Linux-Misc Digest #206, Volume #20 Fri, 14 May 99 17:13:11 EDT
Contents:
x windows ("giuseppe pittavini")
Symbolic Link (David Noseworthy)
Re: Tough Question About Linux (James Youngman)
Re: libstdc++ 2.8.1 on g++ 2.7.2.3? ("D. Vrabel")
Re: Netscape 4.51 suddenly exits ????????????? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Proper use of /usr/local (Re: The Best Linux distribution?) (Leslie Mikesell)
mac (Inferno)
Wine-990426 doesn't compile (Peter Stein)
Re: mail gathering ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: What's on the RH6 Applications CD? (Adam Gifford)
Re: Proper use of /usr/local (Re: The Best Linux distribution?) (Leslie Mikesell)
Re: Netscape 4.51 suddenly exits ????????????? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Pro-Unix vs anti-WinTel (Paul D. Smith)
Re: cdrecord problem ("William B. Cattell")
Re: tar (marco tephlant)
Re: Pro-Unix vs anti-WinTel (Steve Lamb)
Re: Pro-Unix vs anti-WinTel (Steve Lamb)
Re: [SURVEY] Who has an internal modem in his linux box ? ("Mike")
Re: What happened to fdformat (Bill Unruh)
display flickers nonstop (david letchumanan)
RH 6.0 and mkkickstart (Bill Petersen)
Re: [?] problem w/ TeX under RH 6.0 (Simon Cozens)
Re: unseen files (marco tephlant)
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From: "giuseppe pittavini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: x windows
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 12:07:59 -0700
I am running RedHat 6.0 with gdm on boot. I started an X - windows session,
and then I pressed ALT-F2 to start another session. Now here is the
question how can I kill the Windows session that I started with gdm. Is it
possible to run two X-windows on the same machine.
Your help is appreciated.
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From: David Noseworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Symbolic Link
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 15:00:16 -0400
Hi there,
I have created an anonymous ftp server on my link box (Box A). The home
directory for anonymous ftp is /home/ftp.
Within this directory I created a symbolic link to the /usr directory.
After creating the link I tested it, and it seemed to be ok.
When I ftp to Box A and log in as anonymous, I get an error to the
extent "No such file or directory." An ls -l shows the link is there,
but I just can't change to that directory.
Does anyone know what may be happening here?
Dave
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From: James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Tough Question About Linux
Date: 11 May 1999 18:13:05 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> We are looking for the best way to introduce this (Linux) into our
> organization and our clients. We are very impressed with the reviews but
> are concerned about a few things. Caldera uses KDE as the Gui and Redhat
> uses GNOME.
Red Hat 6.0 uses both; you can run either, as you choose, or even
both.
> Without actually using them, it's impossible to tell which is best
> and more importantly if one will become a standard. We have relied
> on the reviews and they seem to be mixed as to which Gui is best and
> will subsequently become the standard. Can you share your input on
> this?
There is no impediment to using both at the same time. Neither is
going to "beat" the other, they are not incompatible.
> We also have questions about Linux in general. The issues are hardware
> compatibility. If your answers are what we expect, we will purchase
> OpenLinux 2.2 and install it on a test system that has Win95B and use the
> dual boot capability.
[hardware list]
Try consultimg the hardware compatibility list for the distribution
you are considering.
> The test system has a HP820 CES deskjet printer and a Umax Astra
> 610p (parallel port connection).
Doubtful if the hardware manufacturer provudes a driver that supports
Linux.
> The system itself (CTX 233mhz Pentium II)
Chuntex make Pentiums?
> has a Soundblaster compatible sound card, Cirrus Logic 546X AGP
SB-compatibles work, if they are *hardware* compatible.
> Video Card-4 meg video, 96 meg memory, Tatung 24x CD-Rom and a
> 4.3gig Quantum Eide Hard drive. It also has a 56k V.90 modem with
> the Lucent chipset (believe-not sure-this could be known as a
> Winmodem).
Well, a Winmodem will not work. What is a business doing with a
Winmodem? Jeepers.
> Can we expect OpenLinux 2.2 to recognize all these peripherals so that they
> will be functional? Do not believe that there is anything extraordinary in
> this configuration, but feel it would be the best test system for
> us.
