. It contains
: alot of small files (thousands) that I need to backup
: to tape, is there a tar command that will allow me to
: get all these files into a single archive and onto the
: tape without having the available space to creat it
: on the disk first?
--
Anders Gulden Olstad @ Jeeves
RedHat 5.2 Linux kernel 2.0.36
"Penguins are generally nice creatures"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Database for Linux
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1999 07:30:17 GMT
On Sun, 07 Mar 1999 23:09:03 -0500, Klaus Bernpaintner
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am thinking of developing a small application that requires some
> databasing. Initially this will be a small app, intended to run
> locally. Would Postgre be suitable for this, or does it consume to much
> resources? Are there any tools for using filebased databases (a la
> dBase) on Linux? Would that be more suitable?
>
> Ideas, experiences, anyone?
For xBase (dBase, Clipper, Fox) based applications, there is
FlagShip, which is "Clipper for Unix/Linux". A free demo/test
drive is available via http://www.fship.com/demos.html.
For a strictly personal, non-commercial use, there is also a
unlimited "Free Personal FlagShip" license available free of
charge via http://www.fship.com/free.html
Paul
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From: David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: best offline newsreader?
Date: 07 Mar 1999 17:52:16 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul-S) writes:
-> But, I'm hearing again and again (On the net), the disappointment with
-> News reader programs.
I'm sure the people who use GNUS will strongly disagree with that
assesment.
--
David Steuber
http://www.david-steuber.com
s/trashcan/david/ to reply by mail
Where was it you said you wanted to go today? Sorry, you can't get
there from here.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: RealPlayer crashes.
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1999 08:46:44 GMT
The answer: use Debian's dselect to install the RedHat version (yes,
weird...). But it works.
In article <79opm6$jgb$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am having the same problem - more specs below:
>
> Debian Linux 2.0.34 ELF kernel
> Box is a Pentium 200 with SB AWE32 soundcard - works fine with xmcd, so that
> config should be OK...
>
> initially, rvplayer died wanting these lib files:
> libg++.so.272
> libstdc++.so.272
>
> which I then ln -s 'ed to
> libg++.so.2.7.2.8 and
> libstdc++.so.2.7.2.8
>
> ...which then died with the below error. Any help appreciated! Thanks...
>
> - Bruce (bruce at technogenesis dot com)
>
> In article <79hi3o$jeo$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn?= Elwhagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hello. I have a problem with Realplayer. When i try to start it i get
> > the following error-message. Anyone know what it means?
> >
> > 0 15:03:52 ~/rvplayer5.0% rvplayer
> > Regex Error: Memory exhausted
> > zsh: abort rvplayer
> > 134 15:03:54 ~/rvplayer5.0%
> >
> > Feel free to mail me with answer too. Tnx in advance!
> >
> > // Marwin
> > --
> > | Bj�rn Elwhagen aka Marwin Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
> > | Student at Wexio University for PGP public key. (broken) |
> > | Sweden ICQ: 356095 |
> >
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (fred smith)
Subject: Re: chrony and hardware clock
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1999 19:08:18 GMT
Stef ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: OK, yesterday I installed chrony 1.02 on my Debian 2.0 system. I did
: not change the system clock. It was one hour behind, since windows 95
: messed around with the hardware clock. I stopped my ppp connection,
: but let the machine run overnight. Now the system time is only about
: 15 minutes behind. Good.
: But the hardware clock is still one hour (plus an additional one
: because it is kept in UTC) behind.
: Do I have to tell chrony to explicitly set the hardware clock?
If you're running a kernel that contains rtc support (read the Chrony
docs, it discusses this issue, and its importance) you can enable the
rtc feature of chrony. With this enabled it will track the errors in
not only the running system clock, but also the hardware clock (i.e.,
the rtc) and will then be able to compensate for it's drift even when
the system has been shut down for a while. Without going back and
reading the docs again myself I cannot say for sure if it actually
tweaks the hardware clock, but I think it will when rtc support is
enabled. You enable the rtc support by adding a line:
rtcfile /etc/chrony.rtc
or whatever filename you like to your /etc/chrony.conf file. But be
sure to read up on the rtc support first!
: What if I shut down my machine now, an restart it? Will the system
: time be read from the hardware clock an be behind one hour again?
Probably.
Fred
--
---- Fred Smith -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----------------------------
I can do all things through Christ
who strengthens me.
============================== Philippians 4:13 ===============================
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: modutils for 2.2.2
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux
Date: 8 Mar 1999 10:24:05 +0100
In comp.os.linux.misc yhauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've installed kernel 2.2.2 successfully just for module support (marked
> ENABLE LOADABLE MODULE SUPPORT and KERNEL MODULE LOADER). My modutils
> are 2.1.85 - they run with my old kernel 2.0.33, but they fail with
> 2.2.2.
