Linux-Misc Digest #351, Volume #18 Fri, 25 Dec 98 22:13:10 EST
Contents:
Labview and Linux ("Hoyt")
Re: Anti-Linux FUD ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Anti-Linux FUD (mlw)
Re: Does Linux support plug & play (Luc De Cock)
Re: Anti-Linux FUD (Irina Rempt)
Re: GPL Bible Software for Linux? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: isapnp and modem problems ("Hoyt")
Changing CD ROMs (Doug Andrews)
Re: Single user mode with LILO (Steve Weiss)
netscape mail: How to cut and paste (Dean Tran)
Re: Infringement of the GPL (steve mcadams)
Re: Torvalds distribution? (steve mcadams)
Re: RH5.1 + g++ include file "String.h" (Eusebio Garate)
Re: Anti-Linux FUD ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: FTP GUI w/ recovery? (Michael Kelly)
Re: CDRs I burn in Windows NT server are not readable in Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
RE:Help please (Darren Ludlam)
What's better about Redhat 5.2 than it's (RH) pred. ??? (Ken)
nifty ssh password window? (Chris Menzel)
Re: Running linux on a ramdrive/CD (was Re: 'Ramdisk' under Linux) (Thomas A. Oehser)
From a linux dummy ("Sergei Gerasenko")
Netscape 4.5 flagged messages, how to load? (Dmitry)
Re: things I'd pay to have developed for Linux... (Bill Davidsen)
Re: things I'd pay to have developed for Linux... (Bill Davidsen)
Re: Desperately seeking Tape Backup Help!!!! (Ivo Naninck)
Re: Desperately seeking Tape Backup Help!!!! (Ivo Naninck)
Re: From a Linux dummy (Ivo Naninck)
modem dialing (The Chameleon)
Re: iso9660 not supported by kernel? (JaWz)
Modem of the Presario 1238 ("Javier Minero")
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From: "Hoyt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Labview and Linux
Date: 25 Dec 1998 16:18:27 GMT
My brother works for a company that makes testing equipment for batteries.
He expresses the usual frustrations with the NT boxes they sell to accompany
their equipment. He is curious if Labview
(http://www.natinst.com/products/ ) will run under Linux. I see that they
support Solaris and HP-UX (in addition to NT, Win 98, Win 3.1, DOS, MAc OS
and Real-time OS) . I'm not technically savvy enough to to know -- will it
run under Linux? Any ideas? I haven't heard back from them.
Hoyt
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Crossposted-To: alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: Anti-Linux FUD
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 16:23:21 GMT
On Fri, 25 Dec 1998 15:55:37 +0000, mlw wrote these thought provoking
words :
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
:>
:> On 25 Dec 1998 14:11:16 GMT, Destrius wrote these thought provoking
:> words :
:>
:>
:> :My entire registry (user.dat and system.dat) suddenly disappeared from the
:> :face of my Windows partition after I deleted a single non-related file in
:> :some directory. This was one month after I re-installed Windows95 fresh.
:>
:> Are you blaming windows for that very unfortunate mishap? :-/
:Actually it has to be Windows, because system.dat and user.dat are
:locked while Windows is running. Without extreme measures, a user can
:not delete user.dat and system.dat.
:
:Suffice to say, when the registry is corrupt, it is Windows' fault.
:Windows hides the structure (data format), manages the API, and locks
:the files when it is running. What else can corrupt such a file?
The file was not corrupted. It was deleted. Wow.
Very unfortunate.
-== Allie ==-
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Allie Martin (Mr.)
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: mlw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: Anti-Linux FUD
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 16:33:45 +0000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> On Fri, 25 Dec 1998 15:55:37 +0000, mlw wrote these thought provoking
> words :
>
> :[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> :>
> :> On 25 Dec 1998 14:11:16 GMT, Destrius wrote these thought provoking
> :> words :
> :>
> :>
> :> :My entire registry (user.dat and system.dat) suddenly disappeared from
>the
> :> :face of my Windows partition after I deleted a single non-related file in
> :> :some directory. This was one month after I re-installed Windows95 fresh.
