Linux-Misc Digest #147, Volume #19 Tue, 23 Feb 99 02:13:11 EST
Contents:
Re: Why is X video setup for i386 so complicated? (brian moore)
Re: Going from Win 98 and Office 97 to Linux and ???? (Paul)
Re: c++ compiler (Bruce Stephens)
Re: one thing that sux about Linux.... (Michel Catudal)
Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?) (Alexander Viro)
Re: KDE is a Memory Hog. (Michel Catudal)
Bar Code scanner/Printout? (Ken Plumbly)
Re: qpopper with shadow password (Christopher Schulte)
Re: Xdm, then xsession??? (Dave Ringkor)
Re: named: Lame server (Christopher Schulte)
Re: e2fsck in multiuser mode ("David Z. Maze")
Re: pcmcia and linux (slackware OR redhat5.2) (Tanvir Hassan)
Multiple cpu's (DNLane)
Help,Modem (Allan)
Re: [Q] Serial Communication software for UNIX (Mohd-Hanafiah Abdullah)
Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?) (John S. Dyson)
Zip Drive ("Maurizio Napoli")
Re: Star Office - Registration????? (Glen Scurr)
Re: directory inode from file inode? (L J Bayuk)
Re: More bad news for NT ("Jon Wiest")
conf.modules and boot errors in 2.2.1 (gw)
Create boot floppy for RH 5.1 (instructions, please) (John Slimick)
Multi-boot (Dennis)
Re: problem installing debian from CD-rom SONY CDU33a (Joe)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Why is X video setup for i386 so complicated?
Date: 23 Feb 1999 03:20:04 GMT
On 18 Feb 1999 23:26:38 GMT,
Frank McKenney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Your scenario seems reasonable on the surface, but it also seems to
> imply that there is no way _any_ monitor will work with _any_ adapter
> under DOS without having the _same_ information that XFree86 requires.
But it's true.
> How many people remember having to specify their monitor HSync/VSync
> rates under DOS?
How many people ran at modes other than 640x480 on DOS? (Hint: those
that did had to know much more about their cards and monitors than
those that didn't)
--
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Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | a cockroach, except that the cockroach
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Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 04:56:06 +0100
From: Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Going from Win 98 and Office 97 to Linux and ????
Sniper wrote:
>
> Ok, heres the deal, got a Toshiba 310 CDT, currently running Windows
> 98, office 97, agent, Outlook 98 etc etc.
I just installed Red Hat on a Compaq Presario 1240 over the weekend and
was surprised how much easier it was to set up than my PC was. The only
problem I'm experiencing at the moment is with the touch pad mouse, it's
VERY sensitive as just the slightest amount of pressure will cause it to
do a left click.
I don't know if it's available but there doesn't seem to be any power
manager for the laptop, that means keeping one eye on a clock and
guessing how much juice you got left before the screen goes black and
you loose everything you were working on.
>
> I'm seriously thinking about going over to Linux, but, every document
> I produce, must be portable over to office.
>
> 1. Is red had 5.2 a good choice for a Toshoba laptop, or will I have
> problems with drivers, Infra red USB etc.
You can forget about the USB, as far as I know the only thing that
supports it at this time is Windoz 98. Even my NT 4 (service pack 4) box
doesn't support it.
>
> 2. What can I use application wise that's not going to involve a huge
> leap from Office ? and provide backwards compatibility with Word and
> Excel 97 ?
>
> Thanks in Advance for all you help suggestions.
>
> Ian
> Email me
> scorp 888 at hotmail dot com
> Now your clever, so you can work it out, cant you ?
>
> for the spam trap
>
> root@localhost
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Bruce Stephens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: c++ compiler
Date: 21 Feb 1999 22:37:11 +0000
"David Z. Maze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Upali Bandara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> UB> I even installed the whole RedHat distribution, but trying to compile a
> UB> program like hello.C with gcc hello.C an error message is saying
> UB> that iostream.h contains errors - much errors. I capitulated.
