Linux-Misc Digest #778, Volume #19 Wed, 7 Apr 99 22:13:09 EDT
Contents:
HELP, testing file on CDROM w/o copying to HD (Glenn T. Jayaputera)
Re: Installing and learning LINUX (KuruptSol)
Cannot solve Kernel Panic (Bruno Barberi Gnecco)
Bash script to rename multiple files needed (Martin Stenzel)
Re: VMWARE BEWARE (Alan Fried)
Re: Mounting SCSI CDROM (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: Q) disk cp fd0 to fd0 (source to target) (diahedrial)
Re: free computer11 (mark)
Re: free computer12 ("Richard Taylor")
Re: IRQ's (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: x11amp - is my sound configured properly? (Arcady Genkin)
PS (Dan)
Re: free computer13 (Marc LeBlanc)
Re: [wm-user] WordPerfect: WP8 new window creation? (Alan Shutko)
Re: mounting a cd in linux (Steve Zinck)
Re: How to enable VCD support in 2.0.36? (Raymond Li)
problems on gtk (hj)
Re: mounting a cd in linux ("J�rgen Exner")
Re: Bash script to rename multiple files needed (Alan Curry)
Re: How to see a Dos directory through LINUX (diahedrial)
Re: Why Linux still isn't my standard boot-up OS, or what are the Linux-equivalents
for these Windoze programs? ("J�rgen Exner")
Re: ess1869 sound issue (Michel)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Glenn T. Jayaputera)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: HELP, testing file on CDROM w/o copying to HD
Date: 2 Apr 99 07:23:25 GMT
I need to test a number of CDs that I suspect had some
problem with it. To test its readability I have to copy
the whole CD to a HD and wait for any I/O error.
After that I have to delete those files copied and start
the process again for different CD.
What I would like to achive is to make my Linux box read
the files from the CDROM _without_ actually copying the
files onto my HD. How do I go about it? I looked at
cp command but there is no switch that I can make it do
what I want.
thanks in advance
glenn
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (KuruptSol)
Subject: Re: Installing and learning LINUX
Date: 8 Apr 1999 00:02:31 GMT
> I have been using Linux for a couple years now, and my first
>distribution was Slackware, because someone on IRC told me to install it.
Slackware is a great distro, but it's a bit hard to get started with, I think.
You had someone tell you how to do it step by step, and that's fine, but not
everyone will have that advantage. With Red Hat, it's easy to install and
configure, which allows you to learn the basics. After all, he/she may find
that he/she does not like Linux, and at least with Red Hat it won't be a waste
of time.
>I am so happy that it is the first distro I started with, because I think it
is the >best.
I used Slackware for a while (after I had used Red Hat for about 6 months). I
learned a lot by using it, but had diffictulties setting up my PnP SB16, so I
went with Red Hat. Not that I couldn't have gotten it working, in retrospect,
however it was much easier with Red Hat.
>I tried Red Hat, and it is just too simple. I didn't like RPM's, because of
>dependancy problems. Some may disagree (I don't want to start a flame >war).
If you really want to learn about Linux, install Slackware.
I say go with Red Hat for a while, just to get a feeling for Linux, and then go
with Slackware if you want to learn more. It's a BIG change coming from
Windows/DOS to Linux, as you may remember, and I think Red Hat makes it easier
to complete that transition.
>I learned more about Linux in 1 week on Slackware than I did in 6 months >on
my RedHat box.
The problem is he/she may not want to learn more than they have to about Linux
:-) They may just want a stable OS to Get Things Done. If Linux is ever going
to be "mainstream", it will have to cater to these types of people, as
distrobutions like Red Hat and SuSE are doing. For other hacker types, there
will always be Slackware :-)
>As for learning about Linux, I never bought a book, I just started doing
>things, reading newsgroups, reading HOWTO's, occasionally screwing
>up my system and re-installing...
While this way works, I don't reccomend it. You really have to read a little
bit before you start installing. Maybe not a whole book, but at least the
HOWTOs/FAQs.
Bryan Woody
World War III could easily be avoided if we all adhered to a strict dress code.
