Linux-Misc Digest #718, Volume #19 Sat, 3 Apr 99 06:13:14 EST
Contents:
Re: can't be excuted by typing its name (C Sanjayan Rosenmund)
Re: How do I unlock my modem? (Andrew Comech)
Re: Best Free X Windows Server for Win95/98 Box on Samba/Linux Network? (dproc)
Re: Names to call Windows... (William Cornett)
Re: X problems ("Jet")
Redhat 5.2 on Compaq Proliant 2000 not recongize SCSI contoller ("Fox Mulder")
bad character display (Benjamin HERZOG)
Re: Idea: Make a seperate "i686" tree for Redhat Linux 6.0 (Enkidu)
Please help - upgrading kernel ("John Fee")
Re: Microsoft Patents Open-Source (Glen Turner)
Re: SCSI Controller Probe Order??? (Glen Turner)
Re: SCSI Controller Probe Order??? (Stuart R. Fuller)
QtMozilla PLEASE !!!!!! ("Thomas Horan")
Re: Why Linux still isn't my standard boot-up OS, or what are the
Linux-equivalents for these Windoze programs? (Harry)
Re: Proposal: "Linux 2000 Platform" (Christopher B. Browne)
Re: Problem with Extracting compressed Linux Programs (Richard Steiner)
Re: Dosemu problem with Windows 95 (Ewan Dunbar)
My Linux machine froze!! (Ilya)
Re: Idea: Make a seperate "i686" tree for Redhat Linux 6.0 (Rod Smith)
Cosmos RH5.2 -- Boot Despair (Benjamin Sher)
How to compile autofs support with kernel source 2.0.34-4 ? (Nick Dreyer)
FTP uploads (Nick Farley)
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From: C Sanjayan Rosenmund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: can't be excuted by typing its name
Date: Sat, 03 Apr 1999 08:54:46 GMT
John Rowe wrote:
>
> Surely this must be second only to "how do I remove a file beginning
> with a -" for generating a spew of wannabe answers. Do people put
> these questions in here as a troll for their kill files?
>
how about
rm -f ./-file
( I *hate* those. . . .)
--
Sanjay
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Windows has detected that a gnat has farted near your computer.
Press any key to reboot.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Comech)
Subject: Re: How do I unlock my modem?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2 Apr 1999 23:41:51 -0500
On Fri, 2 Apr 1999 16:57:40 -0700, SEATTLE wrote:
>Try this site
>
>http://home.att.net/~aubreyb
>
>
>Click the linux Link, Scroll down to Modems & Linux site and to another
>link"Linux and Modems. Modems & Linux site lets U ask questions and provides
>answers
Pretty original, you asshole.
Could not you just say "go to DejaNews.com" instead of this
abrakadabra (I mean, if you can not just answer the question)?
As to the original question, it has already been answered...
No regards,
Andrew
PS. Well, if silly you just did not know what DejaNews is, then I
will spare that asshole for another time.
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Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 23:35:09 -0500
From: dproc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.x,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Best Free X Windows Server for Win95/98 Box on Samba/Linux Network?
Eugene VonNiederhausern wrote:
> Cyrus Mehta wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am creating a dual Windows/Linux environment using Samba for file serving
> > on a standard Ethernet network. I was wondering what kind of X server software
> > for the Windows side I could use to run some X windows apps off of the LInux Box.
> >
> > Reliability is the most important factor, windows will crash often enough without
> > the help of the X server.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > CKM
>
> Yesterday, I found the best X server/viewer for windows (and linux) that I have
> seen yet and it is free (GNU Public License). It is called VNC from Olivetti and
> Oracle research laboratory. You can connect from linux->windows, windows->linux,
> linux->linux, windows->windows. It is a lot better than any of the other products
> I have seen ot this kind. I don't have the URL (it is at work) you can email me or
> post a reply and I will get it and reply.
That sounds really interesting. At the moment I use MIX, which is not free (binary
only and other restrictions) but it costs nothing.
I downloaded it from MicroImages <http://www.microimages.com>
It doesn't crash my Windows 95* system. It includes a Window Manager (twm) and its own
fonts which run as native on the Windows box taking some load off the network. This
is important to me as I don't have a real network, just a serial cable between two COM
ports running PPP (pppd) and the X client applications on the Linux* system, and
Dial-Up Networking on Windows. It is only 115200 bits per second! That is not enough
for Netscape, but performance is excellent for large xterms and lynx.
