Linux-Misc Digest #117, Volume #20 Sat, 8 May 99 20:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: linux distro. review (Donn Miller)
Re: How to get the target of the link? (Peter T. Breuer)
Re: How to use library C - COFF with GNU gcc (Kenneth Harrington)
Re: Boycott Intel on your own webpage (brian moore)
Re: Linux hangs at Partitions Check (Robert Lynch)
error : unexpected end of file (Erik Svenkerud)
Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux vs. Windows (Richard Caley)
Re: GTKICQ (Frank Sweetser)
../bin vs. ../sbin (Robert Heller)
Re: I did something stupid and now I can't boot... (brian moore)
General.NFS.Questions (Christopher)
read Macintosh *.doc -files (Ekkard Gerlach)
Re: Is Unix a single user operating system? (was: Wanted: Database/Contact mgr with
backend on Linux/FreeBSD, web frontend) (Larry Blanchard)
Re: NFS and can't register RPC (Ben Greear)
How to access /dev/hdaX as a character device? ("Petter Nilsen")
Debian: still viable? (Gene Wilburn)
Re: Color printers (GenomeJB)
Re: Dual PII with apm power off ("jeff m.")
Re: LILO, can't boot from 2nd SCSI drive. ("Spotillius Maximus aka \"Spot\"")
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From: Donn Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux distro. review
Date: Sat, 08 May 1999 14:03:58 -0400
Let's just start a review right here, shall we? I'll start off.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I admin some systems and am currently using Caldera OpenLinux on many of the
> servers. However, I would like to review the other distributions. Are there
> any *good* reviews? I would like to see things such as how the installation
> is performed, what kind of choices you have when initially packages, reviews
> of management software, etc.
One possible link is http://www.linux.org/dist/english.html. I've used
Debian and Slackware. My review of Slackware:
Probably one of the oldest Linux distros, the install procedure has
changed very little since when I first tried it in May 1995 (exactly 4
years ago!) This can be good or bad. The good: people already
familiar with Slackware will breeze through the install procedure and
not have to page through tons of GUI screens.
Since Slackware first came out before CDROMs and cool ftp installations
became the norm, you can't do an ftp (but you CAN do NFS) installation.
The distro. is arranged in disk sets, such as A (base), AP (no-X apps),
D (development), etc, so that each set fits entirely on 1 1.44 MB
floppy. So you have A1, A2, AP1..AP3, etc. But you can still install
from a HD partition.
Slackware only supports the Intel PC (i386, 486, Pentium) architecture.
Primary ftp site: ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/. Also at
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/, but it looks like Sunsite's ftp site is updated
less often.
Has GUI package installer called `pkgtool'. Does not check dependecies
like RPM or Debian's package management. Very clumsy to do upgrades,
but you can do upgrades manually without GUI install screens (there's a
short message on the boot disk that tells you how to do upgrades).
Cons. One con of Slack is the install program (`setup') has changed
very little since 1995, lacks ftp installation option, and lacks
`upgrade' option. However, it is still simple and intuitive to install
Slackware from scratch. Another Con is that Slack uses libc5 for it's
development environment, although it does have libc6 (aka glibc-2
runtime support). There aren't nearly as many GUI admin. tools as SuSE,
but that can be a pro for some people.
Pros. Slack at least puts start-up scripts and configuration files in
intuitive places, despite having a somewhat primitve installation and
setup tool. Also, Slack looked more up to date in terms of kernel
version and glibc-2 runtime shared libs than SuSE (not counting latest
SuSE release).
SuSE:
Allows ftp installation. Very nice-looking install menus. Package
management: RPM format. Very user-friendly, unlike Slackware.
Cons: I thought I saw it try to install a couple packages I didn't
select. Also, (aaaa!) it tried to dump tons of files in /. Note: if
you install SuSE, make sure you have a / partition at least 80M
minimum. Slackware dumps much less config files in /. I was able to
install Slack in a 40 Meg / partition, with 20M to spare. SuSE setup
wanted to consume about 60M, so I ran out of disk space. It looks like
SuSE tried to put a lot of stuff in /var, and I always keep my /var on
the same partition as /.
