Linux-Misc Digest #676, Volume #19 Wed, 31 Mar 99 19:13:09 EST
Contents:
help with compiling .c files ("Mitchell Scott")
Re: Groupware on Linux ... ? (Cesar Diniz Maciel)
Re: Graphics Blaster RIVA TNT,Redhat 5.2, X Installation ("Michael W. Ryder")
Re: Groupware on Linux ... ? (Cesar Diniz Maciel)
HTTPS (Erik Bas)
Re: A major mess - genius needed!! (Ken Harrington)
Re: Need help disabling screen blanker (Desmond Coughlan)
Lots of RAM and Buffer Cache (bdflush, update) (Harald Kirsch)
Re: please recommend some books for newbie ("Snoopy :-))")
multi session cd's ("John Main")
Re: Groupware on Linux ... ? ("Andy McMullin")
Re: Newbie: Can't uninstall Linux (Kent Robotti)
Interesting correspondence with Aureal's VP of Marketing. (William O'Neal)
How to umount a hung NFS filesystem?? (Tom Evans)
Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux vs. Windows - trees (the green ones) (Steve Conover)
Re: Guillemot HSP64 (Help me please!!!) (Leland Olds)
Re: install Linux on a running Linux box? ("Charles Sullivan")
Re: Help with LILO ("Cameron Spitzer")
Re: A major mess - genius needed!! - SOLVED!! ("Charles Sullivan")
Weird tty entries under 2.2.4 (Damon des Jumeaux)
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From: "Mitchell Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: help with compiling .c files
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 22:38:25 +0100
Hi
SuSE 6.0 tells me when I use the command "cc" or "gcc" to compile a .c file
that the the command is not recognised? the same applies to "a.out" how do I
invoke these commands ?
Thanks for any help
Mitchell
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Cesar Diniz Maciel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Groupware on Linux ... ?
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 15:03:10 -0300
Why not run Note for AIX on a RS/6000 box? You don't need to Notes on NT, neither
server not clients (both are available for AIX, and soon for Linux).
regards,
Cesar ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I need some help!
>
> I'm into my third week with a North Sioux City, South Dakota-based company and
> I'm in charge of the Intra/Internet structure and services.
>
> One of the things I've been asked to clean up/construct is the corporate
> e-mail system. There is a strong corporate preference for Lotus Notes. I'm
> not in favor of this for any number of reasons, chief among them is that I'm
> going to have to learn a proprietary set of tools that run on NT.
>
> I've already wormed a Red Hat box into the organization for my network
> monitoring tools, and have a triple-boot P-III box for everyday work (Red
> Hat, DR-DOS, NT). I would LIKE to put a functioning mail/groupware server on
> a Linux box, bring it to my brass, and say something like, "Well, we COULD
> bring in Lotus Notes ... but we already have this functioning,
> standards-based, open- source alternative in place. Here, let me show it to
> you."
>
> My thought is that a working demonstration is probably worth more than a
> promise of a proprietary installation several weeks off. I don't know that it
> would be enough to overcome Management's preferences, but it's worth a shot.
>
> Anyway, my problem is this:
>
> I can set up a POP/IMAP/SMTP server any day of the week. An NNTP server for
> shared discussions is a cinch. Web pages with our corporate e-mail is no
> problem.
>
> The killer is that I can't find an attractive alternative to some of the group
> conferencing and scheduling that Notes offers. There are some CGI scripts out
> there that will do nice things, but their interfaces uniformly SUCK, and I'm
> not sure I have time to clean up the HTML they're generating.
>
> Does anyone know of a solution that I can implement quickly, preferably that
> uses the Web browser as the interface?
>
> Help!
>
> I'd appreciate useful responses be also CCd to my e-mail at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> so as to more quickly come to my attention.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Bill Stone
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> -----
> At Microsoft, quality is job 1.01b3.
> -----
>
> -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==----------
> http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own
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From: "Michael W. Ryder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Graphics Blaster RIVA TNT,Redhat 5.2, X Installation
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 22:11:42 GMT
You need to upgrade to X 3.3.3.1 and get the XSVGA Server (get the RPMs
from the Redhat Site). From there running XF86Setup will allow you to
select the RIVA TNT card for the video. Then select 16 MB for memory
and no autoprobe. Enter your monitor frequencies and desired
resolutions and you should be able to get everything running. I am
using the STB version of the card at 1024x768x32bpp with no problems.