> :>
> :> Are you blaming windows for that very unfortunate mishap? :-/
> :Actually it has to be Windows, because system.dat and user.dat are
> :locked while Windows is running. Without extreme measures, a user can
> :not delete user.dat and system.dat.
> :
> :Suffice to say, when the registry is corrupt, it is Windows' fault.
> :Windows hides the structure (data format), manages the API, and locks
> :the files when it is running. What else can corrupt such a file?
>
> The file was not corrupted. It was deleted. Wow.
Still, how could it have been deleted unless it was Windows doing it?
Windows locks the files. The files normally have "system" and "hidden"
and "readonly" attributes when Windows is not running. If someone knows
how to delete this file, they would have done it on purpose.
The only other alternative is (gasp!) a bug in Windows (ya think?)
--
Mohawk Software
Windows 95, Windows NT, UNIX, Linux. Applications, drivers, support.
Visit the Mohawk Software website: www.mohawksoft.com
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From: Luc De Cock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Does Linux support plug & play
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 17:49:00 +0100
Pete wrote:
> : Justin Headley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> :> what is wrong with PnP? I think it's one of the greatest things in the world.
> : > People don't have to fiddle with stupid jumpers anymore, sometimes the
> : > inexperienced ones actually ruining their card in the process, so they just
> : > slip it into the slot, and boot up.
>
> one of the final straws before i moved to linux was PnP configuring my
> cards differently upon every boot. it was almost funny, like a 3 stooges
> movie. it could never make up its mind -- for example, every other day it
> would install a logitech serial mouse. on the next day it would remove it.
>
> and i have a PS/2!!
>
> i swear it was almost as if PnP detection was tied to a random number
> generator...
> pete
Linux supports PnP very well with PCI cards. ISA PnP is possible with the isapnp and
pnpdump tool.Luc.
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Irina Rempt)
Subject: Re: Anti-Linux FUD
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 19:20:35 GMT
In comp.os.linux.x Steve Mading <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Because: 1 - I want to be able to run a program by typing its name
> no matter what directory I am in. and 2 - I don't want a $PATH
> variable that's over 1000 letters long because of all the /opt/yadda
> directories in it.
I have a directory /home/irina/bin in my $PATH with a little script for
every program I run regularly that's in a non-obvious place, as well as
a few homegrown utilities. It works.
Irina
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt/irina/frontpage.html
=============================================================================
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor
standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
Ps. 1:1
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: GPL Bible Software for Linux?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 11:20:33 GMT
Scott Dudley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:
: Is anyone aware of any GPL'ed bible software for Linux? Seems to me I
: came across something a year or so ago but failed to bookmark it.
:
: Many thanks.
On one of my sunsite cd's, there's bible in the subdirectory
apps/religion. I've converted the verses to fortunes... It's
a King James version.
--
Boudewijn Rempt | www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt
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From: "Hoyt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: isapnp and modem problems
Date: 25 Dec 1998 17:05:54 GMT
>I'm having trouble setting up my 486 to use my PNP 33.6 "336cifx" modem.
<SNIP>
Look at this site:
http://home.earthlink.net/~webspot/ppp.html
Hoyt
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From: Doug Andrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Changing CD ROMs
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 21:31:41 -0500
Is there some, non-Xterm, way of changing from one CD to another while
running Linux? When I used RedHat 5.1
I used fstool to do this by unmounting, changing and then remounting.
In RedHat 5.2 there seems to be no graphical tool by which I can mount
and unmount file systems. i.e. fstool is no more.
Thanks
Doug
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From: Steve Weiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Single user mode with LILO
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 02:32:03 +0000
You should be able to type: linux -s
at the lilo prompt to get to single user mode.
