Linux-Misc Digest #189, Volume #20 Thu, 13 May 99 16:13:10 EDT
Contents:
Re: GNU reeks of Communism (Greg Yantz)
Re: Proper use of /usr/local (Re: The Best Linux distribution?)
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: fdisk /MBR ??? (Joachim Feise)
Non-alphanumeric characters not allowed in username? (Steve D. Perkins)
Re: please suggest a smaller WWW browser. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: GNU reeks of Communism (Mike Coffin)
Re: GNU reeks of Communism (Marco Anglesio)
Scrolling continues long after releasing arrow button (Dave Apman)
Re: Software for drawing flowcharts? (G�rard Milmeister)
Re: General.NFS.Questions ("Christopher R. Thompson")
Re: car mp3 player (David L. Bilbey)
Re: ESD clipping audio? ("William T. Trotter")
Re: fdisk /MBR ??? (Fred Uloth)
Re: Red Hat 6.0 - SMP and CPU usage problems ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: GNU reeks of Communism (Greg Yantz)
Re: USB Support ("Chris")
Help: NFS problem ("M. Cao")
Re: making linux go away (TomDickHarry)
Re: slide-maker for linux? (TomDickHarry)
Re: Accessing Windoze drives (Edwin Chacon)
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From: Greg Yantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: GNU reeks of Communism
Date: 13 May 1999 14:53:56 -0400
Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Greg> Do you know what a libertarian is? Or is your only
> Greg> experience with libertarians and libertarianism comprised of
> Greg> having to listen to fools who only call themselves
> Greg> "libertarian", but really are just idiots?
>
> Yeah, a libertarian is a person who fancies himself genetically and
> morally superior to the rest of the human race. He spouts a line of
> political pseudo-philosophy that incorporates the word `freedom' in
> every sentence & that is all designed to justify his own position at
> the top of the ant hill.
That would be pretty obnoxious if it were true. But it simply isn't.
It's very difficult to even have a discussion with you, because you
have this really strong emotional attachment to "facts" that do not
reflect reality.
A libertarian rather thinks that it would be a good thing if people
had a fair chance; if people had the chance to succeed as well as
they might based on their own talents and hard work. Without, of
course, doing anything to prevent anyone else from having the exact
same fair chance. Think "upward mobility". My ancestors were
universally poor. My parents, through work and ability, did decently
well for themselves. I have the chance to be pleasantly white-collar
prosperous. Not wealthy, mind you. But I am forever grateful to be
living in a society that may be stratified, but at least isn't
rigidly so.
> >> >That libertarian icon, Robert Heinlein, puts the libertarian
> >> >philosophy in the mouth of one of his heroes: "Violence has
> >> solved >more of the world's problems than any other method."
> >> (Starship >Troopers).
>
> >> That's hardly a philosophy; it's an observation, and not one
> >> people necessarily agree with.
>
> Greg> And even people who happen to agree with it, find it to only
> Greg> be a wake up call and a *warning*, not a way of life. Might
> Greg> doesn't make right, but might *wins*, so the just had better
> Greg> be prepared.
>
> Hmm, a little Leninism interjected here. First we'll kill all our
> enemies and then we'll all go home and be peaceful.
Direct violence and aggression is one of those things that libertarians
find distaseful. They just want to be left alone. What's wrong with
being able to defend yourself? And why are you obsessed with violence,
agression, domination and killing?
> Greg> In the context of the book, it was stated by a character
> Greg> who, pretty clearly, Heinlien portrayed as being a source of
> Greg> wisdom (an author's mouthpiece, really), BUT it was
> Greg> presented as a reality check and a logical challenge to a
> Greg> student who happened to have more wishful-thinking idealism
> Greg> than sense.
>
> The original poster was quite clear on the significance of the
> passage. It's you who seem to be confused.
You last read it 20+ years ago, and admit you may have gotten the
quoting and context a bit off... and yet I'm confused. OK.
In all fairness, in other threads I've seen some quite intelligent
statements from you, that I agreed with completely. Here, you seem
to be letting your emotions, as well as some misguided preconceptions,
get the best of you.
-Greg
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Proper use of /usr/local (Re: The Best Linux distribution?)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 18:40:44 GMT
Leslie Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>snip<
:> No problem. No distribution of anything we've been talking about
:> messes with /usr/local.
:
: So you don't consider ports as part of the distribution?
Ports is part of the distribution, and is in /usr/ports. Software
installed using the ports system isn't, no matter how many dozens of
CDs you include in the pretty box.
