Linux-Misc Digest #57, Volume #20 Tue, 4 May 99 13:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: Slackware and glibc2 (brian moore)
Re: Backup with dd ("William B. Cattell")
Re: Problem: trying to load linux using the NT loader and LILO (Frank)
Re: GNU reeks of Communism ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: HELP!! Linux Server crashes every 3-4 hours (Muzh)
SCO's mapchan? ("Julian Zalutsky")
Error correcting file manager available? ("Theo van der Merwe")
Re: SUID games? What is RedHat doing? (Bill Unruh)
Re: Change Linux filesystem to Win98 (Gerald Willmann)
Re: JDK in Linux (Hans Wolters)
Re: Computer virus threat to Linux? (TurkBear)
Re: Memory being limited to 16M (Matthew R Ashe)
Re: Can linux damage my hardware? (gus)
Sound now broken in 2.2 ("Eric L. Rovner")
Re: Mac-emulation on Linux? (Andrew J. Brehm)
Once again : Error "finding installation files" ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux's Last Chance (David Tansley)
Re: Newbie: Learning Linux And Databases ("Paul McRae")
LaTeX on RedHat6 (Thomas Fischer)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Subject: Re: Slackware and glibc2
Date: 3 May 1999 23:49:02 GMT
On Mon, 03 May 1999 22:57:26 GMT,
Thomas Zajic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 3 May 1999 16:45:42 GMT, brian moore wrote:
> > On Mon, 03 May 1999 11:17:11 GMT,
> > Thomas Zajic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Damn, you�re right! Everything�s still using ld-linux.so.1 ... bummer. :-( So
> > > what�s the reason for the version jump then, the upgrade to the 2.2 kernel?
> > Yep, and the usual piles-of-stuff-that-have-been-updated-in-the-last-year.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Do I spot a bit of cynism here? ;-)
Not really: 3.6 is a year or so old, so much of what 4.0 will contain
will be things that have changed in the past year. The joys of an OS
where the applications change a lot.
> > I still think it's not worthy of a major version number increment (the
> > 1.2.13->2.0.0 didn't get a version boost).
> > It is better than calling it Slackware'99, though.
>
> That, and let�s keep our fingers crossed that Mr. Volkerding will come up with
> something better than "Slackware2000" for the first glibc2-based version. :-)
As long as it doesn't come up with fvwm2000 or some other monstrosity as
the default WM, I'll forgive him for even that name.
--
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Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | a cockroach, except that the cockroach
Usenet Vandal | is higher up on the evolutionary chain."
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From: "William B. Cattell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Backup with dd
Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 15:49:09 GMT
Frank Ansari wrote:
>
> I got hold of a 4GB HD in my company in order to put Linux on it
> and make a backup of my WinNT HD. I have two IDE HDs. The master
> with Liunx and the Slave with WinNT. WinNT is started with Lilo.
> That works fine.
>
> The NT HD was formatted with NTFS. First I wanted to make
> a big tar-file. But our sys admin told me that this would be
> no help at all, because this would only save the files and
> not the NTFS structure.
>
> O.K. I was convinced that my next idea was absolutely secure.
> I would calculate the used disk space and then make a
> block image with dd. Like this:
>
> dd if=/dev/hdb4 of=hdb4.img bs=4032k count=140
>
> To make absolutely sure that nothing goes wrong I mounted the
> image like this:
>
> insmod ntfs
> mount -t ntfs -o loop hdb4.img mnt
>
> where `mnt' was a mount point in the current directory.
>
> It worked. If now I would have a problem I would simply
> use my backup like this:
>
> dd if=hdb4.img of=/dev/hdb4 bs=4032k
>
> and reboot my NT.
>
> Last Friday I had a problem. I made the recovery like that.
> I ended up at a blue screen that NT could not find or load
> some driver files.
>
> What's wrong with this method? Has anyone of you tried it?
>
> Frank Ansari, Berlin
>
> **************************************************************
> To email me please replace the first 'u' of the domain name
> with 'n' and the second with 'a'. Just to avoid spam.