-Steve
The Man wrote:
>
> When I need to start my Linux (RedHat 5.1, kernel 2.0.34) in single user
> mode I first
> have to login (I use LILO), change the default runlevel to 1, and
> restart. Is there an easier way?
> I've read somewhere that you can choose 'single' at the LILO-prompt to
> start in single user mode. Tried it, but LILO didn't accept it.
> Thanks in advance!
--
"If you watch TV news, you know less about the world than if you just
drank
gin straight from the bottle." - Garrison Keillor
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From: Dean Tran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: netscape mail: How to cut and paste
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 07:30:51 +0000
I use netscape 4.5, and frequently I don't want to attach a file to
netscape mail.
I have 'cut and paster' my resume to it (so that they can scan my resume
to
the database w/o manual intervention.)
My X window fvmw2 set up is not quite right, and I can't cut and paste
using
the mouse.
Is there any way that I can 'cut and paste' using some funtion key to my
netscape mail at all?
Dean
I try all ways but I can't make my X's cut and paste work. I use Linux
5.1
and use default fvmw2 window manager. Please steer me to a right
direction.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (steve mcadams)
Subject: Re: Infringement of the GPL
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 17:21:15 GMT
On Fri, 25 Dec 1998 01:27:00 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>K. Spoon writes:
>> However, I remember a quote from someone (Paul Vixie, maybe?) saying that
>> he had been hired by a few companies to maintain their proprietary
>> products and found his own GPL'd code in them. He said he never
>> prosecuted.
>
>steve mcadams writes:
>> Now there's a real reason not to go GPL.
>
>I don't follow you.
Wouldn't it rather piss you off to find somebody selling your GPL'ed
code as their own proprietary work? It would me, I think. But not
having released any GPL code to date maybe I don't know what I'm
talking about; maybe it wouldn't bother me.
Couldn't this guy have ratted them out to FSF and let them do the
lawsuit? Or is that not part of FSF 's charter? -steve
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Tools for programmers: http://www.codetools.com/showcase
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (steve mcadams)
Subject: Re: Torvalds distribution?
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 17:21:16 GMT
On Thu, 24 Dec 1998 22:59:00 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> ...that includes only the stuff that works?
>
>I don't understand what you mean by that. Every Debian package works.
So far I've tried RedHat 5.1 and RedHat 5.2 and both seem to have
things that simply don't work. I've ordered several other distros but
the cdrom's are still en-route. -steve
========================================================
Tools for programmers: http://www.codetools.com/showcase
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From: Eusebio Garate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH5.1 + g++ include file "String.h"
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 09:17:22 -0800
Hi Jeremy,
The string.h header file is part of the glibc-development libraries. On my RH
5.2 they are located (using the control-panel) in Development/Libraries/Libc.
The version in RH2 is: 2.0.7-29. Hope this helps.
Eusebio
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Crossposted-To: alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: Anti-Linux FUD
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 17:25:41 GMT
Let me add my $0.02 of opinion here,
On Fri, 25 Dec 1998 08:39:54 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
wrote these thought provoking words :
:>The file was not corrupted. It was deleted. Wow.
:>
:>Very unfortunate.
:
: You do realize that it does take some intent to
: delete a system file even under DOS.
Yes I do.
Very unfortunate incident I see and you guys just love it.
-== Allie ==-
*----------------------*
Allie Martin (Mr.)
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
*---------/*\----------*
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Kelly)
Subject: Re: FTP GUI w/ recovery?
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 13:14:04 -0500
On 24 Dec 1998 20:42:22 PST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sean LeBlanc) wrote:
>Are there any apps out there (similar to Bullet Proof FTP or CuteFTP
>on Windoze) which are "nice" front-ends to ftp?
There's a free app 'xftp' at Lawrence Livermoore Labs. Also availible there
is a program called 'xdir' that's more extensive. I've used xftp and it's a
nice graphical ftp program that even does server to server transfers.