BSD: "distribution" == system
Linux: "distribution" == kitchen sink
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-Zenin ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
My code is filled with comments! It's just that my comments are
written in Perl.
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From: Joachim Feise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: fdisk /MBR ???
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 11:43:08 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Christopher R. Thompson" wrote:
>
> Mikael Wetterstrand wrote:
>
> > Hello
> > Well, I just wanna know what the command /mbr does?
> > I know u can use it with fdisk to "get ridd of" Lilo , but what does it
> > really do?
>
> It builds a new MS-Dos "M"aster "B"oot "R"ecord. This is the nifty
> little program that usually reside at sector zero of a bootable partition
Not quite. It resides in the first physical sector of the disk, right where the
partition table is. That's why it is called "Master" boot record.
The sector zero of a bootable partition contains the "Partition" boot record.
> and it goes out and looks for "Dos" or "Windows95" or "Ntldr" or "LILO"
> or whatever and loads it into memory and passes control of the program
> register to the entry point of the program that it loads.
The master boot record actually does not do that. What you describe is the action of
the partition boot record.
The master boot record determines the active partition and loads the partition boot
record of that partition into memory and executes it.
The (DOS) mbr has one limitation, though: it only reads a partition boot record from
the first disk. If you have Linux on a second disk, and you want to boot from it, you
need lilo in the mbr. Other than that, there is no need to do that, and I sure wished
Redhat would change their installation procedure to keep lilo out of the mbr. That
would also cut down on the amount of newsgroup questions on this topic.
-Joe
(BTW, I removed a couple of the cross-post ngs. This is not a networking topic)
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"And it should be the law: If you use the word `paradigm' without
knowing what the dictionary says it means, you go to jail. No exceptions."
-- David Jones @ Megatest Corporation
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From: Steve D. Perkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Non-alphanumeric characters not allowed in username?
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 17:55:56 GMT
I've got a strange problem with one of the accounts on my RedHat 5.0
mail server... one of the accounts never receives any mail, even when I
send some to it from another account on the same system. I go in and
look at the file size of the actual mailbox in "/var/spool/mail"... but
it never increases. They can't even send mail to themselves.
Although they can't receive mail, they are able to send just fine.
The only peculiar thing about the account is that it has a plus sign
in it ("john+liz", a husband-and-wife shared address). I know that
user names can't have more than 8 characters in them (well, they can...
but don't always work properly)... is there any kind of alphanumeric
restriction on not being able to have a plus sign in a username?
Steve
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: please suggest a smaller WWW browser.
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 18:04:50 GMT
In article <7f55ht$q0b$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi there, just recycled an old PC with linux (486SX25)
> Plan is just to use it as a web-browsing box. Idea being
> it'll be faster than a windows machine could be.
>
> However I now discover Netscape 4.x takes about 3 minutes
> to load ! can anybody suggest a WWW browser with slightly
> less overhead that'll cope with java and the like.
>
> Oh and if you can tell me where I could find it that would
> be nice too. Cheers.
>
> Dez.
>
All of the alternative browsers have troubles of their own - slow speed,
lack of essential features, unreliability, or a combination of these. It
appears that development of Chimera has effectively ceased. Amaya blows
up unexpectedly. Mosaic is way too obsolete. I am going to try Skate
next.
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From: Mike Coffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: GNU reeks of Communism
Date: 13 May 1999 11:38:58 -0700
Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Yeah, a libertarian is a person who fancies himself genetically and
> morally superior to the rest of the human race. He spouts a line of
> political pseudo-philosophy that incorporates the word `freedom' in
> every sentence & that is all designed to justify his own position at
> the top of the ant hill.
In that case, I've never met one of these "libertarians," or read
anything written by one.
It would save everyone a lot of time if you and Richard would get
together and write a dictionary so we can all figure out what you're
talking about. We keep assuming you use common English definitions of
words, and finding out only later that you mean something else
entirely.
-mike
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco Anglesio)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: GNU reeks of Communism
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 19:07:15 GMT
On 13 May 1999 14:53:56 -0400, Greg Yantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>A libertarian rather thinks that it would be a good thing if people
>had a fair chance; if people had the chance to succeed as well as
>they might based on their own talents and hard work. Without, of
>course, doing anything to prevent anyone else from having the exact
>same fair chance. Think "upward mobility". My ancestors were
By succeeding, you do lots to prevent anyone else from having the exact
same fair chance. A capitalist economy, to its credit, may produce lots of
rich people (and I assume by this you mean "success"), but those rich
people run off the labour of relatively ill-paid labourers. You would not
be successful, or "upwardly mobile", if it weren't for a substantial
population of workers who earned substantially less while providing you
with cheap goods.
