Linux-Misc Digest #198, Volume #20 Fri, 14 May 99 02:13:10 EDT
Contents:
Re: Help ISDN HISAX 16.3c install (Heinz =?iso-8859-1?Q?G=FCnther?=)
Re: Proper use of /usr/local (Re: The Best Linux distribution?)
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Re: Proper use of /usr/local (Re: The Best Linux distribution?) (Leslie Mikesell)
Re: Proper use of /usr/local (Re: The Best Linux distribution?)
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Re: Proper use of /usr/local (Re: The Best Linux distribution?) (Donn Miller)
Re: Xfig can't fit!! (Dr Paul Kinsler)
Re: Pro-Unix vs anti-WinTel (was: Re: Is Unix a single user operating system?)
(Michael Powe)
Re: LILO.CONF (Night Hawk)
Re: SiS graphics chips & XFree86 (Ray Biedronski)
Re: Newbie having problems mounting floppy (trent)
Re: cdrecord problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Netscape 4.51 suddenly exits ????????????? (Julio De Gregorio)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Heinz =?iso-8859-1?Q?G=FCnther?=)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Help ISDN HISAX 16.3c install
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 21:21:03 +0200
I think, Teles card is PNP card,
did you initialize PNP functions ?
In my SUSE Linux i have PNPdump for getting information about PNP cards,
I first start "pnpdump > /etc/isapnp.conf"
then next I enable the wantet functions of my PNP cards in isapnp.conf
then I resart, from now on isapnp starts automatically and it works,
so my own teles works fine, but its a 16.3 pnp without "c" chipset
Heinz G�nther from Hamburg, germany
Csejtey Gabor Zoltan schrieb:
> I use Debian 2.1. I would like to install
> an ISDN HIsax 16.3c card with ISA slot into a 486 machine.
> I used the following command:
>
> depmod type=14 protocol=2 irq=10 io=0x580 id=teles
>
> I got this message:
>
> Teles 16.3c: IRQ(10) getting no interrupts during init 1
> Teles 16.3c: IRQ(10) getting no interrupts during init 2
> Teles 16.3c: IRQ(10) getting no interrupts during init 3
> HiSax: Card Teles 16.3c not installed !
>
> ISDN unloaded
>
> Any help?
>
> Gabor Csejtey
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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: Fri, 14 May 1999 04:25:57 GMT
Leslie Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>snip<
: Ah, does anyone remember the days of booting from a tiny drive that
: couldn't hold all of your binaries and libraries so they had to be on a
: separate partition and mounted later? Now, what's the smallest drive you
: can buy - 2 gigs or so? I think this contortion can be considered a
: historical artifact.
Then you'd be surprised to learn that diskless workstations using
from bootp are still common.
--
-Zenin ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
My code is filled with comments! It's just that my comments are
written in Perl.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leslie Mikesell)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Proper use of /usr/local (Re: The Best Linux distribution?)
Date: 13 May 1999 23:34:12 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>: Should a binary compiled on the 2.1.5
>: box run on 2.2.2?
>
> Yes, it should, unless you or the previous admin explicitly disabled
> compatibility.
>
>: I just used the defaults for everything.
>
> How could you have, you just told us you didn't build the boxes
> yourself? How do you know this past admin used the defaults?
Well, he said he used the defaults for the installs, but we didn't
get into specifics. The make.conf files seem to be as old as the
base installs but there is no mention of any #COMPAT.. entries in the
2.1.5 system, and the #'s are on all lines on the 2.2.5's. Could
the default have changed sometime later?
>
>: "Makefile", line 259: Need an operator
>: *** Error code 1
>:
>: But it worked with gmake. More surprises...
>
> Which version of tar? 1.12 builds without a problem, provided of
> course you run the included configure program. If you configured on
> a system with GNU make and then tried to build someplace else,
> that's simply user error.
It is 1.12. I removed config.cache and ran configure on each system.
None would build with the stock make. Perhaps this only works in
newer verions.
> Never the less, if an app really needs GNU make adding a dependency
> for it (as everything does in ports that needs it) is *trivial*.
I expect to replace these boxes before doing this again.
Les Mikesell
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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: Fri, 14 May 1999 04:33:24 GMT
Donn Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>snip<
: But these new computers, shipping with 8GB drives... I sometimes wonder
: how a new computer user, using Windows 98 only, could possibly use that
: much disk space?
I think I can safely assume you don't play many modern games then.
:-)
Ultima Online => ~600 MB
Quake + mods => ~400 MB
Quake2 + mods => ~600 MB
Half-Life + mods => ~400-600 MB
...etc...