I don't believe it does scheduling but xdir may. Anyway, xftp is worth
getting xftp esp. as it's free, small and easy to use.
Go to www.llnl.gov for more info.
Enjoy :)
Mike
"Genius gives birth, talent delivers."
- Jack Kerouac
(remove NOSPAM from address, if present, to reply)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: CDRs I burn in Windows NT server are not readable in Linux
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 23:14:01 GMT
I agree, I bet it has something to do with Joliet. He might want to try
burning one without joliet... just dos 8.3 names since it's only tgz's he
saving.
brian
In article <01be2b09$67987fa0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Charles Wilkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sup linuxer-
> First, I would upgrade the kernel to 2.0.36
> Then, I would compile it with all of the filesystems, including Joliet and
> iso9660.
> Charles
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Darren Ludlam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE:Help please
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 23:29:57 +0000
Could anyone help me,
I am trying to install a version of Slackware's Linux the
machine I'm
using is a 486DX2-66 with 4MB RAM, 40MB HDD and a 3.5" Floppy Disk
Drive. I went for the latest version (it said current on the FTP site)
3.6 I believe.
I created a Boot Disk using Rawrite13.exe and Bare.I and a root disk
using Rawrite.exe and Color.gz. =
Before installation I deleted the primary partition ( and only partition
) so it was a clean harddrive. =
The Boot Disk loaded without any problem, then it asks for the Root Disk
and the following occures
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block0
Couldn't get a free page=85=85=85
Out of memory<5>VFS:Insert root floppy and press enter
Kernal panic : VFS : Unable to mount root fs on 02:Ic.
If anyone could help it would be greatly appreciated, I suspect the
hardware may not be of a high enough spec.
Cheers
Daz
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken)
Subject: What's better about Redhat 5.2 than it's (RH) pred. ???
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 18:03:15 GMT
What's better about Redhat 5.2 than it's (RH) pred. ???
=================================================================
Besides the install is there anything better in the following areas.
Configuring:
SAMBA
NOVELL connectivity.
SENDMAIL
PPPD
X-windows
My main work is setting up email servers. I have noticed that there is
really very little GOOD documentation out there for people who are
setting up servers that are not connected to T1's full time.
For example, sendmail must be reconfigured not to try to ship mail
immed. (at least in RH 5.0). Most of the machines I set up do dial up
UUCP or dialup SMTP.
I've spent countless hours trying to setup SAMBA and Novell shares
unsuccessfully.
Since I am not a programmer the best I can do is suggest to the Linux
community that someone out there "PLEASE" start to write configuration
scripts that lead you through the install of these packages.
If I had to speak badly of Linux the only thing I could think of is
that Installing a package (like an RPM) is really nothing more than
copying a bunch of files into various directories. Once they are there
it is up to the user to dig through the makefile and figure out whats
going on (no wonder the sendmail book looks like it does).
Hasn't anyone out there attempted to write a script that configures
the system for you asking question by question? (Like customizing the
kernal does)
The only piece of software I found truly easy to install was Sybase's
ASE. Sure it had to be done through the command line, but it prompted
you for everyting. Thanks for a great product!
Please, do respond to this message. I'd love to here more about the
advances going on. I've been working with Linux for ages, but like
most of my UNIX work I feel that I never really understand all that is
going on under the covers.
Ken
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Menzel)
Subject: nifty ssh password window?
Date: 25 Dec 1998 12:13:39 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have ssh1 running on my office machine and ssh2 on my home machine. I
use KDE 1.0 at work and 1.1pre at home, though I believe this issue is
independent of that. On my office machine, when I run a shell script
which I've installed on the KDE panel that fires up an ssh session that
runs a remote application, a nifty little window pops up asking for my
password on the remote machine. On my home machine, a similar script
(same flags, different remote machine), instead of bringing up the nifty
password window, generates the password request in the console from
which I started X; and moreover, it locks up the X server until I kill
the process that started the ssh script. I would think that ssh2 would
support this if ssh1 did (supposing it has anything to do with ssh in
the first place). Ideas/explanations/solutions appreciated.
