Linux-Misc Digest #223, Volume #19 Sun, 28 Feb 99 01:13:08 EST
Contents:
Re: RH5.1 Installation problem - fs type iso9660 not supported by kernel (Vito
DeFilippo)
Re: Newbie Modem/PPP ?'s..... (Bill Unruh)
Re: primary disk fail ?? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: RH vs SuSE (Monte Milanuk)
tb montego specs (Seth Van Oort)
Re: Consumer Poll Says Microsoft Is Good For Consumers (Bob Hauck)
Re: why is compiling (and installation) so difficult (NF Stevens)
Re: Clearing the print queue (NF Stevens)
KDE question (Brian Lehr)
Re: Pentium III Boycott and survey info (Peter F. Curran)
Re: Simple text processor (Matthias Warkus)
Digital Cameras ("The Infernal One")
Re: Newbie Modem/PPP ?'s..... (Jimmy Navarro)
Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class. (Matthias Warkus)
Newbie Modem/PPP ?'s..... ("Peter Worcester")
Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class. (Stephe)
Re: RH vs SuSE ("Robert C. Paulsen, Jr.")
uninstall Linux from dual boot w/ win98 (Anonymous)
Re: Key mappings after upgrading termcap/ncurses ("T.E.Dickey")
Re: Consumer Poll Says Microsoft Is Good For Consumers (Mayor Of R'lyeh)
Re: Digital Cameras ("The Infernal One")
Low Memory Slackware Install (Rod Roark)
Re: domain name reg and IP setup ("Duane Elmer Smeckert")
Re: Program to generate the Makefile? (David M. Cook)
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From: Vito DeFilippo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH5.1 Installation problem - fs type iso9660 not supported by kernel
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 16:15:31 -0500
I had the same trouble with Red Hat 5.1 on my system. For some bizarre
reason, the default installtion doesn't seem to support the iso9660 file
system, which is necessary for mounting CD Roms. Eventually, I
recompiled my kernel, making sure I chose support for this file system.
The Red Hat installation guide, which should have been installed, will
tell you how to build a modular kernel. Start Netscape and the Red Hat
welcome page should be there. If not, the guide is on your system at
file:/usr/doc/HTML/index.html if you installed it.
It might also be a problem with the system not recognizing your CD Rom.
You could add the append = "cdrom=/dev/hdc" option to etc/lilo.conf and
reboot.
Unfortunately, you cannot recompile your kernel if you did not install
the source and headers. If you are thinking of upgrading to kernel 2.2,
make sure to download source and headers (at least! There are other
things you need to upgrade for it to work. Kernel.org has documention on
upgrading.)
Hope this helps. Someone who knows more than I may have better
suggestions, as I am fairly new at the game as well.
Ciao
Vito DeFilippo
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Autometic wrote:
>
> I have repeatedly tried to mount my cdrom drives however the system keeps on
> giving me the message:
>
> fs type iso9660 not supported by kernel.
>
> I am using Redhat 5.1 and the installation as such went OK until the point
> where I wanted to run the cdrom drive.
>
> I have added the following lines to both the /etc/mtab and /etc/fstab files:
>
> /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0
> /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0
>
> and then tried the
> mount /dev/cdrom and
> mount /dev/hdc commands but to no avail, the system returns the above
> mentioned message.
>
> I am completely lost. Can anyone help me out please ?
>
> Also, if I would download the updated kernel from the internet, how can i
> update my system accordingly ?
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>
> M. Sul
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Subject: Re: Newbie Modem/PPP ?'s.....
Date: 28 Feb 1999 05:11:22 GMT
axion.physics.ubc.ca/ppp-linux provides just that.
In <un_B2.1751$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Peter Worcester" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
>Can someone point me to where I can find some pretyy deatiled setup
>instructions or give me some tips on how I might go about troubleshooting
>this problem ?
>I don't really know where to start. I would think I need to make sure that
>the modem dials out first then go for the PPP connectivity.
It may be that you have a winmodem (controllerless modem) which will not
work under Linux. What IRQ does it use under NT If not 3 or 4, good
chance it is a winmodem.
If it is 56K PCI there is a 95% chance it is a winmodem.
So what COM port does it use under a MS type system?
(OCM1=/dev/ttyS0...COM4-/dev/ttyS3)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: primary disk fail ??