Trust me, 8GB is *TINY*! :-)
My forthcoming gaming box will have a 6GB drive for the basic system
and a removable drive bay for the games with the first disk to be 10
GB. I fully expect to be buying more 10 GB+ drives and bay adapters
within the next 6 months to a year just to fit the new game of the
week. :-)
--
-Zenin ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
My code is filled with comments! It's just that my comments are
written in Perl.
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From: Donn Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Proper use of /usr/local (Re: The Best Linux distribution?)
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 00:39:57 -0400
Leslie Mikesell wrote:
> Did you miss the 'someone else' part? RedHat seems to have done a nice
> job of assembling a nice set of KDE and GNOME apps that I wouldn't have
> had time to select and put together myself.
True, true... but unfortunately, RH doesn't provide a script for
adduser, and that kind of sucked for me. However, there *is* the
linuxconf in RH, which certain users will like more...
> > You got it. Hit the All button on any release of Linux or *BSD and
> > you're done.
>
> Does *bsd have a reasonable set of new apps selected for you in every
> release?
I think both FreeBSD and Slackware do a reasonable job of
selecting which apps I wanted to have installed. RedHat ended up
installing fvwm2-95, which is something I didn't want... That
aside, I'm surprised anyone would *want* a window manager that is
pixel-for-pixel equivalent to Windows'. Not that I hate Windows
or anything, but I like originality in a WM.
[big Linux distro. flame war in progress snipped]
Man, I can't believe people are flaming each other over which
distro. is best. Good thing FreeBSD has only one distro.:-) It
all depends on what you want. RedHat is pretty nice, if you like
modernized GUI admin. tools. I started out with Slackware, but I
decided to try out RedHat on a trial basis (I'm still using RH).
Some people want a nice desktop system with some decent GUI
tools, and that's what RH provides. Also, RedHat's strengths are
that it includes libc6 by default, and Slackware didn't.
For me, though, I'm mainly a FreeBSD user, and I have Linux
installed, because, well, Linux was starting to put all kinds of
neat stuff in the kernel, and I had to try it out. Since I'll
most likely won't be using Linux a whole lot, and am running
Linux to port some software over to FreeBSD, I won't be needing
the desktop goodies of RH. If you're a user who uses Linux on a
daily basis (I don't), then RH is for those types of people.
If you run Linux mainly just for hacking purposes like me, then
maybe a system like Slackware is best. It is more "hand
configuration" friendly and spartan/bare bones like than RH. I
run Linux, but don't consider myself a Linuxer, so Slackware
might be a better choice for me. For diehard Linuxers who don't
do a lot of console mode hacking, I'd recommend RedHat.
Although Slack includes runtime support for glibc2, the base
system is linked against libc5. The compiler is set up to
produce libc5 executables. RedHat has a glibc-2 system that
produces libc6 exe's by default. Seeing as to how libc6 is still
"experimental" software, Slack might be more stable, since it's
linked against "stable" (old) libc5. But then again, RH has
better support for threading, since it is a libc6 system. Also,
I've heard that Slack is not as secure as other distros straight
out of the box.
An aside: on a system that is predominantly libc5 based (but
having libc6 runtime support) like Slackware, I'm probably better
off setting up the compiler to produce libc6 exe's in a
cross-compiler like fashion (e.g. gcc -b i586-pc-gnulibc2), and
leaving my primary development environment libc5.
My point is, most of the Linux distros. out there achieve what
they set out to accomplish pretty well. RH put together a nice
desktop (if you want to call it that) package. Slackware
achieves its goal, which is spartan and not user-friendly, but
has user serviceable config scripts and no nonsense pared-down
admin. tools, which certain power users want. It's just a matter
of preference.
So, I can't undertand why so many people in this thread are
flaming each other over which distro. is best. You guys have the
Linux kernel, so isn't that what really counts?
--
Donn
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dr Paul Kinsler)
Subject: Re: Xfig can't fit!!
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 22:25:04 +0100 (BST)
pces <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Kenny Zhu wrote:
> > Hi, I need some help. I'm working on a laptop the screen is 800x600. I
> > have a problem with xfig. I just can't see the bottom tool bars and some
> > of the side bars below as well. Any remedies? Thanks.
> Even if you move the mouse around(particularly to the bottom)? Does the
> screen scroll?
I get the same-- although multiple desktops sort of solves the
problem. But it'd be nice if there was an option to make those
buttons really tiny to fit more of them on the screen without
eating so much screen area.