Michael W. Ryder
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jas Sandhu wrote:
>
> Hi
> I am trying to install Redhat 5.2.
> I have a Creative Labs Graphics Blaster RIVA TNT
> 16Mb SDRAM AGP Card.
> This card is not supported in the X windows
> setup (using Xconfigurator).
> I tried a couple of the other options (the memory
> only goes upto 8MB max for most of these), but all i get is errors
> when i try startx and back to the prompt
> Is there a driver for this card in Redhat 5.2.
> Does anybody have a solution for this, or am
> I missing something in the setup.
>
> can you please email me as well as the list.
> Thanks
> Jas
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From: Cesar Diniz Maciel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Groupware on Linux ... ?
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 15:03:20 -0300
Why not run Notes for AIX on a RS/6000 box? You don't need to Notes on NT, neither
server not clients (both are available for AIX, and soon for Linux).
regards,
Cesar ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I need some help!
>
> I'm into my third week with a North Sioux City, South Dakota-based company and
> I'm in charge of the Intra/Internet structure and services.
>
> One of the things I've been asked to clean up/construct is the corporate
> e-mail system. There is a strong corporate preference for Lotus Notes. I'm
> not in favor of this for any number of reasons, chief among them is that I'm
> going to have to learn a proprietary set of tools that run on NT.
>
> I've already wormed a Red Hat box into the organization for my network
> monitoring tools, and have a triple-boot P-III box for everyday work (Red
> Hat, DR-DOS, NT). I would LIKE to put a functioning mail/groupware server on
> a Linux box, bring it to my brass, and say something like, "Well, we COULD
> bring in Lotus Notes ... but we already have this functioning,
> standards-based, open- source alternative in place. Here, let me show it to
> you."
>
> My thought is that a working demonstration is probably worth more than a
> promise of a proprietary installation several weeks off. I don't know that it
> would be enough to overcome Management's preferences, but it's worth a shot.
>
> Anyway, my problem is this:
>
> I can set up a POP/IMAP/SMTP server any day of the week. An NNTP server for
> shared discussions is a cinch. Web pages with our corporate e-mail is no
> problem.
>
> The killer is that I can't find an attractive alternative to some of the group
> conferencing and scheduling that Notes offers. There are some CGI scripts out
> there that will do nice things, but their interfaces uniformly SUCK, and I'm
> not sure I have time to clean up the HTML they're generating.
>
> Does anyone know of a solution that I can implement quickly, preferably that
> uses the Web browser as the interface?
>
> Help!
>
> I'd appreciate useful responses be also CCd to my e-mail at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> so as to more quickly come to my attention.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Bill Stone
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> -----
> At Microsoft, quality is job 1.01b3.
> -----
>
> -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==----------
> http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Erik Bas)
Subject: HTTPS
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 18:17:09 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Does ne1 know where i can find a free https server for linux?
thx
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From: Ken Harrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: A major mess - genius needed!!
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 09:50:41 -0700
Or is the boot floppy you are trying to use, one that has LILO installed that is
pointing to a boot partition on the hard drive? If this is the case, I'm not
sure dancho's comments are entirely correct.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> You can't boot from a CD or a floppy!?!?!? The only thing I can imagine
> would cause that would be some horrible Wintel related hardware mess. Are
> you SURE you can't boot from a floppy?? Really?? IF this is the case, you
> have a hardware/bios problem. Try removing the hard drive. Now try to boot
> from the floppy. If the hard drive is sitting on the table across the room
> and you still can't boot from the floppy that is attached because of an evil
> influence projectd by the Linux installation on the hard drive, call the
> Amazing Randi and get ready to take his money.
>
> In article <7dpq9p$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Charles Sullivan) wrote:
> (snip)
> > I've now got the problem that I can't boot into Win98 by any means:
> > neither from the hard drive, nor from a Win 98 boot or rescue floppy,
> > nor from the Win98 CD. I can boot into Linux either from the hard drive
> > via LILO or from a Linux boot floppy with no problem, and once into Linux
> > I can access my Win98 partition. Linux fdisk indicates no problem with
> > any of the partitions.
> (snip)
>
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From: Desmond Coughlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need help disabling screen blanker
Date: 30 Mar 1999 19:04:26 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (James S. White) writes:
> How does one go about disabling RedHat's blanking of the screen?