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From: Bruno Barberi Gnecco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject: Cannot solve Kernel Panic
Date: 7 Apr 1999 08:16:01 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm installing kernel 2.2.4, and got this kernel panic when booting:
[MS-DOS FS Rel. 12,FAT 16,check=n,conv=b,uid=0,gid=0,umask=022,bmap]
[me=0x0,cs=4640,#101,fs=59898,fl=1562984,ds=159559682,de=29806,data=159561596,
se=35328,ts=1835102817,ls=29797,rc=0,fc=4294967295]
Transaction block size = 512
[MS-DOS FS Rel. 12,FAT 16,check=n,conv=b,uid=0,gid=0,umask=022,bmap]
[me=0x0,cs=4640,#101,fs=59898,fl=1562984,ds=159559682,de=29806,data=159561596,
se=35328,ts=1835102817,ls=29797,rc=0,fc=4294967295]
Transaction block size = 512
Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 03:03
I have one HD, 6.8Gb, on hda, partitioned in three. cylinders,
head, sectors are 789,255,63. I also would like to note that the new IDE
driver does not seems to work, as the boot locks just after Uncompressing
kernel (so, I'm using the old one). hda1 and hda2 are VFAT, and hda3 is
ext2 (where linux is). Any ideas?
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From: Martin Stenzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Bash script to rename multiple files needed
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 21:20:04 +0200
Hi there,
I have to solve the following problem (already consulted 3 books!):
In a certain directory there are several files and some of them have
spaces in their file names. Since I cannot send those files to the lpd
(putting them into quotation marks does not help it) I have to rename all
of them which have those spaces (derived from MacOS default :( ) to a name
with, let's say, a hyphen instead of them.
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance, Martin.
--
Martin Stenzel ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
13156 Berlin - Germany
Phone / Fax +49 / 30 / 477 555 49
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alan Fried)
Subject: Re: VMWARE BEWARE
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 00:40:27 GMT
mist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Alan Fried <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribed to us that -
>>Hi
>>
>>When I saw somebody post on one of the newsgroups concerning
>>this new application which is a Windows95 emulator. I got
>>very excited.
>>
><snip problems>
>>
>>Anyway does anyone have more positive experiences with vmware?
>>
>
>Yes. I've had it running perfectly well under Suse. I think using a
>virtual disk is the safest way. Only problems are that you need a lot
>of ram and space in /tmp.
>
I'm having problems now even doing that!!!
See my usenet message VMWARE AWARE
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: Mounting SCSI CDROM
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 19:06:43 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenny McCormack) writes:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>Glenn T. Jayaputera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Hello, recently I got a SCSI CDROM and I would like to use it in my
>>Linux box. The box has 2940 + 2 SCSI HDs and everything works fine.
>>My problem is I cannot mount this CDROM, it complains about not
>>a block device. With my HDs, I use /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1 but
>>I cannot use sdc1 for my CDROM. Am I doing something stupid here?
>Not stupid - just dyslexic.
>Try /dev/scd1 instead (get it? SCSI CD 1) of /dev/sdc1
Talking about dyslexia ... use /dev/scd0 , since scd1 would be the second
CDROM drive .
Michael
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From: diahedrial <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Q) disk cp fd0 to fd0 (source to target)
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 17:42:47 -0700
The following will make an exact disk copy of the floppy:
dd if=/dev/fd0 of=floppyimg.dd
dd if=floppyimg.dd of=/dev/fd0
HTH, -diahedrial
Brian McCauley wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> > I have been reading my linux book and searching the man pages but I
> > can not seem to find out what to do in Linux, when you want to
> > diskcopy a: a: /v as in MSDOS.
>
> There is no equivalent that I know of.
>
> Unix tends to be simpler - you can just do:
>
> cp /dev/fd0 imagefile
> cp imagefile /dev/fd0
> rm imagefile
>
> (Note: pedants use "dd" not "cp").
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mark)
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.basic.visual.misc,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.javascript,comp.lang.perl.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.os.vms,comp.periphs.printers,comp.software.year-2000,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.flight-sim,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.sports,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips
Subject: Re: free computer11
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 19:39:59 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (webmaster) wrote:
>Free Computer at http://giveaways.arecool.net
>
>DELL IS GIVING AWAY 500 FREE PENTIUM 500 Computers to celebrate their 5th
>anniversary.
