Linux-Misc Digest #930, Volume #18 Sat, 6 Feb 99 17:13:08 EST
Contents:
Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class. (Ben Russo)
Re: Where to find Linux-2.2.1 (Dave Calvin)
File .X.err grows and grows! (R. Denoire)
Misbehaving terminals (Sam Vere)
InocuLAN detected the (Not a virus! - EICAR test file) virus in M (InocuLAN)
Moving root (Charles Stroom)
Another question about Another Level.... (Cameron Fraser)
Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters (Jeremy Mathers)
xforms ?? (Sparkzz)
Re: Best version of Netscape 4.5 (Regit Young)
Re: Misbehaving terminals (Tommy Willoughby)
Re: Compaq Prosignia (Ben Russo)
Ditto Tape Device on Linux ("TheAirBear")
Re: Wich Linux shouls I install ("Francis Pierot")
Re: statistical analysis software? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: How to make it run faster? (Philip Brown)
Re: Turn on 'num lock' in c/c++? ("David Z. Maze")
Re: SORRY! (Stefan Davids)
Re: Looking for `regcmp' command (Stefan Davids)
Re: why are linux x apps so slow? (Jerry Lynn Kreps)
Re: Ditto Tape Device on Linux ("David Z. Maze")
Re: SCSI Linux vs NT boot & install
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From: Ben Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class.
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 15:35:19 -0500
IMHO (please don't bother arguing with me, I am not trying to
make a case, just present a point of view.)
I read through this thread, and thought about it for a while.
What I came up with was this:
Remember when you were a child and you asked a question about
a complicated subject like "trial law"? When a youngster watches
a court case in a movie or on TV, (and they have an inquisitive
mind), a lot of things don't make sense. You ask your parents
about something and they try to explain situations that could
arise if you allowed the "common sense" thing to happen that would
result in injustice. But to the youngster it sounds like they are
making up very far fetched weird excuses for avoiding the obvious.
The young person is viewing a complicated issue from one perspective
without taking into account how many other perspectives there are.
The inevitable answer that arises is "You'll understand when you are
older."
This is my take on the "Mac/Windows/Dos" user trying to make their
way into UNIX. They say "My gosh that is very complicated".
And then I have to say:
"well you have to think about a "multiuser" system where
dozens of people may all be logged in
at once and this * is how they work with that
...."
"you have to think about security and how different users
may or may not want certain other users
to work with some of their files so there
is a reason that * is the way it is...."
"you have to think about "multiprocessing" and the fact
that there are many different things going
on all the time and they have to have ways
of negotiating who uses what when, this
results in the need for a * ...."
"you have to understand that there is the possibility of
having many network interfaces and networks
and routing becomes and issue, not to mention
other I/O devices, that's why they seperated
the commands and their features into these
layers..."
"you have to comprehend multiplexing of x <-> x items through
this layer of the OSI model? you see the
reason right? <huh? the 95/Mac user says!>"
The "single-user" mentality is a perspective, and until a person
gains experience working with a "multi-user", "multi-tasking"
community the necessity for the complexity of fulfilling what may seem
like a simple request for one user is incomprehensible. Not to say that
there is any reason for them to ever get that experience.
For a single-user workstation with *NO* public services, I think that a
windows/mac like environment would be great if it were more stable and
powerfull (i.e. had a real shell and Command Line utilities). But let's
face it 95 is instable and complex in it's own way. The difference
is that many (not all) of 95's complexities have no underlying
necessity, there are many area's that were never thought out.
It is like a group of programmers who had never operated systems
over a full life-cycle designed it.
(but I would love to see all the people who like windows try Mac's)
(although I think that Macintosh should make their hardware and
API's open spec.)
############
This is what I think differentiates this argument from the one given
to children. A child has to grow up and live in the world with the
rest of society.
A computer user doesn't need to
(and there is no reason for them to!).
#############
Aside from the fact that I am a UNIX SA, and so am very familiar with
UNIX, I would have to say that why it appeals to me for a workstation
is it's geekiness. I like the complexity and the puzzles.
Just like some people like their 68 mustang more than their
96 BMW.
-Ben.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Calvin)
Subject: Re: Where to find Linux-2.2.1
Date: 6 Feb 1999 13:38:41 GMT
www.kernel.org is always up to date.
bob ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Been watching sunsite and latest is 2.2.0Pre9. Many people have 2.2.0 and
: 2.2.1. Can I ask where to find 2.2.1??