>
> Right: gcc is a C compiler, and iostream.h contains C++ code which a
> plain C compiler can't deal with. Try using a C++ compiler such as
> g++ (or, for maximum portability, c++).
gcc ought to be a front-end, capable of compiling source from a number
of languages. It won't link them with the right libraries,
necessarily, but it ought to compile them. gcc on RedHat 5.n (for
n>0) actually is only a C compiler, but it still won't try compiling a
.C file as a .c file---it complains that it can't find the appropriate
front-end.
However, using g++ or c++ for compiling C++ code is still the right
thing to do.
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From: Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: one thing that sux about Linux....
Date: 22 Feb 1999 22:23:08 -0600
Frank Carney wrote:
>
> I am talking about the logo on the start button. I am not talking about
> logo.sys, logow.sys, or logos.sys. By the way you can animate logo.sys.
>
I have some nice logos translations in French and have noted 275 downloads
a couple of weeks ago. I translated Microsoft for Ti-Mou and Windows for Chassis.
It is very popular in Qu�bec, somewhat in France and Switzerland.
I'll have to make some in Spanish, anyone has an idea as to what would look
best for my Spanish logos?
Micro means small, so does Ti
Soft is something mushy kind of like the work "mou"
Chassis is some sort of window, I also have Hublot which is a window in a boat.
I do have an english one : Winblows 95 with Netscape 4.
If you ever find a way of changing that start button let me know.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alexander Viro)
Crossposted-To:
comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?)
Date: 21 Feb 1999 18:20:08 -0500
In article <7aq01h$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
John S. Dyson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In the GPL framework, the little developer with the great idea has
>NO leverage.
As for the 'little developer' (WTF is it?) - (s)he can take time to find
appropriate code base. Great ideas tend to apply to many things and you
know it perfectly well.
John, I hate to do it, but combination of RMS-style rants with Dave Hayes'
ones is really over the top. TINC. Sorry.
*PLONK*
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"Here's a nickel, kid. Get yourself a better computer" - Dilbert.
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From: Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: KDE is a Memory Hog.
Date: 22 Feb 1999 21:55:04 -0600
"David A. Frantz" wrote:
>
> Hi all;
>
> Not to add fuel to the fire but the last time I install KDE memory usage
> shoot way way up. We are talkiing about using more that half of a 128 meg
> machine here. KDE was slow, sluggish, and not very inspiring. Now
> maybe the code has been cleaned up and its resource hogging problems
> reduced, but I'm not likely to switch back unitl I see the evidence that
> this beast is under control.
>
>
This was long ago. After my first install of KDE I flushed, I thought ""What a
piece of shit!" It crashed as soon as I would run Netscape.
I've tried again a few weeks ago and I like it. I find it much faster than winblows.
I do have winblows NT and winblows 98, I feel so abused when I run winblows. It feels
good to be back to Linux.
Pretty graphics will use memory no doubt about it, this is the price one has to
pay to see pretty stuff. When I need speed I don't even bother with X. When I
want pretty pictures the console mode won't cut it.
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From: Ken Plumbly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Bar Code scanner/Printout?
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 19:54:48 -0800
Anyone know of decent (if any :-)) bar code software available?
prefer GPL but any will do.
Thanks
Ken
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Schulte)
Subject: Re: qpopper with shadow password
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 04:59:49 GMT
On Mon, 22 Feb 1999 14:23:52 +0100, "Jos� Antonio G�mez Mu�oz"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I know I need use AUTH option to validate password using shadow passwd.
>But I don't know in what file I must include this option, before
>compile.
Did you even read the INSTALL file? Section 6.0 explains esactly what
to do:
--
6.0 SHADOW PASSWORDS / ENHANCED SECURITY SYSTEMS :
==================================================
Some OS configurations require different libraries to perform the
authentication.
For these systems run the configure script with
./configure --enable-specialauth
or
define AUTH_SPECIAL, the preprocessor macro.
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>
>Thanks.
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From: Dave Ringkor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Xdm, then xsession???
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 04:55:29 +0000
Are your .xinitrc and/or .xsession executable?
> I'm trying to set up the workstations so that they go right to xdm upon
> bootup (that's working, no problem) and then when they log in, they get the X
> gui, like fvwm-95 or afterstep, but all I'm getting so far is, I think, twm.
