Linux-Misc Digest #391, Volume #19 Tue, 9 Mar 99 23:13:10 EST
Contents:
Re: stupid tar question (Ewan Dunbar)
RPM install prob;em (Adam Marcus)
RPM install prob;em (Adam Marcus)
RPM install problem (Rafael Marcus)
how to get network to start? ("Craig Shields")
Re: BEST HW For Linux NoteBook Project (David Fox)
Re: # Linux- how to read dBase files?? # ("JACK")
memory management (Daniel Naughton)
Re: Problem APC UPS 1400 (Gary Momarison)
xxgdb permission denied on Linux/Intel/Alpha (NewsMan)
Re: binary not found by bash (Jean-Pierre Moreau)
Re: Automating Quotas (Jordan Husney)
Re: UMSDOS on FAT32? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux 2.2.2 and UFS write support - does it work? ("John D. Maag")
PPP help (Neil)
"/usr is busy" error message on shutdown (Michael Powe)
Re: Automating Quotas ("David C.")
Re: Cannot change virtual screen size (Matthew Palmer)
Re: rcp problem (Thomas Griffing)
Help! Debian 2.1 installation won't recognize Initio 9100UW ("Bill")
Re: Disk Mirroring (Conway Yee)
Re: Need Suggestions for course in Operating Systems (Tom Fawcett)
Re: HELP! D drive disappeared after installed RedHat5.2 (Thomas Schwob)
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From: Ewan Dunbar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: stupid tar question
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 19:37:19 -0500
On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, gus wrote:
> Johan Kullstam wrote:
> >
> > tim rosen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > This is an awfully simple question, but I just can't seem to find a
> [snip]
> >
> > for .tar.bz2 files, use
> >
> > bzip2 -cd file.tar.bz2 | tar xf -
> >
>
> [snip]
>
> Just to add to this, tar has the newish flag "I" which will use bunzip2
> the same way "z" uses gunzip. So,
>
> tar -xvIf file.tar.bz2
>
> will do the same-ish thing as
>
> tar -xvzf file.tar.gz
>
> This is true with whatever version of tar arrives with SuSE 6.0
However, it's not true with older versions of GNU tar that have been
patched with a (quite popular) patch by (I believe) the author of bzip2.
It adds an option to tar, "y", which does the same as the "I" you
mentioned.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Adam Marcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: RPM install prob;em
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 20:19:24 -0800
1) I get the following message when I try to install the RPM package in
my
Slackware LINUX when I use config command
... checking for gettext in -lintl... (cached) no configure: warning:
sorry
this package needs libintl.a (from the gettext package) checking for
xgettext... no xgettext and libintl.a don't both exist; will not build
i18n
support ... checking for gzread in -lgz... (cached) no configure:
warning:
sorry this package needs libz.a or libgz.a (from the zlib pa ckage) ...
I installed the zlib package and libz.a and libz.so have been installed
in /usr/local/lib but I still get error messages after config and make
commands. Any sugestions?
2) Where can I get gettext package in tar or gzip format?
Thanks,
Rafael
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From: Adam Marcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: RPM install prob;em
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 20:21:28 -0800
1) I get the following message when I try to install the RPM package in
my
Slackware LINUX when I use config command
... checking for gettext in -lintl... (cached) no configure: warning:
sorry
this package needs libintl.a (from the gettext package) checking for
xgettext... no xgettext and libintl.a don't both exist; will not build
i18n
support ... checking for gzread in -lgz... (cached) no configure:
warning:
sorry this package needs libz.a or libgz.a (from the zlib pa ckage) ...
I installed the zlib package and libz.a and libz.so have been installed
in /usr/local/lib but I still get error messages after config and make
commands. Any sugestions?
2) Where can I get gettext package in tar or gzip format?
