Linux-Misc Digest #895, Volume #18 Thu, 4 Feb 99 08:13:12 EST
Contents:
Re: When the next version of different distributions will be released (Moritz
Moeller-Herrmann)
Re: Environment variables and C (Volker Borchert)
Re: Memory > 64 Mb ("Ron van Middendorp")
LightWave 3D -> Linux? (Tero Niemi)
Re: binutils (original subject was bind8.1.2) (Villy Kruse)
Re: HElp, i can't compile (Jarvis)
How to check if someone is logged on from the console? (Binand Raj S.)
Re: Linux on an overclocked PII (David Martin)
Re: Bug or feature? ("Michael 'BeLFrY' S. E. Kraus")
Re: DVD Video???? (David Steuber)
multiple volumen - auto-spanning archive ("Matias Orchard V.")
Apache and w3-msql ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: How to get rid of these entries on disk? (Villy Kruse)
X keymap editor ? (Yann Muller)
Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters (Eugene O'Neil)
Re: this is probably and easy one... ("Steve D. Perkins")
Re: Linux Database Question (Leslie Mikesell)
strace for new kernels (Nate Eldredge)
Re: Partition Magic (steve mcadams)
Weird! ("Eric Webster")
Rogers@Home under Linux ("Julius Gajus")
kernel 2.2.1 errors ("Nick Allan")
Re: Sick of Windows, newbie thinking about Linux ("[EMAIL PROTECTED]")
Re: Opinions about LyX? (Jason Clifford)
Opinions about LyX? (QM)
Eat the Cache (Gina)
Making personalized installation boot disk (Walt)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Moritz Moeller-Herrmann)
Crossposted-To: alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: When the next version of different distributions will be released
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 08:55:29 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 3 Feb 1999 22:03:47 -0600, Todd Ostermeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>SuSE 6.0 (which was just released in its English version very recently) is
>supposedly 2.2 compliant (all packages are the proper version to run 2.2).
>I don't believe it has the 2.2.x kernels included (still has a -preX
>version), but it should be as simple as downloading the latest 2.2.x and
>installing that without any other major changes.
This is NOT (I repeat NOT) the truth. You need to upgrade at least modutils
manually. The suse website discourages the use of 2.2 kernels and doesn�t have
kernel sources as rpm yet.
You have to upgrade very little by hand, that is true.
BTW, does printing with parport as a module work for anyone on SuSE 6.0 ?
Doesn�t for me!
--
Moritz Moeller-Herrmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 3585990
Why do you pay BIG BUCKS for "micro" software with BIG BUGS?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Volker Borchert)
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.c,gnu.gcc.help
Subject: Re: Environment variables and C
Date: 4 Feb 1999 10:18:00 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul D. Smith)
writes:
|> %% Greg Cannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|>
|> gc> Great. So how do I access an environment variable from within C?
|>
|> man -k environment
|>
|> man getenv
|> man putenv
or use the three argument form for main:
int main (int argc, char *argv[], char *envp[])
where envp[i] each contain strings like "TZ=MET", and the end of the
array is marked with a NULL pointer.
--
"I'm a doctor, not a mechanic." Dr Leonard McCoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"I'm a mechanic, not a doctor." Volker Borchert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: "Ron van Middendorp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Memory > 64 Mb
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 10:31:41 +0100
Reply-To: "Ron van Middendorp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Try a few different values, like 76, 77, 78...
Worked for me.
Ron
David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>I use a boot floppy to boot Suse 5.3..
>I tried loading LiLo onto a floppy and setting the lilo.conf with
>mem=80M
>The computer still only sees 64 Mb.
>I'm using a VX motherboard and it does not have a setting in the bios
>about memory over 64 Mb.
>
>Any suggestions ??
>
>David
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tero Niemi)
Subject: LightWave 3D -> Linux?
Date: 4 Feb 1999 12:42:36 +0200
LightWave 3D for Linux (the Babylon5 rendering/modeling/animaion software)
seems not to be my next christmas present, but please read the reply I
got.