> I tried copying .xinitrc to .xsession, as suggested in the howtos, but that
> didn't help. Where is this set at? Thanx
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Schulte)
Subject: Re: named: Lame server
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 04:56:52 GMT
On Sun, 21 Feb 1999 18:10:19 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (xcitor) wrote:
>I know what the error means, but what I don't understand is what my
>nameserver is doing to generate this message:
>
>Feb 21 18:08:32 axel named[225]: Lame server on `moon.jic.com' (in
>`JIC.com'?): [128.8.10.90].53 `D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET'
I don't think you pasted the entire error message. I'm looking for a
line that says learnt(A=blah,NS=blah).
That will tell you exactly who was giving your name server false
delegation info.
Drop than in, and I can look into it.
>Any ideas?
--
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From: "David Z. Maze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: e2fsck in multiuser mode
Date: 23 Feb 1999 00:28:00 -0500
Milos Prudek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
MP> Does not umount make the volume inaccesible?
In fact, it does.
MP> I have /boot (3MB) and / (1500MB). I want to run e2fsck for each
MP> of these volumes. So I copied e2fsck, fsck, mount, umount and
MP> badblocks binaries to /boot... When I tried to "umount /", I got
MP> "device is busy".
Umm, think about what you're trying to do. 'umount /boot' roughly
means "take the filesystem that appears at /boot and make it go away
(and replace it with what the parent has there)". 'umount /' then
means "take the filesystem that appears at / and make it go away" --
in other words, make the entire filesystem disappear.
Assuming you could do this, utilities like e2fsck wouldn't exist in
your environment anymore, since the disk partition they lived on went
away. Also, processes whose current working directories were on that
partition, e.g. init (pid 1), would get quite confused, hence the
"device is busy" message. So you only have to kill off every process
that has an open file or cwd anywhere in the filesystem, which is
almost (but not quite) equivalent to shutting down.
MP> Do I need to switch runlevel to single user before I can umount
MP> root?
You can't umount root unless you shut down.
MP> Could I possibly run "e2fsck -c" on a remote computer using ssh? I
MP> imagine that I would umount /, let ppp and ssh run,
Huh? /usr/sbin/sshd, on that setup, is on the / partition, which you
just unmounted.
You *can* run fsck on a read-only partition, but it's probably a
Really Bad Idea if there are running processes that might expect to be
able to write a file to, say, /tmp. (This is how your startup scripts
check the filesystem at boot time: when the kernel mounts the root
filesystem, it mounts it read-only, the startup scripts run fsck, and
then remount the root filesystem read-write.) The absolutely safest
thing to do is to shut down your system, and reboot in single-user
mode. It should also be fairly safe to shut down to single-user mode,
remount your root filesystem read-only, fsck, remount read-write, and
come back up to multi-user mode. (This also saves your uptime. :-)
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From: Tanvir Hassan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: pcmcia and linux (slackware OR redhat5.2)
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 15:48:54 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Jeff,
I get the EXACT same behavior on my Dell Inspiron 3000! Right after I
install the supplemental disk it crashes and forces me to cold boot.
Did you find a solution? I am trying to install linux on my external
Jaz through my PCCARD Adaptec SCSI controller...don't know if it is even
possible...
Jeff Taylor wrote:
>
> sorry for cross posting but here goes:
> i need some help (if anyone can give it) with getting pcmcia to work on my
> (notso)new laptop. i just obtained a ti travelmate 5300 133pentium laptop.
> on it now i have dos/win3.11 and slackware. i have pcmcia networking
> working with my intel extherexpress pro 16 bit (redhats web page says it's
> supported) in dos and win but i can't get it to work in slackware using
> the defacto pcmcia utils.
> the redhat install crashes right after i put in the supp. disk and it says
> starting pcmcia services or support or something simlar. it freezes the
> screen and locks keybaord (a hard reboot is needed)
>
> if anyone can help me please Email me asap.
> if more info is needed i'd be more then happy to supply it.
> thanks
> jeff
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (DNLane)
Subject: Multiple cpu's
Date: 23 Feb 1999 05:41:15 GMT
Does anyone know what issues it might face if trying to install linux to a
system with dual pentium 200mmx on a tyan mother board.any input would be
appeciated
Thanks
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From: Allan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help,Modem
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 22:48:43 +0200
Hello:
I was wandering if ANYone can help me out here.