Thanks,
Rafael
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From: Rafael Marcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: RPM install problem
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 19:42:00 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
1) I get the following message when I try to install the RPM package in
my Slackware LINUX when I use config command
warning: sorrythis package needs libintl.a (from the gettext package)
checking forxgettext no xgettext and libintl.a don't both exist;
configure: warning:sorry this package needs libz.a or libgz.a (from the
zlib package)
I installed the zlib package and libz.a and libz.so have been
installedin /usr/local/lib but I still get error messages after config
and makecommands. Any sugestions?
2) Where can I get gettext package in tar or gzip
format?
Thanks,
Rafael
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From: "Craig Shields" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: how to get network to start?
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 16:59:40 -0500
Hello,
I've been struggling with getting my laptop (RH5.2) on the network at my
work. I have access to the Internet through the network (no dial-in).
I've been using netcfg to set up gateway, routing and IP info and think it
might be correct, but I'm not sure because I can't get
/etc/rc.d/init.d/network to accept the 'start' command. My RH manual says
to restart the network connection for the new settings to take place. I
think the usage is /network [start, stop, restart, reload, status, probe]
and several of them work for me... (stop, status and probe) Whenever I
type /network start (or restart) I get the output 'SIOCADDRT: Invalid
argument'. I've even tried going to the /etc/rc.d/init.d directory and
typing './network start', but get the same output.
Any ideas??
Thanks,
Craig Shields
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From: d s f o x @ c o g s c i . u c s d . e d u (David Fox)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.portable,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: BEST HW For Linux NoteBook Project
Date: 09 Mar 1999 17:51:24 -0800
Jason Clifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 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 $1299 U.S. dollars
> > plus any associated shipping charges, duties, customs and tariffs.
>
> OK then if you are so sure of this I challenge you to give the exact price
> a person based in the UK would pay if they bought the system today
> including shipping to the UK (next day service), import duty and VAT.
> Don't forget to include the carriers admin charge for advanced payment of
> the VAT and import duties.
US$ 1632.66
--
David Fox http://hci.ucsd.edu/dsf xoF divaD
UCSD HCI Lab baL ICH DSCU
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From: "JACK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: # Linux- how to read dBase files?? #
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 23:29:52 -0000
Allen O'Neill wrote in message ...
>Anyone know of a ready built lib in say perl / pascal / C that allows one
>to easily read/write to dbase tables?
>
>Appreciate email on this if anyone can assist.
>
>Txs,
>
>Allen.
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
linux provides libdb with a standard installation this can be used to access
and create dbf files.
if you install libdb-devel package this will provide you with some standard
functions for opening dbf files in C.
your best bet Al is to talk to some one who programmes C in linux
j
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From: Daniel Naughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: memory management
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 15:14:39 +0000
I have a general question about memory management - I can't figure out
what is using 80% of my memory when nothing is running (aside from X
and wmaker). I have 64 Mb RAM. When I logon, X and wmaker use about
21K. After I run a few applications (netscape, gimp, etc.), even after
I've quit the applications, the free memory does not return to where is
started. I use "top" to show what's running. I've added up the column
for %mem used - it comes to about 40%, but 80% of the memory is consider
"used".
What gives? It doens't go into swap when I start new applications, so
should I just pay no attention to it?
Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks
Dan Naughton
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From: Gary Momarison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem APC UPS 1400
Date: 09 Mar 1999 17:57:44 -0800
klaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello,
>
> I have a Suse 6.0 linux-system and a UPS APC 1400. I installed the apcupsd
> 3.5.2.
>
> When power on the UPS fails the linux-system goes down (and remains to
> halted). If power is restored before batteries are empty, the linux-system
> remains halted (but it should then reboot!). If power is not restored, the
> linux-system (in halted-mode) and the UPS ramains up, until batteries are
> empty. When then power is restored the UPS is in a "stand-by"-mode and the
> linux-system does't get power.
>
> Has anyone had any success in setting up apcupsd correctly?