If for some reason the GPL X Server recommended by Eugene doesn't work, why not try
MIX?
Yours, dproc
* Windows 95 is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation.
* Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Cornett)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Names to call Windows...
Date: Sat, 03 Apr 1999 08:09:01 GMT
On 02 Apr 1999 08:39:47 +0200, Martin Dieringer wrote:
: Donn Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
:
: > People who use FreeBSD and Linux have a few clever nicknames for
: > Windows. Here are some that I've seen and used (that don't have
: > profanity):
: >
: > Windblows
: > Winblows
: > Winbloats
: > Winslow
: > Windoze
: > 'Doze
: > WinHell --> instead of "Wintel"
: > No-Win-dows
:
: you forgot the best one: Wintendo
:
: m.
Shouldn't this crap be on comp.os.linux.advocacy? Most people (myself
included) come here to learn something useful. There should be a group
titled comp.os.linux.whiners or comp.os.bsd.freebsd.whiners for youse
guys.
--
Remove the period from my email address to reply.
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From: "Jet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: X problems
Date: Sat, 3 Apr 1999 01:01:30 -0800
Janko Buzan�i� wrote in message <7e4f1a$r78$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I have AT3D Voodoo Rush card with 3DFx .
>My linux dont recognize the card, so i work with Vga16 in 640x480!
>Please how to fix the problem.
>I found drivers on net for AT3D for linux but i dont know how to install
>them!
>
>
Check out
http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/rh1/XFree86-upgrade/XFree86-upgrade.html
J
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From: "Fox Mulder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Redhat 5.2 on Compaq Proliant 2000 not recongize SCSI contoller
Date: Sat, 3 Apr 1999 10:55:09 +0800
Sorry for cross posting but I have working on it for too long time.
I have got a Compaq Proliant 2000 server with EISA channel and plugged with
a Compaq NCR chips SCSI controller. By some reason the setup program seems
unable to found the SCSI controller automatically (Both the internal and
EISA add-on).
I believe there will is necessary to put in some parameter during the
install and I have tried "base_address=9000 irq=15" etc but still not able
to make it work.
Please can you help
Regards
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From: Benjamin HERZOG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: bad character display
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 13:32:47 +0200
Hello ,
I was runing Linux RedHat 5.1 (Kernel 2.0.34)
I compiled kernel 2.2.4 and since then, i have a problem :
there are some french character (eacute, egrave, ...) that are not
displaying well on screen.
I think the keytable is OK, because the characters are recognised well
(eacute is eacute), but they are just displayed on the screen with
strange signs ...
Please, help !
Benjamin HERZOG
runing Linux ; Kernel 2.2.4
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Enkidu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.misc,alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Idea: Make a seperate "i686" tree for Redhat Linux 6.0
Date: Sat, 03 Apr 1999 20:54:55 +1200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Johan Kullstam wrote:
>
> Enkidu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > It's a mixed blessing. Count the number of times there are questions
> > on this group from someone who has bought or downloaded Redhat, and
> > doesn't know how to partition a disk.
>
> is this a redhat problem or a generic linux problem? if debian,
> slackware &c were as popular i am sure we'd hear the same questions
> about them.
>
Good point, but having subscribed to these groups for a long time, I
still maintain that the number of *real dumb* questions correlates
pretty well with the rise of Redhat.
Does anyone want to do a count?
Cliff
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From: "John Fee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Please help - upgrading kernel
Date: Sat, 3 Apr 1999 10:00:30 +0100
I'm trying to upgrade RH 5.2 kernel 2.0.36 to 2.2.2 and was first trying to
ensure that I had the minimum required versions of the necessary
programs/libraries. I've hit a cascading problem whereby each module I tried
to update told me it needed a later version of some other module. Now I've
hit a wall with the glibc (or was it modutils?) library since it says I need
kernel header files from version 2.1.x or later. GYAH! So what it's saying
in effect is that I need a later version of the kernel in oder to ugrade to
a later version of the kernel. Excellent! Or have I got this wrong? HELP!