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 21:31:25 GMT
In article <7b74jt$vb2$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>
> This would be fine... "primary master hard card fail"... except it only
> happens SOME of the time... the disk is OK if I boot to it with rescue disk,
> etc.
>
> It seems like a power thing too... if I open the case, and reconnect the
> power cable to CD, it works fine... however, if just turn power off and on,
> it works also... so, probably not a cord problem.
>
> Is it possible this is a virus for linux ?
> It is definitely new... Ive run this linux for months with no probs.
>
> stu7
>
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From: Monte Milanuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: RH vs SuSE
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 23:08:25 -0600
I've 'upgraded' the stock 6.0 to KDE 1.1, and kernel 2.2.2-ac5, and had
mostly problems...wrong charset, somewhere. I think this is keeping
alot of KDE apps from launching. And according to xload, my system is
now under a fairly steady 30-40% load, where before an idle system was
more like 2-5%. Any ideas?
Monte Milanuk
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From: Seth Van Oort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: tb montego specs
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 05:15:30 +0000
Where would you the tb montego specs necessary to write a driver? I
didn't see any such thing on their site.
Seth
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Hauck)
Crossposted-To: alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: Consumer Poll Says Microsoft Is Good For Consumers
Date: 28 Feb 1999 05:08:16 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mayor Of R'lyeh) writes:
> To this day many people believe that a Pinto is a dangerous car. It is
> not..at least not any more dangerous than any other.
Speaking of safe cars, a while back you asserted that SUV's were
much safer than "econoboxes" and it seemed that you were trying
to extend that to all cars. I decided to take a minute and check
that, as it didn't seem right to me. Here's a link to the
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety that's pretty interesting:
<http://www.hwysafety.org/facts/passveh.htm>
Now, the way I interpret this page is that "small" SUV's are
_more_ dangerous than _all_ sizes of cars in terms of fatalities
per registered vehicle, and "medium" and "large" SUV's are not
significantly safer than the majority of cars (nor are pickup
trucks for that matter).
It seems that while SUV's actually are safer in multi-vehicle
accidents, that is compensated for by their over-involvement in
single-vehicle accidents. Specifically, they roll over a lot.
Rollovers are more deadly than most other types of crashes,
especially if the victims aren't wearing seat belts, which pretty
much compensates for the multi-vehicle safety AFAICT.
Just thought you'd like to know.
--
Bob Hauck, Software Engineer - Will program for food.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NF Stevens)
Subject: Re: why is compiling (and installation) so difficult
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 22:17:41 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Is there newbie step-by-step on how to set up a linux system which
>allows easy compilation of source software.
>
>On a RedHat 5.2 system I have installed gcc, bindutils, make and other
>packages which I assumed to be neccessary for compilation of software
>but constantly got errors when trying to compile software.
[snip]
>configure:1227: checking whether the C++ compiler (gcc ) works
>configure:1241: gcc -o conftest conftest.C 1>&5
>gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `cc1plus': No such file or
>directory
>configure: failed program was:
>#line 1237 "configure"
>#include "confdefs.h"
>main(){return(0);}
You don't have the c++ compiler installed. Install
gpp-2.?.?.?-i386.rpm. (Make sure the version
numbers match that of the gcc compiler you
installed).
>configure:1189: checking for X
>configure:1256: gcc -E conftest.c >/dev/null 2>conftest.out
>configure:1252: X11/Intrinsic.h: No such file or directory
>configure: failed program was:
>#line 1251 "configure"
>#include "confdefs.h"
>#include <X11/Intrinsic.h>
>configure:1332: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 conftest.c -lXt 1>&5
>ld: cannot open -lXt: No such file or directory
>configure: failed program was:
>#line 1325 "configure"
>#include "confdefs.h"
>
>int main() {
>XtMalloc()
>; return 0; }
You need to install the x development rpm. xdevel-3.3.?-i386.rpm
HTH
Norman
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NF Stevens)
Subject: Re: Clearing the print queue
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 22:17:42 GMT
Len Cuff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I've managed to set up my printer incorrectly and all I get is a load of
>blank pages and the printer won't stop !
>I've tried lpc> clean lp etc but it still says there is 1 job on the
>spool area and prints it. Rebooting has no effect, as soon as the lpd
>daemon starts the print starts again. I've looked in /var/spool for the
>file to delete it but it isn't there ! I set the printer up using
>apsfilter - SETUP.