About the only way I've been able to recover a crashed NT system (NTFS
or FAT) was to do a fresh re-install. The Novastor backup software
package has a disaster recovery piece built-in that allows you to boot
off the three NT floppies then use a 'rescue' disk that runs a
command-line restore but even that has been inconsistent.
I've used tar to backup NT NTFS and FAT partitions from within Linux.
The 'gotcha' is that NTFS partitions are read-only from under Linux. I
want to try using tar under Linux to backup the NTFS/FAT then try to do
a restore through an NT version of tar.
FYI,
Bill
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank)
Subject: Re: Problem: trying to load linux using the NT loader and LILO
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 09:38:56 GMT
If I get an answer to this problem, I'll email it to you
good luck
On Tue, 4 May 1999 16:05:49 +1000, "Robear" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>m trying to do exactly the same as you. My system boots NTLOADER (which I
>Want to keep) then I choose my Entry (REDHAT LINUX 5.2). Upon choosing this,
>the screen clears and I get a cursor in the top left corner.
>
>Regards,
>Robert
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: GNU reeks of Communism
Date: 4 May 1999 12:14:03 GMT
In the sacred domain of comp.os.linux.misc didst Chris Mikkelson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> eloquently scribe:
: How would they convince *all* hardware manufacturers to include these
: "uber-dongles"? Un-dongled manufacturers would probably succeed in the
: marketplace, so the current IP beneficiaries would have to push another
: law through legislature to ban un-dongled machines.
More likely, the Uber-dongle would be a plug-in card, and software would
"require it". The machines could be uber-dongle-less, but nothing would work
on it (apart from good stuff that's free, like Linux)
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From: Muzh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HELP!! Linux Server crashes every 3-4 hours
Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 20:45:58 +1200
Same thing happens to my machine (P11 300, IntelLX ATX, 128MB,
Viper330AGP) running Red Hat 5.2. Suse 6.0 runs fune, however, without
hangups.
Thoughts, anyone?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> > Is there anything suspicious in any of system logs? (/var/log/messages
> > secure). Is it locked totally or can you shout it down? Does it respond to
> > pings from other sites?
>
> No, believe it or not....there is absolutely nothing in the logs that would
> give a hint what went wrong. The system just locks up totally....you cannot
> do anything on the console, and cannot ping either!! I did upgrade apache to
> 1.3.6 and also PHP3 to 3.0.7. I thought Mysql would've played a part, so
> upgraded that to new version. Same thing happens.....crashes approximately
> every 2 hours at this stage :( The only thing I have noticed that may be a
> clue, is that I run top quite frequently, and have noticed that the free
> memory keeps shrinking....it doesnt seem to free up shared memory much.
> Another thing I thought it could be is bad memory. I replaced the memory in
> the server (128mb Pentium 233), but to no avail....
>
> I'm kinda run out of ideas at this stage!! Would having an IDE as a boot drive
> and using scsi drives as the usr drives etc cause any problems you think?
>
> Cheers,
>
> - Trevor
>
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From: "Julian Zalutsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: SCO's mapchan?
Date: 3 May 1999 22:50:23 +0300
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi
Does the Red Hat Linux 5.2 has any utility a kind of mapchan
in SCO Unix (OSE 5.02)?
Thanks,
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Information Systems Ltd
+375 0(162) 22-16-29, 22-13-30 Brest, Republic of Belarus
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From: "Theo van der Merwe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Error correcting file manager available?
Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 22:09:37 +0200
I am looking for a compression program with an option to encode the
resulting (compressed) file with error correction. If a problem occurs
during transmission of a large compressed file (e.g. to a CDR), the error
correction should make it possible to retrieve the original file (up to a
limit of course). The amount of error correction - hence the amount by which
the compressed file grows - should be user selectable (e.g. adding a certain
user selectable percentage redundancy).
Alternatively, a program that can encode (and decode) each individual file
with error correction would also be useful to me, especially if it is
integrated into the file system itself.
Thanks in advance for your help,
Theo van der Merwe ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.security.unix
Subject: Re: SUID games? What is RedHat doing?