If you mean in console mode, it's in /etc/login.defs (or at least in
Slackware it is). If you're asking about X: sorry, don't know.
--
Desmond Coughlan |Restez zen ... Linux peut le faire
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[www site under construction]
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From: Harald Kirsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Lots of RAM and Buffer Cache (bdflush, update)
Date: 30 Mar 1999 18:49:30 +0200
Is it possible that the default values for the buffer cache will freeze
the machine for up to 1.5 seconds under the following circumstances:
1) 512 MB RAM
2) copying lots of small files from a fast tape onto the disk
Any ideas of how to change the parameters of update/bdflush ?
Harald Kirsch
--
=================================================+==================
Harald Kirsch, [EMAIL PROTECTED], +49 721 6091 369 |
FhG/IITB, Fraunhoferstr.1, 76131 Karlsruhe |
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From: "Snoopy :-))" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: please recommend some books for newbie
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 12:20:27 -0500
>From one Newbie to another :-))
My advice to you is, that before Buying all kinds of books; first use
some of the FREE
Tutorials, Etc. offered on the Web. They are more Condense and Simrler
to understand and above all are FREE. My favorite Tutorial is by "Matt
Walsh" . You should , if nothing else READ IT.l
Just to Show You what a Nice Guy I am :-))
I am giving you Three(3) of my other Favorite Links. They can keep you
out of
trouble and will keep you busy for quite a while.
The Tutorial & Guide is probobly one of the Best Begginer Guide in the
World
( written by Matt Welsh etc. He is also one of the authors of the
Highly
Recommended Book = "Running Linux"). You can download the whole Guide
for
Offline Reading in many different
Formats -- (I prefer the HTML) In addition you will find many other
Goodies. Here it is: http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/
There is another site which I highly recommend. "Eric Raymond's" home
page.
If you are wondering who he is? In that case you are a Newbie for sure.
But
I can assure you, that spending a little time at his page will
definatelly
put a fire under you regarding not wanting to be a Newbie for to long.
Ofcourse you will also discover the reason as to why he is so admired by
those who Count, and why he is considered to be One of the Top Gurus in
the
World.
His FAQ Collection should definatelly be considered as a Bible for
Newbies!!!!! Here is the Link: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/
I recently run into an other very interesting and Important Web Site
Lots of
FREE Goodies!!!
Check it out: http://home.att.net/~aubreyb
HTML, CSS & other " How To " Tutorial Links, Graphics,Colors,
Linux, Emoticons,Acronyms,Modem Info, Sites For Kids, Magazines On Line,
Etc.. Etc...
So Enjoy :-))
Best regards
Snoopy :-)) :-))
Jason wrote:
> Hi all linux expert
>
> Would anyone of you recommend some good books to me?
> Or, is it worth to buy book as I am a newbie?
> Do you guys think that any good site on the web is good for beginner?
>
> any suggestion
>
> Thanks in advance
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From: "John Main" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: multi session cd's
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 17:27:23 GMT
Can anyone tell me if linux supports multisession cd's.
i have burned redhat 5.2 and slackware 4.0 and would like to know if
linux will be able to see the second session.
thanks john
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From: "Andy McMullin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Groupware on Linux ... ?
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 18:04:37 +0100
Why not wait a few days, then run Notes on Linux? Alternately, run Notes on
Solaris (Sparc or X86) -- no need to play with NT if you don't want to!!
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:7dqocj$htq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I need some help!
>
> I'm into my third week with a North Sioux City, South Dakota-based company
and
> I'm in charge of the Intra/Internet structure and services.
>
> One of the things I've been asked to clean up/construct is the corporate
> e-mail system. There is a strong corporate preference for Lotus Notes.
I'm
> not in favor of this for any number of reasons, chief among them is that
I'm
> going to have to learn a proprietary set of tools that run on NT.
>
> I've already wormed a Red Hat box into the organization for my network
> monitoring tools, and have a triple-boot P-III box for everyday work (Red
> Hat, DR-DOS, NT). I would LIKE to put a functioning mail/groupware server
on
> a Linux box, bring it to my brass, and say something like, "Well, we COULD
> bring in Lotus Notes ... but we already have this functioning,
> standards-based, open- source alternative in place. Here, let me show it
to
> you."
