Linux-Misc Digest #385, Volume #19 Tue, 9 Mar 99 16:13:13 EST
Contents:
Re: Linux 2.2.2 and UFS write support - does it work? (Regit Young)
Re: self extracting .exe on linux? (Kent Robotti)
Re: HELP! D drive disappeared after installed RedHat5.2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Linux 2.2.2 and UFS write support - does it work? (Rob Fisher)
Re: Looking for Linux 2.2.x rescue disc with NTFS r/w enabled (Kent Robotti)
Files larger than 2 GB on Intel/Linux (Patrick Schemitz)
Re: No-Win Modem Situation (Matthew Bafford)
upgrading sendmail from 8.8.7 to 8.9.3 (John Mark Emery)
Re: Remote login for "root" - how??? (Timothy J. Lee)
Re: No-Win Modem Situation (Christopher)
Re: No-Win Modem Situation (Bill Unruh)
Re: BEST HW For Linux NoteBook Project (Phil Stevens)
Re: Linux 2.2.2 and UFS write support - does it work? (Regit Young)
Re: BEST HW For Linux NoteBook Project (John Winters)
Re: Remote login for "root" - how??? (Rod Haper)
Re: Kernel NFS Problem; device busy (Stefan Monnier)
Re: No-Win Modem Situation (Hugh Johnson)
Re: Help Wanted on Gnome Installation HOWTO ("Adam Corsaw")
Re: windows 95B doesn't see FAT32 partition (Alex Nichol)
Re: Uh-oh, I've got kernel panic (Alex Nichol)
Re: self extracting .exe on linux? (Jess C. Gehin)
Re: best offline newsreader? ("Rufus V. Smith")
Re: A question about MP3's and Linux (Matthias Warkus)
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From: Regit Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,alt.solaris.x86,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linux 2.2.2 and UFS write support - does it work?
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 00:14:58 +0800
If I recalled correctly, the documentation says only FreeBSD's ufs.....
Rob Fisher wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've built the 2.2.2 kernel containing UFS read and experimental UFS
> write support. I want to be able to share a home directory between my
> Linux and Solaris 7 installations. (On the same machine, obviously.)
>
> When I mount my Solaris slice with mount -t ufs -o ufstype=sun,rw
> /dev/hdc6 /home everything appears to be fine: I can read the files,
> mount reports that /home is mounted rw, but when I try and change
> anything on the fs, I'm told it's a "read only filesystem.". I've tried
> everything I can think of. Running mount with -w, putting everything
> into fstab, rebuilding the kernel with a slightly different
> configuration, the lot, but it just won't work. (I had exactly the same
> problem under 2.2.1 too.)
>
> Has anyone else managed to get UFS write support working? Am I missing
> something really obvious? Please tell me I am!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rob
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From: Kent Robotti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: utah.linux,linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat.rpm
Subject: Re: self extracting .exe on linux?
Date: 9 Mar 1999 19:47:08 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In comp.os.linux.misc Astro Monk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a self extracting zip file (.exe). Is
> there a way to expand it under Linux without
> going to a windows machine running it and bringing
> it back to my linux box?
> I am running RedHat 5.2 so an rpm would be nice
> if available.
> thanks
> am
You can use unzip to extract it.
unzip file.exe
There should be a unzip-?.i386.rpm package on the redhat cdrom or
at their site.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,aus.computers.linux
Subject: Re: HELP! D drive disappeared after installed RedHat5.2
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 15:50:13 GMT
> He installs RedHat 5.2, and then under Win98, loses his D-drive. The
> icon for D-drive is still there, but it reports "drive not ready",
> "invalid drive specification" or something like that.
Win95 does the same thing. Micro$loth sees no reason for you to use anything
but MS operating systems so why should it recognize partitions used by other
OSs?
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From: Rob Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,alt.solaris.x86,alt.os.linux
Subject: Linux 2.2.2 and UFS write support - does it work?