The setup of the UPS software should have you modifying the last shutdown
script so that if it is shutting down because of signal from the UPS,
then the last thing the script does is tell the UPS to turn off its
power output. Then when main power returns, the computer will boot
normally. (Though you might want to change your LILO so that it won't
get past the LILO prompt until you tell it to go on. This avoids having
power ups and downs draining your battery so much that it peters out
while booting the OS, before the UPS SW is activated.)
I don't know if that UPS is smart or dumb or supports power-off.
You might need to investigate different UPS SW or different UPS.
See http://www.aa.net/~swear/pedia/ups.html
--
Look for Linux info at http://www.dejanews.com/home_ps.shtml and in
Gary's Encyclopedia at http://www.aa.net/~swear/pedia/index.html
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From: NewsMan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.fortran,comp.os.linux.alpha
Subject: xxgdb permission denied on Linux/Intel/Alpha
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 11:19:47 +0900
Whenever I lauch "xxgdb" of various version numbers,
it too-often gives
/dev/ttyp*: Permission denied
I have to be a superuser to change the ownership of /dev/ttyp? with
"?" being the relevant number.
It must be a bug of xxgdb. I don't understand how this bug
has survived for a loooong time.
I wish somebody builds the ddd rpm for Alpha/Linux.
ddd on Intel/Linux does not have such a problem.
Thank you.
G. Hugh Song
--
Newsman
PS: Reply to ghsong "at" kjist "dot" ac "dot" kr, if you really have to.
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From: Jean-Pierre Moreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: binary not found by bash
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 17:30:10 -0500
Milos Prudek, Mon, 08 Mar 1999 21:46:45 +0100, wrote
> bash: ./python: No such file or firectory
Possibly because in your current bash shell, ./python is
hashed (in bash, do $ help hash). To un-hash, do ($ hash -r).
On 2nd tought: you have a path in ./python, so no, it is not
supposed to be hashed, the way I understand 'hash' feature of bash.
Anyway, perhaps it can help?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jordan Husney)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Automating Quotas
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 10:03:49 GMT
On Tue, 9 Mar 1999 16:49:28 -0500, "David Collantes"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The way we did it over at RemotePoint ISP
(www.remotepoint.com) was:
cd /home
edquota -u -p proto *
Where "proto" is a user setup with the default quota settings for our
system.
It's a neat hack, but it works.
Jordan.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: UMSDOS on FAT32?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 10 Mar 1999 00:15:57 GMT
F. Heitkamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - "Marc D. Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>writes:
>>
>>On 4 Mar 1999 12:21:33 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>I currently have an UMSDOS partition on a win95b partition.
>>>I've been thinking about converting the partion to fat32
>>>so that I might gain a extra couple hundred MB of storage.
>>>Does anyone know if you can put a UMSDOS partition on fat32?
>>>
>>I may be missing something but UMSDOS runs on top of a FAT
>>file system. You state that the UMSDOS ``partition'' is _on_
>>a win95b partition, ereforthay there's nothing to convert to
>>since it is already on FAT32 (this assumes Win95b is using
>>FAT32 which I think it does).
I fixed my FAT32 problem. When I run Linux off the UMSDOS
area, I get some errors, but it works, sort of. I kept a
file with the errors, but unfortunately I can't find it
at the moment.
Fred
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From: "John D. Maag" <[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 02:54:38 GMT
This may be a 2.2.2 thing. I am automounting from Suns under 2.0.35
TurboLinux (Redhat derivative) and it works fine.
Regit Young wrote:
>
> 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: Neil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PPP help
Date: 9 Mar 1999 14:35:59 PST
Hi,
I just installed Red Hat release 5.2 and have had some trouble with PPP.
I started X then went into linuxconf and added my login, password, phone number and
under DNS I set the
proper DNS.
I 'activate' the connection and it dials in and seems to connect but cannot telnet,
surf, or anything.
Another major annoyance is the modem just dials and dials, even when I don't want to
connect. Also, when
I get a busy signal it does not timeout very fast at all. I think the timeout is set
for 5 seconds, but
that must not include busy signals.