Of course, the doctrinaire communist view, that government and industry
owned by the workers as a class would create a paradise, is equally
detatched from reality. If everyone earned the same amount, no matter how
much that was, everyone would be equally lower-middle-class rather than
upper-class. Even the US economy (arguably the most vital of this century)
doesn't produce that much wealth when spread around evenly.
That you have talents and opportunity is well and good, but that those
talents and opportunities lead you to something relatively renumerative?
Pure luck of the draw. Luck of the draw for me, too, but I'm honest
enough to call it what it is.
m.
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
From: Dave Apman <dave.apman[at]boeing.com>
Subject: Scrolling continues long after releasing arrow button
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 17:34:24 GMT
This is an extremely anoying problem I experience in a number
of (all?) applications on my Suse 6.1 linux system. When
I press and hold the down arrow to scroll the text in a vi editor session,
the text scrolls properly, but when I let go of the arrow, the
text keeps scrolling for many seconds as if a whole bunch of
button events are queued up and being processed. I suspect this
is a kernel problem since I see the same problem in nedit(an X/lesstif editor).
Thanks for reading!
--
Dave Apman ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Boeing Applied Research & Technology
Bellevue, Washington USA
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (G�rard Milmeister)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Re: Software for drawing flowcharts?
Date: 13 May 1999 18:59:05 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 13 May 1999 10:02:48 -0400, Michael Hirsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (William C. Cheng) writes:
>
>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>> Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >Hello,
>> > What software is available in Linux to draw flowcharts? Particular,
>> >I want tools to do Unified Modeling ( I just want the diagram, no need
>> >for forward/reverse engineering, but if there exists one, I will also be
>> >interested in ).
Take a look at
http://212.55.205.69/~gemi/LDT/
under the section Tools/Modelling
There is also daVinci.
--
G�rard Milmeister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Tannenrauchstrasse 35
8038 Z�rich
Switzerland
+41 1 481 52 48
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From: "Christopher R. Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.protocols.nfs,comp.os.linux.help,alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: General.NFS.Questions
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 12:08:22 -0700
Christopher R. Thompson wrote:
> Christopher wrote:
>
> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > Christopher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > 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.
> > >
> >
> > Questions:
> >
> 3. Is there a way to override a programs file I/O in Linux and NSF?
In MVS we have a "DD" statement, in DOS we have "DLBL", and in MPE we have
"FILE:=" these are able to override the programs open statement ie: if a
program is written to create a file and then write to it sequentially, you
can usually override it and tell it to use a different file name and append
to it. How is this done with Linux and NFS ie: the program writes to a file
and not stdout or stderr ? Is this done in the shell with &2>>&1? How do I
know which number a "filename" has?
>
>
> They still call me Curious George... and I still don't know why?
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From: David L. Bilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: car mp3 player
Date: 13 May 1999 19:06:49 GMT
+-----On 13 May 1999 16:04:06 GMT, David L. Bilbey spoke unto us:----------
| I'm looking into constructing an mp3 player for my car. I've searched the
| web, but come up with lots of useless (for me) info. Basically, what I'm
| looking for is a linux mp3 program that I can use for the playing. It
| should support keypad control, and ideally, output to an LCD screen. Does
| anyone have any pointers. If not, where can I get info on writing one
| myself? Thanks.
--
I've also got another problem. Shutting the car off/shutting down the
computer. If I mount the file-system read-only, is it okay to just shut it
off? If not, how would I go about addressing this problem?
David Bilbey
--
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does that affect my nickname now, which is `The Lawn-Cutting Machine'?"
--Jack Handey
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From: "William T. Trotter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ESD clipping audio?
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 13:25:00 GMT
This was the point of my post last week too. I have
a Soundblaster PCI 128 and the sound level was
barely audible using the esd sound daemon and
gnome. Every time I tried to use the mixer to adjust
it, the end result was a temporary loss of sound.
Ironically, everything worked just fine using KDE and
their tools. So needless to say, given a more or less
equal playing field on other counts, this behavior
clearly tilts things in favor of KDE. Tom Trotter
Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Now that exams are finally over, I can afford to spend some time
> addressing an issue that has come up with upgrading to Red hat 6.0. :-)
>
> When I upgraded my RH 5.2 system to RH6 (clean install), esound suddenly
> started SEVERELY clipping any audio that gets played through the esd
> daemon. It clips like the volume is set *way* too high, but the actual
> sound level is fine and I can't find a way to adjust anything. If I set
> X11Amp to use the OSS driver, it sounds great. If I set it to use the
> esound daemon, it sounds awful. I never had this problem with
> RH5.2/Gnome/E.15.5 before the upgrade, so I can't figure out what gives.
