Linux-Misc Digest #539, Volume #19 Sun, 21 Mar 99 01:13:07 EST
Contents:
Re: One-way Cable Modem (Pavel Greenfield)
Re: CDROM that requires Win98? (David E. Fox)
Re: How to wipe drive after install deleted (Chuck Mette)
Re: Partition Software Recommendation? (Bernd-Ulrich Adrigam)
Re: installing linux (Chuck Mette)
Re: Duplicate or bad block in use! (David E. Fox)
Linux on Win/ce hardware? (john paulson)
Toshiba 4030CDT or 2540XCDT with Linux? (Brian Jonathan Lee)
Re: C/C++ Programming on Linux: Good Books? (Claudius Proculus)
Re: License question (Greg Weeks)
Re: knews: How to stop downloading all groups every time? (Bob Hauck)
Re: License question (Bob Hauck)
Re: Help with LILO? (Eugene Strulyov)
Re: thread-safe-xlibs (Silviu Minut)
Problems with upgrade to 2.2.3 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
pgp and netscape (George Fradl)
setting screensaver for kdm (Norvell Spearman)
StarOffice installation (Kenneth Harrington)
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From: Pavel Greenfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: One-way Cable Modem
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 00:18:12 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It is external and does connect to an NIC but I can't get it to dial!
ping wrote:
>
> I have a one way cable modem installed and working on my Linux box. It was
> a pain to get working but it works like a champ now. Mine is an internal
> card made by General Instruments. A guy a found on the web wrote a driver
> for the board for linux and it works fine. If you don't have a driver you
> will have a hard time getting it to work, Unless it is external and connects
> through a NIC. You should have no problem then.
>
> Jim
> Pavel Greenfield wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> >I'm reposting my own letter hoping that someone who knows an answer to
> >this question will notice this post...
> >
> >Thanks!
> >
> >Pavel
> >
> >Pavel Greenfield wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I've got the one-way Cable Modem account from RCN. Has anyone been
> >> successful in getting it two work with linux?
> >>
> >> (One way cable modems shouldn't be any different from Linux's point of
> >> view, should they?)
> >>
> >> Thanks a lot in advance!
> >>
> >> Pavel
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David E. Fox)
Subject: Re: CDROM that requires Win98?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 21 Mar 1999 05:17:03 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Steuber wrote:
>If you have any doubts, you may sleep better if you get a CDROM
>without that warning. I know I went to some trouble to make sure I
It shouldn't make any difference. It appears to me that MS has
been pressuring some hardware manufacturers to include such
warnings that their peripherals "require" Windows in order
to operate. I've recently seen similar warnings on Maxtor
hard drives, and I've two of them in my system, and neither
have seen Windows in any form during their lifetime.
It's a disgusting practice, IMHO. But there's nothing with respect to
CD-ROMs (or HDs) that I know of similar to the WinModem or
WinPrinter issue.
>David Steuber
>http://www.david-steuber.com
>s/trashcan/david/ to reply by mail
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From: Chuck Mette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,alt.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: How to wipe drive after install deleted
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 00:18:13 -0500
I have had the same problem using Maxtor drives and Dell Gx1's
on my home PS's MS-DOS fdisk does the job!
Jeff Borders wrote:
>
> I've got a couple of drives that I was practicing Linux installs on. After
> I decided to use bigger drives, I can't seem to get rid of the partitions
> for other use.
>
> Any ideas? -Jeff Borders.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bernd-Ulrich Adrigam)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Partition Software Recommendation?
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 02:33:44 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb in Nachricht
<7capiv$v8q$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hi all,
>
>My fdisk program from Win95 does not work for some reason; I can run the
>program to create partitions on a re-zeroed HDD, set an active partition,
and
>then view the partition table showing the partitions created, but when I
>reboot and re-run fdisk to display the partition table, no partitions are
>created and any changes I tried to make by using fdisk previously don't
take
>effect. Can anybody comment on why this is happening?
<snip>
Hello,
you didn't tell anything about your hardware and whether your hardware did
function correctly before your tried to partition your harddrive. So I could
only guess, what the reason of your trouble is.
Common problems in such a situation are:
- incompatible devices at one ide-cable (old ide vs atapi)
- defect ide-cable / cable too long
- or defect ide-controller
Bernd
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From: Chuck Mette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: installing linux
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 00:26:11 -0500
Try another CD-ROM!
Chris T. wrote:
>
> does anyone know why i can't seem to install linux (Redhat 5.2), i boot up my
> system, and select the option i wanted, then when it comes to where i am
> installing it from, i select local cd-rom, but then i do that, it just seems
> to be stuck.
>
> I'm installing from CD-ROM which is written in Joliet format, and my hard
> drive is already formatted for linux file format with the swap file partition
> already made. If anyone can help me, please e-mail me.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David E. Fox)
Subject: Re: Duplicate or bad block in use!