SuSE puts start-up scripts in /etc/rc.config instead of /etc/rc.d/*.
.
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Donn
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter T. Breuer)
Subject: Re: How to get the target of the link?
Date: 8 May 1999 18:12:50 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Peter Granroth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Sergei Gnezdov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
: > All I know is, that `ls -l` command will show me the target of the link.
: >
: > What ate the another ways to get it?
: > If I want to get just name of the target, how can I do this?
: >
: you could use awk, e.g:
: ls -l <filename> | awk '{print $11}'
That likely depends on the date field format. More standard is probably
ls -l <filename> | sed -e 's/.*-> //'
or you could use perl.
Peter
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From: Kenneth Harrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to use library C - COFF with GNU gcc
Date: Sat, 08 May 1999 22:55:21 +0000
Daniel Bolduc wrote:
> I want to pass system Sco 3.2.4 to RedHat Linux 5.2.
>
> I programmed with language C from Sco 3.2.4 and i use a a library for a
> database product dbclib.a and all object xxy.o inside are produce with
> COFF. Naturally, i don't have the source code of this library.
>
> example:
> ndx_purge.o: 80386 COFF executable not stripped - version 30821
>
> I recompile all my own libraries of C function in linux and it produce this
> type of object
>
> example
> strNcpy.o: ELF 32-bit LSB relocatable, Intel 80386, version 1, not stripped
>
> Now i try to recompile the application and i want to link with my new
> recompile libraries and the library COFF from the database product
> How can I link ?
>
> This is the result from the original dbclib.a from the database product.
>
> [bolduc] Linux:/home/sw/plaisir/essai> make
> cc -s -o nn\
> impfran.o\
> /home/sw/lib/obj/erreur.o\
> /home/sw/lib/recidriv.a\
> /home/sw/lib/obj/proftest.o\
> /home/sw/lib/anytime.a\
> /home/sw/lib/dbclib.a
>
> /home/sw/lib/dbclib.a: could not read symbols: File format not recognized
> make: *** [nn] Error 1
>
> I made a directory and I extract all object in the dbclib.a and i recreated
> an other dbclib2.a with the same .o.
>
> [bolduc] Linux:/home/sw/plaisir/essai> make
> cc -s -o nn\
> impfran.o\
> /home/sw/lib/obj/erreur.o\
> /home/sw/lib/recidriv.a\
> /home/sw/lib/obj/proftest.o\
> /home/sw/lib/anytime.a\
> /home/sw/lib/dbclib2.a
>
> /home/sw/lib/dbclib2.a: could not read symbols: Archive has no index; run
> ranlib to add one
> make: *** [nn] Error 1
>
> I ran the command "ranlib dbclib2.a" or the command "ar csv dbclib2.a *.o
> "
> but I never saw the created index .
>
> Thanks
>
> Daniel Bolduc
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm not much of an expert on this, but I don't see any replies to your
message. So I'll tell you what little I know on the subject.
If you get the source for the "binutils" package, you can enable support for a
large number of object file formats. When you compile, it will give you
replacements for ld, etc.
I tried this with some very old libraries, and it compiles OK. In my case, the
resulting executables didn't run correctly, so I can't say how likely you are
to succeed with your project, but at least this may be a start.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Boycott Intel on your own webpage
Date: 8 May 1999 18:10:01 GMT
On 8 May 1999 17:30:40 GMT,
William Burrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 6 May 1999 17:56:39 GMT,
> brian moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I think your time would be better spent on dealing with real privacy
> >issues, such as WebTV's reporting of TV viewing habits and what
> >Microsoft (owners of WebTV, after all) will do if they manage to get
> >WinCE into cable boxes.
>
> WinCE is going into cable boxes, AT&T is all buddy-buddy with MS now.