>
> My thought is that a working demonstration is probably worth more than a
> promise of a proprietary installation several weeks off. I don't know
that it
> would be enough to overcome Management's preferences, but it's worth a
shot.
>
> Anyway, my problem is this:
>
> I can set up a POP/IMAP/SMTP server any day of the week. An NNTP server
for
> shared discussions is a cinch. Web pages with our corporate e-mail is no
> problem.
>
> The killer is that I can't find an attractive alternative to some of the
group
> conferencing and scheduling that Notes offers. There are some CGI scripts
out
> there that will do nice things, but their interfaces uniformly SUCK, and
I'm
> not sure I have time to clean up the HTML they're generating.
>
> Does anyone know of a solution that I can implement quickly, preferably
that
> uses the Web browser as the interface?
>
> Help!
>
> I'd appreciate useful responses be also CCd to my e-mail at
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> so as to more quickly come to my attention.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Bill Stone
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> -----
> At Microsoft, quality is job 1.01b3.
> -----
>
> -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==----------
> http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own
------------------------------
From: Kent Robotti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie: Can't uninstall Linux
Date: 31 Mar 1999 22:43:28 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I installed Red Hat Linux and now need to install DOS on that machine. I have
> reformatted the disk, but each time the machine boots, Linux comes up. I have
> even deleted all of the partitions, and unless the DOS floppy is in the
> machine, Linux boots.
> HELP!
You have to remove lilo from the mbr, from the dos floppy run fdisk.
A:\ fdisk /mbr
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Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 14:43:31 -0800
From: William O'Neal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Interesting correspondence with Aureal's VP of Marketing.
Interesting correspondence with Aureal's VP of Marketing.
wil
=====Original Message=====
From: Toni Schneider
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 1999 7:29 AM
To: 'William O'Neal'
Subject: RE: Vortex and Linux...a question I'm sure you hate.
Hi Wil,
Linux support for Vortex 2 is very high up on our list. We were
previously working with the OSS guys, but for some reason they've been
taking a very long time. We're now moving on to put additional resources
on the project, and expect to have drivers sometime this summer. I
know, that's not immediate gratification... but Microsoft keeps us quite
busy with 4 sets of different drivers for each chip (Win 3.1, Win 9x,
Win NT 4.0, and Win 2000 each have different driver architectures) and
we're now just finally getting to a point where we can consider
alternative OS's (actually we also have OS/2 drivers for Vortex 1, but
that won't help gamers much)...
What is your opinion of Linux as a gaming platform? It seems that many
developers are moving to it, but how about game players?
Cheers,
Toni.
=====Original Message=====
From: William O'Neal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 1999 12:41 PM
To: Toni Schneider
Subject: Vortex and Linux...a question I'm sure you hate.
Hi Toni, I met you a while back when I was the Technical Editor at
ComputerLife Magazine, then again several months ago when you came to
Gamecenter to talk to our Technical Editor Ken Feinstein. Anyway, we
recently received new machines that came equipped with TBS Montego II
PCI cards and while I love the card in Windows 98, there doesn't seem to
be any Linux support for it. There's a commercial company OSS that is
talking about supporting the card, but in this age of instant
gratification, the idea of having to wait until July in order to "hear"
my operating system is a bit of a bummer.
Have you guys at Aureal discussed making Linux drivers? I imagine that
you guys put one together, and imagine all of that grass roots support
that would come your way from the Linux community. Well, just wanted to
hear your thoughts on the subject.
Take it easy,
Wil
William O'Neal
Features Editor, Gamecenter
CNET: The Computer Network
"Humor: the divine flash that reveals the world in its moral ambiguity
and man in his profound incompetence to judge others; humor: the
intoxicating relativity of human things; the strange pleasure that comes
of the certainty that there is no certainty." -- Milan Kundera
"Testaments Betrayed"
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From: Tom Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to umount a hung NFS filesystem??
Date: 30 Mar 1999 12:41:32 -0500
Looking for a "force" option, umount, df, etc hang when NFS server go
down.
--
Tom Evans
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Conover)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux vs. Windows - trees (the green ones)
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 23:23:31 GMT
People who don't like off-topic posts can stop reading here.
Just as an unrelated aside, pulp trees are grown and cut down to make paper.
They don't go around cutting down redwoods or anything to make those reams.