JF
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Date: Sat, 03 Apr 1999 20:24:47 +0930
From: Glen Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: gnu.misc.discuss,rec.humor,ox.os.linux
Subject: Re: Microsoft Patents Open-Source
Barry Margolin wrote:
> I don't think I've ever been fooled by an April Fools Day Usenet
> posting or RFC.
I always liked KRE's RFC1924 on printing IPv6 addresses,
especially the dig at the speed of the IPv6 roll-out:
> 7. Implementation Issues
>
> Many current processors do not find 128 bit integer arithmetic, as
> required for this technique, a trivial operation. This is not
> considered a serious drawback in the representation, but a flaw of
> the processor designs.
>
> It may be expected that future processors will address this defect,
> quite possibly before any significant IPv6 deployment has been
> accomplished.
--
Glen Turner Network Specialist
Tel: (08) 8303 3936 Information Technology Services
Fax: (08) 8303 4400 The University of Adelaide 5005
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] South Australia
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Date: Sat, 03 Apr 1999 20:32:44 +0930
From: Glen Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI Controller Probe Order???
Jerry Gardner wrote:
>
> Anyone know how to control the SCSI controller probe order in the
> 2.2.x kernels?
>
> I have a system with two SCSI controllers, an Adaptec 2940UW and an
> Adaptec 1542B. Unfortunately, the kernel probes the 1542B first and
> assigns the ZIP drive attached to it as sda. I want the 2940UW probed
> first so that the system's boot drive is assigned to sda.
>
> Any hints? TIA.
Try swapping the two controllers on the bus.
--
Glen Turner Network Specialist
Tel: (08) 8303 3936 Information Technology Services
Fax: (08) 8303 4400 The University of Adelaide 5005
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] South Australia
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stuart R. Fuller)
Subject: Re: SCSI Controller Probe Order???
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 03 Apr 1999 05:00:05 GMT
Jerry Gardner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
:
: Anyone know how to control the SCSI controller probe order in the
: 2.2.x kernels?
:
: I have a system with two SCSI controllers, an Adaptec 2940UW and an
: Adaptec 1542B. Unfortunately, the kernel probes the 1542B first and
: assigns the ZIP drive attached to it as sda. I want the 2940UW probed
: first so that the system's boot drive is assigned to sda.:
The controllers are probed in the order listed in
/usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/hosts.c
Change the order in which the drivers are listed.
Someone else suggested building the 2940UW driver into the kernel, and
building the 1542B driver as a module. The built-in driver may get probed
first, followed by the module. I don't know if this works, though.
Stu
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From: "Thomas Horan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: QtMozilla PLEASE !!!!!!
Date: Sat, 3 Apr 1999 11:12:57 +0100
If anyone out there knows where I can find a binary of QtMozilla or QtScape
could you please send the link to me.......I have tried compiling it myself
but no matter what I try I just cant get it to work.......
thanks
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From: Harry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Why Linux still isn't my standard boot-up OS, or what are the
Linux-equivalents for these Windoze programs?
Date: Sat, 03 Apr 1999 05:06:07 -0500
> it's considerably more high-level than, say, pico
I'm relieved to hear that. So, it's object-oriented? Does that
mean you have to instatiate the letter "a" from class "a"
before you can use it?
Harry
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher B. Browne)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Proposal: "Linux 2000 Platform"
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 03 Apr 1999 06:07:38 GMT
On 3 Apr 1999 02:27:44 GMT, Jeremy Crabtree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted:
>Christopher B. Browne allegedly wrote:
>>-> Doubtless there are some Grail partisans...
>
>Is that the awful beast written in TCL/Tk ?
I'm not aware of any "awful beasts written in TCL/Tk;" Grail is one of
the longstanding sample applications written in Python.
>>-> Chimera has two "streams," and is pretty nicely suited to "popping
>> up documentation."
>
>I neve did get that to work very well for me :(
One of them worked well for me; the other "sucked."
>>-> Who knows? The Mnemonic guys might get theirs "productionized,"
>> and it might well be preferable to Netscape.
>
>I've not heard of that one.
It's written in C++, and they're presently proceeding with using CORBA
a whole lot with it.
Those that can remember back to *last* March, Mnemonic was getting a
lot of attention last Feb/March as the "componentized" web browser
where you'd just load in the parts that you really needed. Interest
dropped instantly as soon as Netscape released Mozilla source code.