Yep, and MS paid $5B to get AT&T to do it. Nifty, eh?
Now, why would they pay to have their software used.....
Could their be ulterior motives involved?
Microsoft takes privacy seriously, or so they say.
The DOJ should be looking at Microsoft's "investments" into CATV. The
writing on the wall should frighten the hell out of people.
(To AT&T's credit, MS will not be the sole vendor -- they are inisting
on open standards. The AT&T Death Star may save some souls.)
--
Brian Moore | "The Zen nature of a spammer resembles
Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | a cockroach, except that the cockroach
Usenet Vandal | is higher up on the evolutionary chain."
Netscum, Bane of Elves. Peter Olson, Delphi Postmaster
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Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 09:30:59 -0700
From: Robert Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux hangs at Partitions Check
**Nick Brown wrote:
>
> fdisk is still very much being maintained. The maintainer is
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] and he is (AFAIK) always interested in fixing
> genuine problems.
>
> Cameron Spitzer wrote:
> > Debian 2.1's cfdisk had no problem with the drive. I suspect fdisk is not
> > being maintained any more, and RH doesn't test on a wide enough variety of
> > hardware. Try partitioning the drive with a Debian Rescue floppy.
>
> --
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> Nick Brown, Strasbourg, France (Nick(dot)Brown(at)coe(dot)int)
>
> Protect yourself against Word 95/97 viruses, free - check out
> http://www.geocities.com/NapaValley/Vineyard/1446/atlas-t.html
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
This seems to me to be a 2.2.x problem. I never had it with 2.0.x, but
booting a range of 2.2.x kernels, I get the occasional hang at the
partition check point. If I reboot, it usually goes OK the next time.
FWIW.
Bob L.
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Robert Lynch-Berkeley CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.best.com/~rmlynch/
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From: Erik Svenkerud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: error : unexpected end of file
Date: Sat, 08 May 1999 18:01:39 -0500
Hi there,
I`m trying to gunzip a tar.gz file,but keep getting error
message:unexpected end of file.
any suggestions appreciated
thanks Erik,[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Richard Caley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux vs. Windows
Date: 04 May 1999 17:42:56 +0100
In article <7ffo0j$ktb$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Leslie Mikesell (lm) writes:
lm> A more realistic question is 'how valuable is it to survive intervals
lm> of ridiculous overloading'? That is, if the system starts taking
lm> 5 minutes to give you a prompt, will you leave it that way for a
lm> while and hope it works its way back, or will you reboot so you
lm> can go back to work immediately?
Never reboot, never appologise. An unplanned reboot is a sign of major
system brain death.
lm> Linux can take all the load you *should* be giving a system.
Who is it to be telling me what I should and shouldn't do?
The job of an OS is to survive anything and everything which doesn't
incapacitate the hardware. With a working OS everything should be
survivable except for someone explicitly deciding to break the
system and saying that is what they want to do clearly and
distinctly.
--
Mail me as rjc not [EMAIL PROTECTED] _O_
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From: Frank Sweetser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: GTKICQ
Date: 08 May 1999 15:08:49 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Just installed Redhat 6.0 and trying to get GTKICQ to compile
>
> this is the error message i get when I try to configure it
>
> "checking for gnomeConf.sh file in /usr/local/lib... not found configure:
> error: Could not find the gnomeConf.sh file that is generated by
> gnome-libs install"
>
> i did install my distro with GNOME, not KDE. and i searched for this
> file but it is nowhere to be found.
>
./configure --with-gnome=/usr --with-gtk=/usr
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paramount.ind.wpi.edu RedHat 5.2 kernel 2.2.5 i586 | at public servers
Have you ever noticed that anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and
anyone going faster than you is a maniac? --George Carlin
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From: Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ../bin vs. ../sbin
Date: 8 May 1999 23:22:43 GMT
Tor Slettnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
In a message on 07 May 1999 17:28:19 -0700, wrote :
TS> Now, the difference between ../bin and ../sbin is a little more
TS> unclear. It used to be that static binaries went into sbin, and
TS> binaries linked against a library in ../lib went into ../bin.