--
==============================+==============================
Dr. Paul Kinsler
Institute of Microwaves and Photonics
University of Leeds (ph) +44-113-2332089
Leeds LS2 9JT (fax)+44-113-2332032
United Kingdom [EMAIL PROTECTED]
WEB: http://www.ee.leeds.ac.uk/staff/pk/P.Kinsler.html
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Pro-Unix vs anti-WinTel (was: Re: Is Unix a single user operating system?)
From: Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 13 May 1999 22:23:55 -0700
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>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Mutsaers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Peter> FreeBSD's more conservative and ordered approach used to
Peter> make its slower than Linux, but I think that Linux's
Peter> relative chaos is beginning to reverse this. It would be
Peter> good for Linux to also start using a single CVS tree with a
Peter> -current and -stable branch and a core team instead of a
Peter> single individual that needs to approve everything.
Well, I've been reading FreeBSD'ers predictions of linux's imminent
demise for a year and a half. We seem to be progressing in the market
while FBSD just hangs around where it's always been.
Linux development is driven by user demand. FBSD development is
driven by the agenda of its development team. Linux development is
oriented toward the individual user. FBSD development is oriented
toward the business user. But, because individuals so often make
business decisions on the basis of what they know, linux is strong in
the business market, as well. That's why, after my employer's IT dept
set up a telnet server for us, what we see when we log into it is
`linux 2.2.4,' and not `freebsd x.x'.
I don't know what Linus' plans are, but I surely do hope he does not
adopt the `ignore the individual user' philosophy of FBSD. So doing
certainly will relegate linux to the sidelines ... right alongside
FBSD.
mp
- --
powered by GNU/linux since Sept 1997 Penguin spoken here
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Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 05:23:50 +0000
From: Night Hawk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: LILO.CONF
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Janine Roe wrote:
> Hi!
> I am having some problems with booting into windows with lilo. Here's
> my situation:
>
> Orignally had one 4 gig hard drive partitioned with 1 gig for linux and
> 3 gig for windows95
>
> Added a new 6 gig hard drive and moved windows95 to this drive.
> Changed the old windows partition to linux native.:
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 128 heads, 63 sectors, 1023 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 8064 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 1 1 768 3096544+ 83 Linux native
> #ORIGNALLY DOS-FAT32
> /dev/hda2 769 769 781 52416 82 Linux swap
> /dev/hda3 * 782 782 972 770112 83 Linux native
>
> New drive info:
>
> Disk /dev/hdb: 240 heads, 63 sectors, 839 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hdb1 * 1 1 420 3175168+ b Win95 FAT32
> /dev/hdb2 421 421 838 3160080 5 Extended
> /dev/hdb5 421 421 838 3160048+ b Win95 FAT32
>
> I changed to lilo.conf file to read as follows:
>
> boot=/dev/hda
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> prompt
> timeout=50
> other=/dev/hdb1
> label=win95
> table=/dev/hdb
> loader=/boot/chain.b
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.35-1
> label=linux
> root=/dev/hda3
> read-only
>
> But at the lilo boot prompt I get an i/o error when I attempt to boot
> into win95.
>
> Additionally, when I changed the id from DOS to Linux native I got the
> following message:
>
> calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.
> Syncing disks.
> Re-read table failed with error 16:
> Device or resource busy.
> Re-boot your system to ensure the partition table is updated.
>
> Also get I/O error dev 16:00, sector 0.
>
> Do these errors have something to do with the inablility to boot with
> lilo? Or is it a combination or errors?
> I would really appreciate some help on what to do to fix this.....
>
> Thanks,
> J.R.
Win95 *must* be on the first partition of the first drive. There is one
little exception...If you were to make a custom Windows boot disk, you can
boot Win95 from any partition, but you will have to boot from the floopy
all the time...
I use this method myself and it seems to work fine. I have Linux on my
first partition, since IMHO Linux is the better OS. (cool Windows desktop
notwithstanding).
1. make a copy of your windows boot disk.
2. boot your system from it.
3. now that the system is in 'dos' mode, the first drive/partition that
has a 'dos' filesystem will then be C:
4. type the following at the prompt (I will assume you are now at C:\>)
>a:
>attrib -r -s -h msdos.sys
>c:
>cd \
>copy msdos.sys a:
>attrib +r +s +h msdos.sys
5. When you asked if you want to overwrite the floopy copy of msdos.sys,
say yes.
6. copy your "config.sys" and "autoexec.bat" to a: as well.
7. now you should be able to merely boot from the floppy for Windows, and
also boot Linux as usual.