I'm using RedHat 5.0 ,I've got my modem all set up.
2 Problems
The first is that I've got pulse lines and not tone lines,can anyone
teach me how to set my modem to dial on pulse?
The second problem is that there doesn't seem to be a Html browser in
linux itself,now if I want to download the Netscape Communicator package
from linux,how do I go about doing that?
If you can help me out,please email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'll be VERY grateful
Thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mohd-Hanafiah Abdullah)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Re: [Q] Serial Communication software for UNIX
Date: 22 Feb 1999 08:11:48 +0800
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Doug Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On 20 Feb 1999, Mohd-Hanafiah Abdullah wrote:
>
>> Hi:
>>
>> I used to use a software program to do serial communication between the Sun
>> Sparc running Solaris and a Motorola 68K board that I built. Now I've
>> forgotten the name of the software and couldn't seem to find it.
>> Someone told me it's a software that was standard on Sun Sparc Solaris.
>>
>> I know it's not minicom or kermit or seyon. I like the software for its
>> upload/download features which worked the first time I tried it.
>>
>> Would appreciate if anyone could refresh my memory on this.
>> Don't you hate it when you forget something like this.
>>
>> Thanks for any tips. :-)
>>
>
>The only built-in serial comm program that I can infer you are talking
>about is 'tip'. Yes, it has primitive upload/download capability as long
>as you're only transferring a text file or equivalent. Is this the one
>you're talking about?
Know what? You are right. And it's only a 3-letter word too. The last time
I used it was more than one year ago, but forgetting it totally and trying to
recall is frustrating.
Cheers.
Napi
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John S. Dyson)
Crossposted-To:
comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?)
Date: 21 Feb 1999 22:23:26 GMT
In article <7appdo$o72$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
>
> I agree. Nobody is paying attention to the benifits we have as a
> direct result of the essentially unrestricted TCP/IP code base
> or how similar things will affect us in the future. Gcc has had
> it's impact too. This sounds like a good class project for someone,
> although I'm not sure quite where it fits. It's more political
> science than technology.
>
Yep, that is interesting: part of the (perhaps more learned)
discussion might be that TCP/IP is a subsystem, while GCC is mostly
a program. It is unlikely that GCC pieces would be seperated out
into a product (in fact, the GPL developers have grabbed concepts
from free software.) Likewise, the TCP/IP subsystem could be
molded into other OS frameworks, and freely utilized for
redistribution as a component of other pieces of software.
Free licenses are great for components, and spurring on new
innovation using the free works as a framework. Derivatives
of software based upon free licenses are relatively unbiased
as to commercial, proprietary or free redistribution. This
enables the somewhat risky and potentially costly investment
in new ideas, and allows the potential profit from that
investment.
GPLed systems (as opposed to subprograms) seem to be okay for
monolithic applications, and those who have a somewhat stable
state of technology. In those cases, there is likely limited
commercial value there anymore anyway, due to the lack of innovation
needed. Perhaps, it could be considered a stable technological
state (maybe not the optimum one, but a stable state nonetheless.)
Here is a point of discussion:
When a free component is made part of a GPLed system, that
has the same effect of slowing down (investment motivated)
innovation based upon that version of code, as if the entire
codebase had been GPLed to begin with. What redeeming
value is there of relicensing the free software, either
towards GPLed or even commercial works.
For example, I know of alot of companies who feed code back
to the BSD community... They are NOT being dumb, but that
does show that there are motivations to do so. However, it
is also true that not ALL innovations get fed back. How
many innovations would not have been done at all (due to
the lack of reward for risk), if all code was under GPL?
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From: "Maurizio Napoli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Zip Drive
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 09:16:18 +0100
Hi,
Where can i get a driver to be able to read, format, write on IOMEGA Zip
drives?
I am running RedHat 5.2...
Thanks.
Maurizio.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Glen Scurr)
Subject: Re: Star Office - Registration?????
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 20:54:11 GMT
Albert Ulmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Exactly! I don�t see what could possibly go wrong with such a simple
>procedure. IMHO StarDivision made it fool-proof.