Any advice on how to get PPP to work and get my modem under control are welcome.
Also, while I am talking about problems, when you hit X to close windows it does not
always work -- and
you need to actually file --> close to close something. I'd like to work on that
problem as well. Thanks.
Neil
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From: Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: "/usr is busy" error message on shutdown
Date: 09 Mar 1999 18:58:12 -0800
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I've started getting this message when I shutdown the system. When
going through the shutdown procedure, I see the message "/usr is busy"
when the filesystems are being unmounted. Then when I come back into
the system, I get "/dev/hdc3 not cleanly unmounted, check forced" and
then fsck runs. No problems are detected/fixed.
Not sure what caused this. I very seldom reboot this system, the last
time would have been late January when I upgraded to kernel 2.2.
Any ideas what might be causing it? How to fix it?
mp
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From: "David C." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Automating Quotas
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 18:17:42 -0500
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That sounds pretty straight forward solution. I will give it a try. Thanks!!
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David Collantes, Senior Systems Administrator
College of Business Administration, UCF
Orlando, FL, U.S.A.
Jordan Husney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
: The way we did it over at RemotePoint ISP
:(www.remotepoint.com) was:
:
:cd /home
:edquota -u -p proto *
:
:Where "proto" is a user setup with the default quota settings for our
:system.
:
:It's a neat hack, but it works.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew Palmer)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,alt.linux,alt.os.linux,linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Cannot change virtual screen size
Date: 10 Mar 1999 00:13:26 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 09 Mar 1999 11:30:34 +0200, Bernhard Rau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello,
> I'm running Linux RedHat 5.2 on my laptop and would like to change
>between a virtual
>X-screen (a screen bigger than my display) and the 'real' size of my
>display. In my
>\etc\X11\XF86Config file, I have the following subsections:
>
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 8
> Modes "800x600" "640x480"
> ViewPort 0 0
> Virtual 800 600
> EndSubSection
>
>and
>
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 8
> Modes "800x600" "640x480"
> ViewPort 0 0
> Virtual 1024 768
> EndSubSection
>
>Both of them work (more or less) to my satisfaction but, I can not
>switch between
>them. Depending on which SubSection appears first in the 'XF86Config'
>file, I have
>a 'real' or a 'virtual' screen, but I can't change it once X is
>running. (I can change
>between the resolutions within each SubSection with ctrl-alt-plus, but
>not between
>the SubSections.)
>
>Is this just the way Linux works or is there some trick that I can
>pull? Any input is
>welcome.
The way CTRL-ALT-PLUS works is that it switches between the resolutions
found in the FIRST display subsection in the file. You'll find that when
the subsection which contains the "Virtual 1024 768" line is first, you get
a virtual display of 1024x768. You'll also find that when the first
subsection is first, and you're in 640x480 mode, that you have a virtual
desktop of 800x600.
AFAIK, you cannot switch between display subsections, because as far as X is
concerned, second and subsequent subsections do not exist.
Solution: Place the display subsection you want (probably the Virtual
1024x768 one) first in your XF86Config file, and either delete or comment
out the other one (just to be sure).
If you want almost unlimited desktop acreage, use a virtual window manager
(ovwm is my choice when I want that sort of thing, but I use owm normally so
I'm used to it) fvwm will do it for you, too.
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From: Thomas Griffing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: rcp problem
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 03:40:48 GMT
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Bill Lewis wrote:
> Anyone know the right trick to get rcp to work between two Linux
> machines? I set up .rhosts as usual and the rsh and rlogin commands
> work fine for user "blewis". When I attempt an rcp for the same user
> the
> local side hangs and the remote side seems to do nothing. The remote
> /var/log/messages contains these entries:
>
> Mar 8 16:15:11 renegade pam_rhosts_auth[837]: allowed to blewis@kojak
> as blewis
> Mar 8 16:15:11 renegade PAM_pwdb[837]: (rsh) session opened for user
> blewis by (uid=0)
>
> The command string is rcp ./anyfile.txt blewis@renegade:/tmp/anyfile.txt
>
> Any particular daemon process that needs to be running specifically for
> rcp?