Dumb move on peoples' parts, but entirely predictable based on the
widespread excitement about "Netscape going Open Source!!!!!!"
It is worthy of note that there is not, even yet, a "production"
release of Mozilla. I ran the "M3" beta-edition a few weeks ago once;
suffice it to say that it needs some work before anyone will care to
use it as a replacement for any of the other "browsing options."
Anyway, Mnemonic efforts seem to be back under way; see
<http://www.mnemonic.browser.org/> for details.
>>Frankly, I think that the "best" standardization would be done much as
>>with EDITOR/VISUAL; one would set the environment variables
>>HELP_BROWSER, SSL_BROWSER, BROWSER, and the system pick one on
>>demand...
>>
>>Further multiplexing would be doable by setting those variables to run
>>shell scripts that check on system configuration and dynamically
>>figure out what to do.
>
>Interesting...sounds a mite complex, but still interesting.
The following little script is what I reference with EDITOR and
VISUAL; it checks to see if XEmacs or GNU Emacs are running, and
latches onto them if possible. Alternatively, it runs "jed."
(Apparently that means I'm an Emacs person; go shoot me...)
#!/usr/bin/perl
$EDITOR = "jed";
$xemacsps = `ps aex | grep gnuserv | wc -l`;
$xemacsps --;
$xemacsps --;
$emacsps = `ps aex | grep emacs | wc -l `;
$emacsps --;
$emacsps --;
if ($xemacsps > 0) {
$EDITOR = "gnuclient";
} elsif ($emacsps > 0) {
$EDITOR = "emacsclient";
}
$command = $EDITOR . " " . $ARGV[0];
print $command, "\n";
exec $command;
I use something roughly equivalent to pass URLs from the shell to
Netscape; it spawns a Netscape process if one isn't already present.
It would doubtless be easy enough to build up more complex schemes to
search for other web browsers that might be running.
Not rocket science.
--
Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
-- Henry Spencer <http://www.hex.net/~cbbrowne/lsf.html>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - "What have you contributed to free software today?..."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Steiner)
Subject: Re: Problem with Extracting compressed Linux Programs
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 03 Apr 1999 10:25:22 GMT
Here in comp.os.linux.misc, Vik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake unto us, saying:
>Greetings,
>I bought RedHat 5.2 from CheapBytes as well as 3 archive CD's with
>programs on them. However I am stuck at how to decompress and
>ultimately install, I have tried many things including gunzip but it
>dosen't seem to work can anyone out there give me a clue or two, a in
>how to solve this.
I'm just guessing, but boot into either DOS or Windows, and look for
should be a text file in the root directory of the CD-ROM which should
describe how to create a boot diskette using RAWRITE.
The normal Red Hat 5.1 comes with such a diskette in the box. With the
$2 one from CheapBytes, I think you need to create it yourself.
--
-Rich Steiner >>>---> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>---> Bloomington, MN
OS/2 + Linux (Slackware+RedHat+SuSE) + FreeBSD + Solaris + BeOS +
WinNT4 + Win95 + PC/GEOS + MacOS + Executor = PC Hobbyist Heaven!
The Theorem Theorem: If If, Then Then
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From: Ewan Dunbar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dosemu problem with Windows 95
Date: Sat, 3 Apr 1999 00:01:05 -0500
On 3 Apr 1999, IBMackey wrote:
> The following file is missing or corrupted: COMMAND.COM
> Type the name of the Command Interpreter (e.g., C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM)
> C>
The command.com is "missing or corrupted". Use `dos -A` and replace it.
> No commands will work at the prompt. I have to go to another partition
> and use Kill to quit the program. Any ideas?
You mean another virtual console. 'Partition' always refers to a disk
partition. Try putting dosemu questions on the dosemu mailing list instead
though.
================================================
Ewan Dunbar
================================================
Visit Preston Manning: Action Hero at
http://earl.thedunbars.com/pmah/index.html
================================================
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From: Ilya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: My Linux machine froze!!