(hope you know what to do...) ;)
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Feb 4 12:15:09 1999
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 13:07:50 -0600
From: Gary Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "T. Niemi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux and LightWave?
There are no current plans to port Lightwave to Linux. Although requests
like these help us plan for future revisions. So if we get enough requests
it may happen. Hint hint.
At 09:08 AM 2/3/99 -0600, you wrote:
>
>Do you have any plans to port your products to Linuxes. (RedHat, Debian,
>etc.) The new kernel (version 2.2) has a better multiprocessor support
>than the Windows NT (intel) and it is generally a much stabler
>environment. Stability is a quite preferred quality in rendering software.
>
>Because Linux implements the GNU license system, NewTek could even
>distribute the entire (customized?) operating system with your product.
>With one install the blank intel computer would turn into efficient and
>network-ready working environment. I think that RedHat would be interested
>to co-operate about this issue.
>
>Because the linux kernel can also be configured to be very small I imagine
>that the old machines in the companies could be resurrected with quite a
>small cost to be a network renderers.
>
>The only problem that I currently see is that there is no good 2D image
>manipulation programs on Linuxes. (as long as the Adobe Photoshop is not
>being ported) However the Gimp-project (GNU image manipulation program) is
>showing to be very promising.
>
>Tero Niemi
>student / freelancer
>Finland
>--
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Subject: Re: binutils (original subject was bind8.1.2)
Date: 4 Feb 1999 12:37:50 +0100
In article <79aq4v$b2o$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Thanks for the info so far. I'm learning. Realize I should have originally
>searched the newsgroup for libbfd, not bind. I've used rpm to get libbfd off
>the CD, but am not getting it to install successfully:
>
These utilities ar on the first CD under the directory RedHat/RPMS
Here you will fine bind-8.1.2-5.i386.rpm and binutils-2.9.1.0.15-1.i386.rpm
To install bind run 'rpm -i bind-8.1.2-5.i386.rpm' No compilation is required.
Same for binutils, and while at it you probably should install all the other
development stuff, too.
Villy
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From: Jarvis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: HElp, i can't compile
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 17:39:40 +0800
thanks!! I replaced the int and it came out fine but could you please
explain why it i can't use main and can i change it to work with main? I
have some source codes and it'll be tiring to change them to int.
Thanks Mk again for replying and the other guys like Hhuggins too
J
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Binand Raj S.)
Subject: How to check if someone is logged on from the console?
Date: 28 Jan 1999 09:28:44 GMT
Hi all,
I am writing a program (in C) which has to check if the user is
logged on from the console. The method I'm currently using is:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#define NO_TERMS 6
int main (void)
{
char *tty;
char ttybuf[10];
int console = 0;
int i;
tty = ttyname (0);
for (i = 0; i <= NO_TERMS; i++)
{
sprintf (ttybuf, "/dev/tty%d", i);
if (!strcmp (tty, ttybuf))
{
console = 1;
break;
}
}
if (!console)
{
fprintf (stderr, "You are not on console\n");
exit (1);
}
fprintf (stderr, "You are on console\n");
exit (0);
}
My questions are:
Is this the correct way to do this? Is there a better/more efficient way
to do it?
Is this method portable to other unices? If not, what will be a portable
method?
I am using gcc 2.8.1 on a slackware linux 2.0.32 machine.
Advance thanks for your responses,
Binand Raj S.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Martin)
Subject: Re: Linux on an overclocked PII
Date: 4 Feb 1999 11:41:59 GMT
> MRoman wrote:
>>
>> I've got a celeron 300a running on a i440BX board at 100MHz and linux
>> 2.2.1 with no problems. Uptime @30 days now.
sUrely not... I smeall a big rat here. Or is your uptime overclocked as well
(so thats how to get a 100 hour day).
..d
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From: "Michael 'BeLFrY' S. E. Kraus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Bug or feature?