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 15:55:48 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all,
I've built the 2.2.2 kernel containing UFS read and experimental UFS
write support. I want to be able to share a home directory between my
Linux and Solaris 7 installations. (On the same machine, obviously.)
When I mount my Solaris slice with mount -t ufs -o ufstype=sun,rw
/dev/hdc6 /home everything appears to be fine: I can read the files,
mount reports that /home is mounted rw, but when I try and change
anything on the fs, I'm told it's a "read only filesystem.". I've tried
everything I can think of. Running mount with -w, putting everything
into fstab, rebuilding the kernel with a slightly different
configuration, the lot, but it just won't work. (I had exactly the same
problem under 2.2.1 too.)
Has anyone else managed to get UFS write support working? Am I missing
something really obvious? Please tell me I am!
Thanks,
Rob
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From: Kent Robotti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.install,maus.computer.linux,uk.comp.os.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc,linux.sources.kernel
Subject: Re: Looking for Linux 2.2.x rescue disc with NTFS r/w enabled
Date: 9 Mar 1999 19:53:09 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In comp.os.linux.misc Bob Velkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi there!
> In order to repair a damaged winNT4 installation, I'm looking for a
> Linux 2.2.x kernel boot and rescue discs set with enabled read/write
> support for NTFS.
> Please let me know if anyone has done those floppy images.
> Many thanks in advance!
You can put this system on a floppy it has nt support.
Begin3
Title: RamFloppy
Version: 2.4
Entered-date: 02MAR99
Description: Small RAM Linux system for the purpose of system booting
or repairing, a boot-rescue system.
You can put this system on a 1.44 floppy disk and use
it to mount other partitions.
It has support for these filesystems.
ext2 <Linux OS filesystem, read-write>
iso9660 <Cdrom filesystem + joliet extensions, read-only>
msdos <Dos OS filesystem, read-write>
ntfs <Windows NT filesystem (read-write) this is
experimental so procede with caution>
ufs <FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Sun/Solaris, filesystems,
read-write, Next/Openstep, read-only>
vfat <Win95/98 OS filesystem fat16 and 32, read-write>
The kernel is version: 2.2.2-ac6
It's a Libc6 system.
You need at least 8 Megabytes of RAM = Memory to boot
RamFloppy.
You need at least a 386 CPU to boot RamFloppy.
You can extract it like this: C:\ ramf-24.exe
It's a RAR archive, if you want to extract it on
a linux system do this 'unrar x ramf-24.exe'.
Read: C:\ramflop\README
Keywords: Small Floppy Boot-Rescue System
Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kent Robotti)
Maintained-by:
Primary-site: ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/recovery
Alternate-site:
Platforms: System with floppy drive
Copying-policy: GPL
End
============================================================================
P.S: This little system includes the program 'fsresize', you can use
it to resize a fat16 or FAT32 DOS/WIN95/98 partition.
For example if you had a WIN98 FAT32 system on /dev/hda1 you wanted
to reduce in size to 500 megabytes.
# fsresize /dev/hda1 500m
There's more info on 'fsresize' etc. when you boot the little floppy
system.
The only rescue system you'll ever need, but probably not the only one
you'll ever want.
============================================================================
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From: Patrick Schemitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Files larger than 2 GB on Intel/Linux
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 16:23:18 +0000
Hello,
is it possible to enable Linux/386 to deal with files >2 GB?
>From what I read in the man pages for ftell()/fseek(), I guess I
run in trouble since both use long as file size arguments, which
is 32 bit on Intel. Is there a way to circumvent this limitation?
I mean, without changing "long" to "long long" and rebuilding the
entire system?