Date: 3 May 1999 20:00:37 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Stefan Davids <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Anything that runs under svgalib has to run as root to call
>vga_init(), according to the man page the root privileges are dropped
>in that function call. The man page also recommends calling vga_init()
>as the first line of the program.
>Consquently how secure the program is coded is irrelevant for root
>exploits and I suspect vga_init() itself has been fairly well
>scrutinized.
Not true. Although vgalib might drop root priv., the program calling it
does not have to. And it is each and every one of those programs,
running as root, which are the danger. It is each and every one of those
programs, long before and after it calls vga_lib which represents a
possible point of attack. Anything running as root is vulnerable and
just because one program drops its root ownership does not affect other
programs. This is like saying that because vgalib drops root, one should
not worry about root exploits of ftpd. After all both run under the
Linux kernel.
If there was some common interface which was suid root, this might be
OK, becasue it could be scrutinised. But here we have each and every
game running as root, and the system is subject to the security
ignorance of the stupidest games programmer.
That systems need suid programs is true. But no system which claims to
be a modern system (ie able to be connected to the internet) should
have application programs which are suid root.
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From: Gerald Willmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Change Linux filesystem to Win98
Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 13:16:13 -0700
On Mon, 3 May 1999, news.nationwide.net wrote:
> I'm unable to delete/remove the Linux filesystem information
> using 'fdisk'. A logical drive is not defined, but 'fdisk' thinks it is and
> therefore won't delete the partition.
> Does anyone have any suggestions?
which fdisk - linux or DOS? If neither works you could still try a low
level format using the appropriate utility from the manufacturer such as
Quantum's ontrack disk manager.
Gerald
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From: Hans Wolters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: JDK in Linux
Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 14:17:11 +0200
On Tue, 04 May 1999, will wrote:
>I am not a great user of java and I just have to make it working.
>But I have problems when I try a demo exemple.
>I downloaded the 1.2 version and I have libc5. And I have under RedHat5.2.
>If I try:
>#java JDBCAdater
>The answer is:
>java.lang.ClassLotFoundException:javax/swing/table/AbstractTableModel.
That just means that java can't find the class file. It should be in the
swing.jar. As far as I know the 1.2 doesnt require a CLASSPATH var but you
could try it.
>I don't have egcc on my system. Is it possible that it come from that?
Nope..
>Do I need to do what the README.linux'Build Environnement tells?
>Thanks for your answer.
Read the documentation that blackdown provides with the distribution you
downloaded.
Regards Hans
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (TurkBear)
Subject: Re: Computer virus threat to Linux?
Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 15:40:41 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>: There is no word "virii", since there is no rule that takes "-us" to
>: "-ii". There is a rule that takes "-us" to "-uses", and I suggest you
>: use it by default, including for such words as virus and hippopotamus.
>
>Ahem... The plural of Hipopotamus is Hipopotami, and I imagine this is where
>the word Viri came from.
>
>: Classically, there are also rules that take "-us" to "-i" as in radius or
>: alumnus, to "-era" as in genus and opus, to "-ora" as in corpus, and to
>: "-Us" with a macron over the long "u" as in the ancient forms of status,
>: hiatus, apparatus, and prospectus. But there is simply no rule that takes
>: "-us" to "-ii".
No to get too pedantic, if that is possible
when discussing Latin noun forms,
virus is a 4th declension ( I think, it could be 5th) noun, so it is the same in
singular or plural ( like "fish" in English ) --
If anyone really cares, there are several web sites devoted ( and I mean devoted
) to Latin and most contain the rules for word formation.....
Note: Who says Linux devotees never leave their room........
Have a good day....
John
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From: Matthew R Ashe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Memory being limited to 16M
Date: 4 May 1999 16:32:31 GMT
Garen Parham wrote:
>
>
> Matthew R Ashe wrote:
>
> > I have RedHat 5.2 with the 2.2.7 kernel. I noticed X was taking an
> >
> > extremly long time to bring up Netscape, as well as a few other
programs.
> >
> > When I checked the system info, X reported there was 13M being used
and 3M
> >
> > free. I actually have 128M memory. The system definitely seems to be
> >
> > swapping out. If I append mem=128M to lilo.conf or enter it at
bootup, I
> >
> > get various messages telling me somthing is wrong and the system
freezes.