>
>Any clues please ??
lpq displays the print queue.
lprm removes jobs from the print queue.
Check the man/info pages for these programs for more details.
Norman
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From: Brian Lehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: KDE question
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 05:14:32 +0000
I'm in the process of setting up KDE. Everything installed fine.
However, when I try to start it, I get the following message:
kpanel: error in loading shared libraries
/opt/kde/lib/libkdecore.so.1: undefined symbol: sizeHint__C8QListBox
I get the same message in regards to several files, including kwmsound,
kcontrol, kwm, etc.
The lib file is a link in the same directory to libkdecore.so.1.0.0,
which is there.
What needs to be corrected?
Brian
--
A computer is like an air conditioner -- the moment you open Windows, it
ceases to work properly!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter F. Curran)
Subject: Re: Pentium III Boycott and survey info
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.hardware
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 22:22:32 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore) writes:
>On Sat, 27 Feb 1999 14:52:29 GMT,
> Peter F. Curran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I think I can explain the fuss. People don't _want_ to be tracked
>> on the Internet. They only wish to provide identification info
>> to those sites they want to do business with.
>
>That's true.
>
>> It is the proposed _use_ of the PSN, not the PSN itself which
>> is so objectionable.
>
>No, that's what the MEDIA is reporting as the use. It's completely
>useless for that.
[snip]
In this case, it is Intel's _own_ media who are claiming the
PSN as an online security enhancement. Otherwise I agree with
what you say. (Yes, I know that the random number generator IS
a good security enhancement. I wonder if there has been some
miscommunication in Intel between the engineers and marketers.)
Perhaps the PSN will only be used to tie software to computers,
but I don't think the majority of consumers _want_ that.
You'll be forced to maintain an ongoing relationship with a
software maker, whereas before you could just buy software
off the shelf anonymously. (You give the company your PSN
and they give you a software serial number tailored for your
machine.)
It prevents transfer of ownership of software without the
manufacturer's knowledge, and makes upgrading hardware a
hassle. What if a company goes out of business? I don't
like it one bit. I sure as hell aren't going to put up with
it for a crappy $40 game.... (The only MS platform software
I use.)
--
Peter F Curran
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
dough knot male: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Use address in Organization line, finger
for PGP key. Antispaam test in progress.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Warkus)
Subject: Re: Simple text processor
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 18:34:43 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It was the 27 Feb 1999 17:10:08 GMT...
..and joseph_a_philbrook__iii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 23 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Warkus) said to me:
>
> >> Get your self O'Reilly books. It's the best way.
>
> Sounds like good advice... I'm working on a couple of books now. tho I think
> not O'Reily's... I suppose I could add another... could use a sugestion or
> two about which one to read 1st...
Have you got _Running_Linux_ from O'Reilly? It's excellent.
[schnibble]
> >> [schnibble]
>
> Hmmmnnn does [schnibble] mean the same thing as <<< snip >>> ?????
Yes. Do you really want to hear the story of how I came to use
schnibble instead of snip?
> >> Wait a minute...
> >> It's completely doable.
>
> GOOD, I'm not ready to study emacs before I get to learn TeX...
Well, TeX input is ASCII, so you can do TeX with any editor you like.
[schnibble]
> I'm not so sure I understand ANYTHING about TeX yet. But I suspect I'd
> want to compose ALL the text content with plain old vim before I started
> embeding whatever it is that TeX put's in the file to make it print
> pretty...
Wait a minute. Look at this. It will give you an idea of how LaTeX
works. Please try it, so you'll get an understanding of it.
===START foo.tex===
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\title{The Document of Foo}
\maketitle
\section{This is a section}
Some Text.\footnote{These words were meaningless.}
A formula: \(e = mc^{2} \rightarrow c^{2} = \frac{e}{m} \)
\subsection{This is a subsection}
\subsection{Another subsection}
A paragraph of text.
Another paragraph with lots of text. Jack and Jill went up the hill.