This does have the drawback that when an app wants to modify your
autoexec.bat, most will modify the hard drive copy. In this case you will
have to copy the autoexec.bat/config.sys to the floppy.
--
The Night Hawk
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Janine Roe wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>Hi!
<br>I am having some problems with booting into windows with lilo.
Here's
<br>my situation:
<p>Orignally had one 4 gig hard drive partitioned with 1 gig for linux
and
<br>3 gig for windows95
<p>Added a new 6 gig hard drive and moved windows95 to this drive.
<br>Changed the old windows partition to linux native.:
<p>Disk /dev/hda: 128 heads, 63 sectors, 1023 cylinders
<br>Units = cylinders of 8064 * 512 bytes
<p> Device Boot Begin
Start
End Blocks Id System
<br>/dev/hda1
1 1
768 3096544+ 83 Linux native
<br>#ORIGNALLY DOS-FAT32
<br>/dev/hda2
769
769 781 52416
82 Linux swap
<br>/dev/hda3 *
782
782 972 770112 83
Linux native
<p>New drive info:
<p>Disk /dev/hdb: 240 heads, 63 sectors, 839 cylinders
<br>Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 bytes
<p> Device Boot Begin
Start
End Blocks Id System
<br>/dev/hdb1 *
1
1 420 3175168+ b
Win95 FAT32
<br>/dev/hdb2
421
421 838 3160080 5
Extended
<br>/dev/hdb5
421
421 838 3160048+ b
Win95 FAT32
<p>I changed to lilo.conf file to read as follows:
<p>boot=/dev/hda
<br>map=/boot/map
<br>install=/boot/boot.b
<br>prompt
<br>timeout=50
<br>other=/dev/hdb1
<br> label=win95
<br> table=/dev/hdb
<br> loader=/boot/chain.b
<br>image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.35-1
<br> label=linux
<br> root=/dev/hda3
<br> read-only
<p>But at the lilo boot prompt I get an i/o error when I attempt to boot
<br>into win95.
<p>Additionally, when I changed the id from DOS to Linux native I got the
<br>following message:
<p>calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.
<br>Syncing disks.
<br>Re-read table failed with error 16:
<br>Device or resource busy.
<br>Re-boot your system to ensure the partition table is updated.
<p>Also get I/O error dev 16:00, sector 0.
<p>Do these errors have something to do with the inablility to boot with
<br>lilo? Or is it a combination or errors?
<br>I would really appreciate some help on what to do to fix this.....
<p>Thanks,
<br>J.R.</blockquote>
Win95 *must* be on the first partition of the first drive. There
is one little exception...If you were to make a custom Windows boot disk,
you can boot Win95 from any partition, but you will have to boot from the
floopy all the time...
<br>I use this method myself and it seems to work fine. I have Linux on
my first partition, since IMHO Linux is the better OS. (cool Windows desktop
notwithstanding).
<p>1. make a copy of your windows boot disk.
<br>2. boot your system from it.
<br>3. now that the system is in 'dos' mode, the first drive/partition
that has a 'dos' filesystem will then be C:
<br>4. type the following at the prompt (I will assume you are now at C:\>)
<br> >a:
<br> >attrib -r -s -h msdos.sys
<br> >c:
<br> >cd \
<br> >copy msdos.sys a:
<br> >attrib +r +s +h msdos.sys
<br>5. When you asked if you want to overwrite the floopy copy of msdos.sys,
say yes.
<br>6. copy your "config.sys" and "autoexec.bat" to a: as well.
<br>7. now you should be able to merely boot from the floppy for Windows,
and also boot Linux as usual.
<p>This does have the drawback that when an app wants to modify your autoexec.bat,
most will modify the hard drive copy. In this case you will have to copy
the autoexec.bat/config.sys to the floppy.
<pre>--
The Night Hawk</pre>
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From: Ray Biedronski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: SiS graphics chips & XFree86
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 15:51:45 -0600
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Go to www.xfree86.org, in the FAQ list Q.F19 may answer your question.
I have an ASUS with SIS530 and it works fine.
J wrote:
> likewise i have a SiS 6326 and at 320X200 it just showed me lines the rest
> didn't even work..
> mike chase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > In article <hbvGWpJm#[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, brian l <blyc@regis-
> > intl.com> writes
> > >Hello.
> > >
> > >A lot of people have had a lot of trouble with getting SiS cards to work.
> > >I myself managed to get a SiS530 (or that's what it claimed to be) built
> > >into a PC-CHIPS 100mhz motherboard to work beyond a 320x200 resoultion
> only
> > >with a little bit of help several other people.