Probably the best way is to create an entry in the "/etc/hosts.equiv" file
to allow "rcp" from the remote machine. I have an /etc/hosts.equiv file
that allows all of the "r" commands (rcp, rsh, rlogin, ...). The ".rhosts"
file is not secure. I didn't have to change anything else, aside from basic
network setup.
jaguar tom # Allow "tom" to use "r" commands from jaguar
corvette # Allow anybody to use "r" commands from corvette
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From: "Bill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help! Debian 2.1 installation won't recognize Initio 9100UW
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 19:25:21 -0800
I am a total newcomer but want to install Debian 2.1, which only offers my
IDE (hda) for initialization, not sda1 and sda2, which are controlled by my
Iwill Side 2935UW SCSI controller, which has the Initio 9100UW chipset and
works fine with Initio drivers. In fact a friend got Debian installation to
actually see and use a SCSI drive with Initio drivers.
Well the friend is off in Europe and here I am eager to start my Linux
experience and I can't even get it to see, much less installed on, my SCSI
hard drive. I think what my friend did was somehow incorporate kernel
2.2.1, which includes Initio support, into the Debian installation routine,
but to me these are hardly more than words. I'm hoping someone will have
the goodness to explain to me how to do what needs to be done to get out of
this dilemma and into Linux.
Thanks in advance for any assistance you may be able to give me.
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From: Conway Yee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Disk Mirroring
Date: 09 Mar 1999 18:25:04 -0500
Try the RAID HOWTO
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From: Tom Fawcett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need Suggestions for course in Operating Systems
Date: 09 Mar 1999 19:45:55 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Has anyone incorporated Linux or Hurd in a course they have given in
> operating systems? I would like to review any material that is available
> suitable for an operating systems course.
Here's one that was made public a few years ago:
http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~pawel/COURSES/485/cmput485.html
-Tom
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Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 00:38:42 -0300
From: Thomas Schwob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [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
Hi,
I know that is not very helpful. But the same is happening to me also.
Having an external Quantum 6.4 GB SCSI-II disk on my notebook, connected by
Adaptec 1460B, where I have drive F: and G:
F: is on the first 2 GB (1st physical partition), G: on the last GB of the
disk (last logical partition of the extended partition), in between I have
Linux partitions.
I partitioned with fdisk of RH 5.1, specifiying the first and last
partition accordingly as FAT32. First everything was okay, my F and G
drives were living well together with all the Linux partitions, sometimes I
boot Linux, sometimes Win95B. On a certain day, with nothing having gone
wrong before, I booted Win95 and what surprise, I get the following message
G: "drive not ready", "invalid drive specification" or something like
that.
So, this seems to be some problem of Win95B, as under Linux the partition
was still visible. I do not know what happened, but apparently the windows
partition info of this drive simply has ceased being. I tried under Linux
to erase the first 512 bytes of the partition (dd ....), in order to force
Windows to look up the partition table instead of reading its preferred 512
bytes on the beginning of the partition. But it didn't work. After all
that, I just formated the partition under Windows. And there was my
partition back, but of course I have lost my data there (fortunately only a
backup partition).
But something disturbing, and that is now nothing with linux, long names
are suddenly not anymore supported. Can anybody tell me why? And why
partition info has got lost without having any problem before?
Kind regards
Thomas
Synapse Man wrote:
> Hi. Here's the situation. My friends got Win98, and one HDD partitioned
> into C- and D-drives.
>
> 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.
>
> I suspect that the D-drive partition is gone and needs to be
> re-formatted, but I am not sure at all.
>
> What's happening? What should he do now?
>
> Thanks.
>
> ----------------------
>
> Note: Bogus e-mail used to deter spammers. Pls reply to Newsgroup.
> Thanks.
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