: TKSIA
: cheers...bob
: --
: email - bklungle at ix dot netcom dot com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (R. Denoire)
Subject: File .X.err grows and grows!
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 18:29:00 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
While using KDE 1.0 (SuSE 5.3), I notice that the HD is regularly
accessed every 2 or 3 seconds. I found out that every time an error
message is being written into the file $HOME/.X.err which goes like
this:
kwm: X_CopyArea(0x2c0083f): BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window
parameter)
update
Couldn't open status file /var/lock/STATUS..LCK
**
The writing process seems to be the command tee, started by the bash
shell. But I have no clue about how stopping this, and I have to pay
attention not to forget to delete this file every couple of days,
because it gets growing and growing!
If you do not know what is causing this error message, perhaps you
could tell me how to investigate the situation so I can find the
culprit.
Thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sam Vere)
Subject: Misbehaving terminals
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 20:34:13 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi there!
One a couple of isolated occasions now, a program seems to have
'messed up' the display of one of the virtual consoles.
Is there any way to restart an individual console to fix this?
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From: InocuLAN
Subject: InocuLAN detected the (Not a virus! - EICAR test file) virus in M
Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 20:30:28 -0000
The (Not a virus! - EICAR test file) virus was detected in (Public
Folders\pgp.com) and was sent by ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
Action: (No Action.).
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Charles Stroom)
Subject: Moving root
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 17:28:24 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I need to move my linux from hda to another, larger disk (hdc) and free
hda completely from linux (except for /boot, which remains on hda).
I have moved the various partions already (create a partition on hdc,
make a temporary directory, copy everything to the new partion, rename
the old and then the rename the new to the old system, modify fstab and
reboot). So far, no problem, this is done.
But I don't know how to do the root filesystem. The scheme above does
certainly not work (I guess), but how to go about it?
Thanks
--
Charles Stroom
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
url: http://www.stroom-schreurs.demon.nl/
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From: Cameron Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Another question about Another Level....
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 12:12:08 -0500
hey, i'm running RedHat 5.1/ 2.0.35/ i586/ P166MMX, but what I am
wondering is, are there any specifications i should keep in mind when
creating my own .xpm files for my background? also when i click on the
window controls(eg the three little buttons in the top right corner)
nothing happens, also i have to click the the icon on the utilities bar
at the bottom of the screen to switch active windows...if anyone could
has any suggestions to offer as to why this is, could you please send
them my way....thanks.....
--
Cameron Fraser
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeremy Mathers)
Subject: Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 16:43:53 GMT
In article <798onp$1m8$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Ciaran Dunn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...
>What has it done in Iraq or regions of the former Yugoslavia.
>What are you gonna do with your nice new toys ? Blow them
>into the stone age ? Pax Americana via extinction ?
>
>All you seem to be doing is letting off some nice pretty weapons,
>killing a bunch of reasonably innocent people and not really
>acheiving anything.
How can you say that??? It is money well spent.
Think of what a mere $800 million got Bill Clinton on the eve of his
impeachment (he is still reaping the rewards, with every new poll).
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sparkzz)
Subject: xforms ??
Date: 6 Feb 1999 20:51:02 GMT
Hello,
I'm trying to install Lyx and it bombs out looking for xforms.
Where is xforms??
thanks,
.
.
....Ken
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From: Regit Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.news,linux.redhat.misc,alt.os.linux,aus.computers.linux
Subject: Re: Best version of Netscape 4.5
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 05:06:36 +0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm using the 128-bit 4.5 .. :)
Michel Catudal wrote:
>
> Regit Young wrote:
> >
> > Which version? Correct me if I'm wrong.... aren't there only one 4.5
> > available for glib2.X?
> >
> > Alex McCreath wrote:
> >
> > > Which version of Netscape Communicator (4.5) runs best under Linux RH52.
> > > I have a standard Pentium 120 machine with 64M memory and plenty of
> > > drive space. Thanks in advance.
> > >
> > > Alex McCreath
>
> There is two version of the libc5 and one of the glib2
>
> For those of us who don't want to share our credit cards with the world there is
> only one choice, which is the 128 bits version and there is no glib2 version.