Cheers, patrick
--
Patrick Schemitz, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
University of Karlsruhe (TH), Germany
Faculty for Physics, EKP, Ka'CDF Tracking Group
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew Bafford)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: No-Win Modem Situation
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 19:57:44 GMT
Tue, 9 Mar 1999 09:26:40 -0500 -- David Stockbridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
-> I might as well add my (un)learned comments. I am using a 3Com/USR Sportster
-> Faxmodem (V.90, x2) internal modem card. It is ISA not PCI, which means it
-> can't be a Winmodem. [snip]
If only it were that simple.
I currently have 2 ISA USR modems. Both of them are indeed winmodems.
The jumpers are usually a good indication it's not a winmodem, though.
[snip]
-> Dave
--Matthew
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From: John Mark Emery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.mail.sendmail,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: upgrading sendmail from 8.8.7 to 8.9.3
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 08:40:09 -0800
HOwdy,
I'm currently trying to upgrade sendmail version 8.8.7 to version 8.9.3
on my Linux box running kernel version 2.0.36. This is what I've done
so far:
untarred the tar file in /tmp
cd'd to /tmp/sendmail-8.9.3/src
read the README file within src
ran "sh Build"
Once compiled I cd'd into the obj.Linux.2.0.36.i486 sub
directory
ran "chmod 6755 sendmail"
ran "cp /usr/sbin/sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail.990305"
ran "cp ./sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail"
Fine. Now the new binary for sendmail is in the proper place (right?).
If I telnet to port 25 on the machine, I notice the version number
hasn't changed. So I modify the version number in the sendmail.cf
file: the line DZ8.8.7 to DZ8.9.3.
Fine. Now the version looks fine if I telnet to port 25...but,
shouldn't there be a new sendmail.cf file included with the new sendmail
distribution?
So, I look around and find a README file within /tmp/sendmail-8.9.3/cf
that talks about a utility called "m4?" used to make the new sendmail.cf
file from a file within ../cf/cf. This file has a .mc file extention.
I find all of the ".mc" files, I'm still not quite sure what to do with
the m4 utility...basically, I'm confused.
The new sendmail binary works fine with the current sendmail.cf file,
but the whole reason for upgrading from my current version to the new
version is to improve security. Something about others using your mail
server for a spam server. Luckily this hasn't happened to me yet.
Without the new .cf file, won't the new features of the new build go
wasted/unused unless I add them in manually?
Another side note, in the ../src/README file, there is a part about the
newer versions of sendmail using /etc/mail to store the sendmial.cf file
and that you shouldn't use /etc anymore? The file doesn't actually say
don't use /etc, it says:
"Up to 8.6, sendmail tried to find the sendmail.cf file in the same
place as the vendors had put it, even when this was obviously stupid.
As of 8.7, sendmail ALWAYS looks for /etc/sendmail.cf. Beginning with
8.10, sendmail will use /etc/mail/sendmail.cf. You can get sendmail to
use the stupid vendor .cf location by adding -DUSE_VENDOR_CF_PATH during
compilation"
Should I worry about this? Does this mean sendmail.cf should be in /etc
or /etc/mail?
Thanks ahead of time for any responses to this post!
--
John Emery
System Administrator
Sue Mills, Inc.
1840 Market Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
415-864-1899 X146
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Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat.install
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy J. Lee)
Subject: Re: Remote login for "root" - how???
Reply-To: see-signature-for-email-address---junk-not-welcome
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 20:00:53 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
|How do I allow root remote console login's - ie telnet, ftp, exceed etc. I
|know I must edit the /etc/default/login file on Solaris, is there the same
|kind of thing in RHL??
See "man login". It refers to the /etc/securetty (among other files).
--
========================================================================
Timothy J. Lee timlee@
Unsolicited bulk or commercial email is not welcome. netcom.com
No warranty of any kind is provided with this message.
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From: Christopher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: No-Win Modem Situation
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 10:45:54 -0600
Hugh Johnson wrote:
>
> In article <scaF2.48$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "David Stockbridge"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I might as well add my (un)learned comments. I am using a 3Com/USR Sportster
> > Faxmodem (V.90, x2) internal modem card. It is ISA not PCI, which means it
> > can't be a Winmodem.