>
> I'm using an old SoundBlaster 16 with all the default settings on a
> stock RH6/Gnome install. Anybody know what changed between the 5.2 RPMs
> and RH6? TIA.
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From: Fred Uloth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.protocols.nfs,comp.os.linux.help,alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: fdisk /MBR ???
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 11:20:27 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
rewrites the MasterBootRecord. Very nice feature for getting rid of boot
sector virii.
Mikael Wetterstrand wrote:
>
> Hello
> Well, I just wanna know what the command /mbr does?
> I know u can use it with fdisk to "get ridd of" Lilo , but what does it
> really do?
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notice. They do not necessarily express the views of my employer, my
family, my diety, or my country. And if forced to I will deny that it
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Red Hat 6.0 - SMP and CPU usage problems
Date: 13 May 1999 19:15:59 GMT
Phillip George Geiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> #2, it only seems to be aware of one CPU. I switched the
> kernel symbolic link in /boot to point to the default 2.2.5
> kernel with smp, ran lilo, and rebooted, the login screen
> correctly lists the smp kernel. I still get the same behavior
> as in #1.
You can check for sure if the kernel is aware of both processors via
`cat /proc/cpuinfo`. If there are two entries, then it knows they are
there and the other apps have adjusted their percentages.
When you run xosview, do you get two CPU graphs?
--
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Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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From: Greg Yantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: GNU reeks of Communism
Date: 13 May 1999 15:31:18 -0400
Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Greg> Libertarianism is founded on the recognition that strength
> Greg> wins fights (not exactly might makes right) and that, human
> Greg> nature being what it is, the strong will tend to dominate
> Greg> the weak, or at least try to. Libertarians ABHOR this. They
> Greg> aknowledge the reality, and HATE it. The whole idea behind
> Greg> Libertarianism is to find a way for *everyone* to live free
> Greg> of any form of coercion, for everyone to have a fair chance
> Greg> to live without interference, from the neighborhood bully or
> Greg> anyone else.
>
> And just how is that going to happen? It's not -- because as you
> admit, you think the "strong" dominate the "weak" -- only in this
> case, what you view as strength is just the ability to economically
> and physically suppress the "inferior." You tell yourself you "hate"
> it but in fact, you're married to the very idea of your own
> superiority. Libertarianism is the perpetuation of a particular kind
> of coercion -- the kind that will ascertain that your comfort is not
> disrupted.
You didn't really read what I wrote. Not everyone is a nice guy- it
is part of human nature that often strong people will attempt to
dominate weak ones, it's programmed in. Have you ever seen a pecking
order, or witnessed alpha-male type social dominance games? Every
school has it, and the young do it instinctively. This is an example
of what I was talking about when I said the "strong" will tend to
dominate the "weak".
To use that exapmle, what's wrong with trying to break free of that
obnoxious animalistic bullshit?
> Get this -- check your own statements:
>
> Greg> Libertarianism is founded on the recognition that strength
> Greg> wins fights (not exactly might makes right) and that, human
> Greg> nature being what it is, the strong will tend to dominate
> Greg> the weak, or at least try to. Libertarians ABHOR this. They
> Greg> aknowledge the reality, and HATE it. The whole idea behind
> Whoops -- call Perry Mason, it's The Case of the Vanishing Freedom!
> There's no "select few" at the top of the heap, aka "the strong,"
> dominating "the weak." Oh hell, no. You don't seem to be able to
> keep your moral compass pointing in the same direction for more than
> one paragraph at a time.
The contradiction is not mine. You seem to be a little confused, so I
will explain. One person claimed that implementing libertarian ideals
would result in an elite few ruling over all others. I refuted that.
In my refutation, I mentioned that in a natural state (or, "in a
state of nature" if you'll allow me) strong will tend to dominate
weak. Libertarians think this is bad, and would like a society that
prevents it. It's as simple as that.
You seem to think I said "in a Libertarisn society, the strong
dominate the weak. Libertarians don't like it, and try to
prevent it", which would be a pretty sad self-contradiction.
Unfortunately for you, I didn't actually say that.
> Greg> If you were a proper cynic instead, with some capacity for
> Greg> critical thought, you might be inclined toward
> Greg> libertarianism.