> And yes it works with RedHat 5.2, I use the 4.08 version. I find it less buggy
> than 4.5, it is quite a bit faster too. I'll wait for a less buggy release
> before I switch again.
>
> --
> Tann� du plantage avec Ti-Mou?
> Alors essayez donc Linux ou OS/2
> http://www.netonecom.net/~bbcat/
> We have software, food, music, news, search,
> history, electronics and genealogy pages.
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patch to an 8-bit OS originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor,
written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1-bit of competition. -
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From: Tommy Willoughby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Misbehaving terminals
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 21:02:25 GMT
Sam Vere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi there!
> One a couple of isolated occasions now, a program seems to have
> 'messed up' the display of one of the virtual consoles.
> Is there any way to restart an individual console to fix this?
I think "stty sane" is what you're looking for. Check out the
man page for the stty command.
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From: Ben Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.linux.help
Subject: Re: Compaq Prosignia
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 15:57:25 -0500
Man this sounds like an old machine. I used to have a few of them
running Linux, and it was a pain in the but to set them up.
First of all you will need to go to the Compaq web site and download
the EISA utility diskette images.
You use these to set "ISA mode" on all your slots. And remove the
reservation of the IRQ's DMA's and I/O addresses for the EISA stuff.
(unless you want to use EISA cards in EISA modes)
Then you don't have to worry about that stuff.
Next you will only be able to use 16MB of RAM until you get the
machine up and running, then try using "append= "mem=XXM"" (where
XX is the amount of MB of RAM)
in your lilo.conf. If that doesn't fix the problem then
you will have to recompile the kernel with the "limit memory to 16MB"
option. (this does the oposite of what it sounds like...)
I don't know if there are drivers for any of the Compaq cards?
Maybe, now there are. There definitely weren't when I was using
those Compaq servers. If you have common replacement cards I
bet it would be easier to use them.
-Ben.
Yin Tan Cui wrote:
>
> I bought a Compaq Prosignia server yesterday. I tried to install linux
> in
> it. But there is a problem, the network card in there is a
>
> Compaq NetFlex/NetFlex-2 ENET- TR Controller
>
> I'm not sure what driver I should use for this card. I tried to take the
> card out and replace it with a NE2000 card, but at the bios start up, it
> complains about
>
> 174 EISA slot mismatch
> 179 slot mismatch
>
> then it tells me run system setup utility which I don't have. or press
> F1 to resume start up. and if I do so, the existing Win95 loads, but
> the
> configuration is f___ed. only 16Mb of RAM recongnized, and CD_ROM drive
> can not be seen,
>
> The Compaq NIC is a old jumper setting card, I just want to know if
> there is a driver for it ? If not, How can I walk around this problem?
> it seems like there is a setup disk for this server, If anyone have it,
> can you please send me a copy.
>
> Thanks
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From: "TheAirBear" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Ditto Tape Device on Linux
Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 13:36:42 -0800
Help!
I want to get a tape backup system for my win98/Linux system
and have settled on what is called a 'Ditto' drive which can do
up to 7.5GB per tape.
This device works through the parellel port.
Does anybody know if linux supports this? I have RH5.0.
Alternatively, please advise which PC based backup systems
are available that will be supported by both win98 and Linux.
Thanx,
-- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Francis Pierot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Wich Linux shouls I install
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 14:53:33 +0100
RedHat 5.2 comes with Fvwm2/95, Window Maker, LessTiff. Also you may add
Gnome fo Fvwm95 , it's a quite cool desktop applications architecture
(should work with any Window manager) but it's still rather buggy and
unreliable, despite some apps work quite well already. More for
experimentation than true daylife.
I know SuSE comes with KDE, but you might install it on a RedHat later
without any problem. I've not seen KDE on RedHat 5.2 but I don't have an
official one, I've an Infomagic 6CD box which features both RedHat and SuSE.
Installation process for SuSE is very nice for a text mode. Both RedHat and
SuSE are really easy to install. I found X11 was a little more work to
install with SuSE but nothing you could not overcome.
Beware that once you choose your installation, it's better to stick with it
because most installations have their own places for some important
configuration files. Like : on redHat, /usr/local is not used at all for any
application. Most of the config files are directly in /etc, even for some
non-kernel apps. This is a choice you'll have to accept : most of the times,
docs and FAQs and HOW-TOs tell you a file is somewhere, and on RedHat it's
elsewhere. You may change all these places with Linuxconf, but then you're
not compliant with RPM packages updates when you patch your installation.