TS> Nowadays, however, more and more people seem to have the idea that
TS> 'sbin' is for system administration utilities.
It is not uncommon for the system administration utilities to be
statically linked -- some need to be fired up independently of ld.so
being run. Also, the stuff in /sbin (and /usr/sbin) are things 'normal'
users have no business running. The normal default (user) path does not
include /sbin and /usr/sbin. On some *older* boxes some of what is in
/sbin lives in /etc (of all places -- check out an old SunOS or Ultrix
box).
TS>
TS>
TS> -tor
TS>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Subject: Re: I did something stupid and now I can't boot...
Date: 8 May 1999 23:25:11 GMT
On Sat, 08 May 1999 18:05:19 -0400,
Mladen Gavrilovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In my epic battle to upgrade my glib to 2.1, in a moment of stupidity I
> renamed my /lib to /oldlib instead of copying it. Now nothing works. I
> can't rename it back because mv doesn't work. Basically only cd works.
> I am running RedHat 5.0. I can boot off the CD into a live system
> (rescue mode) but I have no idea how to mount my the linux partition
> (hda4) to rename the directory back to /lib. Can anyone help me?
Boot the CD into rescue mode, then:
# mkdir /mnt/recover
# mount /dev/hda4 /mnt/recover
# mv /mnt/recover/oldlib /mnt/recover/lib
# umount /mnt/recover
Now you should be able to reboot.
--
Brian Moore | "The Zen nature of a spammer resembles
Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | a cockroach, except that the cockroach
Usenet Vandal | is higher up on the evolutionary chain."
Netscum, Bane of Elves. Peter Olson, Delphi Postmaster
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From: Christopher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.protocols.nfs,comp.os.linux,alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.network,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: General.NFS.Questions
Date: Sat, 08 May 1999 16:15:18 -0700
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I have recently been attempting to build a Linux Beowulf type cluster using
the Red Hat distibution Linux-Pro 5.4. The Linux kernel version is 2.0.33 using
rpc.nfsd Universal NFS Server Version 2.2beta16 and rpc.mountd Universal NFS
Server Version 2.2beta37.
The NFS client directory structure was created using the Jacek/beowulf-utils
from usq.edu.au which creates the tftpboot root file systems, bootptab entries,
export file entries, and rarp entries. Most of the directories /bin /sbin /etc
/boot /lib for each client (tftpboot/ip#) are images of a /Template root file
system with each ip#/./file\ name hardlinked to the /Template/./file\ name.
IE: /bin/ln /tftpboot/192.168.2.3/bin/bash /tftpboot/Template/bin/bash
/bin/ln /tftpboot/192.168.2.4/bin/bash /tftpboot/Template/bin/bash
The /proc /home /usr directories are empty. /bin /sbin /lib /home and /usr are
populated by `mount -a` via nfs to the host file system prior to init [runlvl].
Following inital booting of the linux kernel the root file system is mounted.
Who's files are generally hard links to files in some other directory system on
the host. However the /bin /sbin and /lib filesystems are mounted to the host's
real /bin /sbin and /lib. Filesystems /dev /etc /tmp /var continue to be native
to the client's root fs.
Questions are as follows.
1. Stale NFS file handles: Why?
a. When booting several "Root Mounted NFS Client's" concurrently various
unappreciated symptoms occur. Things like...
I). System Hangs during bootp and rarp.
II). System Hangs during init
III). Various processes that init is supposed to [runlvl] start fail.
b. After successfully booting several NFS clients (one at a time) certain
processes fail. IE: top runing concurrently on more that one client fails
with Stale NFS file handle:/var/lock/something_or_other...
After `mount -t nfs $HOSTNAME:/var /var`... "Stale file handle" problem
disappears from process "top".
Does this solution present problems for other processes that use /var/lock/?