>
>Hurry and if you are one of the first 500 people you win a new computer!!!
Ignore this bullshit. They try to redirect you to some site, probably
a porn site, and the redirector closed the account down.
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From: "Richard Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.basic.visual.misc,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.javascript,comp.lang.perl.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.os2.advocacy,com
Subject: Re: free computer12
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 21:35:49 -0300
Um, Dell is more than 5 years old.
webmaster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7eg4vf$bsp$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Free Computer at http://giveaways.arecool.net
>
> DELL IS GIVING AWAY 500 FREE PENTIUM 500 Computers to celebrate their 5th
> anniversary.
>
> Hurry and if you are one of the first 500 people you win a new computer!!!
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: IRQ's
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 19:10:19 GMT
Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder) writes:
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Brown) writes:
>> >I have a video card that apparently claims irq 10 (according to the
>> >ROM boot messages reporting PCI bus). But it doesn't show up in
>> >/proc/interrupts either.
>>
>> No surprise. The Linux video drivers don't use the IRQ at all.
>> There's no need for it.
>hmm. i have video cards which also claim an irq. since linux doesn't
>use the irq, is there any way to get them to stop taking it?
The IRQ gets assigned by the BIOS. If your BIOS does have an option
to select whether to give an IRQ to te video card or not, use that
one. Otherwise, you might still be able to get , say, a secondary PCI
card with the same IRQ to work in Linux.
>btw what would the irq be used for anyhow? is not using it an
>oversight and a potential for performance gains, or is it provided for
>the benefit of less capable operating systems such as ms-dos?
Many ARP and PCI cards (as well as VLB ones) have a jumper to disable
that on the card. You'll probably not see a big performance loss if
turning it off.
Michael
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.debian,comp.os.linux.sound
Subject: Re: x11amp - is my sound configured properly?
From: Arcady Genkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 21:05:29 GMT
"Matias Orchard V." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Arcady Genkin escribi�:
>
> > Hi all:
> >
> > I've installed x11amp from the package x11amp_0.9a3-2.deb. Whenever it
> > tries to play an mp3 file, it gives an error message:
> >
> > Couldn't open audio!
>
> I had the same problem. I don't remember very well, but look at in the man
> file and go to the xamp preferences, you have to select oss sound driver or
> something like that.
The man page says nothing of configuring it - only lists the
command-line options. :(
--
Arcady Genkin
"I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYDE
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From: Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PS
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 00:08:28 +0200
Hello all,
how can I list all the processes on the system, including all the
demons?
10x
Dan
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From: Marc LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
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Subject: Re: free computer13
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 16:56:26 -0300
Whats that ~sniff sniff , why yes it is spam I smell
webmaster wrote:
> Free Computer at http://giveaways.arecool.net
>
> DELL IS GIVING AWAY 500 FREE PENTIUM 500 Computers to celebrate their 5th
> anniversary.
>
> Hurry and if you are one of the first 500 people you win a new computer!!!
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Crossposted-To: corelsupport.wordperfect-linux
Subject: Re: [wm-user] WordPerfect: WP8 new window creation?
From: Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 07 Apr 1999 14:24:44 -0500
"Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [karsten@ali-ca6-11 karsten]$ ldd /opt/wp/wpbin/xwp
Please try the ldd in ld.so or at http://rescomp.wustl.edu/~ats/ldd.
The one RH ships (from glibc) is useless with libc5 programs.
--
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Please direct replies to the newsgroup so they can help others
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From: Steve Zinck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mounting a cd in linux
Date: 7 Apr 1999 21:36:36 GMT
Make sure you have cdrom support compiled into your kernel, or as a module,
then just: mount /dev/hdc /cdrom
man mount for more information.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> How do you mount a CD in linux ?
> Eric Headley
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From: Raymond Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: How to enable VCD support in 2.0.36?
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 09:01:11 -0700
Hello,
If the patch is already done, what do I have to do to play a VCD
with mtv? I have already installed the mtv rpm and it can be executed.
But it complained that 'it' is not a VCD.
