Linux-Misc Digest #806, Volume #19 Sun, 11 Apr 99 08:13:14 EDT
Contents:
FAQ! unininstall LILO with DOS' FDISK /MBR, Re: How do I get 5.1 off my partition?
("Cameron Spitzer")
Re: Downloading files in Win 98 for use in Linux ("Joseph Tiraco")
Re: .tar files (Paul Kimoto)
Remove PAM ? (Chris J/#6)
Re: seti@home graphical client (fred smith)
what does "sox: Invalid audio buffer size 0" mean (Sim)
Re: Solved Re: RealPlayer problems ("Karsten M. Self")
Standby Mode in Linux? (Leigang Kou)
LILO - NO Signature file found ("Paul Fowler")
Re: Idea: Make a seperate "i686" tree for Redhat Linux 6.0 (John Thompson)
Printing using lpd from linux box to OS/2 box (Michael Chajkowski)
Re: Why Linux still isn't my standard boot-up OS, or what are the Linux-equivalents
for these Windoze programs? (Floyd Davidson)
Re: need help selecting a college for C / Unix (Matt Kuznicki)
Re: Names to call Windows... (Chris Costello)
Refresh rate in XFree86 ("UPCNet")
Re: where's the "autoexec.bat" file, or how can i get linux to execute a shell on
login? (peter)
Re: 5.00 cd's ("Bruce S. Babcock")
Re: mounting hard drives (Rommel Crasta)
Re: Staroffice5.0 -> 5.1? (Bud Rogers)
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From: "Cameron Spitzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: FAQ! unininstall LILO with DOS' FDISK /MBR, Re: How do I get 5.1 off my
partition?
Date: 10 Apr 1999 20:22:38 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Poohba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I want to uninstall linux. How do i do this? There is no doc. in my book
>that i can find. I would like to use the gig that i set asside for linux
>with win98. How do i do this?
Make sure your system is bootable from floppy.
Back up everything important.
Boot Linux one last time and use its fdisk to change its partition
to large FAT32.
Boot Win-98. Get an MS-DOS prompt and type
fdisk /mbr
to restore the Microsoft boot sector and
format d:
to create a Microsoft file system on the former Linux partition,
if hardware wizard didn't do that automatically when you booted.
Do this with candles, soft organ music, and a black sash across your door,
and wear black for a week.
Cameron
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From: "Joseph Tiraco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Downloading files in Win 98 for use in Linux
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 06:23:29 GMT
J. Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Is there a way that I can setup my computer where I can download files
> using Windows, so I can use the file/program in Linux? I assume that
> I have to setup a directory/drive that can be read by both.
>
> I am having problems getting Linux setup for use with my ISP. Until
> then, I would like to use windows to download files.
>
> Thanks
Linux will read any DOS partition. Simply download the files into the DOS
partition, and mount the partition using, "mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /mnt"
then "cd /mnt/directory_with_downloaded_file" or "mv /mnt/downloaded_file"
Note. long filenames are not preserved with this method. To preserve long
filenames mount using "mount -t vfat" instead of "mount -t msdos"
Joseph Tiraco
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: .tar files
Date: 11 Apr 1999 02:36:10 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Kimoto wrote:
[on using `tar']
> Get more extensive output by adding "v" (verbose) to "c" or "x".
Sorry, that should be `to "c", "t", or "x"' (and "c" is for "create").
--
Paul Kimoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris J/#6)
Subject: Remove PAM ?
Date: 10 Apr 1999 20:56:10 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I doubt this is possible without rebuilding several utilities - but is there
a nice easy way to rip PAM out of RedHat? It's one of the things I'm not a
fan of - more because it sticks a bunch of libraries on the system (ie, the
PAM ones) that are going to just sit there - I have no intention of doing
anything PAM related, short of logging in and out of the system. So...to
save a bit of space, I thought I'd zap the thing out.