> Can anybody give me a hint?! yves
Yes.
You need modutils 2.1.121.
--
Alain Borel
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: jik- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: GTK/Xwindows No such file
Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1999 21:23:42 -0800
xmacabre wrote:
>
> I'm trying to get GTK working, but with no luck. When I run the script
> ./configure, it gets to the part to checking for X, it stops, and tells me
> it is not installed, but it is. It looks like it's looking for a file called
> Intrinsic.h, but I have no such file on my system by that name. I'm running
> redhat 5.1 and trying to install GTK 1.1.16. Any ideas on how to solve the
> problem?
If you truely do not have Intrinsic.h on your system, then your X is
broken. It could very well be a problem with the Gtk config file.
check /usr/X11/include/X11 for Intrinsic.h
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From: "Ernie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: No-Win Modem Situation
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 17:11:19 +0800
Why do you just for the external modem?
Hugh Johnson wrote in message ...
>I'm having a hard time trying to find a good internal modem (at a good
>price) that will work with RedHat. Today I bought a Viking v.90, which
>said nothing on the box about being a WinModem or requiring Windows or
>anything of the sort. The techie behind the service counter said it
>would work with Linux. So I brought it home, plugged it in, and it was
>100% WinModem crap. Now I'm afraid to buy anything else unless I'm
>really sure it'll work. Does anybody have any specific suggestions
>(make & model)? What about the Zoom 2919? www.zoomtel is no-tell.
>Where can I find this info? Thanks.
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From: Todd Ostermeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: No-Win Modem Situation
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 03:12:48 -0600
On 8 Mar 1999, Bill Unruh wrote:
: In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hugh
:Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
:
: >(make & model)? What about the Zoom 2919? www.zoomtel is no-tell.
: >Where can I find this info? Thanks.
: From what they say on the page at zoomtel, it is highly likely this is a
: winmodem. Get an external.
Actually, what you posted below makes it highly *unlikely* that this is a
winmodem.
:
: (Although they do make the claim
: Internal models are Plug and Play or
I assume this is the line you're taking offense at. The words Plug and
Play do not mean winmodem
: jumper-selectable for Windows NT
This line is the one that says it is most definitely not a winmodem.
Jumpers. If it has jumpers, then the way plug and play is done is to have
a specific jumper setting that means plug and play. You can still set
IRQ, IO, etc by using the jumpers.
: (excluding 3.51 with RAS applications), 3.11,
: 3.1 DOS and other operating
: systems.
If this were a true winmodem, it would not work with any of these
"operating systems".
________________________________
Todd Ostermeier
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.ews.uiuc.edu/~ostermer/index.html
ICQ UIN: 2253928
A-723
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From: jik- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Help: Newbie doesn't know where to start with GNOME!
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1999 00:46:05 -0800
brian moore wrote:
>
> On Sun, 07 Mar 1999 21:04:51 -0800,
> jik- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Um, the goal is to expand it, not shrink it.
> >
> > The point is the complexity of installing it. Look at your list, which
> > you say continues, and then look at KDE. KDE has just as many programs
> > in it, yet it has a less complicated package setup.
>
> At 'my' list? I posted no list. I quoted someone's list. Please learn
> how to follow quotations.
>
Someone posted a long list of files necisary to install GNOME, I thought
it was you SORRY...
Actually, I went to the website to see what it would take, that list was
very tununciated.
> I don't see how making less tarballs makes something 'easier' to
> install or smaller. Hint: most of those tarballs are pretty slim.
The more tarballs you have to download/unzip/compile/install the more
times you have to do all those things. Having that huge a list of files
to download is just rediculous.
> Expect GNOME to get bigger as the variety of applications and their
> complexity grows. Likewise, expect KDE to do the same. It is the goal
> of both projects to grow.
The actualy base install should shrink. It should become more compact
as things begin to be done better, and some of the necissary
applications should probably be found to be unnecisary or molded into
one of the others...
I didn't say that applications for GNOME will not come poping out of the
wetwork, but not all of them are necissary for a desktop. GNOME itself
should not get bigger and bigger if it is being designed correctly.
> GNOME was trivial for me to install.
Lucky you, I had to force it onto the redhat system it came with.
>
> Hint: glibc1 is dying. Expect to see support for it dry up. (And, yep,
> even Slack now includes glibc2.)
It has binary runtime support. Which means I have the glibc2 library on
my system, it does not mean I have the necisary items for compiling
against it.
As long as there are still systems using libc5 (and not just slackware,
anyone who hasn't upgraded in the past few months as well) then system
programs (which GNOME is attempting to be) should not be uncompatable
with it!
> Then complain to Patrick about it. (He's already said he's going to
> bundle KDE with Slack, nag him into adding GNOME, too.)
Hell, I don't want him to actually, but if he does I just won't install
it.