Now it is time for all good men to come to the aid of the party. A
hacker is not a cracker.
\begin{verse}
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves \\
did gyre and gimble in the wabe
\end{verse}
\tableofcontents
\end{document}
===END foo.tex===
Paste this into a plain-text file. Run it through LaTeX like this:
latex foo.tex
It will generate some cruft (foo.aux, foo.log, foo.toc). The main
output file is foo.dvi. Preview it under X with:
xdvi foo.dvi
You will notice that the table of contents isn't yet there. You need
to run LaTeX twice on an input file to get the table of contents
right.
latex foo.tex
xdvi foo.dvi
Now it's perfect! Let's convert it to PostScript:
dvips foo.dvi
Let's print it:
lpr foo.ps
If your system is well configured, lpr foo.dvi will work, too.
mawa
--
.. bleakness ... desolation ... plastic forks ...
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From: "The Infernal One" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Digital Cameras
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 13:18:10 -0800
Does anyone either know or have good source information on
which digital cameras support linux? TIA.
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From: Jimmy Navarro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie Modem/PPP ?'s.....
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 21:13:22 -0800
I posted this at my ISP how-to... See toward the bottom!
Peter Worcester wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm new to Linux (actually have been away from Unix for 7-9 years, last
> experience was HP-UX)
>
> I recently bought Red Hat 5.2 and installed it just fine on my spare
> machine. There are a couple og things I can't get working. In particular the
> modem and PPP connection. This machine and modem works with NT4 on another
> partition. The system recognizes the modem and it comes up with cu0 - cu3
> (com1 - com4) and I try pointing all of them to dev/modem with no luck. Then
> I went through the PPP connectivlity in deatil and can't get that to dial my
> ISP.
> Can someone point me to where I can find some pretyy deatiled setup
> instructions or give me some tips on how I might go about troubleshooting
> this problem ?
>
> I don't really know where to start. I would think I need to make sure that
> the modem dials out first then go for the PPP connectivity.
>
> Any thoughts would be appreciated. Could someone volunteer and good FAq
> sites or web sites to help me get started with Linux.
>
> Thanks in advance
> Peter
The following are suggested steps HOT-TO configure your Red Hat (5.0, 5.1,
5.2)
as PPP login to ISP (using XFree86 only):
1) login as "root"
2) invoke "startx" to launch XFree86
3) click "Modem Configuration" at the Control Panel to
set COM port of your modem (cua0=com1, cua1=com2, etc).
4) click "Network Configuration" at the Control Panel
5) click "Names" tab, fill in
Hostname: {your can put your ISP's like mirroring}or any other
Domain: {can be the same as above}
leave blank "Search for hostnames, bla-bla-blah!"
Nameservers: {your DNS IP#}
6) click at "Interfaces" tab
7) click "Add" and click OK at PPP
8) put local ISP modem pool number
9) no PAP authentication but
put your username, password and click Done
10) it's little tricky to do "Customize" but you can now manually edit
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/chat-ppp0 (chat script) to read:
'ABORT' 'BUSY'
'ABORT' 'ERROR'
'ABORT' 'NO CARRIER'
'ABORT' 'NO DIALTONE'
'ABORT' 'Invalid Login'
'ABORT' 'Login incorrect'
'' 'ATZ'
'OK' 'ATDT {ISP's modem pool number'
'CONNECT' ''
'login:' '{username'
'sword:' 'YourPassword'
'TIMEOUT' '5'
'~--' ''
11) higlight "ppp0" and click "Edit"
Line speed: 115200, or 57600, or 38400, etc.
12) "Communication" tab, see step 10
13) click "Networking" tab to fill in
MRU=1500; MTU=1500; (max 1500 if your line is noise free)
Local IP: you can leave it blank or put 0.0.0.0
Remote IP address: {DNS IP #]
How to login as PPP with Linux Red Hat (5.0, 5.1, 5.2)
1) as soon as you launch XFree86, launch also "Network Configuration,"
click or highlight ppp0
and click "Activate" to dial and connect to the ISP . Click
"Deactivate" to logoff.
or
2) as soon as you launch XFree86, click mouse left button holding it to
the Programs pull down menu to Networking and launch "Usernet." Click
ppp0 once to toggle to dial and login. If ppp0 Status info turned
Green, PPP connection has been established. To logoff, click ppp0 and
wait for Status info turn to Red.
--
I hope this will work! BTW, I also use multi-boot with WinNT 4.0 SP3 ws.
Linux Red Hat 5.2 work as good as in my WinNT.