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 20:23:56 +1100
G'day...
> If I load the module ppa.o, the zip drive works, but, even with the zip
> drive powered off, the printer doesn't. If I unload ppa.o, even with the
> zip drive powered on, the printer works.
This is correct behaviour. The drivers take control of the port and the
appropriate drivers must be switched between.
All the best...
Michael.
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From: David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DVD Video????
Date: 03 Feb 1999 22:26:29 -0500
Ben Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
-> Ryan McGuigan wrote:
->
-> > Hi, I just got a DVD kit, Creative Labs Encore (whatever). Anyway, is
-> > there any way to play DVD Movies in linux yet? From what I've heard the
-> > drive will work in linux. I haven't messed with it yet...
-> >
-> > thanks
->
-> From what I have heard, the DVD drive will work with CD's, but there is no
-> software to read the DVD file-format or to view the DVD encoded movies..
Even the DVD files will be visible on a DVD disk.
In order to make DVD movies play on Linux, someone from a country that
doesn't prohibit reverse engineering of software will have to do that
with a Windows DVD player. It costs a hell of a lot of money to get
the data required to create a player legitimatly. Also, you would
have to make the player a commercial closed source program becuase of
the NDA.
--
David Steuber
http://www.david-steuber.com
s/trashcan/david/ to reply by mail
When will Altoids be available in 'extra strength'?
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From: "Matias Orchard V." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: multiple volumen - auto-spanning archive
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 09:02:01 -0400
Hi there:
how can I put a big file (more than 400 Mb) in couple of zip disk? I
guess it's using tar, but how it is?
does anybody know something like multiple volumen using pkzip under
dos (auto-spanning if it is WinZip)?
thanks a lot,
--
Mat=EDas Orchard V.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
ICQ: 460589
Red Hat Linux 5.2 ~ kernel 2.2.1 ~ KDE 1.0
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Apache and w3-msql
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 11:54:23 GMT
Hi,
Any mSQL/Apache buffs out there? This one's a bit long-winded so please bear
with me.
I'm using Red Hat Linux 5.1 and am attempting to run the following
lite-enhanced code:
<html>
<head>
<title>Hello World from mSQL</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Hello World from mSQL</h1>
<p><! echo ("Hello World\n"); >
</body>
</html>
I'm using Apache web server and given that w3-msql.cgi path is
http://localhost.localdomain/~rob/cgi-bin/w3-msql.cgi
and that the test code path is
/home/rob/public_html/msqlHello.html
in order to parse the test code through w3-msql.cgi, the URL I'm using is
http://localhost.localdomain/~rob/cgi-bin/w3-msql.cgi/~rob/msqlHello.html
Unfortunately, I'm getting an 'Internal Server Error'.
However,
http://localhost.localdomain/~rob/cgi-bin/w3-msql.cgi/
does produce w3-msql output, so I don't think the error is in my Apache
config, although having only recently started playing with my Apache config,
I could be wrong!
Could someone please suggest things I could try to resolve the problem.
Thanks very much,
Rob.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Subject: Re: How to get rid of these entries on disk?
Date: 4 Feb 1999 12:21:59 +0100
In article <7983mk$8au$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jan-Jaap van der Heijden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>As the result of a media error on a hard disk (which I have corrected),
>I now have these garbage enties on my filesystem:
>
>l--S-----T 1 29887 1952 4256164358 Nov 5 1931 seq
>
>d---rw-r-x 2 3177 54632 10240 Nov 1 1969 winadvapi.h
>
>
>How can I remove these? root gets "permission denied"
>
>TIA,
>JanJaap
Maybe if you can move everything else in the directory to another
directory you could try to use rm -d on the directory that holds the
bad file. You then need to unmount that file system and run fsck on
it and choose not to create a new name for the now orphaned inode.
You might need to resort to debugfs.
Villy
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From: Yann Muller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: X keymap editor ?