> > >
> > >Brian Lycett.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > I'd be pretty interested in hearing how you managed to do it, I've been
> > trying for ages to get X to run without any luck with an onboard sis530
> > chip on A PC-CHIPS motherboard. What version of X are you running?
> >
> > Thanks for any light that you may be able to shed.
> > --
> > mike chase
--
Ray Biedronski mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Pr ASIC Engineer (719) 594-8012
UTMC Microelectronic Systems (719) 594-8010(Fax)
4350 Centennial Blvd
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Go to www.xfree86.org, in the FAQ list Q.F19 may answer your question.
<br>I have an ASUS with SIS530 and it works fine.
<p>J wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>likewise i have a SiS 6326 and at 320X200 it just
showed me lines the rest
<br>didn't even work..
<br>mike chase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
<br><a
href="news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]</a>...
<br>> In article <hbvGWpJm#[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, brian l <blyc@regis-
<br>> intl.com> writes
<br>> >Hello.
<br>> >
<br>> >A lot of people have had a lot of trouble with getting SiS cards
to work.
<br>> >I myself managed to get a SiS530 (or that's what it claimed to be)
built
<br>> >into a PC-CHIPS 100mhz motherboard to work beyond a 320x200 resoultion
<br>only
<br>> >with a little bit of help several other people.
<br>> >
<br>> >Brian Lycett.
<br>> >
<br>> >
<br>> >
<br>> I'd be pretty interested in hearing how you managed to do it, I've
been
<br>> trying for ages to get X to run without any luck with an onboard
sis530
<br>> chip on A PC-CHIPS motherboard. What version of X are you running?
<br>>
<br>> Thanks for any light that you may be able to shed.
<br>> --
<br>> mike chase</blockquote>
<pre>--
Ray
Biedronski
<A HREF="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]</A>
Pr ASIC
Engineer
(719) 594-8012
UTMC Microelectronic Systems (719) 594-8010(Fax)
4350 Centennial Blvd
Colorado Springs, CO 80907 <A
HREF="http://www.utmc.com">http://www.utmc.com</A></pre>
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From: trent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie having problems mounting floppy
Date: 14 May 1999 05:31:04 GMT
AnOldCowboy wrote:
> I have Redhat 5.2 installed as workstation and can't
> get the floppy mounted. First I gor the error message
> saying {cant find mention of /dev/fd0 in /ect/mtab or
> /ect/fstab} Edited the files and now get the message
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on
> /dev/fd0, or too many mounted file systems. Watched
> the boot info and noticed entrys saying max amount
> of devices mounted hda6 and hda5, max number is 4.
> device fd0 is not a block device. That is not the exact
> wording but as close as I can do. When useing disk
> manager it reports 4 mounted devices including the
> cdrom. Tryed unmounting the cdrom and still get the
> same message. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> TIA
Hi,
In your fstab file (located in /etc/) there will be a reference to floppy
or fd0 (or something similar, can't quite remember right now). On this
line in /etc/fstab where it says "ext2" change this to "msdos" (assuming
that the floppies you are putting in are IBM formatted, which is probably
the case).
Now Linux knows which filesystem you are trying to use in the floppy drive
(ext2 is a Linux filesystem).
Now simply type "mount /mnt/floppy" then "cd /mnt/floppy" and if you do a
"ls" you should be seeing the files that are on your floppy.
Hint: make sure there are some msdos files on the floppy disk you have
inserted, or else you'll get confused.
Regards, Trent.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: cdrecord problem
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 05:38:40 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm trying to write an image to a CD-R. When I use
>the command 'cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=0,5,0 -data cdimage.raw'
>I get the following error;
>
>TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
>cdrecord: Invalid argument, shmget failed
>
>I assume it thinks my cd-writer is a cd-rom. I've tried
>turning the cd-writer off, booting, then turning it on,
>but get the same result. I'm using cdrecord 1.6 with a
>Philips CDD 2600 cd-writer which is supported. Any ideas
>on getting this to write?
>
>Greg
>
>
That looks a little different from the command I use, shouldn't it
be dev=5,0 ? I tried the command cdrecord -driver=help to get a list of
known brands saw various phillips drives, but not the 2600 and I use
version 1.6. Are you sure it's supported?
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From: Julio De Gregorio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Netscape 4.51 suddenly exits ?????????????
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 00:28:38 -0300
I installed Red Hat 6, Netscape 4.51 works fine, but when I try to open
a page that includes some Java, Netscape suddenly exits just after
printing
'Starting Java...' in the status bar.
What can I do????????
Thanx!
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