==================================================================
Christopher Menzel | web: philebus.tamu.edu/~cmenzel
Philosophy, Texas A&M University | net: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
College Station, TX 77843-4237 | vox: (409) 845-8764
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas A. Oehser)
Subject: Re: Running linux on a ramdrive/CD (was Re: 'Ramdisk' under Linux)
Date: 25 Dec 1998 12:54:45 -0500
>Such a *generic* Linux-CD could be a great starter for all beginners and people
>who would be afraid to reconfigure their hard disks without getting confidence
>with Linux.
You also might want to take a look at the 2.88 ElTorito tomsrtbt image at:
http://www.toms.net/rb/add-ons/ElTorito.288.bz2
-Tom
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From: "Sergei Gerasenko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: From a linux dummy
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 21:50:28 -0500
I have a stupid question. I just installed Linux with the 2.0 kernel and it
didn't have PPP support. So, according to a Linux book I decided to
recompile the kernel. The first obstruction I encountered was that I
couldn't find the compiling program, that is "make". Where the heck can I
get it? It seems like there are source files for "make" but one needs
another copy of "make" to compile those source files. Is there a
ready-to-use copy of "make" somewhere on the net? Are they kernel-version
sensitive? I have a RedHat distribution.
Thanx
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From: Dmitry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Netscape 4.5 flagged messages, how to load?
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 19:05:01 +0000
Hello,
I am trying to read news mail in off line mode , I marked (flagged)
some messages,
but then I couldn't find the mode to load flagged messages.
I am using Netscape 4.5
If anyone knows how to do in, please help me.
Thank you. Dmitry.
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From: Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: things I'd pay to have developed for Linux...
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 14:15:14 -0500
Leslie Mikesell wrote:
>
> In article <75rqqs$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Kyler Laird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >no need to authenticate again
>
> Oh, the clients I use do this transparently so I wouldn't have considered
> it an issue.
How does it do something "transparently?" He's talking about modem
lines, so if you mean by passing information back and forth, it isn't
going to be tranparent in the sense of not bogging response.
--
bill davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.
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From: Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: things I'd pay to have developed for Linux...
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 14:18:37 -0500
John R. Campbell wrote:
>
> On Tue, 22 Dec 1998 21:57:17 -0500, DJ Delorie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Basically, he wants a way to securely mount filesystems from remote
> >machines he doesn't have root to, that are efficient on modem lines.
> >His current choice is a mix of ssh and samba, but that means that
> >samba would have to let ssh manage the network connection, rather
> >than doing it itself.
> Of course, this is just a means to ensure some kind of secure
> service. Finding a way to secure it via (for instance) PGP
> (to negotiate a session key, for instance) might be a better
> approach.
Sounds like a job for ppptcp, which establishes a secure (encrypted)
virtual circuit between machines, as long as they have a connection. I
use it to work inside firewalls, with proxyarp so my machine appears to
be inside even when it's not.
--
bill davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.
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From: Ivo Naninck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.applixware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Desperately seeking Tape Backup Help!!!!
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 20:30:41 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
When you write to the 'non-rewinding' device /dev/nst0, your tape will
not
rewind and you can wrtie a new volume after the previous one. Unless
you unload it from the tape-drive, off course. when you unload it, and
then
append a new volume to it you have to go the same way as decribed in the
next line.
When you afterwards want to read a certain, let's say' the 3rd volume
from the
tape the you can skip the first 2 with
mt -f /dev/nst0 asf 2
See man mt.
> Oracle wrote:
>
> Hey all,
>
> I have a Seagate 20gig IDE Tape drive on my linux system. I am fairly new to
> Linux, been running it for a little over a month now, and decided that it
> was high time to backup my stuff in the event of a problem. However it
> hasn't been that easy.