Thanks in advance!
Yours,
Raymond Li
Kang Ch'ang-su wrote:
> The patch for VCD is already done In kernel 2.0.36.
>
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From: hj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: problems on gtk
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 09:01:57 -0600
hi everyone,
I downloaded the gtk-1.2.0. It has no problem when I compile and install
it. But when I tried to configure other programs like imlib, gtkicq and
other programs require gtk, it says something like can't find the
verison of gtk version>=1.0.1,but I did install it already. does anyone
has any idea ?
thanks in advance
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From: "J�rgen Exner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mounting a cd in linux
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 14:55:44 -0700
Reply-To: "J�rgen Exner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7egcii$kc8$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> How do you mount a CD in linux ?
Exactly the same way as you mount any other drive (or actually filesystem to
be more precise):
mount -t <fs type> <device> <mount point>
Without some more information (SCSI?, IDE?, which channel/ SCSI ID?, wich
mount point, what is the file system on the CD-ROM, which are the error
messages you get) it's impossible to give you more advice.
jue
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J�rgen Exner
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Subject: Re: Bash script to rename multiple files needed
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alan Curry)
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 22:00:09 GMT
In article <Pine.GSO.3.96.990407211206.17827A-100000@amor>,
Martin Stenzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Hi there,
>
>I have to solve the following problem (already consulted 3 books!):
>
>In a certain directory there are several files and some of them have
>spaces in their file names. Since I cannot send those files to the lpd
>(putting them into quotation marks does not help it) I have to rename all
>of them which have those spaces (derived from MacOS default :( ) to a name
>with, let's say, a hyphen instead of them.
If lpr or lpd is picky about filenames, you should be able to work around it:
$ cat 'lousy file name' | lpr
but if you must know,
for i in *;do mv "$i" `echo "$i"|tr " " -`;done
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From: diahedrial <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to see a Dos directory through LINUX
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 17:15:26 -0700
You have not included what harddrive/partition, so this will be
general...
Say you've got the files on your first IDE harddrive, first
partition. Then the following commands should work:
mkdir /mnt/dos
mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/dos
Now just cd to the /mnt/dos and find the files to copy.
Just change the /dev/hda1 to the appropriate drive/partition.
Try "man mount" for details on using the mount command.
HTH, -diahedrial
Srinivas Madiraju wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have XFREE86 3.3.2 with my LINUX and wanted to upgrade to 3.3.3
> I have downloaded the reqd files to one dos direcotry ftp` ing from
> windows. Now how can I access this directory from LINUX.
>
> I appreciate any help with this.
>
> Thanks,
> -Srini
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From: "J�rgen Exner" <[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: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 15:03:09 -0700
Reply-To: "J�rgen Exner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
David Dineen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I'm not sure about Perl being intuitive. Powerful, useful, omnipotent,
> certainly, but intuitive? I wrote a Perl script a while ago to
> automate a website (produce HTML from text file with meta data). To
> get rid of the newline character from the variable $m I had to do
> this:
>
> $m =~ s/\n$//;
>
> Obvious, isn't it?
What was wrong with "chomp"?
BTW: this is mentioned on page 14(!) of the camel book. If you didn't even
make it to page 14....
jue
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J�rgen Exner
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From: Michel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ess1869 sound issue
Date: 7 Apr 1999 20:59:14 -0500
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Gavin Maxwell wrote:
>
> I'm having trouble with my ess1869 ISA sound card in Red Hat 5.2. When the
> box boots, messages appear to the screen saying that the device or resource
> is busy. Can anyone help? Is the card partly faulty?
>
> thanks
>
> gavin
I have never had an install with RedHat that fixed up the sound correctly with
this card. It turns out that the config file is wrong.
With the attachment put into conf.modules
it should work.
You would achieve better results buying the 4-Front driver which works well ($20)
Patching as I say should make the sound work but you will notice that when you
move to kernel 2.2.x that the sound is broken and useless. Maybe a trojan in the
new sound support so we have to use 4-Front stuff.
I found out that with new sound support in the kernel most sound app no longer
work.
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options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=-1 mpu_io=0x330
options opl3 io=0x388
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