Pulp trees have a lifespan of approx 15 yrs, they usually cut them down in 7
years, and they replant something like 3 for every 1 they cut down. Not like
that matters much.
So you're not doing anyone any favors by conserving paper, unless you're
concerned about landfills. Which is still pointless, since there's so much
space that's deviod of humanity that the landfill companies own...it's really
mindboggling.
Environmentalists are generally the most idiotic and short-sighted people I
meet anyway (that wasn't aimed at you, just a random flame), everything is a
zero-sum game to them. I advise against listening to them, especially ones
named Al Gore and Paul Kennedy.
-Steve, bracing for the off-topic flames.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, jik- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Robert Sexton wrote:
>>
>> Donn Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>> : Here are some areas in which Windows is still better than FBSD and
>> : Linux:
>>
>> : * better books on programming, systems programming, etc. I don't think
>> : there's any books out there on specifically programming for FreeBSD
>> : (although Stevens' book might be close).
>>
>> We don't need any 'FreeBSD' specific programming books.
>> Its UNIX, ya, know? Basically, every book on UNIX programming is
>> directly applicable to FreeBSD and to a slightly lesser extent, Linux
>> programming. (Linux has more mint flavored extensions).
>
>I agree, though I use Unix programming to learn lots of Linux too....
>Linux books are crap, I haven't seen or read one that was worth the tree
>they cut down to print it....they all skim over lots of topics and never
>get into any nitty gritty on anything,...your basic newbie could write
>one.
>
>Unix books on the other hand....well you can find one of those on just
>about every aspect of Unix programming out there...they DO get into the
>gory details necisarry to actually learn anything.....they might be
>worth that tree.
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leland Olds)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Guillemot HSP64 (Help me please!!!)
Date: 30 Mar 1999 16:43:41 GMT
Xarj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>One last thing! I tried to setup my Sound card in Linux without success.....
>I use the Guillemot Home Studio Pro 64, a sound card for pros and
>musicians..... Works great in windows 98!!!!!!!!!
>
>Thanks for the help!!!!
Check out the sam9407 development page.
http://www.anime.net/~goemon/linux-sam9407/
The HSP uses the sam9407, but I don't know how well this driver works
with the HSP.
Guillemot isn't being at all cooperative with the Linux sam9407 driver
developers.
You might send Guillemot a polite note encouraging them to cooperate
with these folks. It really makes no sense for them not to.
Cooperating with open source Linux developers would cost them almost
nothing, and expose them to a market of 10 to 20 million linux users.
Additionally Linux users are generally more experienced computer
professionals and computer users who influence the buying decisions
of other people.
Even with Guillemot's lack of cooperation, you might be able to help
reverse engineer the HW interface if you have a good development
environment for win98.
Myself, I'm getting a Hoontech card.
(Followups to comp.os.linux.hardware)
--
Lee Olds
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Charles Sullivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: install Linux on a running Linux box?
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 14:16:00 -0500
See http://www.linux.org for a list of free download sites.
BIAN ZAILONG wrote in message <7dtfpk$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>
>I have a box running redhat 5.1 with a connection to a LAN. the machine is
old and the floppy and cdrom are gone for something better. Now I would
like to install a new distribution of Linux, or BSD. It doesn't matter
which one as long as I can do that without buying a floppy drive or borrow
one from other machine!!
>
>It is hard I believe. But there must be a way to do that!
>
>Thanks!
>--
>
>Zailong Bian
>-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
> 518-442-5865 (W) 518-437-8693 (W)
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From: "Cameron Spitzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help with LILO
Date: 31 Mar 1999 19:17:42 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Sydney Weidman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>You don't need to keep the kernel on the first cylinders of the disk.
>Only the root partition needs to be within the 1024 cylinder limit. Your
>kernel image can be loaded from almost anywhere by lilo. You should
>repartition so that boot is directory on the root partition and then add
>the line
> image=/boot/vmlinuz
>
>to the /etc/lilo.conf file, and rerun /sbin/lilo.
The message quoted above is completely wrong.
LILO uses BIOS calls to read the disk, and can only load files that reside on
partitions that are entirely visible to BIOS.
However, there is no need to have any Lilo-related files on
the root partition.
There is a file /boot/System.map that is used by the module
loader. Lilo does not care about this file at all.
The /boot directory is usually on the root file system.