> >
> > Take the line out, all is well. I am not a long time Linux user, I've
> >
> > mainly used NT 3 and NT4, play a few games on 98. I would love to say
> >
> > goodbye to MS on a more or less permanent basis, but so far I can't
master
> >
> > Linux enough to get the things I need done day to day. I am getting a
LOT
> >
> > closer though, and my programming (3 years college, no real world
> >
> > experience) is getting better. I am miffed how to get this seemingly
> >
> > simple problem fixed(it is simple, right???. Any help would greatly be
> >
> > appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Matthew R Ashe
> >
> > PS I did compile the kernel to NOT limit the box to the 1st 16M ram.
> >
> >
>
> You shouldn't have to add the append mem statement into lilo.conf, as
2.2.7
> handle it properly, it was only needed with the older 2.0.x kernels
(except
> 2.0.36). Try a cat /proc/meminfo and see what the MemTotal: line says.
If
> thats less than what you physically have installed, it's probably a
problem
> with your BIOS.
>
> -Garen
> -http://www.garen.net/
>
You were correct. Thanks to an earlier post, I resolved the problem. I
did have "mem hole between 15 and 16 MB" selected in my bios. I
deselected it and all is well. i just to the append statement out and all
still works fine. Thanks.
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From: gus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can linux damage my hardware?
Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 16:42:05 +0100
Go Figure ....
I have a similar story, but I think mine involves a power spike ... I
think.
I have a dedicated Linux box. I have a CD-RW, and an HP-Photosmart
Scanner, as well as three UW SCSI hard disks, all connected to the same
Buslogic UW controller.
Sometime around when I installed Kernel 2.0.36 I was so busy doing other
things that I was not using the scanner or RW (I have an ATAPI CDRom as
well ...)
Well, one fine day I wanted to use the CD-RW. "Not a valid filesystem" I
think was the message. The LED was flashing Red/Green on the drive, so I
dismantled the computer, and re-seated all the cards, plugs, and power
supplies. I had noticed that the disk did not spin up, so I was a little
concerned.
In the process, I noticed that my scanner was not operating correctly
either.
Long story made short is:
CD-RW - Linux SCSI diagnostics say "Hardware failure - Spindle Servo
Failure". (Stacks more than what Windows said when plugged it in to a
Win98 machine).
Photosmart - This is more curious ... "36 bytes received when 56
expected" or something along those lines. This indicates that there is
either a driver problem (which is strange because it *used* to work,
although my system has been through a complete SuSE 5.2 to 6.0 upgrade)
or a controller/SCSI problem. Also strange. I should test it on another
machine asap.
Well, the curious thing is that they both "broke" at similar or the same
time.
Selective Power spike?
IDK
gus
Shaun Schembri wrote:
>
> Here is my story....
>
> I decided to give Linux a try way back in August 1998 and installed Red
> Hat Linux 5.1. Everything worked fine and soon Linux become my default
> operating system replacing Win98. But in the last one and a half months
> two incidents happened and I am thinking to revert to that crap of
> Micro$oft Win98.
>
> So, about 6 weeks ago I booted as usual my Linux system (A P100 with a
> UMC chipset board and 32MB of RAM) and started a X Windows session with
> KDE 1.0. But the display started to work incorrectly. The mouse
> started to leave a white trail after it. So I decided to reboot my
> system. I shut it down as usual but the computer didn't reboot. After
> some inspection I decided that my video card (a Trident 9440 1Mb PCI)
> was faulty. So I replaced it and everything came back to normal.
>
> Until then I upgraded my system from Red Hat 5.1 to 5.2, the kernel from
> 2.0.36 to 2.2.5, the KDE from 1.0 to 1.1 and the XFree86 from 3.3.2 to
> 3.3.3.1. Last Monday I was writing a document using Star Office 5.0 and
> I was hearing some mp3 using X11amp. After about 1 hour of playing
> X11amp hanged and continued to repeat the same second of music. I
> restarted the program but the problem was still there. I rebooted my PC
> and loaded Win98 which reported my sound card was not working. After
> about 2hours troubleshooting the problem my reinstalling the drivers and
> moving it to another slot. The only answer was that the sound card (an
> OPTI 82C929 ISA) was faulty. Again a replacement solved the problem.