Unless you really want to reinstall each new version of RedHat, it's better
to stick with their file tree.
I have tried SuSE and I have much respect for it but I'm used to redHat
since version 3.0.3 now and I don't fell learning the places for major
configuration files again.
Francis Pierot.
Francois Beauregard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:79c98v$tsq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I am looking forward to install Linux on my computer.
>
> I am hesitating between SuSE 5.3 and RedHat 5.2.
>
> The window manager is an important feature for me.
> I have seen the KDE desktop wich ships with SuSE and it looks really
great.
>
> My question is what are the Window Managers that ships with RedHat 5.2 ?
>
> Best Regards
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> Fran�ois Beauregard B.Ing.
> Architecte de syst�mes
> INT Groupe VB
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> --------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: statistical analysis software?
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 17:39:05 GMT
Two free statistical packages available that I know of are XLispstat and R (a
splus compatible). XLispstat is included in Redhat dist and you can get R from
http://www.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/
Keith
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Gordon Haverland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Lee Green MD wrote:
> >
> > Are there any powerful general-purpose statistics packages for Linux? I'm
> > accustomed to running SAS and SPSS on my SPARC under Solaris, but I'd like
> > to be able to use my Linux machine for those tasks. I can't find any
> > stats packages mentioned in the usual sources on the web. Thanks -Lee
>
> According to SAL.KachinaTech.com (Scientific Applications on Linux)
> the only "big" stats name I can see is S-Plus. However there
> are lots of other packages out there, some commercial, most
> open source. As far as BIG jobs goes, I think ROOT from CERN
> is probably the most capable package. XploRe looks interesting.
> Octave (a MatLab clone) has stats modules. Xldlas I've used
> a bit.
>
> Gordon Haverland
> haverlan @ agric.gov.ab.ca
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Philip Brown)
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: How to make it run faster?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 06 Feb 1999 18:07:47 GMT
On 6 Feb 1999 15:09:26 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>On 06 Feb 1999 02:01:18 GMT, Philip Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
>>Reducing the size of the swap partition does not help anything, when you
>>basically need more ram. If you need more ram, you need more ram. The...
>
>You miss the point entirely - if your swap partition is too big, your system
>will run slower. I know this from experience.
I'm sorry, I was assuming linux had a decent swapping algorithm. I stand
corrected.
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From: "David Z. Maze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Turn on 'num lock' in c/c++?
Date: 06 Feb 1999 16:58:49 -0500
kdmasary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
KM> Could somebody tell me how I can turn on "Num Lock" on the
KM> keyboard from within a c/c++ program?
Uh, the user presses the "num lock" key. There's no good ethical way
to compel the user to do this.
What are you really trying to do? Why is it vital for your program
that "num lock" be enabled?
--
David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://donut.mit.edu/dmaze/
"Hey, Doug, do you mind if I push the Emergency Booth Self-Destruct Button?"
"Oh, sure, Dave, whatever...you _do_ know what that does, right?"
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From: Stefan Davids <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SORRY!
Date: 06 Feb 1999 14:59:28 +0000
>>>>> "Jose" == Jose Urena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Jose> post in any format you want,
No don't. Post in plain text.
Jose> Those that do not want to read your post should learn to
Jose> make kill files
HTML posts never make it far enough to need to be killfiled here.
Jose> Posting in HTML just reduces the number of veteran people
Jose> willing to help you
It also means your post won't propogate to many newsservers (like
mine) which are configured to reject HTML posts regardless.
Stefan
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From: Stefan Davids <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Looking for `regcmp' command
Date: 06 Feb 1999 14:50:57 +0000
>>>>> "Xavier" == Xavier SERPAGGI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Xavier> Hi, I've RH-5.2 successfully installed, but, when I try to
Xavier> compile some of my Unix programs, the "regcmp" command is
Xavier> missing.
Are you sure you don't mean regcomp()? This is for compiling regular
expressions - is that what you wanted? If so it's part of libc and
should be installed if you installed the development part of the libc
libraries. On my Redhat 5.1 it's glibc-devel-2.0.7-13.
Stefan
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From: Jerry Lynn Kreps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: why are linux x apps so slow?