Nice idea, but I've seen very little out for it. And I can't be asked
getting to grips with it myself (yes, laziness).
TIA,
Chris...
--
O--------------------------------------------------O--- Chris Johnson ---O
\ And the devil in a black dress watches over \ \
\ My guardian angel walks away \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \
\ -- Temple of Love, The Sisters of Mercy \ \
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (fred smith)
Subject: Re: seti@home graphical client
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 17:21:36 GMT
Uwe Schuerkamp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Hello fellow Linuxers,
: I guess quite a few of you have been following the development of
: seti@home project. When the client finally became available to the
: public I was a bit disappointed to see that there is no graphical
: status display as the windows version has or will have.
Yes, i've heard of seti@home. I'm on their mailing list. Last news I
received was there is only a Windoze client. Are you saying there is
now a Linux client too? Where/how to get?
Thanks!
: Being a member of the Linux community I said to myself: "Hey, let's
: propose such a beast that will put the Windows client to shame", so
: here I stand on my soap box, looking for people who would be interested
: in developing such an interface. I think perl/gtk would be nice as the
: only way to get at performance data is the log file output, and of
: course perl comes to mind first with such a format.
: In case you've never heard of seti@home (the search for
: extraterrestrial life on your computer), take a peek at
: http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/
: Regards & looking forward to hear from you,
: Uwe ( hoover at telemedia . de )
--
---- Fred Smith -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----------------------------
"Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of
heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven."
============================== Matthew 7:21 (niv) =============================
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sim)
Crossposted-To: linux.dev.sound
Subject: what does "sox: Invalid audio buffer size 0" mean
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 07:35:59 GMT
I'm not getting any sound from my Ensoniq PCI as any requst to play
leads to this error message.
I'm sure I screwed up the configuration somewhere along the line, but
don't know how
Simon
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From: "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Solved Re: RealPlayer problems
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 07:35:00 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The tarball is one of the options on the download page. This may or may
not be a dynamically generated page, meaning I cannot bookmark it or
refer to it directly.
It's the page you see after filling out your registration information.
The tarball is one of the listed files, IIRC.
William Massena wrote:
>
> Karsten, I am having trouble finding the "linux tarball" you
> successfully installed. Can you tell me where you downloaded it from?
> Thanks
>
> /Bill Massena
>
> "Karsten M. Self" wrote:
> >
> > I'm having trouble with rvplayer 5.0.0.35 on a RedHat Linux 5.2
> system,
> > i686, 2.0.36 kernel. Installed from the RH 5.x RPM at Real.com's
> site.
>
> The rpm is apparently broken, at least for RH 5.0. I installed the
> linux tarball instead. Works fine.
>
> --
> Karsten M. Self ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
--
Karsten M. Self ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand?
Welchen Teil von "Gestalt" verstehen Sie nicht?
web: http://www.netcom.com/~kmself
SAS/Linux: http://www.netcom.com/~kmself/SAS/SAS4Linux.html
12:03am up 5 days, 22:07, 5 users, load average: 1.98, 1.75, 1.46
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From: Leigang Kou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Standby Mode in Linux?
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 02:41:45 -0500
Hello,
I want to know if it is possible to set up a standby mode in the LINUX
so that the monitor and harddisk can go off after some specified idle
time, just like what Windoze does. I think it is a good feature. Sure, I
can turn off the monitor, but I would like to have computer do it
itself.
I did not see any relative HOW-TO documents in the sunsite. Any help,
please?
digger
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From: "Paul Fowler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LILO - NO Signature file found
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 04:11:48 -0400
I am having strange problems with LILO
I rebuild my kernel, copied it in (onto the partition, not the MBR), changed
the lilo.conf, ran /sbin/lilo
Everything looked fine.
I rebooted, and got "No signature file found"
I can't boot off my rescue disk either
Any ideas?