Jimmy Navarro
--
To reply me direct, remove extra from my e-mail address!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Warkus)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class.
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 17:45:21 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It was the Sat, 27 Feb 1999 14:18:13 GMT...
..and Dai-Shan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> when I play a 16 player vs 16player teammatch of tribes on a PII450 with 25
> ram - 19" monitor and 2 voodoo2 sli cards on top of the tnt primary card -
Hey! A guy who has invested so much money in hardware he can't afford
capital letters and full stops anymore! That's what I call a fanatic
(I wonder why he didn't suffocate halfway through the posting, like
Sophocles).
mawa
--
The national editors of this country are brain dead when it comes to
doing investigative reporting about the federal government's handling
of AIDS. -- Journalist Randy Shilts author of And The Band Played On,
on "Fresh Air", NPR
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From: "Peter Worcester" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Newbie Modem/PPP ?'s.....
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 22:31:54 GMT
Hi all,
I'm new to Linux (actually have been away from Unix for 7-9 years, last
experience was HP-UX)
I recently bought Red Hat 5.2 and installed it just fine on my spare
machine. There are a couple og things I can't get working. In particular the
modem and PPP connection. This machine and modem works with NT4 on another
partition. The system recognizes the modem and it comes up with cu0 - cu3
(com1 - com4) and I try pointing all of them to dev/modem with no luck. Then
I went through the PPP connectivlity in deatil and can't get that to dial my
ISP.
Can someone point me to where I can find some pretyy deatiled setup
instructions or give me some tips on how I might go about troubleshooting
this problem ?
I don't really know where to start. I would think I need to make sure that
the modem dials out first then go for the PPP connectivity.
Any thoughts would be appreciated. Could someone volunteer and good FAq
sites or web sites to help me get started with Linux.
Thanks in advance
Peter
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From: Stephe <[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: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 00:34:36 -0500
jik- wrote:
>
>
> Then you get into what we don't have.....I know of one thing which is
> available for Win95 that hasn't even been worked on in Linux.....There
> is a tool made by Fluke which is used for diagnostics on the newer (not
> so much anymore :P) computerised cars. This tool will talk to win95 and
> you can put the information it talks about into a database on the
> computer...then transfered here, there,....all over, shared online...its
> a fuckin killer tool.
>
But for who? I'm a pro mechanic and have learned these "self
diagnosing" cars are more likely to lead you on a wild goose
chase than to actually point you in the right direction.. Yes
there are alot of cool apps missing from linux (I miss kai's
photosoap) but a "car diagnostic link" is a huge waste of time
IMHO..
--
Stephe
Having fun with linux
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From: "Robert C. Paulsen, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH vs SuSE
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 23:37:47 -0600
Monte Milanuk wrote:
>
> I've 'upgraded' the stock 6.0 to KDE 1.1, and kernel 2.2.2-ac5, and had
> mostly problems...wrong charset, somewhere. I think this is keeping
> alot of KDE apps from launching. And according to xload, my system is
> now under a fairly steady 30-40% load, where before an idle system was
> more like 2-5%. Any ideas?
>
> Monte Milanuk
I have no experience with KDE 1.1 nor with the 2.2.2 kernel so can not
offer any forst-hand advice. I do remember reading on this newsgroup
that people have been able to install KDE 1.1 onto SuSE 6.0 with no
trouble so perhaps your problem is with the kernel.
--
Robert Paulsen http://paulsen.home.texas.net
If my return address contains "ZAP." please remove it. Sorry for the
inconvenience but the unsolicited email is getting out of control.
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From: Anonymous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: uninstall Linux from dual boot w/ win98
Date: 28 Feb 1999 05:31:38 GMT
I currently have Linux installed on a partition of my hard drive, sharing
with win98. I now have a separate Linux machine, and I want to re-claim
the 2.5 GB of harddrive space I have given to Linux on my Win98 machine.
I did something incredibly stupid and just re-formatted the linux
partition. This completely hosed LILO and the machine wouldn't even re-
boot to anything. I had to re-install Linux on the same partition, and
then was able to re-boot into either Linux or Win98.
I then read about the "dd if=/boot/boot.0300 of=/dev/hda bs=446 count=1"
that restores the previous boot sector. Problem is, because of my
screwup, the original boot sector is the old LILO (post-reformatting) that
doesn't boot anything, just hangs.
any suggestions? Email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
see ya at LinuxWorldExpo!!!!!!!