Maybe the computer you're installing it on is not connected to the internet?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (L J Bayuk)
Subject: Re: directory inode from file inode?
Date: 22 Feb 1999 00:14:25 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>Say I have the following situation where there is a file called foo in the
>/tmp directory. How can I given the inode for the file 'foo' get the inode
>for the directory, /tmp. This is within kernel space.
I know nothing about kernel space, but I would say you can't do it.
Think of hard links (and a file having multiple links): there is no
unique 1:1 relationship between a file (or its inode) and the parent
directory (or its inode). A file can have any N >= 0 parents.
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From: "Jon Wiest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.linux
Subject: Re: More bad news for NT
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 21:33:31 -0600
Simon wrote in message <7apdbo$88m$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>But with all the mush that NT brings with it you are probably getting
better
>performance from a Linux box running on one CPU than an NT box run on 4
>CPUs - even if they do use a symetric architecture on your NT box. Try some
>diagnostics and see what you think.
The diagnostics have been done, and NT is faster and scales better, at least
with kernel 2.0 or 2.1. 2.2 might change things...
Jon
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From: gw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: conf.modules and boot errors in 2.2.1
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 18:25:05 -0600
Hello all,
I'm running a rh5.2 machine. Before upgrading to 2.2.1
from 2.0.36-3, all the needed updates were done. After the updates, but
still before the 2.2.1 upgrade, two errors appeared at bootup:
swapon: warning: /dev/hda10 has insecure permissions 0660, 0600
suggested
Adding Swap: 128484k swap-space (priority -1)
Finding module dependencieswarning: file /etc/conf.modules is empty!
I was hoping the upgrade to 2.2.1 would correct these, but not so. The
new kernel runs great, but these errors still appear at bootup. Any know
the commands to fix the swap permissions error?
Because of the conf.modules error, I can't run depmod -a, which I think
would then let me create a boot image using mkinitrd. All of the modules
I selected during install, are in the /lib/modules directory, along with
a modules.dep file. When I tried to run mkinitrd to create a boot image,
this message appears:
# /sbin/mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.2.1.img 2.2.1
mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/loop0 as a block device
(maybe `insmod driver'?)
Can't get a loopback device
Any ideas on this?
I'm also getting a keyboard in 2.2.1, that wasn't there before:
keyboard: Too many NACKs -- noisy kbd cable?
If anyone has any insight to any of these, I would truly appreciate the
hints.
GW
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Slimick)
Subject: Create boot floppy for RH 5.1 (instructions, please)
Date: 22 Feb 1999 00:23:33 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am down to my last boot floppy
on my desktop and I can't find
the instructions for creating a new
one (RH 5.1). The floppy is needed
since the desktop has NT 4.0
as the exclusive built-in boot (hey, not my choice! --
just one of the little penalties one pays
when the central computing organization
standarizes things!)
Yes, I had all the right
books, but I can't find them right now.
Thanks (with much embarassment)
john slimick
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
University of Pittsburgh at Bradford
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From: Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.windows95
Subject: Multi-boot
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 22:20:43 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I need to have Win95/98, WinNT, and Linux on the same computer. What is
the best way to set up a good (reliable and easy to config./use)
multi-bot system so I can use these OS's without problems?
I have considered using removable disks, but I'm not sure if this can be
done because some of these OS's seem to require access to the C drive.
Anyone tried this?
Thanks,
Dennis
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From: Joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.debian,linux.debian.user,be.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: problem installing debian from CD-rom SONY CDU33a
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 15:43:52 -0600
Jeroen Valcke wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I'm a newbie trying to install debian on my old 486 which has a SONY
> CDU33a cd-rom
>
> I can also choose "mounted" as an acces method but then I have no idea
> how to mount the cdrom (cdu33 that is)
>
I just did a search for "linux mount cdrom syntax" on dejanews and it took
me < 30 seconds to find :
mount iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
this might not work if you don't already have a /mnt/cdrom directory on
which to mount your /dev/cdrom, in which case you'll need to
mkdir /mnt/cdrom
unless I'm missing something (don't acutally have a cdrom myself so this is
possible) you should now be able to use dselect's mounted option.
Debian's installation process does take some thinking for a first-timer,
such as myself, but it's worth it
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