The root file system DOES NOT have to be visible to BIOS.
Please read the existing Lilo documentation before giving
(bad) advice about Lilo.
Cameron
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From: "Charles Sullivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: A major mess - genius needed!! - SOLVED!!
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 12:56:31 -0500
I've got Win98 running again, thanks to the hint from "me" (below).
I think the problem was that I had the bootable flag set in _both_
the Win98 and Linux boot partitions. In any case I went into Linux
cfdisk and changed only the bootable flag, then had it rewrite the
partition table.
I was holding my breath when I rebooted the system, but Win98
booted up cleanly from LILO, as did Linux on a second reboot.
AFAIK I didn't lose any data. I then tried booting from the Win98
boot floppy and that worked also.
At this point I'm not sure it was actually clearing the boot flag which
solved the problem or just the rewriting of the partition table which
corrected some problem caused by Partition Magic 4.0, but I'm going
to try to investigate.
Many thanks to the responses I received here and via email.
Regards,
Charles Sullivan
me wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Did you somehow mark the partition hda1 (= windows c:) as not active,
>when you used Partition Magic? Windows must boot from the first
>partition, which must be marked "active" or "bootable". Linux just
>seems to boot from wherever Lilo tells it to (within reason!!)
>Otherwise the only thing I can think of is to trash the MBR (Boot from a
>DOS floppy or Windows rescue disk, and type "fdisk /mbr" at the
>prompt). Then you can boot Windows but not Linux. Enter Linux (via
>your Linux boot floppy), and re-edit /etc/lilo.conf. and run Lilo again.
>
>Charles Sullivan wrote:
>>
>> I've got a fairly new Pentium II system with 10Gb hard drive, partitioned
>> 7Gb for Win98 and 3 Gb for RH5.2 (+ kernel 2.2.0-pre7). I could boot
into
>> either Win98 or Linux from LILO in the MBR.
>>
>> I needed to resize a couple of the Linux partitions to redistribute the
>> available space so used Partition Magic 4.0 to accomplish this. I did
>> nothing to the Win98 partition nor to the Linux /boot partition, however
>> something went very wrong.
>>
>> I've now got the problem that I can't boot into Win98 by any means:
>> neither from the hard drive, nor from a Win 98 boot or rescue floppy,
>> nor from the Win98 CD. I can boot into Linux either from the hard drive
>> via LILO or from a Linux boot floppy with no problem, and once into Linux
>> I can access my Win98 partition. Linux fdisk indicates no problem with
>> any of the partitions.
>>
>> About the only thing left to try is to trash the first few sectors
>> by writing to them with 'dd' from Linux, hoping to be able to start Win98
>> from scratch. But does anyone have a more elegant solution?
>>
>> Replies by email would be greatly appreciated as I'm posting this message
>> from my old antique PC which I'm afraid won't hold up much longer, and I
>> can't access the 'net from my Winmodem-equipped Linux system.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Charles Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Damon des Jumeaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Weird tty entries under 2.2.4
Date: 31 Mar 1999 23:25:42 GMT
hi there - migrating to kernel 2.2.4-ac1 solved a previous problem with ip
masquerading, but now I'm having a problem with ttyps having odd names in
utmp/lastlog when a user logs in under an xterm. 'w' produces output like
this:
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
damon ttyp0 hera.ihermes.com 2:32pm 0.00s 47:49 0.08s w
laur ttyp2ric :0.0 3:12pm 0.00s 17.33s ? -
(note that laur's tty is messed up - and pcpu?)
the sessions show up in 'last' as:
laur ttyp2ric|Gen :0.0 Wed Mar 31 15:12 still logged in
damon ttyp0 hera.ihermes.com Wed Mar 31 14:32 still logged in
has anyone encountered this?
also, printing via samba isn't working under k2.2, though lpr works fine
and i've updated my printcap because /dev/lp1 migrated to /dev/lp0. is
there a known problem with samba under 2.2?
again, any pointers to a better forum for these questions, if such exists,
would also be appreciated. :)
-damon
--
Damon Harper des Jumeaux _/\_ "Then you'll excuse me...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] __\ /__ I'm in the middle of fifteen
Les Jums: [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / things, all of them annoying."
http://www.jumeaux.bc.ca/damon/ |/||\| - Commander Susan Ivanova, B5
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