>
> I am using Red Hat 5.1 which came with BRU . This appears to be a fairly
> good program for running backups, but I don't get the option to create
> volumes like I once did with Win95 and NT. Is there a way to make BRU do
> backups in volumes, or am I left to always writing over my previous backups?
> If this is the case, is there a better Backup Program out there I should be
> using? If so, where can I get it?
>
> Thanks much,
>
> -dan
--
Best regards, and don't let the bits byte!
Ivo Naninck.
~
~
:wq!
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From: Ivo Naninck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Desperately seeking Tape Backup Help!!!!
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 20:35:42 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
> Does BRU have control over what device you write to?
>
No, BRU supports any backup-device the OS supports.
bru -cvvvv -f /dev/st0 /
will write everything from / to tape0
and
bru -cvvvv /dev/st0 /
will fill up your filesystem, as it did last week mine :-((
But that's not BRU's fault :-)
It just shows that BRU does it's job...
--
Best regards, and don't let the bits byte!
Ivo Naninck.
~
~
:wq!
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From: Ivo Naninck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: From a Linux dummy
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 20:36:56 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
Did tou install the compiler-stuff that comes with the Linux
distribution
you installed?
> Sergei Gerasenko wrote:
>
> I have a stupid question. I just installed Linux with the 2.0 kernel and it
> didn't have PPP support. So, according to a Linux book I decided to
> recompile the kernel. The first obstruction I encountered was that I
> couldn't find the compiling program, that is "make". Where the heck can I
> get it? It seems like there are source files for "make" but one needs
> another copy of "make" to compile those source files. Is there a
> ready-to-use copy of "make" somewhere on the net? Are they kernel-version
> sensitive?
> Thanx
--
Best regards, and don't let the bits byte!
Ivo Naninck.
~
~
:wq!
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From: The Chameleon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: modem dialing
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 13:46:41 -0600
Can anyone suggest a way to connect to an ISP using the modem?
I'm running Debian 2.0 and can't seem to get the thing working.
I use minicom and it connects to my ISP fine.
I enter my login name and password and it tells e some info such as mMTU
is.... such and such.
then it sits there.
quietly sitting.....
if I hit enter I get garbage.
It eventually disconnects.
I tried quitting minicom without reset and using arena but that didn't
work either.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Casey.
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From: JaWz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat,alt.linux
Subject: Re: iso9660 not supported by kernel?
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 20:20:36 -0700
Got it!
Had the message you were getting and the inability to access my cdrom. I
noticed when I tried "mount /dev/cdrom" I'd get a message saying it couldn't
find /dev/hdc in fstab or mtab so I added the hdc to fstab with the same
settings as the cdrom. Tried to mount the cd again and I got a "fs type
iso9660,ro not supported by kernel" so I just took out the ,ro from the hdc
line. Mounting cdrom again and I got "...hdc is write-protected, mounting
read-only". Hey I can finally get to the cd files!
Hope this helps ya!
rks wrote:
> The installation kernel is (probably) different then the one you have
> installed.
>
> Patrick G. Heck wrote:
>
> > I installed RH 5.1 from CDROM, but now I can't seem to mount the cdrom.
> > I get an erorr telling me that iso9660 is not supported by the kernel.
> > If that is not true, then how the heck did it install? This is an
> > installation from the boxed distribution on an IBM Aptiva E2U (AMD K6-2
> > 333 Mhz) and I am using loadlin to boot from a win98 config.sys menu.
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From: "Javier Minero" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Modem of the Presario 1238
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 21:12:53 -0600
Hi out there,
Just got for Christmas a little laptop (Presario 1238) and I am planning
to install Linux on it. I understand that the video controller (NeoMagic) is
supported (at least on Beta version). The only problem I will have is the
modem, I suspect.
Is there any way to know for sure under win 95/98 if the modem that comes
along with this machine is a Winmodem (by looking at the BIOS /
Configuration properties of 95/98)?
Before hand, thanks
Javier Minero
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