Paul Fowler
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.misc,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Idea: Make a seperate "i686" tree for Redhat Linux 6.0
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 21:36:06 -0600
Andrew Comech wrote:
> On 08 Apr 1999 14:45:41 -0400, Johan Kullstam wrote:
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (who?) writes:
>
> >not if you're from a commonwealth country - which includes new zealand
> >(where is the old zealand btw?). in *english* (as opposed to american
> >english) redhat is a group entity and considered plural. therefore,
> >redhat do.
> If you were to say "redHat sucks", you'd say "redHat sucks", though.
> Cheese,
> Andrew
And if I wanted to say "you're a funny lad with cheese in
your nose" I'd say "you're a funny lad with cheese in your
nose." Your point?
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Chajkowski)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.os2.networking.misc,comp.os.os2.networking.server,comp.os.os2.networking.tcp-ip,comp.os.linux
Subject: Printing using lpd from linux box to OS/2 box
Date: 11 Apr 1999 08:50:51 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I currently have two machines connected through a 10baseT network using TCP/IP
and want to print from my RH Linux 5.1 ( kernel v.2.2.4 ) box to my OS/2 Warp
4 FP 9 box using lpd.
My main machine is the OS/2 box, with the Linux box as an experimental
machine, and there is no forwarding between the two net0 and net1 on the OS/2
machine
Note: the Linux box has been upgraded significantly since RH 5.1 was
installed.
First off, is it possible to set up OS/2 Warp 4.0 client to act as a print
server using lpd? Secondly, if this is possible, how can it be done?
How do I find out what queue to send to from the Linux box?
Thank you for any and all assistance in this matter.
===================================
Network:
LaserJet 6 Lexmark 5700
18MB RAM Colour Inkjet
| |
|---Toggle------|
switch
|
lpt1
OS/2 Warp 4 (client)
64MB RAM
|
net0 --- net1
| |
Cable net0
Modem RH Linux 5.1
( internet ) 48MB RAM
===================================
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Floyd Davidson)
Subject: Re: Why Linux still isn't my standard boot-up OS, or what are the
Linux-equivalents for these Windoze programs?
Date: 11 Apr 1999 06:56:57 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Harry Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> that (abomination) that he posted
>
>You took the words right out of my mouth!
Which couldn't be done at all with a GUI. And nothing close to
it can either.
The simple fact is that abominations like that are the way to
get a lot of work done, and a CLI is needed to do it.
Floyd
--
Floyd L. Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
UPDATED Mar 20, North Slope images: <http://www.ptialaska.net/~floyd>
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From: Matt Kuznicki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: need help selecting a college for C / Unix
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 03:27:26 -0400
Adrian Hands wrote:
>
> Last time I looked ALL colleges where C/Unix based.
> In fact, most of computer science is C/Unix based.
> In fact, when the Corp of Engineers bought their big new Cray Y-MP
> supercomputer for the Waterways Experiment Station they sent around some
> basic instructions on using it...guess what, it looked liked standard
> bourne shell stuff!
Not so about the colleges; up at Rutgers they're doing all their intro
& some of their other course with Java (or so I hear from a few CS
people there) and here at Bowling Green (Ohio) it's all C++, except for
the intro to programming course which is VB. I know C++ is close to C
but I've seen way too many people here who can do C++ (because it's what
they learned) but not C, due to the lack of objects and I/O streams.
Matt Kuznicki
--
Matt Kuznicki -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://129.1.213.25, taking its own sweet time!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Costello)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Names to call Windows...
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 09:38:22 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Donn Miller wrote:
>
>
> William Cornett wrote:
>
> > Shouldn't this crap be on comp.os.linux.advocacy? Most people (myself
> > included) come here to learn something useful.
>
> Well then, how about getting an education and getting off the welfare?
Welfare? Education?
Talk about non sequitur.