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 11:09:39 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
I use Linux RH5.2 on machines with English keyboards but I really need
to have all the French accentuated characters. I'd like to have
something like Alt+1,2,3... for the accents.
Is there a good X keymap editor out there (preferably for the XKB
extension of XFree86) ? Or how do I edit the files by hand?
I did several searches on the Web and Usenet archives but came up with
nothing. So any pointer would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Yann
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.mygale.org/~ymuller
(EasyRCS for Amiga - Homepage of Misanthrope - ...)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eugene O'Neil)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 99 22:41:43 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Melancon
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I don't know what school you went to, or how old you are, but that silly pledge
>dissappeared back in the 50's or 60's...
If it dissapeared before I was born, why do I remember doing it?
-Eugene
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From: "Steve D. Perkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: this is probably and easy one...
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 17:32:09 -0500
The command is "df", although adding the "h" flag ("df -h") will print
the free space in the somewhat more user-friendly format of megabytes and
gigabytes, instead of "blocks".
Steve
Eric Wyles wrote:
> How do I find out how much of my hard drive is being used in RedHat 5.1?
>
> PEACE
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leslie Mikesell)
Subject: Re: Linux Database Question
Date: 3 Feb 1999 16:39:58 -0600
In article <797s3o$iku$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Steve Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
>I'm going to be implementing a database server using an Intel box running
>Linux, with PosgresSQL (sp?) as the database software.
>
>My understanding is that Linux does not (currently) implement raw disk
>partitions. This is probably a stupid question, but, given this, is there
>any way to circumvent the filesystem when implementing a database in Linux?
>
>In particular, I want to avoid the filesystem I/O buffering in order to
>guarantee write consistancy in case of a system crash.
>
>Thanks in advance for any help/suggestions.
Postgresql will call fsync() as every transaction is committed unless
you tell it not to (for better speed). And if you don't declare
transactions, every statement is treated as a separate transaction.
Les Mikesell
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 14:45:46 -0800
From: Nate Eldredge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: strace for new kernels
strace 3.1 doesn't appear to contain support for system calls added in
recent kernels (rt_sigaction and such). Neither does 3.1.0.1 (just a
few lines changed), and I haven't been able to find anything newer (and
these are both from 1996). I have seen posts that show straces
including new system calls, so I assume a newer strace exists, or
patches to the existing one. Does anybody know where I can get it?
An email reply would be appreciated if convenient, but I will check this
group.
--
Nate Eldredge
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (steve mcadams)
Subject: Re: Partition Magic
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 22:56:52 GMT
[Snipped for brevity, quoted material marked with ">"]
On Thu, 04 Feb 1999 00:23:36 +0000, "William H. Pridgen"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>So, if I wanted to use PM to resize my Linux partition again some time,
>could I then boot using the RedHat installation diskette as a rescue
>diskette, and do what you suggest?
I would guess that you could (a) tell LILO to uninstall itself, (b)
resize your partition, (c) tell LILO to reinstall itself. -steve
========================================================
so what? - http://www.codetools.com/showcase
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From: "Eric Webster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Weird!
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 16:00:16 -0600
I have an EtherExpress 16 ISA network card that I am trying to get running
with RedHat 5.1 (I'll compile the new kernel when everything works).
According to the messages when it boots, it sees the card:
eth0: EtherExpress at 0x300, IRQ 10, Interface 10BaseT, 32K
eexpress.c: v0.10 04-May-95 John Sullivan <>
v0.14 19-May-96 <>
The parameters agree with SoftSet.
In netcfg | interfaces, I show eth0 with IP address 10.1.1.200, proto=none,
atboot=yes, active=active.
I can ping to 10.1.1.200, and ping to localhost, and ping to my nickname for
10.1.1.200, but the light on my hub never turns on, and pings anywhere else
hang the shell.
I know the hardware works because when I boot DOS and run Softset the card
passes all tests including lighting up the hub. Plus, the same box ran NT
until I rescued it this week.
Any ideas?