I doubt it; your modem and scanner are poor choices, IMHO.
Nevertheless, I am sure you can live without them.
--
ACTUALLY reachable as @free-lunch.demon.(whitehouse)co.uk:james+usenet
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From: "D. Vrabel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: libstdc++ 2.8.1 on g++ 2.7.2.3?
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 15:49:48 +0100
On Wed, 12 May 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am looking for a bit of advice about installing the libstdc++ 2.8.1
> package on my Linux machine.
>
> I have had advice that since I am running the following system:
> - linux 2.0.35
> - gcc 2.7.2.3
> - libc 5.4.46
>
> saying I should not upgrade to gcc-2.8.1 (one problem is that it is not
> intended to compile the 2.0.xx series of the kernel and I dont have the
> time or the resources to upgrade to glibc6 and hence kernel 2.2.xx. :-)
> )
>
> The question I was hoping you could help directing me to the answer is;
>
> do I need to use a g++ 2.8.1 with the libstdc++ 2.8.1 library?
I doubt it will work because I think the STL uses some contructs that
2.7.2 doesn't understand.
> if so, can I compile the gcc 2.8.1 package, and then only install the
> g++ binary and hence giving my system gcc 2.7.2.3 and g++ 2.8.1, or is
> there some relationship between gcc/g++? I ask this since the src code
> for the libstdc++ package is in C and will be compiled with gcc.
Yes you can. However, I would install not gcc 2.8.1 but egcs as that has
much better support for ISO C++.
David
--
David Vrabel
Engineering Undergraduate at University of Cambridge, UK.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Netscape 4.51 suddenly exits ?????????????
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 11:08:08 GMT
I had the same problem on RH 6.0 This is the fix I saw on another
newsgroup.
> Maybe this solves your problem. It's a email from Bill
Nottingham of
> Red hat in the Starbuck (the beta version of 6.0)
mailing list about
> this topic :
>
==========================================================================
---------------------------------------
> > >What does the 'catalogue' section of your
/etc/X11/fs/config look
like?
> > It looks like this:
> >
> > catalogue = /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled,
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled,
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled,
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc,
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo,
>
>
> Add to this list the following:
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi,
>
> (and/or the 100dpi fonts, if you have those
installed...)
>
>
> Then (as root) do `/etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs restart`. Does
that solve
> the problem?
In article <7hgjhq$7n$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Andy Piper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Julio De Gregorio wrote in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> >
> >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????????
>
> I, and several other people, have had similar problems with Netscape
4.5
> when trying to access sites that contain Java. Unfortunately, none of
us
> have come up with a good solution yet.
>
> Andy
>
> --
> Andy Piper
> Technical Analyst, Middleware Development Group
> phone: (01252) 528957 or (0780) 109 1431
> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> ** speaking personally...
>
>
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---Share what you know. Learn what you don't.---
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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: 14 May 1999 14:17:58 -0500
In article <7hh690$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Alexander Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <7hgkjt$nco$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>This makes everyone happy:
>>
>>/bin - system binaries
>>/usr/bin - distribution binaries
>>/usr/local/bin - custom binaries
>>
>>[just throw *sbin away, I guess]
>>
>>Whaddya think?
>
>Extremely bad. Big root filesystem is less than bright idea even with
>big disks. The most fundamental thing about disks being: they fail. At
>the most inconvenient moments.
I haven't seen any relationship between size and failure. Actually
more small disks have failed for me but that's because they are
old.
>Add to that tons of self-inflicted fuckups
>(ever did something on Friday evening?) and you'll see why one wants to
>have root small. Keeping everything on one filesystem... Well, good luck
>cleaning the mess after big mailbomb targeted to one of your lusers.
None of that should hit / or /usr, regardless of them being on
the same fillesystem. Given the system invasion into /usr, everyone
moved users to /home long ago.
>Ditto for situation when some moron tries to relay through your box.
>For several hours. At night. Yup, ignoring 550. Ever seen a gigabyte of
>sendmail logs? Ditto for the situation when a motherfucker in two hops
>from you decides to go for BI above 10^6. Ditto for the crapware written
>by local C++ duh-veloper (of "C++ for Dummies" persuasion) that goes berserk
>and starts shitting with ten-megabytes turds. Into /tmp. At rate of one per
>minute.