Date: 3 Apr 1999 02:29:30 +0800
I was downloading a web page via Netscape when my machine froze. The mouse,
the keyboard, everything. The page didn't finish downloading, it just froze
too. CTRL-ALT F1 didn't don't anything, neither did CTRL-ALT-DEL. I had to
reset it. When it was booting up, I got a message - something like this:
No Input detected
it flashed for one second and then other stuff scrolled by. I am not sure
if that had anything to do the incident. That machine has been really
reliable and was up for a month.
/var/log/messages didn't say anything. dmesg was normal. I am not sure
where else to look.
I would appreciate any suggestions.
root@republic-p3-~> uname -a
Linux republic.calweb.com 2.2.1 #1 SMP Fri Feb 5 10:12:54 PST 1999 i686 unknown
root@republic-p6-~> netscape -v
Netscape 4.08/Export, 02-Nov-98; (c) 1995-1998 Netscape Communications Corp.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.misc,alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Idea: Make a seperate "i686" tree for Redhat Linux 6.0
Date: 2 Apr 1999 14:36:10 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Enkidu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> wizard wrote:
>>
>> On top of adding value the strengthen the Linux code base by
>> setting things like RPM free.
>>
> RPM is a good package manger, but it is *not* essential. I've been
> running Linux for years without it.
True, but that wasn't the claim, either. The claim is that Linux is
strengthened by RPM. I agree with that statement.
>> The other key item that everyone overlooks is the large amount
>> of effort the people at RedHat, Suse and others put into driver
>> development. If that does add value I don't know what does.
>>
> This is a fiction. Redhat do *not* develop drivers.
I did a grep on some directories in my 2.2.3 kernel source tree (the
subdirectories under the drivers directory, to be precise). There were
several hits on "redhat," all in e-mail addresses of kernel developers.
Now, perhaps Red Hat itself isn't officially supporting this development,
but their people are certainly involved in it.
--
Rod Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.channel1.com/users/rodsmith
NOTE: Remove the "uce" word from my address to mail me
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From: Benjamin Sher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Cosmos RH5.2 -- Boot Despair
Date: Sat, 03 Apr 1999 10:43:15 GMT
Dear friends:
First, my deep apologies if this is a duplicate. I am using an old
Compaq 486 with a 14.4 modem to communicate with you and cannot even see
your messages. It would take an hour, literally, to download the
newsgroups to my computer. My Netscape 3.04 told me that my message had
not yet been sent. There is no way for me to check. So I am sending it
again, just in case. My apologies again.
This message is addressed to the kind folks of the Linux community, in
general, and to those of you, in particular, who might own the Cosmos
Linux on a Disk (or LOAD) which features Red Hat 5.2. The address for
Cosmos Engineering is:
http://www.cosmoseng.com
I have an NEC Pentium 166, Ready 9712, MMX, 64 RAM, with Linux on a Disk
(LOAD) installed as the master drive and Windows 95B installed on its
own disk as the slave drive and connected by Lilo as a dual-boot
mechanism. At least, that's the way it's supposed to be. (The two drives
were switched as explained below).
Those of you who have seen my posts on several Linux newsgroups,
including this one, know how excited I was (and indeed still am) about
my switch to Linux. Two years of Crashware and endless restorations was
all I could take. After much reading of a general nature about Linux, I
decided to make the switch. I chose Linux on a Disk from Cosmos because
it seemed the ideal way to make the transition. I plan eventually to
turn the Win95 disk into a Linux partition as part of an all-Linux
system.
After several weeks of waiting impatiently, Linux on a Disk finally
arrived last Friday. Being a computer layman (I am a
translator/publisher by profession), I made a serious effort to study
the basics of Linux, a rather difficult feat without hands-on
experience. I hired a PC expert, at my expense, to physically install
LOAD and help me configure Linux as best he could. I also sent Cosmos a
full 38-page hardware diagnosis for the record to help them troubleshoot
my system if need be.
Well, we found out right off that Linux would not boot either from the
Cosmos boot floppy or from the Cosmos Linux on a Disk CD. A very
generous Linux expert (and I have been utterly stunned at the tremendous
support provided by the Linux community to those in need) called me to
suggest changing master and slave drives. So, we now had (and still
have) Linux as the master drive and Win95 as the slave drive. For the
next three days I found myself staring at "LI" blinking at me from a
blank screen.