What about /var/log/ ? Can all four clients log messages to the same
/var/log/file\ name? What happens when all four clients open
/var/lock/news/LOCK.innwatch?
It occured to me that mounting /tftpboot/ip# to the clients root file system
gave it everything it needed to run. IE: /bin /sbin /dev /lib /etc /tmp /var
were already there allbeit hard links to the Template. The NFS mounts to
HOSTNAME:/bin, /sbin, /lib were redundant and therefore unnecessary. Don't make
the mistake I did and remove them... Virtually nothing will run. Anyone know
why?...
p.s.
What is a "File Handle"?
Does a "File Handle" traverse a correct directory/filename naming structure?
What is the correct directory/filname structure from the view of "file handle"?
Does a "File Handle" traverse host/client/peer relationships correctly?
What is the correct host/client/peer relaionship regarding "File Handles"?
Where can I find a list of "File Handles" on my Host, and on my client?
2.
What is different mounting " $HOSTNAME:/tftpboot/ip# / " via kernel instead of
running mount? Does "root" not have a "File Handle"?
Shouldn't it be "tftpboot/ip#/filename"? If not... then why?
3.
a.
Is mounting a NFS directory to a root NFS directory somehow different or insane?
b.
What is a file handle?
c.
Does a "File Handle" traverse a correct directory/filname naming structure?
d.
What is the correct directory/filname structure from the view of "File Handle"?
e.
Does a "File Handle" traverse host/client/peer relationships correctly?
f.
What is the correct host/client/peer relationship regarding "File Handles"?
g.
Where can I find a list of "File Handles" on my Host, and on my Client?
h.
When I say "/bin/bash" on the client doesn't NFS say get
"/tftpboot/ip#/bin/bash" from the host? If two clients access "/bin/bash" at the
same time why would they get "Stale" if they are accessing two different files
on the host (allbeit) hardlinked?
4.
Are hardlinks the/a problem?
5.
Is it wrong to assume that file locking or some other such mechanisim will not
work because /var/lock/filename is really /tftpboot/ip#/var/lock/filename which is
really only a copy of /Template/var/lock/filename on the host... instead of
a real /var/lock/filename?
6.
Because all of the clients run exactly the same software we use the same init
rc scripts.
Should I ...
`mount -t nfs $HOSTNAME:/tftpboot/ip#/etc/rc.d/init.d/ /etc/rc.d/init.d/ `
in rc.sysinit before run level 1 so that stale file handles don't occur during
init? Because
`mount -t nsf $HOSTNAME:/etc /etc` won't work cause clients are configured
differently from the host. What do I do when one client need's modem network
support, and another needs lp when others don't? Should I start looking at the
init program and code a unique runlevel for each client?
7.
Do long directory path names create problems? What is the maximum depth and length of
a file handle? If you can create a directory entry of 256 bytes and mount
it to a directory name of 256 byte (I don't know wy anyone would want to though)
and 256 bytes is the limit for a handle name, what happens?
Humanity... in it's most natural form, consists primarily of ignorance.
8.
They call me Curious George... and I don't know why?
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From: Ekkard Gerlach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: read Macintosh *.doc -files
Date: Sun, 09 May 1999 01:01:08 +0000
How can I read Macintosh-Word documents with linux ? I only want to get
the text !
Is there a possibility to read Winword-documents ? Is StarOffice able to
read Mac and Windows-Word ?
thanks in advance
ekkard
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From: Larry Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Is Unix a single user operating system? (was: Wanted: Database/Contact
mgr with backend on Linux/FreeBSD, web frontend)
Date: 08 May 1999 13:47:58 PDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Rolf Marvin B�e Lindgren wrote:
>
> [ Bill Gunshannon
>
> | Actually, the term he is looking for is "non sequitor".
>
> "non sequitur", surely?
>
> --
> Rolf Lindgren http://www.uio.no/~roffe/
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
C'mon guys, it was a joke :-). I *knew* the Latin :-).