Likewise, production machines put /tmp and /var (and maybe /var/spool)
on separate partitions to isolate this kind of damage. So this
is also unrelated to the issue of combining all the 'system' space.
There is one point in favor of the small 'what you need to boot,
statically linked' core, which is that you have some chance of
recovering from a small set of possible problems by going to
single user mode with this, and you might be able to do that
remotely. However, if you are on-site you can just use a boot
floppy (or CD) that has everything you need and you can handle
a much larger set of problems. Or, if the machine is critical
just keep a spare bootable partition as a mirror of the working
partition when it is in a known good state. That lets you get
back in operation with a reboot and you can fix the problem while
the machine is in service again.
Les Mikesell
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Inferno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: mac
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 15:40:47 -0400
I would like to install Linux or NT on a macintosh powerpc. What
distribution would be best and how would I go about installing it. I
have never really gotten into macintosh systems heavily(i like intel or
sun based running NT or Unix). Is there a way that i can get a cdrom
image and write it using our NT cd writer computer? How do I install
after that?
Thanks,
Inferno
--
What is reality? Reality is what we believe.
What is the answer? The answer is out there.
What drives us to do what we do? The question.
We are the future. We control reality, we
understand what reality really is. The rest of the
world is blinded to the truth, but we know the truth.
What is the Matrix? Reality, the universe in general.
Those who understand the matrix shape the matrix.
Because our eyes have been opened, we can
shape reality.
Who are we? Infinity...
-Inferno
"The One"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Stein)
Subject: Wine-990426 doesn't compile
Date: 14 May 1999 17:16:02 GMT
I'm running kernel 2.0.36 (RH 5.2) and cannot compile
Wine (parse error in graphics/ddraw.c). I was very
careful to review all the docs and verify that all
prerequisite packages are installed (gcc, bison, flex,
xpm, xpm-dev, X11-dev). Any suggestions? Thanks.
Peter Stein
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: mail gathering
Date: 12 May 1999 13:10:41 GMT
Yan Seiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> tickles me to write:
* My web site hosting service is getting rid of procmail, so I need to set
* up an email handler on my server.
* All of the mail coming in to 2 domains will be forwarded to a single
* box: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From there, I need to collect it and process it
* with procmail. I have the recipes for procmail, and sendmail works, all
* I need is a way to get the mail from the [EMAIL PROTECTED] to my local
* server.
try 'fetchpop' at y're linux-prompt. it'll prompt you with several questions.
Answer them and y're ready. Each time you'll run fetchpop then y're mail will
be retrieved. You could also run fetchpop from y're cron ...
g'luck
Bas
--
Bas van Gils, student of Information Management and || LINUX
Technology at Tilburg University, The Netherlands. || the dawn of
http://stuwww.kub.nl/people/b.vangils || a new era
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From: Adam Gifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What's on the RH6 Applications CD?
Date: 14 May 1999 14:47:58 GMT
John Brock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I will point out that except for the support (which I never really
> used) Red Hat Linux Core seems to be the exact equivalent of earlier,
> less expensive, Red Hat editions, which just included CDs and an
> Installation Guide (and a Boot Floppy... *HEY*, what happened to the
> Boot Floppy?!?).
the cd is bootable.
NT4's cd is also bootable, which i found was a heck of a lot faster than
using the 3 install diskettes.
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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: 14 May 1999 12:23:30 -0500
In article <7hghqu$kg0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> There is also an assortment of locally tweaked programs
>> that need to checked on a case-by-case basis as to whether this
>> distribution version is better than mine.
>
>Okay, I see what you're doing now. You're using /usr as both the
>location of the system files as well as a *staging* area for
>/usr/local. That's pure insanity. Rather than sticking standard
>packages in /usr to keep them out of the way of what's in /usr/local
>[until you decide to make the contents of /usr the 'live' version],
>wouldn't it just be simpler not to *install* the packages until you're
>sure you want them? Once you're sure that the distribution version is
>the one you want, it doesn't conflict with your way of doing things to
>simply install it in /usr/local.