> >
>
> WinModems _can_ be ISA. I have a 1997 Lucent LT WinModem which is ISA.
> That's the one I was trying to replace.
>
> BTW, since I yanked it, I cleared up all the problems I was having with
> my sound card, too. These were both OEM cards supplied with the Aptiva,
> with a wire harness between them, maybe voicemail and multimedia
> control of the modem, I don't know. But the modem seemed to change some
> of the sound card's i/o addresses (no, there were no IRQ conflicts),
> and now that's all solved by yanking the modem.
Yep, I have a friend who just got a PII450 gateway. It has an ISA modem and it is a
win modem. It's a
3_com. I don't know what model.
He has problems with it. One being if you are watching an mpg(not full screen). And
you dial up his ISP
as soon as you connect the mpg player sounds like it is playing through a picket
fence. And this is a
PII450 98mb banshee 3dfx. Not a slouch by any means. Ridiculous!
They only conclusion I can come to is. These win modem sellers got a flood of calls
when the flash wave
went threw. People either didn't understand the concept or screwed up there modem.
Then called tech
support. So they simplified it. Took out flash memory and replaced it with software.
Now you need to
upgrade your modem. You put in a disc and boom modem upgraded. They get less calls
don't need as many
people to answer phones AND the modems are cheaper to make. A win win situation for
them(no pun intended)
Just a guess on my part. I have NO facts to prove this.
If I buy a modem I make sure it has jumpers. I hate PnP. Too unpredictable. Especially
with a certain OS.
Take care
Chris
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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: 9 Mar 1999 16:47:35 GMT
In <scaF2.48$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "David Stockbridge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
>Faxmodem (V.90, x2) internal modem card. It is ISA not PCI, which means it
>can't be a Winmodem. It has jumpers, but I'm using the PnP that is built
Unfortunately even ISA cards can be winmodems. Multitech, who makes one
of the few PCI regular modems, also makes an ISA winmodem.
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From: gwizz@gwazz.* (Phil Stevens)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.portable,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: BEST HW For Linux NoteBook Project
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 16:50:33 GMT
Reply-To: mudshark(at)euphoria.org
On 9 Mar 1999 08:15:10 -0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Winters)
wrote while drinking:
>Which rather neatly demonstrates why US prices are no use in UK
>newsgroup. There are so many variables to add on or knock off
>(and H.M. C&E are so abysmal at calculating them right) that the
>only meaningful price for a UK user is one quoted in GBP with all
>the relevant taxes paid.
Ahem. The following header was found on your followup:
Newsgroups:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.portable,uk.comp.os.linux
The first three newsgroups are in the comp.* hierarchy, which was not
exclusive to the UK last time I checked. Pay attention, please.
ps
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From: Regit Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,alt.solaris.x86,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linux 2.2.2 and UFS write support - does it work?
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 00:51:24 +0800
I'm not with a Linux box now... but I did something like this .... and from
personal experience, rw to FreeBSD is OK, but only read with Solaris.... :
(
Rob Fisher wrote:
> > If I recalled correctly, the documentation says only FreeBSD's ufs.....
>
> Where did you read this? I have _no_ documentation. I've even been
> trawling through the source!
>
> Rob
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Winters)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.portable,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: BEST HW For Linux NoteBook Project
Date: 9 Mar 1999 16:27:28 -0000
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jason Clifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On 8 Mar 1999, it was written:
>
>> US prices can easily be translated into UK prices: in the UK you can
>> buy this machine from MicroWarehouse for exactly $1299 U.S. dollars
>> plus any associated shipping charges, duties, customs and tariffs.
>
>OK then if you are so sure of this I challenge you to give the exact price
>a person based in the UK would pay if they bought the system today
>including shipping to the UK (next day service), import duty and VAT.
>Don't forget to include the carriers admin charge for advanced payment of
>the VAT and import duties.