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 21 Mar 1999 05:28:44 GMT
In article <7bso5a$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Bridleman wrote:
>Yesterday I had done that and then about an hour later I went to start
>the machine again and I get the following messages (sorry if it's to
>verbose!):
(messages skipped)
>
>/dev/sda1: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTANCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY.
> (i.e., without -a or p options)
What you should do next is to run what the message
suggests, namely:
# fsck /dev/sda1
Note that the above command has no options, which is what
is meant by running fsck manually. I know, it was something
I also encountered that confused me at first.
Once fsck starts running it should fix things; this could
take a fairly long time, depending on the nature of the
problem, but everything should be OK in the end. My first
experience with this was several years ago when the power
went out when I was expiring some newsgroups. I only lost
one or two files, and they were scheduled to be deleted
anyway.
About the worst thing that will happen is that the file that
has the problem will end up in lost+found, as a file like
"#nnnn" where "nnnn" corresponds to its inode number. This is
analogous to the DOS FILEnnn.CHK or FILEnnn._DD files that get
created, except that in Linux, such creation only happens once in a
great while.
Furthermore, the file that is causing the trouble "/var/log/messages.2" is
just an old(er) file of debug/kernel messages that is scheduled to be
eventually (in a few weeks) removed anyway, so you really don't need to
be worried if it gets lost.
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (john paulson)
Subject: Linux on Win/ce hardware?
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 05:42:47 GMT
There was an ad in the local paper today for a
company selling Philip's Velo 1 Win/ce devices
with 8mb RAM/4mb Flash for $100. That got me
wondering if there is any linux port to such
devices, or if the hardware on it is so hidden
behind NDAs that such a thing is not feasible.
Just wondering, as there are now several
ports of linux to small devices, and here's a
small device with keyboard and display. It
would be neat, though...
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Crossposted-To: comp.sys.laptops
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Jonathan Lee)
Subject: Toshiba 4030CDT or 2540XCDT with Linux?
Date: 21 Mar 99 05:45:39 GMT
Hi,
I was shopping around for a notebook computer and decided that
I should either get a 4030CDT or 2540XCDT. My plans are to
mainly run Linux on it, but I can't seem to find references to
these models in the HOWTO FAQs. Has anyone tried Linux on these?
The 4030CDT worries me because I don't know what PCMCIA chipset
it uses, and I have no idea whether XFree runs on the Cyber 9525.
The 2540XCDT seems much more compatible with the S3 Virge/MX,
but I'd prefer a real Intel CPU.
Any comments? What do you think?
bjl
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Claudius Proculus)
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,alt.linux
Subject: Re: C/C++ Programming on Linux: Good Books?
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 03:25:06 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(David M. Cook) wrote:
>On Sat, 20 Mar 1999 00:27:51 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>I have used Visual C++ for C/C++ programming on Windows platform; now, I am
>>planning to switch to Linux and want to do programming using the free GNU
>>compilers that come with Linux.
I was at a bookstore today and I saw one on Linux programming from AWL.
John - N8086N
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Greg Weeks)
Subject: Re: License question
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 21:29:19 -0600
In article <VaZI2.1025$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"No Spam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Are we allowed to sell distributions of Linux? ie Can we burn Slackware or
> RedHat on CD's and sell it? or just distribute it freely?
If you can give it away, you can sell it. Be carefull though, some of
the Red Had distributions had commercial software with restrictions on
distributing it. I don't think slackware ever has and I don't think
the current Red Had does. Other distributions do though.
Greg Weeks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Hauck)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: knews: How to stop downloading all groups every time?
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 03:44:23 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nick Dreyer) writes:
> Next time I go into knews, the groups get down loaded again.
In "man knews" we find...
[snip]
+/-active
Sets the resource 'Knews.readActiveFile' to
True/False.
[snip]
readActiveFile
Setting this to False will stop knews from reading
the active file when connecting, using the groups
in the newsrc file instead. This will speed up
connection on slow lines if you don't have too many
subscribed groups. The default is the value of the
resource Knews.readActiveFile, whose default is
True.
So you use -active on the command line to not read the active
file, or set the readActiveFile resource to true in the KNews
app-defaults file (usually in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults).
Or you can set it in other places, see "man knews" for details.
There are some other options to not get group descriptions and a
few others that affect speed over slow links.
> Finaly what does the message about not finding domain name mean?
You have not set a domain name *on your machine*. I don't recall
offhand where knews gets this from, but I think if you just set a
fully-qualified host name (mymachine.mydomain.com) using the
"hostname" command it will be happy.
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20:30:00 up 112 days, 8:34, 1 user, load average: 0.48, 0.23, 0.08
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Hauck)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject: Re: License question
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 03:50:11 GMT
In article <VaZI2.1025$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"No Spam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Are we allowed to sell distributions of Linux?
Yes, but you have to be careful to not include any proprietary
software your distribution may include. Many of the Linux
distributions come with some amount of non-free software. The
documentation should spell out any restrictions on the non-free
components of the distribution.