--
Larry Blanchard - Old roses, old motorcycles, and old trains
Homo Sapiens is a goal, not a description.
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From: Ben Greear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: NFS and can't register RPC
Date: Sat, 08 May 1999 16:03:26 -0700
Sid Boyce wrote:
>
> Przem Kowalczyk wrote:
> >
> > There are 2 computers with linux. Both have NFS server installed and both
> > use mounted with nfs directories from the other one. Everything was fine
> > till last Monday, when I was trying to mount remote directory (as I used
> > to):
Check /var/log/messages (tail -f /var/log/messages) while trying to
mount. It may give you some info. I just upgraded to RH 6 and I had
to fix my host.deny and host.accept, as well as turn on NFS init.d scripts,
(which for some reason did not survive the update)
(I don't read this group often, CC me if you have questions plz.)
Ben
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From: "Petter Nilsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to access /dev/hdaX as a character device?
Date: Sat, 8 May 1999 22:54:38 +0200
I have been unable to find the character devices to access harddrive
partitions. Using character device access is the recommended method when
using Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise, and it's separate devices in /dev
on HP-UX, but I have been unable to find this on Linux. What gives? Where
are they?
--
- Petter Nilsen, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Gene Wilburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Debian: still viable?
Date: Sat, 08 May 1999 23:43:12 GMT
I don't hear as much about the Debian distro as I used to. I visited the
website today and it seems to be a bit behind the more commercial
releases (Red Hat, Caldera, SuSE).
There's a 'non-stable' release called 'Potato' that runs on the Linux
2.2.X kernel but the 'stable' release (2.1) is back at 2.0.36.
What's the word on Debian these days? Is it losing ground to the slicker
distros or is it holding its own?
I'd be interested in hearing from Debian users about what they see as
the advantages of the Debian distro. I applaud it naming itself
GNU/Linux and am half tempted to install it but I don't want to cut
myself off from the Linux mainstream. Is it straightforward to install
packages like Applixware on Debian? How about packages like Oracle for
Linux? (Not a troll -- these are honest questions. I don't know any
Debian users.)
Any comments from any Debian fans out would be highly appreciated.
Gene
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (GenomeJB)
Subject: Re: Color printers
Date: 08 May 1999 23:44:32 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Przem Kowalczyk) writes:
>Charles M in comp.os.linux.misc wrote:
>>What is a good color printer for Linux?
I just installed RH 5.2 and test printed to Epson Stylus 850.
Output was better than from Win98 driver.
Jim Bemis
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "jeff m." <none>
Subject: Re: Dual PII with apm power off
Date: Sat, 8 May 1999 15:10:40 -0500
I could be COMPLETELY wrong, but I think I remember, after installing a
pretty recent version of Util-linux , that it powered off at shutdown
without APM enabled...but this was on 2.0.36 and a while ago....
Sasa Ostrouska <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi !
>
> Can anyone help me to set my linux using kernel 2.2.7 to set the
> auto power off at the
> shutdown command. The apm is disabled by the kernel because not safe
> with smp.
>
> Thanks Sasa
>
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From: "Spotillius Maximus aka \"Spot\"" <*****@ix.netcom.com>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: LILO, can't boot from 2nd SCSI drive.
Date: Sat, 8 May 1999 19:42:13 -0400
Peter, I finally got it going. I'm sad to say that I had to use and old
Microsoft trick, that was to reload everything from scratch. Well, it
worked out for the better since I allocated more space for linux than I had
before and learned a hell of a lot more about navigating through the file
system. I was trying to get this boot broblem solved through pure logic and
I finally snapped and did the reload. It saved me a hell of a lot of time.
>It'll get better, I promise.
I know your right. I was so happy when I finally was able to set up my Kde
desktop. Now when I get my HP IIc SCSI scanner, Panasonic 7502b CD writer,
and Sound Blaster PC128 sound card working I'll be elated. At least I'm
learning more than I would in Windows. Thanks for taking the time to help,
Peter.
Ed
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