>
> > GNOME has flashy graphics,...that is ALL it has over KDE, which I don't
> > consider a bonus since it that kind of resource waste is kinda dopy in
> > my opinion.
>
> Have you used it?
Yeah, for a little while when I was trying out RedHat. I hated it, it
depends on not only lots of software, but more hardware then I have. It
looks like shit on a 600x800 display and I couldn't find a way to make
any adjustments that would have made it useable. A horrible design in
all aspects I saw. I played with it for a few minutes and deleted it.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: CD emulators for GNU/Linux?
Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1999 08:34:04 GMT
Anyone know if there is a CD emulator (like fake CD) for Linux?
thanx
egon
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From: oak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Running behind your back: Crontab defaults?
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1999 09:39:44 GMT
Okay, I found more processes running behind my back. These are at
/etc/cron.d/Daily
/etc/cron.d/Daily/40cleandir
#!/bin/sh
/usr/sbin/cleandir 10d /tmp
/usr/sbin/cleandir 30d /var/tmp
/etc/cron.d/Daily/40logrotate
#!/bin/sh
exec /usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.d/.conf
/etc/cron.d/Daily/50update-locatedb
#!/bin/bash
# Make/update the file name database
. /etc/cron.d/lib/functions
TMPDIR=$(cronloop_mk_TMPDIR)
declare -rx TMPDIR
# remove TMPDIR on exit
trap cronloop_rm_TMPDIR EXIT
OMIT="/tmp /proc /mnt /var/tmp /var/spool /dev /net /auto /amd /NetWare"
/usr/bin/updatedb --prunepaths="$OMIT" --netuser=nobody 2> /dev/null
So could I get rid of all this stuff too?
I don't use locate.
Thanks,
-Tony
By the way, this stuff here won't wake up my drive so long as I'm not
running anything will it?
03 3 1 * * root [ -x /usr/sbin/cronloop ] && /usr/sbin/cronloop Monthly
04 4 * * 6 root [ -x /usr/sbin/cronloop ] && /usr/sbin/cronloop Weekly
05 5 * * * root [ -x /usr/sbin/cronloop ] && /usr/sbin/cronloop Daily
42 * * * * root [ -x /usr/sbin/cronloop ] && /usr/sbin/cronloop Hourly
I like to keep my hard drive spun down when not in use for long
periods of time.
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From: Jan van der Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: HELP! D drive disappeared after installed RedHat5.2
Date: 08 Mar 1999 09:41:05 +0100
"George Georgakis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Linux 101:
>
> Windows never sees Linux partitions. Never. I can tell your friend
Never say never! Some windows program may see your linux partitions,
such as explore2fs (http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/).
Very useful for changing silly errors in configuration files :-)
-Jan.
--
J. van der Lee
reply to vanderlee at cig dot ensmp dot fr
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From: Jeff Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Gnome not cooperating
Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1999 14:31:05 -0700
I have been trying to get Gnome to work on my system for quite some time
now... and I've finally been able to compile the whole thing finally
when 1.0 came out. However, when I try to load up the panel or a
gnome-session, it fails when it tries to query the name-service. I try
to run gnome-name-service myself and have found that it stops right
after it starts, leaving the line:
gnome-name-server[15344]: Stale reference to the GNOME name server
in my syslog. The process does not stay alive, and I am returned to the
shell immediately after I start it. It does say:
IOR:010000002800000049444c3a6f6d6...........
and a few more lines of hex numbers.
on stdout, but leaves the error above in the syslog.
Would anyone that would like to help me please e-mail me at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] I look forward to using Gnome on my computer as I have
used KDE for a while and want to see the benefits of each.
-Jeff Hansen
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Bob Taylor")
Subject: Re: Help: Newbie doesn't know where to start with GNOME!
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1999 09:59:59 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
jik- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Well, I *WAS* going to install both from scratch to compare the install
> procedure on both current releases. Problem is that there are no
> directions for putting GNOME on a slackware box. It doesn't even look
> possible without installing glibc2 deleopment packages. Then if I had
> all that, man that list of files is just enourmous....nothing is worth
> all that. GNOME has gotten worse not better.
If you don't know how to install GNOME in a Slakware distribution then I
would say you don't have the knowledge to run a Slakware distribution.
> If anyone has succeeded in doing this, maybe you should share your
> experience with us. I won't be trying it, I got better stuff to do.
Why should anyone bother?
> The GNOME project is obviously unconserned with the use of GNOME in
> systems like Slackware.
GNOME is being developed under the auspices of Red Hat. It is therefore
obvious that the installation is geared to a distribution with a package
manager worth its salt. The installation of GNOME with Red Hat 5.2 is as
simple as rpm -ivh *.rpm when all the packages are in a directory. I spent
Sunday afternoon downloading 1.0 and will install it Monday.