...and the fact the if the shipper is UPS then the duty and VAT will
almost certainly be calculated wrongly, requiring you to spend months
hassling them to sort it out.
John
--
John Winters. Wallingford, Oxon, England.
The Linux Emporium - a source for Linux CDs in the UK
See <http://www.polo.demon.co.uk/emporium.html>
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From: Rod Haper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Remote login for "root" - how???
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 20:18:07 +0000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> How do I allow root remote console login's - ie telnet, ftp, exceed etc. I
> know I must edit the /etc/default/login file on Solaris, is there the same
> kind of thing in RHL??
>
> Help
>
> TIA . . .
> Mike
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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It is really not a good idea to disable this security feature. Why
don't you just log in as a normal user and then su to root? But if you
really want to allow remote root logons, read the man page for securetty
and then edit /etc/securetty to suit.
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From: Stefan Monnier
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Kernel NFS Problem; device busy
Date: 09 Mar 1999 11:40:36 -0500
>>>>> "Rainer" == Rainer Krienke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Allright this way it really works. But this approach has at least one
> disadvantage: Linux users may be given the permission to
> mount and umount directories but if the have to unexport directories the
> do not have permissions to do so. So the user might not be able to
> umount a directory just because of the export state he cannot change.
The problem is not due to an `approach' but to the NFS protocol itself.
NFS's statelessness means that in the general case, the nfsd doesn't really
know which clients it is serving and their status. The clients could umount
/cdrom without ever contacting the server.
It is true that the situation could be improved in some favorable cases,
by it cannot be truely solved in general.
But you can of course provide your users with a `safe-unexport' command
(either setuid or run via sudo).
Stefan
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From: Hugh Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: No-Win Modem Situation
Date: 9 Mar 1999 15:13:09 GMT
In article <scaF2.48$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "David Stockbridge"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I might as well add my (un)learned comments. I am using a 3Com/USR Sportster
> Faxmodem (V.90, x2) internal modem card. It is ISA not PCI, which means it
> can't be a Winmodem.
>
WinModems _can_ be ISA. I have a 1997 Lucent LT WinModem which is ISA.
That's the one I was trying to replace.
BTW, since I yanked it, I cleared up all the problems I was having with
my sound card, too. These were both OEM cards supplied with the Aptiva,
with a wire harness between them, maybe voicemail and multimedia
control of the modem, I don't know. But the modem seemed to change some
of the sound card's i/o addresses (no, there were no IRQ conflicts),
and now that's all solved by yanking the modem.
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From: "Adam Corsaw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Help Wanted on Gnome Installation HOWTO
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:59:00 -0600
I'm in the same boat as you. I've only been using Linux for a couple of
months now but
I'm enjoying it immensely. I'd be more than happy to help out with a "If
you can use the
shell you can install Gnome" document. I downloaded the 0.99.8 when it came
out and
finally got around to installing it last night. I like it a lot but the
information on how to
configure it and tweak it for what you want is a little too spread out.
I've been working on
a FAQ that may be handy for the HOWTO doc. If you would like to send me the
doc
I'd try it out and let you know how it works and if it matches my
experience.
- Adam Corsaw
P.S. I too would love to see a linux.redhat.gnome, comp.os.linux.gnome, or a
comp.os.linux.X11.gnome with an comp.os.linux.X11.kde
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Nichol)
Subject: Re: windows 95B doesn't see FAT32 partition
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 17:11:56 GMT
Reply-To: alexn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fred Heitkamp wrote:
>I've done some more investigating and found some rather strang effects.
>It turns out my new partition is there but it is an "F:" drive. There is
>
>also an E: drive but it has no space. Clicking on it just gives a
>unaccessible drive error. I found a web site that says how to change
>drive letter inside the registry. When I do that however, upon rebooting
>
>the drive letters are back the way they were. When I use fdisk from DOS
>the "phantom" partition does not show up.