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 11:42:10 -0600
Michel Catudal wrote:
Frederick Senn wrote:
>
> linux counts as a fast and reliable os.
> samba 2.0 claims to be the fastest smb package out there.
> I don't doubt this a single instant.
>
> yet, why are netscape or wordperfect behaving so slowly on my pentium
> 200mhz compared to their windows versions?
mmmm.... I dual boot Win95 and SuSE 5.3 (WinX is history when I receive
my SuSE 6.0 subscription!) and find my Linux side consideably faster
than my Win95 side. Add to that the fact that since I have installed
Linux back in May of last year none of my Linux distros have crashed and
you know why I spend 99.5% of my time in SuSE. In fact, since Christmas
I have been on the Win95 side only once, to check on my addition of a
6.4GB hd to my system.
Are you dual booting on the same machine or are you comparing apples and
oranges?
Possible reasons why your Linux setup may be slower:
You have the swap space on the same disk as your root partition, which
leads to a lot of head switching when running a memory hog like
Netscape, or when you have lots of applications open at the same time.
Your swap file is smaller in size than twice the amount of RAM on your
system.
You have unecessary services running, taking up memory, if not clock
cycles. Go through your list of deamons that boot at startup and see if
you are really using them. You are not using your machine as a host on
the Internet? Why run the http deamon? etc.... Don't use RAID
mirroring? Why have that stuff running? Arn't using the PostgrSQL
database but still loading it's server deamon? Etc...., give inetd less
to watch over.
Some of your apps are not optimized.
Disk space is nearly full.
You expect Linux to be faster and Win95 to be slower and you have
exaggerated how big that gap should be. Some versions of Linux apps are
slower than their counterpart M$ versions and visa-versa. In my Win95
days I ran Word 6.0. When I "upgraded" to NT 3.51 I asked for and
received a free copy of Word 6.0 for NT. What a dog. You got
ssslllooowww disk activity every time you clicked a menu option! And NT
wasn't much more stable than Win95 to make it worth all the login
hassels, service settings (and fixings) and hardware restrictions,
etc... Goodbye NT.
There's more but I'm a relative newbie to Linux. Maybe some of the big
boys and girls will throw in a few more tips.
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From: "David Z. Maze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ditto Tape Device on Linux
Date: 06 Feb 1999 17:03:19 -0500
TheAirBear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
AB> I want to get a tape backup system for my win98/Linux system
AB> and have settled on what is called a 'Ditto' drive which can do
AB> up to 7.5GB per tape.
AB>
AB> This device works through the parellel port.
AB>
AB> Does anybody know if linux supports this? I have RH5.0.
The most recent version of the Linux floppy tape driver (ftape)
supports this. See
http://www-math.math.rwth-aachen.de/~LBFM/claus/ftape/ for more
information.
In all conscience, though, I can't recommend the Ditto Max as a
reliable backup device. I have an internal drive which seems to get
occasionally confused, and it can only get unconfused by being
power-cycled. I seem to have also lost my entire last cycle of backup
tapes, and if the format on a tape gets damaged it can't be easily
repaired. Yay proprietary formats and cheap hardware. *sigh*
--
David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://donut.mit.edu/dmaze/
"Hey, Doug, do you mind if I push the Emergency Booth Self-Destruct Button?"
"Oh, sure, Dave, whatever...you _do_ know what that does, right?"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: SCSI Linux vs NT boot & install
Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 10:46:24 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Dark-Star SysOp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi:-) First of all I love Linux and I use the Caldera v1.3 distribution.
>
> I tried to istall Linux on HD SCSI ID 14 but the operation was not
> succefull, so I chenged the jumpers, setting the SCSI HD to SCSI ID 1,
> the first HD of SCSI Bus. and then LINUX was sucesfull installed!!!!
> So I restore the old SCSI ID setting, I setted back the SCSI ID to 14, I
> set the "Boot SCSI ID" option in the controller BIOS to boot from
> ID14....But....The Linux did not boot!!!And gave me back this
> message...."Kernel Panic".....:-((
>
At some SCSI cards I know there are problems installing on the last SCSI ids. However
your workaround is nearly complete. However before rebooring from SCSI id 14 you have
to change lilo.conf so it
points to /dev/sde instead of /dev/sdb. And the same with references in /etc/mtab and
/etc/fstab
success!
--
Jaap de Wolff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.de-wolff.demon.nl
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