I have tried KDE and found it wanting. I played XGalaga on my Pentium
P75+ 166 and it was at least half speed. I will see how fast it plays under
GNOME.
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| Bob Taylor Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
|---------------------------------------------------------------|
| Like the ad says, at 300 dpi you can tell she's wearing a |
| swimsuit. At 600 dpi you can tell it's wet. At 1200 dpi you |
| can tell it's painted on. I suppose at 2400 dpi you can tell |
| if the paint is giving her a rash. (So says Joshua R. Poulson)|
+---------------------------------------------------------------+
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Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 05:01:51 -0500
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Partitioning without destroying data
Is it possible to change the size of partitions
containing ext2 file systems without destroying
the data on it? For example if the first two
partitions began at cylinder 1, ended at 500,
and began at 501, ended at 700 respectively,
could I change where they began and ended without
losing the data in those partitions? (They are
both primary partitions.)
Greg
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From: **Nick Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: NT-linux dual boot
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1999 11:42:53 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
One way to recover is to restart the install of NT (don't worry, you
won't be zapping anything) and tell it to install NT in a new system
root (doesn't matter where). When that reboots (first NT kernel boot),
stop it, and put C:\BOOT.INI back the way it was before.
BOOTSECT.DOS is the "DOS" boot sector which NT found when it started to
install. When you select a non-NT OS in the NT boot menu, it loads this
file as if it had loaded it from a boot sector (at 0FC0:0000, if memory
serves), and jumps there - no trace of NT's boot remains.
Whenever you mess about with booting, save the following files:
NTLDR
BOOT.INI
BOOTSECT.DOS
NTDETECT.COM
Trausti Thor Kristjansson wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I had linux and NT working on my machine in perfect harmony.
>
> After upgrading to redhat 5.2, NT won't boot anymore.
> The NT partition seems to be intact. I can mount it
> and all seems well.
>
> I am missing a file called Bootsect.dos, that one of the
> HOWTO's mentions but everything else is there.
>
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|\ | o _ |/ Life's like a jigsaw
| \| | |_ |\ You get the straight bits
But there's something missing in the middle
Nick Brown, Strasbourg, France (Nick(dot)Brown(at)coe(dot)fr)
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From: Jason Clifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Database for Linux
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 10:43:31 +0000
On Sun, 7 Mar 1999, Klaus Bernpaintner wrote:
> I am thinking of developing a small application that requires some
> databasing. Initially this will be a small app, intended to run
> locally. Would Postgre be suitable for this, or does it consume to much
> resources? Are there any tools for using filebased databases (a la
> dBase) on Linux? Would that be more suitable?
Postgres would be pretty ideal if you want to build the database using
SQL. I would suggest that you stick to the ANSI SQL standard so that you
can easily use any other SQL database server when the project is further
advanced if you so choose.
There is a product called FlagShip which enables you to use dBase/Clipper
style and will indeed run many dBase/Clipper programs.
Jason Clifford
Definite Linux Systems
http://definite.ukpost.com/
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From: **Nick Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: NT-linux dual boot
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1999 11:43:06 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
One way to recover is to restart the install of NT (don't worry, you
won't be zapping anything) and tell it to install NT in a new system
root (doesn't matter where). When that reboots (first NT kernel boot),
stop it, and put C:\BOOT.INI back the way it was before.
BOOTSECT.DOS is the "DOS" boot sector which NT found when it started to
install. When you select a non-NT OS in the NT boot menu, it loads this
file as if it had loaded it from a boot sector (at 0FC0:0000, if memory
serves), and jumps there - no trace of NT's boot remains.
Whenever you mess about with booting, save the following files:
NTLDR
BOOT.INI
BOOTSECT.DOS
NTDETECT.COM
Trausti Thor Kristjansson wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I had linux and NT working on my machine in perfect harmony.
>
> After upgrading to redhat 5.2, NT won't boot anymore.
> The NT partition seems to be intact. I can mount it
> and all seems well.
>
> I am missing a file called Bootsect.dos, that one of the
> HOWTO's mentions but everything else is there.
>
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Nick Brown, Strasbourg, France (Nick(dot)Brown(at)coe(dot)fr)
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From: **Nick Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Serial Mouse problems with suse 6
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1999 11:44:57 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Try /dev/ttyS0 (or S1 for COM2). /dev/mouse is probably a shortcut to
something that isn't set up right. Or try /dev/cua0 or 1.
MrFrosty wrote:
> I've just installed suse linux 6 and am new to this OS, and am having major
> problems with my serial mouse, after installation the mouse works, but as
> soon as I reboot I lose the mouse. I have checked the XF86Config file
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|\ | o _ |/ Life's like a jigsaw
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But there's something missing in the middle
Nick Brown, Strasbourg, France (Nick(dot)Brown(at)coe(dot)fr)
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