Hindsight is easy, but that is never the way it works. What happens
in practice is that you install the distribution version, find
out that it is broken in some way or that some new and needed
feature has been added in the current version, or find that
you need some local custom patch right away. Then you grab the
original source, do anything needed to fix it, and let it
run from /usr/local/bin (and if that breaks anything, throw
a symlink in place of the original once you are sure this is an
improvement). Now when the next release of the distribution
comes around you have to look at these individually to see if
the update takes care of the same problem. This really isn't
much trouble for the dozen or so programs that might have needed
a quick-fix along the way - unless something else has cluttered
/usr/local with things that aren't really yours to maintain.
Les Mikesell
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Netscape 4.51 suddenly exits ?????????????
Date: 14 May 1999 12:21:02 -0500
>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.
I had the same problem and the fix was to digress to version4.08. I could go to
Freshmeat and crash every time, now it works better.
--
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul D. Smith)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Pro-Unix vs anti-WinTel
Date: 14 May 1999 16:13:36 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
%% Richard Caley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
rc> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael Powe (mp) writes:
mp> Why don't you give an example of the "pre-compiled binary from god
mp> knows what teenaged hackers jokeshop"?
rc> What do you want an example of? The internet ois full of binaries of
rc> who nows what origin.
rc> I was just saying I don't see why I should trust them over verified
rc> source from the real home of whateveritis.
I think he's trying to compare apples to apples; you're comparing code
obtained through official FBSD channels through random code obtained on
the 'Net. Obviously no one with half a brain installs binaries of
questionable origin on their system, be it Linux or FBSD.
If you compare code obtained from official Linux channels, though, say
the RedHat FTP site or, an even better example, the Debian distribution
site, then what's an example of "pre-compiled binaries from god knows
what teenaged hackers jokeshop"?
--
===============================================================================
Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Network Management Development
"Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist
===============================================================================
These are my opinions---Nortel Networks takes no responsibility for them.
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From: "William B. Cattell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: cdrecord problem
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 17:23:13 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> 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?
>
> --
> Praeterea censeo Micromolle non esse utendum.
> ("Moreover, I maintain that Microsoft should not be used." A toned down
> adaptation of a sig from Cato the Elder regarding the city of Carthage.
> ---- Remove "UhUh" and "Spam" to get my real email address -----
I'm using an HP 8100 ATAPI drive. To recognize the drive on the
cdrecord command line I had to include the dev=x,x,x also. dmesg showed
the HP 8100 as scsi bus 1, id 0, lun 0 because the hdc=ide-scsi on the
lilo 'boot options' line tells the kernel that the device /dev/hdc is
going to emulate a scsi device. the scsi drivers in the kernel make it
look like a a second unique scsi bus in my system (I also have an
AHA2940 w/3 disks and a tape drive on it as scsi bus 0.
Bill
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may collect dust for want of being oft ridden. Ride thy Harley
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (marco tephlant)
Subject: Re: tar
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 18:33:51 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> Ryan Green wrote:
> >
> > Can somebody please tell me how to unzip programs compressed inside
> > tar.gz files??
> > Please help,
> > Ryan
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> look at man poages for gunzip and tar
>
>
tar zxvf <filename> will work for .tar.gz files.
--
Marco
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Lamb)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Pro-Unix vs anti-WinTel
Date: 14 May 1999 20:05:26 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 14 May 1999 19:44:27 +0100, Richard Caley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Lamb (sl) writes:
>sl> What happens when an author releases a new version of his
>sl> software?
>Same as happens with a packages tree. If you go get it, anything which
>uses it is subject to failure without notice. Whether they fail
>depends on the effort gone into backwards compatability by the
>developer, not on whether you get the result as binary or source.
Incorrect. In a packaging system you are downloading a precompiled
package from a central location. If the individual author updates his
product and changes the archive name that has no bearing on the packaged
archive. That is why I asserted that the ports systems is inhierently
fragile.
--
Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your
ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboard of souls.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Lamb)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Pro-Unix vs anti-WinTel
Date: 14 May 1999 20:12:56 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 14 May 1999 16:58:20 GMT, John S. Dyson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>That is ancient.
Granted. No one, however, asked me when I used it, either.
>However, it does seem that biased and incorrect assertions are often made
>about FreeBSD.
Just as FreeBSD people often make biased and incorrect assertations about
Linux, which is what this whole thread is about. Personally, I think there
should be a mandate that any thread posted to both FreeBSD newsgroups and
Linux newsgroups should be an automatic narn bat squad for the original poster
and all who participate in them.