On Monday we called Cosmos to ask for their help. They were extremely
generous and spent an hour with us on the phone. Bottom line: The
original Cosmos boot floppy was defective, and we now created a new boot
floppy and install floppy. I could now boot from the floppy onto Linux
but not from the HD and in either case never into Windows by way of
Lilo.
I called Cosmos the next day to ask for their help. After all, Linux on
a Disk had failed to do what it was supposed to, namely, to allow me to
boot from the HD using Lilo into either Linux or Windows.
Cosmos refused outright and has continued to refuse to make their
Linux on a Disk, an otherwise splendid, beautifully designed and
feature-rich product, work (and work properly). They also refused to
allow me to make use of their standard free 30-day email tech support.
Their reasons were entirely personal in nature, having to do with my
frequent telephone calls about Linux, its operation, configuration
problems (before LOAD had even been shipped). This is fully
understandable, and I myself admitted as much in a conciliatory,
repentant letter the following day. Nevertheless, Cosmos categorically
refused and continues to refuse to answer any of my email messages,
which were for the most part concerned with this technical issue. In my
view, Cosmos had allowed personal considerations to get in the way of
their professional conduct and obligation to a client.
The next day the same Linux expert I referred to above suggested adding
the word "linear" to lilo.conf, which I did (it was already there but I
moved it down just prior to the "image" entry), and, bingo, I was able
to boot from the Linux HD. I then kept fine-tuning the lilo.conf in
order to make it load Windows. I managed to get the Lilo boot menu to
show Linux and Windows on the screen. Yet, when actually typing Windows
(with "boot=Windows" and "loading Windows" showing on the top of the
screen), Lilo always booted Linux anyway.
As I mentioned, Cosmos has its own MENU, which includes "automatic" ways
to configure Linux, including a special LOAD Setup for the Cosmos disk.
In it, I found "Reinstall Load". I followed the instructions in order to
make it possible for me to load up Windows from the HD. Instead, after
saving and exiting, I found that not only could I not boot into Windows
from the HD but also could no longer boot into Linux from the HD. Back
to square one. I can boot into Linux using the special boot floppy
created with Cosmos' help on Monday, but that's it. Cosmos has not
finished the job, casting me adrift all alone. This is where I find
myself right now, staring at that blinking LI on the screen, wondering
if I will ever get to enjoy the great power, versatility, functionality
and reliability of Linux.
I have pleaded with Cosmos (by email) to meet their professional
obligation to me. They are a small but high-quality company. Their Linux
on a Disk is fabulous. But it is THEIR product, and it is THEIR
responsiblity to make it work and work properly.
Being cut off from all tech support, I am forced therefore to appeal to
the Linux community for help which should properly be provided by the
manufacturer himself.
I might add that I have received dozens of magnificent responses to my
postings on the Linux newsgroups. I have printed them all out and will
make use of them to help me configure my sound, modem, ADSL, Iomega,
etc. These letters, along with my copy of Red Hat Linux Unleashed, Using
Linux and Running Linux (which I expect to get from Cosmos any day now),
will help me make my way up Linux's famous "steep learning curve."
However, I can do nothing until I can first boot up properly from my HD
to Linux and, temporarily, at least, to Windows, which I must still use
for my work.
My thanks to everyone in the Linux community. You have been great!
Benjamin
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Benjamin Sher
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Sher's Russian Web
http://www.websher.net
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nick Dreyer)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: How to compile autofs support with kernel source 2.0.34-4 ?
Date: Sat, 03 Apr 1999 06:24:44 GMT
The Installation notes for the autofs package available in the current stable
debian distribution - I don't have the exact autofs version handy, but that
shouldn't matter - says kernel 2.0.31 or above supports autofs. It also says
that this support has to be compiled into the kernel, but I don't see where to
set that option. I see under the "Filesystems" section of the .config file
generated by make menuconfig for kernel 2.1.132 that there is an option called
something like auto_mount_fs, but nothing like that in the .config file for my
2.0.34 source.
So what do I do to get my 2.0.34 kernel to support autofs? It definitely does
not do so now, but 2.0.34 is greater than 2.0.31, which should support autofs
according to the autofs instalation notes.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
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From: Nick Farley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: FTP uploads
Date: Sat, 03 Apr 1999 10:45:29 GMT
Does anyone know how to allow users to upload to a particular directory?
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