>
> Donn
>
--
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* Using TSO is like kicking a dead whale down the *
* beach. -- S. C. Johnson *
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From: "UPCNet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Refresh rate in XFree86
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 13:07:28 +0200
Hi there
I've been trying to configure the Xfree server with my graphic card (a
cirrus logic gd5430). I'm running S.u.S.E. 5.3 so I use the SAX setup tool.
Problem is I can't get over the 41 Hz vertical refresh rate when using the
SVGA server (800x600x16). Should I look for a more specific sever? If so,
where? Otherwise, how could I set it up?
Any hint would be appreciated.
Thanks!
PS: I can get to that resolution (800x600x16) in windows'95 with 75Hz
refresh rate, so it's got to be a matter of configuration
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (peter)
Subject: Re: where's the "autoexec.bat" file, or how can i get linux to execute a
shell on login?
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 11:10:22 GMT
In article <7eo7o9$gd3$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> thanxx
>
> how do i execute a shell on boot
>
> how do i connect linux to my isp?
>
whats the meaning of life ?
to your first question:
look at all the scripts in /etc/rc.d and its subs.
your second question:
buy a modem, connect it to your machine, read the howtos, install the
corresponding programs and let linux dial up ;)
peter
=================
pilsl@
ANTISPAM
goldfisch.atat.at
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From: "Bruce S. Babcock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 5.00 cd's
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 06:03:18 -0400
Hey, what about
http://www.cheapbytes.com/
Most of their cds are $1.99. Now let's not forget the $5.00 (in the USA)
shipping charge! So we are really paying $7.00 for a single cd.
But Cheapbytes tells you that for that $5.00 you can order up
to 18 cds (I think that's the number?). Also when they process your
oder they send you an e-mail and when they ship another e-mail is sent.
I've certainly been happy ordering from them,
bruce
Death Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7eni44$d0t$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> If any of you want linux on CD for cheap go to www.lsl.com
> Usually 5.00 per cd and they have everything
> RH, sw, Suse, Debian, Open, Mandrake.
> I used them and they are good.
>
> John
>
>
>
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From: Rommel Crasta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: mounting hard drives
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 14:36:13 +0400
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To mount the other hard drive type:
mount -t msdos /dev/hda /mnt
Note that you can change msdos in the above command to vfat to show
complete
long filenames!!!
pschless wrote:
> I have two hard drives inside my computer. linux is installed on my d
> drive, or hdb.
> anyone know how I can mount my c drive or my d drive into linux?
> please email me.
> thanks for your time
> Patrick
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To mount the other hard drive type:
<p><b>mount -t msdos /dev/hda /mnt</b>
<p>Note that you can change <b>msdos </b>in the above command to <b>vfat</b>
to show complete
<br>long filenames!!!
<p>pschless wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>I have two hard drives inside my computer.
linux is installed on my d
<br>drive, or hdb.
<br>anyone know how I can mount my c drive or my d drive into linux?
<br>please email me.
<br>thanks for your time
<br>Patrick</blockquote>
</html>
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From: Bud Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Staroffice5.0 -> 5.1?
Date: 10 Apr 1999 07:35:16 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Hi folks, I just downloaded the 70 M staroffice filter upgrade
> version(5.1?) and am planning to install it. Since I already installed
> SO5.0 and registered, I I don't know if I shall uninstall the 5.0 version
> first then do an install of the 5.1 version from scratch or if there is a
> way that I can upgrade from 5.0 to 5.1. Anyone has any experience in this?
I tried to install 5.01 over the top of my 5.0 installation. The setup
program complained that there was not enough disk space. So I reluctantly
deleted /opt/Office50 and then installed the upgrade, fully expecting that
I would have to re-register. To my pleasant surprise, when I ran SO as
user afterwards, it came up with no problems. All my user configurations
were intact.
--
Bud Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.sirinet.net/~budr/twocups.gif
Linux twocups 2.0.36 #5 Mon Mar 15 21:01:56 CST 1999 i586 unknown
7:26am up 25 days, 9:09, 4 users, load average: 0.07, 0.10, 0.15
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