I don't know for sure why it is not being seen - probably an error in
the partition table. But the question of whether your windows is
running on Fat 16 or FAT 32 is not it. Win95B or Win98 will run any
mix of the two types that they come across.
What seems likely is that it is a logical partition, and that the
process has marked the extended partition containing it in such a way
that that is directly visible by windows as well: extended partitions
are at the primary level and normally only the one active primary
partition is visible by DOS or windows at that level. Partition Magic
can mark multiple primaries so that windows can see them - it is
generally regarded as not a good thing to do. If you can find a copy
of PM it may be able to correct the matter for you - or a low level
disk editor in the hands of someone with exact knowledge of the
settings. PM 4.0 BTW will handle Linux partitions as well as FAT
HPFS and NTFS ones, so is a very useful tool indeed if you have
multiple OSes around.
--
Alex Nichol
Bournemouth, U.K.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Nichol)
Subject: Re: Uh-oh, I've got kernel panic
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 17:11:59 GMT
Reply-To: alexn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
brian moore wrote:
>If you start with:
>
> hda1
> hda2
> hda3
> hda4
> hda5
>
>and then muck with fdisk and split hda3 into half, the old hda4 will now
>be hda5.
Except that you can't do that. hda1 .. hda4 are primary partitions -
one of which will be an extended partition, containing the logical
ones hda5. . hda15. So you cannot split hda3 - it is not possible to
have more than four partitions at that level, and if it is the
extended one you wold be splitting the hda5 - into an hda5 and hda6.
There is no way hda 4 can be changed into a higher letter - and if you
had only a primary and an extended they would be say hda1 and hda2 -
the first logical would still be hda5
--
Alex Nichol
Bournemouth, U.K.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Jess C. Gehin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: self extracting .exe on linux?
Date: 9 Mar 1999 20:31:38 GMT
I have found that on some of these files that I can use info-zip
(unzip) to extract the files. You can also try dosemu.
Jess
Astro Monk wrote:
>
> I have a self extracting zip file (.exe). Is
> there a way to expand it under Linux without
> going to a windows machine running it and bringing
> it back to my linux box?
>
> I am running RedHat 5.2 so an rpm would be nice
> if available.
>
> thanks
>
> am
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From: "Rufus V. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: best offline newsreader?
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 12:11:26 -0500
Richard Steiner wrote in message ...
>I agree that beginner-friendly tools and configuration utilities will
>probably end up adding value to Linux as a whole. But I don't think
>Linux should be turned into a Windows interface with a Linux kernel,
>and that is the type of end result that most frightens me.
Unfortunately, that's probably what we're most likely to see.
Intuitive user interfaces are no longer
intuitive for human beings,
but
intuitive for human being who have used Windows.
Rufus
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Warkus)
Subject: Re: A question about MP3's and Linux
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 20:57:11 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It was the Mon, 08 Mar 1999 08:06:41 +0000...
..and Mark Tranchant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> No chance, I'm afraid.
Seconded.
> > Having recently picked up an old SoundBlaster16 sound card, I am going
> > to install it in my computer so I can listen to some music. Mainly, I
> > would like to play MP3s. However, my CPU is a 486SX, running at 25mhz.
> > Though I have Redhat 5.0 on my system, and I know there are many MP3
> > players for Linux, will I still be able to play MP3s with no problems?
> > (I also have 20 megs of ram and 16 megs swap space, if that makes any
> > difference.)
Decoding a heavily compressed MPEG Layer-3 stream is a CPU-intensive
task. <shrug> Get over it or get a bigger machine. I think it's really
only the CPU that counts here (if your system isn't grotesquely
misconfigured).
mawa
--
The fact that they produce _Sindbad_, _Baywatch_ and _PENSACOLA_ makes
me not only doubt the United States' qualification as /de facto/ ruler
of this world. It makes me wonder about their strange infatuation with
cleavage, too. -- mawa
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