>
> Now here is my question. Was it a coincidence that both cards went
> bonkers while using Linux? I believe that I set the drivers correctly
> because I wouldn't have worked for the past 6 months. Finally my PC is
> almost 3 years old and never gave me this kind of problems while using
> Windows.
>
> If there is any logical answer for this dilemma please tell me as I
> really like Linux but I don't want to buy new cards every few months.
>
> Thanks for the patience.
> Shaun
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From: "Eric L. Rovner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sound now broken in 2.2
Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 05:00:23 -0400
Hey everyone...
Sound worked perfectly in 2.0.36 for me, but since I installed 2.2.7, I
get nothing at all.
sndconfig tells me that there is an error in
/lib/modules/2.2.7/misc/cs4232.o, in that there are "too many values for
DMA (max 1)." I ran into this problem before (I reformatted my computer
a couple weeks ago), but I can't remember how to fix it. I had thought
it was simply splitting the 2 DMA values in /etc/conf.modules, but that
doesn't seem to work. I had configured sound as a module in 2.2.7. It
appears to load ok in dmesg, but when I try to run x11amp for example,
it appears to start (shows time), but doesn't move...and no sound. I'm
using the Crystal Audio 4237 chip.
I know this seems to be a frequent problem in the new kernels, but I
have yet to find an answer on dejanews or in the newsgroups. Can someone
please help?
Thanks in advance...
Eric
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.powerpc
Subject: Re: Mac-emulation on Linux?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew J. Brehm)
Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 11:04:18 +0200
FM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Andrew J. Brehm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > I'm fairly sure that it will
> > > be an improvement over Windows/MacOS, but I'm not even sure
> > > if most Linux softwares are available for this setup (or if
> > > it's generally source-level compatible).
> >
> > It is source level compatible. And most Linux software is available as
> > source codes. However, some Linux software is only available as Intel
> > (Star Office).
>
> Is Netscape available? I've heard once that it's impossible
> to build from sources obtained from mozilla.org.
LinuxPPC 4.0 came with Netscape Communicator 4.05.
> > > I think my doubts stem mostly from my lack of knowledge
> > > about the Macintosh systems, which I've used before but
> > > never administered. Are these the only options I have
> > > considering that I want to use Linux and remain compatible
> > > with Mac at the same time? Any additional information
> > > would be apprecited. Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Your only option would be to use a Mac.
>
> What versions of Linux are available on Mac?
LinuxPPC is basically RedHat. MkLinux is basically the same except for
it has a different kernel.
YellowDogLinux exists, but I have no idea what it is. I am using
LinuxPPC and RedHat on my Intel box.
> I've heard of
> MkLinux and LinuxPPC but not much else.
MkLinux is Apple's version of Linux. LinuxPPC is RedHat for PowerPC.
> Does LinuxPPC use
> the same kernel as X86 versions?
Yes.
Check /usr/src/linux/arch on any Linux system.
> Are there X-compatible
> free windowing systems available?
XPMac and Xfree86 are both available and part of the distribution.
Actually, you won't even notice the difference to Intel Linux. It's
simply the same.
> Thanks a lot.
Youre welcome.
--
LinuxPPC User
Fan of Woody Allen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Once again : Error "finding installation files"
Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 13:51:28 GMT
Hi.
I have read all the posts I could find about this problem I am having.
Oh, and thank's very much to all of those who helped me out on my
previous problem.
One week ago I managed to install Redhat 5.2, but since then I decided
to reinstall (I needed to repartition my harddrive).
Back then everything went fine, but now my installation files seem to
be invisible.
I have copied the entire base and RPMS directories from the CD into
C:\RedHat\base and C:\RedHat\RPMS, respectively.
I tried renaming the RPMS directory through DOS (after starting up in
DOS environment), but it didn't work out. I downloaded mv.zip,
installed the MV file in the C:\Redhat directory, restarted the
install procedure and waited until the usual error message came along.