--
Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your
ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboard of souls.
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From: "Mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: [SURVEY] Who has an internal modem in his linux box ?
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 13:13:43 -0700
USRobotics 56000 internal PnP
Works fine
Jon Pennington wrote in message <01be975c$587ff9c0$403db693@bv5023>...
>I really like my Best Data 56SF. v.90/KFlex, ISA, Jumpers
>
>--
>-=|JP|=-
>
>Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>> On Thu, 29 Apr 1999 09:51:55 +0200, David Guyon Martin
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >Do you have an internal modem working with linux ?
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Crossposted-To: linux.debian.user,linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: What happened to fdformat
Date: 14 May 1999 19:44:59 GMT
In <7hho5b$hn7$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I know this sounds stupid, but I used to think that you can low-level
>format a floppy in Linux using "fdformat". Well, on my Debian system
...
>(as root). How can I format a floppy ?
See if you have mformat. The mtools package is a great package. (Mind
you I think that is an MSDos format, not an ext2)
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From: david letchumanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: display flickers nonstop
Date: 12 May 1999 15:32:39 GMT
Hi there, I am one of the newbie to Linux and to this site. We have a
Linux PC sitting in a courner as a printserver. We swapped the monitor
without any changing any configuration. It was ok for monre than two
months. Yesterday I did a shutdown now -r on it. It has configured to
start xwindows. It came back upto starting xdm and the display flickers
nonstop. We are unable to do anything to stop this. "Ctrl+Alt+F1" did not
help. We are running s.u.s.e Linux 5.1. We have no boot disk. We need
help getting into the system. PC is running and the printing is fine.
Just the flickering display. Please help!
Davdi L
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From: Bill Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: RH 6.0 and mkkickstart
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 19:46:16 GMT
I am trying to use mkkickstart for the first time to
build a system identical to one I have. It all seems
pretty straight forward (thanks for putting mkkickstart
in RH 6.0 so I won't have to try to figure out
how to build one from scratch!) EXCEPT....
I normally setup my systems something like this...
hda1 1000MB / for redhat 5.2
hda2 1000MB / for redhat 6.0 - lets me load a new os without
loosing my working copy
hda3 128MB swap
hda4 remainder of disk - put home, and other stuff
here that I want across
upgrades and new OS loads
or I might do something like:
hda1 1000MB / for redhat 5.2
hda2 1000MB / for redhat 6.0
hda3 1000MB / for Caldera 2.2
hda4 extended
hda5 1000MB / for SCO
hda6 1000MB / for Solaris
hda7 128MB swap
hda8 remainder of disk
Now, my question is this.
I'd like to tell kick start it can install on partition hda2,
and use the existing swap space (either I tell it where it is,
or it just figures it out).
I DON'T WANT to have it wipe out my other linux partitions.
I don't see a way to do this. Is there? How?
Please email repsonses.
Thanks,
Bill Petersen
emailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Simon Cozens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: [?] problem w/ TeX under RH 6.0
Date: 14 May 1999 17:58:15 GMT
In comp.text.tex Francisco Cribari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think it must be a configuration problem on my machine. I do have
> a cmbase.mf file:
> [cribari@edgeworth cribari]$ locate cmbase.mf
> /usr/share/texmf/mft/cmbase.mft
^
No, you don't....
cmbase should come with the base teTeX rpm. If this has been installed
properly, something's wrong. Try this:
rpm -q tetex
rpm -qf /usr/share/texmf/fonts/source/public/cm/cmbase.mf
and give us the results. Meanwhile, I'll look at the SRPM. (I'm currently
in the middle of testing all the 6.0 SRPMs and boy are they broken...)
--
BASIC is to computer programming as QWERTY is to typing.
-- Seymour Papert
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (marco tephlant)
Subject: Re: unseen files
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 21:26:36 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> Howdy All,
>
> I'm having a problem with linux seeing files in the current directory. If I
> use an application like vi to view a file, it has no problem seeing the file
> and opening it in the current directory. However, if I compile the file and
> then try to run it by just typing the name, the system says it can't be
> found. I have to type the complete path to run the file, even though it is
> in the directory I am currently in. Anybody have any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> John Gibbons
>
>
>
try typing ./ before the program
e.g ./netscape
--
Marco
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