Eric
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From: "Julius Gajus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Rogers@Home under Linux
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 17:49:09 -0500
Hi,
I going to take wave for INTERNET connection.
Does anybody has any experience with wave under Linux
So any suggestion how to do this will be really appreciate
Please forward to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jullius
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From: "Nick Allan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: kernel 2.2.1 errors
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 21:22:32 +1000
Hi all
I'm getting the following errors after starting the system with kernel
2.2.1, this is on a redhat 5.2 system with the correct rpm's updated.
anyone got any suggestions on how to fix these errors, or even what is
causing them?
Feb 4 20:47:16 bigbang kernel: Symbols match kernel version 2.2.1.
Feb 4 20:47:16 bigbang kernel: Error seeking in /dev/kmem
Feb 4 20:47:16 bigbang kernel: Error adding kernel module table entry.
Feb 4 20:47:16 bigbang kernel: ne2k-pci.c:v0.99L 2/7/98 D. Becker/P.
Gortmaker http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/ne2k-pci.html
Feb 4 20:47:16 bigbang kernel: ne2k-pci.c: PCI NE2000 clone 'RealTek
RTL-8029' at I/O 0x6000, IRQ 11.
Feb 4 20:47:16 bigbang kernel: eth0: PCI NE2000 found at 0x6000, IRQ 11,
00:40:05:32:85:89.
Feb 4 20:47:16 bigbang kernel: IP-Config: Incomplete network configuration
information.
the /dev/kmem device is there.
Regards nick
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From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Sick of Windows, newbie thinking about Linux
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 12:35:16 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hey, I'm new here, and the reason why is that, when I get a new computer, I
> do not want to use Windows 98 and it's obselete kernel. I was originally
This is a strange reason not to want to use an OS. Try Linux. If it does
what you want and has the apps you need use it. If not, use something else.
Don't use Linux just because "windows sux."
The distribution to use is largely a matter of personal preference, there
is no "best" one. Generally, new users are steered toward red hat
> up later. For my primary OS (I'll be dual booting Linux and Windows on my
> machine, if nothing else for games, and that I paid for it) I want something
So, despite the fact that the windows kernel is obsolete you still will use
it? (For I suppose "practical" reasons like "Linux doesn't run all the
games I want to play".) Nothing wrong with that.
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From: Jason Clifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Opinions about LyX?
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 12:53:47 +0000
On 4 Feb 1999, QM wrote:
> Hi, I'll need to write my thesis (subject is a math/engineering one) soon and
> I was thinking about using LyX, instead of latex directly. Can anyone offer
> any opinions about LyX, as I don't want to get my fingers burnt at a stage
> late into my thesis. Thanks very much.
LyX is an incredibly easy way to harness the immense power of LaTeX which
is probably the best solution for this requirement.
Grab hold of LyX 1.0 which is now available and is *very* nice. You should
probably also subscribe to the tex newsgroup - I forget exactly what the
ng name is but it is the only one so you should find it easy to locate.
Jason Clifford
Definite Linux Systems
http://definite.ukpost.com/
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From: QM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Opinions about LyX?
Date: 4 Feb 1999 12:15:32 GMT
Hi, I'll need to write my thesis (subject is a math/engineering one) soon and
I was thinking about using LyX, instead of latex directly. Can anyone offer
any opinions about LyX, as I don't want to get my fingers burnt at a stage
late into my thesis. Thanks very much.
Note: LyX is at http://www.lyx.org
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Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gina)
Subject: Eat the Cache
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 12:58:38 GMT
Anyone have a cache module for apache? How does this work?
Email preferred,
Reply to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] with your comments
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From: Walt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Making personalized installation boot disk
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 14:05:53 +0100
Hi folks,
I have to make my installation boot disk for redhat 5.2 with some new
drivers...
I can make a new boot disk with a new kernel, but how can I launch the
installation
procedure and install my packages from the cd ????
If anyone can help me I will really appreciate ...
bye and thanks
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