-dave
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From: "T.E.Dickey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Key mappings after upgrading termcap/ncurses
Date: 28 Feb 1999 05:37:46 GMT
Dan Srebnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've upgraded my termcap to 2.0.8 and my ncurses to 4.2 as part of an
> upgrade from libc5 to glibc2.06.
> My "End" key used to go to the end of the line in editors such as pico and
> vi, or when doing command line editing in bash. I seem to have lost this
> behaviour. Would someone kindly advise me on what I screwed up?
what does your termcap look like? (e.g., what does infocmp show)
--
Thomas E. Dickey
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.clark.net/pub/dickey
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mayor Of R'lyeh)
Crossposted-To: alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: Consumer Poll Says Microsoft Is Good For Consumers
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 05:41:10 GMT
On 28 Feb 1999 05:08:16 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Hauck)
chose to bless us all with this bit of wisdom:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mayor Of R'lyeh) writes:
>
>> To this day many people believe that a Pinto is a dangerous car. It is
>> not..at least not any more dangerous than any other.
>
>Speaking of safe cars, a while back you asserted that SUV's were
>much safer than "econoboxes" and it seemed that you were trying
>to extend that to all cars. I decided to take a minute and check
>that, as it didn't seem right to me. Here's a link to the
>Insurance Institute for Highway Safety that's pretty interesting:
>
><http://www.hwysafety.org/facts/passveh.htm>
>
>Now, the way I interpret this page is that "small" SUV's are
>_more_ dangerous than _all_ sizes of cars in terms of fatalities
>per registered vehicle, and "medium" and "large" SUV's are not
>significantly safer than the majority of cars (nor are pickup
>trucks for that matter).
>
>It seems that while SUV's actually are safer in multi-vehicle
>accidents, that is compensated for by their over-involvement in
>single-vehicle accidents. Specifically, they roll over a lot.
>Rollovers are more deadly than most other types of crashes,
>especially if the victims aren't wearing seat belts, which pretty
>much compensates for the multi-vehicle safety AFAICT.
>
>Just thought you'd like to know.
I'm pretty much done with this thread. If you guys want to believe
that a Yugo is safer than a Suburban be my guest.
"That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die."
- Abdul Alhazred, Necronomicon
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From: "The Infernal One" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Digital Cameras
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 21:32:56 -0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Try http://www.gphoto.org/gphoto/cameras.html
Wow, this GPhoto program sounds very promising. Is it well
usable in its current version (0.2) or is it more like a
beta?
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From: Rod Roark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Low Memory Slackware Install
Date: 27 Feb 1999 23:36:33 GMT
I was going to post a question here about how to install Slackware
on an old 386 laptop with only 6MB RAM. However I figured it out
and decided to offer the answer instead!
Details at http://www.sunsetsystems.com/tip-lowmem.html.
-- Rod
======================================================================
Sunset Systems Preconfigured Linux Computers
http://www.sunsetsystems.com/ and Custom Software
======================================================================
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From: "Duane Elmer Smeckert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: domain name reg and IP setup
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 14:57:46 -0800
My apologies, I was being loose with the terminology
in order to make it less complicated. I meant site to
include the whole domain, not just the web server.
I was assuming that he would be supplying his own DNS.
I guess it's true what they say about assuming. ;)
Rod Roark wrote in message <7b9jor$8cf$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>PTW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>...
>>The InterNIC requires that your server be up continuously
>>in order to maintain the name. They do have an actual
>>time that the named site can be down before they suspend
>>it.
>
>Um, you don't register a "site" with InterNIC. The only machines
>you have to identify to them are the name servers, which will
>normally be maintained by your ISP... those have to stay up.
>
>-- Rod
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>Sunset Systems Preconfigured Linux Computers
>http://www.sunsetsystems.com/ and Custom Software
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David M. Cook)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Program to generate the Makefile?
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 23:30:22 GMT
On Sat, 27 Feb 1999 10:14:20 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I know the imake and configure can be used to generate Makefile.
>Is there any other choice?
See
ftp://ftp.troll.no/freebies/tmake/
http://www.fortran.com/fortran/makemake.html
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/devel/make
Dave Cook
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