>
> If you practiced some critical thought, you wouldn't just rotely spout
> off stuff you got out of magazines. You'd actually look around you
> and allow what you see to influence your thought processes.
Right. At least I have reading comprehension on my side.
-Greg
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From: "Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.general
Subject: Re: USB Support
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 19:22:06 +0100
Really,
What does minimal mean?
Is it realistically unworkable but a public beta?
Surely it couldn't be that situation since that is one of the fundamental
criticisms of MS ;-)
--
Chris
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From: "M. Cao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help: NFS problem
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 11:26:47 -0700
Hi,
Can you help me to configure the NFS sever on Linux 5.2
I have problem to export /home directory to the client.
I want to export a /home directory from hosts1 to hosts2 and allow all
users
to mount and (rw) .
Following are my config files and daemons on the server. On the client
side,
I don't have any problem with other NFS servers.
The account on both client and server are maching UID/GID .
Steps 1: Edit /etc/exports
/home hosts2(rw) # or /home hosts2.washington.edu
Steps 2: Run exportfs -a or /etc/rc.d/init.d/nfs stop/start
Steps 3: Edit /etc/hosts.allow
hosts2.washington.edu
Steps 4: Restart rpc.mountd to read /etc/hosts.allow
Check all the NFS daemons:
# ps xau
root 253 0.0 0.3 776 400 ? S May 11 0:00 inetd
root 2277 0.0 0.2 780 340 ? S 07:54 0:00 rpc.rusersd
root 2499 0.0 0.4 1076 584 ? S 08:42 0:00 rpc.nfsd
root 2506 0.0 0.4 1068 600 ? S 08:44 0:00 rpc.mountd
bin 197 0.0 0.3 784 432 ? S May 11 0:00 portmap
Sometime I reboot the system after config, but doesn't help !
Here is the error message I got when run mount command.
Can't access /home: Permission denied
Can you tell me what I have missing ?
Thanks in advance
Minh
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From: TomDickHarry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: making linux go away
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 13:36:45 -0500
"fdisk /mbr" is all that you have to use. No delpart.exe bullshit.
The previously mentioned command will rewrite the master boot record
-removing lilo in a fraction of a second.
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From: TomDickHarry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: slide-maker for linux?
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 14:33:32 -0500
You can use StarOffice (www.stardivision.com).
It's free for noncommercial use, and it has it's own presentation
application built in. It even imports/exports .ppt files.
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From: Edwin Chacon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Accessing Windoze drives
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 11:39:41 -0700
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if you are using RH 5.2 ...use mc(easiest way)...or use emacs to edit the
fstab file...under /etc/fstab.
the add this
/mnt/hdXX /mnt/mydosD(example) vfat or msdos defaults or auto
(mounts on boot up) 0 0
XX= depends on what drive and partition (ie.. hda1 or hdb1 or hdb2)
make sure you make the dir in the /mnt folder
mkdir /mnt/whatever you want to call the dos drive.
anything else??? email me
Eric The Half A Bee wrote:
> I`mn trying to figure out how, when logged in as a regular user, I can
> save a file (ANY file) to my win drive. I can do it as root fine, but
> not as any other user. I tried to chmod the directory name I have it
> mounted too (it`s in /mnt. Is that a problem?) and it doesn`t do
> anything. I`m going to keep fiddling to try and figure it out, but if
> anyone can help with this little problem (more of an annoyance
> actually) I would be grateful.
> --
> Something catchy should go here
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if you are using RH 5.2 ...use mc(easiest way)...or use emacs to
edit the fstab file...under /etc/fstab.
<p>the add this
<p><i>/mnt/hdXX /mnt/mydosD(example)
vfat or msdos defaults or auto (mounts on boot
up) 0 0</i>
<br><i> XX= depends on what drive and partition (ie.. hda1 or
hdb1 or hdb2)</i>
<br><i>make sure you make the dir in the /mnt folder</i><i></i>
<p><i>mkdir /mnt/whatever you want to call the dos drive.</i><i></i>
<p><i>anything else??? email me</i>
<p>Eric The Half A Bee wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>I`mn trying to figure out how, when logged in as
a regular user, I can
<br>save a file (ANY file) to my win drive. I can do it as root fine, but
<br>not as any other user. I tried to chmod the directory name I have it
<br>mounted too (it`s in /mnt. Is that a problem?) and it doesn`t do
<br>anything. I`m going to keep fiddling to try and figure it out, but
if
<br>anyone can help with this little problem (more of an annoyance
<br>actually) I would be grateful.
<br>--
<br>Something catchy should go here</blockquote>
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