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20:30:00 up 112 days, 8:34, 1 user, load average: 0.48, 0.23, 0.08
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From: Eugene Strulyov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux.redhat,alt.os.linux,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Help with LILO?
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 06:02:14 GMT
you have to run lilo after you configured /etc/lilo.conf to actually
write to the MBR. If that fails, it's probably because your MBR is write
protected via BIOS. In this case go to BIOS setup and disable virus
warning.
I really don't know why your HDs would be hde and hdf though. They
*should* be hda and hdb... but maybe because of SCSI it's different --
I dunno.
Andrew Maus wrote:
> I installed RH 5.2 on P133 machine which has 2 EIDE hard drives
> installed. Both are connected to a Promise Ultra DMA-33 controller.
> I also have an Adaptec 2940 UW scsi card to which my CD-Rom and
> Syquest removable HDD are connected. My primary IDE drive (6GB) has
> Windows 95 installed, my secondary IDE drive (1GB) (now) has only
> Linux. During installation, I opted for the Workstation installation
> class, which among other things, automatically setup 2 partitions on
> the secondary drive for Linux and attempted to load LILO. I got
> through the entire installation process un-scathed, until it was
> executing the very last step: Loading LILO onto the MBR. I don't
> remember the exact wording of the error message but suffice it to say
> installing LILO onto the MBR failed. I am able to boot from floppy no
> problem. I tried going into LINUXCONF and attempt to re-configure
> LILO. The default device MBR to load LILO onto is HDA, however during
> installation, my primary IDE drive was setup as HDE and my secondary
> is HDF with the root partition at HDF5. When I attempt to enter
> /dev/hde as the MBR to load LILO onto, I get an error indicating that
> the specified dev is an invalid location to boot from. If I enter
> /dev/hda and re-run LILO, I get an error from LILO indicating that the
> specified device does not support the operation. I've read several
> HOW TO's (including the mini LILO HowTo) but can't find a solution for
> this problem. I do know this, the kernel release in RH 5.2 does
> recognize IDE drives connected to the Promise card. Previous kernel
> releases do and require patches to the kernel and LILO. Hope someone
> can shed some light on this. Thanks.
>
> Andy
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From: Silviu Minut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: thread-safe-xlibs
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 01:10:14 -0500
eric malloy wrote:
> does anyone know where i can get thread safe xlibs?.. x11amp needs
> it.. i cant find this anywhere
>
> Thanks
> eric malloy
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://rufus.w3.org --> rpm2html database ---> index by
name ---> X
---> x11amp.
That will show you all dependencies. You can click on any that you need
and it'll take you to the right place. That place is cool!
By the way, x11amp requires a lot of things. You may want to try xamp.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Problems with upgrade to 2.2.3
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 16:19:07 GMT
I just installed Linux-Mandrake 5.3 on my home computer, and then I used the
RPMs at the Linux-Mandrke ftp site to upgrade to kernel 2.2.3. Since doing
so, however, I have had some problems:
1. My ethernet card won't work. It worked fine under 2.0.36, but now when I
am booting up, I get the following message:
Starting (whatever) [OK]
Starting interface for eth0
using DHCP for eth0 [FAILED]
Starting (everything else) [OK]
I looked in linuxconf and it still shows the correct driver as loaded (Ne2k
PCI) driver, Winbond 95something chipset). I also tried entering in my IP
address, subnet mask, dns, dhcp all manually. Still didn't work. I cannot
use telnet, ping, whatever.
BTW, I did report this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I still need to get it
working, however. (I have to write this from Win95) Any help?
2. Whenever I try to automount a floppy or cd, I get an error message, "You
must specify the filesystem type." Under 2.0.36, the automounter worked
fine, and it would autodetect the filesystem type. I checked etc/fstab and
it still lists the filesystem type as "auto," just like it did under the
previous kernel.
3. last, does anyone know how to get my Linux side to see my windows (fat32)
partition? I can mount it, and it shows up as the correct size, but I get
the error message "filesystem type (msdos | umsdos | vfat) is not supported
in this kernel."
Thanks in advance for the help.
Van
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From: George Fradl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: pgp and netscape
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 01:07:23 -0500
I have installed PGP and it seems to operate properly. I was wondering
if it is possible to have the email I send from netscape have an
attached PGP signature.
How would I set this up?
George Fradl
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From: Norvell Spearman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: setting screensaver for kdm
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 23:19:01 -0600
How can I change the default `blank-screen' screensaver for the kdm login
screen?
Thanks.
---Norvell
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From: Kenneth Harrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: StarOffice installation
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 05:56:51 +0000
I just got StarOffice downloaded, and got my "personal key". When I run
the "setup" program that came with it, the installation program get to
the screen that asks for the key, but when I type it in, the "next"
button is disabled and won't let me continue. "Cancel" exits the
installation. Has anyone else seen problems like this?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
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