�Then I pressed alt+F2 and got a # prompt .
Inside my tmp/ directory I found different files/directories, but no
"hdimage" directory (there was an /tmp/image/ directory, though, but
it did not include my hda1 (win95) partition.
Therefore I typed "mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /mnt" and managed to
mount my hda1 partition, which contains my installation files. (When I
tried to mount it as "vfat" I got an error message which said that the
device did not support this option).
I accessed my Redhat directory, and did an "ls"; it contained "base
rpms mv". As suggested, I typed "./mv rpms x", pressed enter, and then
"./mv x RPMS". No error messages appeared, but when I typed "ls" the
result was, once again "base rpms mv"- I also noted that at /mnt
(where all the c:\*.* files are) all file/directory names were also in
lower case.
As you can see, I followed all the advices available.
Can anyone help me out on this? Less than one week ago I managed to
install the "basic" (no X, emacs, etc) Linux. Then I had one clever
idea (which allowed me to get 580Mb free for Linux and 40Mb swap),
repartioned using partition resizer and (Linux') fdisk and now I can't
manage to install Linux.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Bye,
Theresa
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Tansley)
Subject: Re: Linux's Last Chance
Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 08:14:07 GMT
hellraiser ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: did you reinstall lilo when you upgraded redhat?
Yup, though I dont think Lilo is the problem, as this has never worked
before...probably something dicky in my hardware.
--
Dave
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From: "Paul McRae" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Newbie: Learning Linux And Databases
Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 08:05:10 -0000
Try the book The Linux Database by dorothy forbes
its got a lot of info and free databases.
paul mcrae [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Christopher Browne wrote in message ...
>On Mon, 26 Apr 1999 13:54:34 +0000, Robert Wuest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>>Rupinder wrote:
>>> ***** This is the scenario:
>>> I'm a student... I can afford Linux :)
>>> And I know there are some good free and cheap databases out there for
>>> Linux.
>>
>>[snip]
>>> What would be the best way to learn everything I need to know about
>>> Linux to administer this box - QUICKLY. I need to learn FAST... any
>>> suggestion for good ADVANCED books?>
>>
>>If you really want to learn Linux well and learn it fast. Get a PC and
>>a copy of slackware. Do not sleep until it is up and running. Then, do
>>it again.
>>
>>Robert - who learned more from installing Slackware
>> 10 times in 2 days than in the 5 years since.
>
>This is an interesting and fairly valuable approach.
>
>Add to this:
>- Install the system.
>- Do stuff that has the potential to stress the system to the point of
> breaking. This includes things like:
> - Upgrading LIBC from 5.2.26 (or similar) to GLIBC 2.1
> - Upgrading GCC from 2.7.2 (or similar) to a "bleeding edge" EGCS
> (which is very soon to become officially GCC)
> - Sysadmin stuff like configuring printers, mounting disks via NFS,
> ...
>
> Try to make sure the system works reasonably well after these
> upgrades, but be willing to have it break totally to the point of
> requiring reinstallation.
>
>- Make sure you've got some separate partitions for things like /home
>and /usr/local so that you can reinstall without being forced to
>disturb "your stuff." The process of reinstalling will highlight this
>issue.
>
>This process of 'testing to the point of destruction' can allow you to
>learn quite a lot quite quickly.
>
>(Or, if it's too much for you, it may be extremely frustrating... If
>that proves the case, this may at least establish some boundaries of
>what you should and should not try to do...)
>
>--
>`I am convinced that interactive systems will never displace batch
>systems for many applications.' - Brooks, _The Mythical Man-Month_ (And
>this does indeed seem true. MVS/CICS systems have *NOT* gone away...)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Fischer)
Subject: LaTeX on RedHat6
Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 07:56:18 GMT
hi.
I desperately need help with my new RedHat6.
By now I used SuSE and after installation LeTeX
always was just...there.
But now, when compiling texts on the new RedHat
all I get is:
! LaTeX Error: File 'scrreprt.cls' not found.
...or equivalent with other document types.
What do I have to do to make LaTeX work?
Thanks in advance,
Thomas
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