Linux-Misc Digest #248, Volume #20 Tue, 18 May 99 11:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: What's wrong with this kernel??? (Tom Fawcett)
Re: Interference on screen ("D. Vrabel")
Re: GNU reeks of Communism (returning to %252522GNU Communism%252522) (David Kastrup)
Re: Interference on screen (Mark Tranchant)
Re: In defence of UNIX man pages ("Cameron Spitzer")
"vi" with mouse is okay, Re: The Vi Lovers Home Page ("Cameron Spitzer")
Re: Display X on TV? (Peter Caffin)
Re: silly windows (Peter Caffin)
Elvis: syntax highlighting? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux on Dual Pentium-II machines (C Lamb)
Re: news: Linux growth at 25% per year. (Alex Kaufman)
Re: FAT32X and fips... ("Charles Sullivan")
Re: Modem Redialing? (Frank Hahn)
MAKEDEV don't know how ... ("Kurt C. Anderson")
Please help mounting hda2 (Brad)
Re: Q: Can Linux read IRIX (5.3) filesystem? ("Ron van Middendorp")
Problems with cut-and-paste ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: AutoInstall is for experts, not beginners!!! (David Damerell)
Re: cant login as root Mysql user in MySQL (Jonas Pedersen)
Re: The Vi Lovers Home Page ("John E. Garrott")
Re: The Vi Lovers Home Page (Johan Kullstam)
Re: What happened to fdformat (Paul Payne)
Re: 2 linux/unix newbie questions! (Johan Kullstam)
Re: silly windows (Johan Kullstam)
Re: advice partion etc (**Nick Brown)
how do I interrupt boot sequence? (Keith York)
Re: LILO docs available in PDF, Re: LS-120 (Richard Dynes)
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From: Tom Fawcett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What's wrong with this kernel???
Date: 18 May 1999 07:28:54 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I am having the worst time getting kernel 2.2 7 to work. I've done
> everything that is supposed to be done(in reference to the Kernel-HOWTO
> and other various sources) but the thing will not boot. The make process
> went fine, with a few obstacles, but no errors were detected. I copied
> the zImage and System.map into the directory that LILO uses to boot and
> edited /etc/lilo.conf accordingly. When I try to boot the kernel I get
> the following messages:
> request_module[block-major-3]: Root fs not mounted
> VFS: Cannot open root device 03:0a or ttyp(3,10)
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:0a or ttyp(3,10)
>
> I've compiled and patched a kernel before but this is the first time
> I've ever seen this occur. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Either the kernel is trying to load the rootfs from a nonexistent device or
it's trying to load from a device for which it has no driver. 03:0a is
/dev/hda10, is that where your rootfs is? If not, fix your lilo.conf. If
it is, do you have IDE disk support built in?
-Tom
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From: "D. Vrabel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Interference on screen
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 12:12:31 +0100
On Tue, 18 May 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm a newcomer to Linux and recently installed RH6.
> I'm very impressed, but have found one major annoyance.
>
> Occasionally, when I am using Gnome and typing in a window over which
> the mouse pointer is placed, a series of flickery vertical lines
> appear under the mouse pointer. These can be quite large (up to a
> third of the height of my screen) and are very distracting. I have
> tried a number of screen resolutions but the problem persists. It
> always occurs if I open a terminal and type whilst the mouse pointer
> is over terminal.
>
> Does anyone recognise these syptoms, and more importantly, does anyone
> know how to cure it?
Don't know as specifics but you could try disabling various acceleration
options in the XF86Config file. See the XFree86 readme for your video
card for more details.
David
--
David Vrabel
Engineering Undergraduate at University of Cambridge, UK.
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From: David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: GNU reeks of Communism (returning to %252522GNU Communism%252522)
Date: 18 May 1999 12:57:28 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Willett LADS LDN X7563) writes:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Ketil Z Malde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> >Why? Weren't there adequate schooling in the US before socialized
> >education began? How much higher is literacy now, compared to before
> >socialized education, and compared to nations that have suffered no
> >such system change in the same period?
> >
>
> Not wanting to be an apologiest for Communism but...
> literacy in Cuba is higher than in the USA or UK.
Which shows Cuba's inferior standards of living. They simply cannot
afford the number of TV sets required for replacing books in a
civilized manner.
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From: Mark Tranchant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Interference on screen
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 12:40:15 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Which graphics card do you have? Post the appropriate modelines out of
your XF86Config file, and the output of "X --probeonly".
Mark.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I'm a newcomer to Linux and recently installed RH6.
> I'm very impressed, but have found one major annoyance.
>
> Occasionally, when I am using Gnome and typing in a window over which
> the mouse pointer is placed, a series of flickery vertical lines
> appear under the mouse pointer. These can be quite large (up to a
> third of the height of my screen) and are very distracting. I have
> tried a number of screen resolutions but the problem persists. It
> always occurs if I open a terminal and type whilst the mouse pointer
> is over terminal.
>
> Does anyone recognise these syptoms, and more importantly, does anyone
> know how to cure it?
>
> TIA,
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From: "Cameron Spitzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: In defence of UNIX man pages
Date: 18 May 1999 04:21:04 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Gary Kopff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Dear Matt,
>
>> "The UNIX man page format is similar to that used to describe most command
>> line operating system commands. This format was acceptable not long ago, as
>> a majority of computer users would have been using ms-DOS and would
>> therefore have a fair understanding of command line operating system
>> documentation.
>
>Keep in mind that UNIX pre-dates DOS by nearly a decade.
>UNIX pre-dated the concept of "personal computing".
>UNIX was originally a time-sharing system that typically
>ran on departmental computers often with hundreds of users.
>Typical UNIX users were computer science departments and
>student users or industrial research and development laboratories.
There was a time when UNIX was used for office tasks throughout AT&T.
Thousands of secretaries, clerks, writers, legal aides, and managers
used ex(1) and mail(1) and uucp(1) and troff(1) (and towards the end,
vi(1)) to do the company's routine business. Most of the documentation
I received from them on their (Western Electric/AT&T/Lucent)
microelectronic products until about 1995 was troff output.
That included a standard cell function library book with hundreds
of figures (logic gates and waveforms) apparently drawn in pic(1).
They were the only chip vendor that ever emailed me (under nondisclosure)
manpage sources for ASIC tapeout utilities.
Today, chip vendors post their data in PDF on their Web sites.
The PDFs are converted from MS-Word and Frame Maker documents, and
they're huge and never use PDF's hypertext features. It's a real
step backwards in functionality, but the marketroids and pointyhair bosses
love it.
Cameron
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From: "Cameron Spitzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: "vi" with mouse is okay, Re: The Vi Lovers Home Page
Date: 18 May 1999 04:46:09 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
D. J. Birchall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > >UC Berkeley has officially appologized for the creation of the
>> > >not-much-better-than-Windows-Notepad editor vi.
Either whoever wrote that doesn't know how to use vi and its
clones, or there are a hell of a lot of features hidden in
Windows-Notepad that I've never seen.
>> > Why do people still keep using it?
>* It doesn't mind being told that I'd like it to open _all_ the pages
> on a 300-page web site and let me do stuff to them.
It doesn't mind doing that when it's running on a server on the East
coast, and my display, keyboard, *and mouse* are on the West coast.
That doesn't even slow it down.
I had a friend over a while ago, who needed to write a speech.
A microsoft fan who'd never used anything but Word.
I'd played around with LyX but it wasn't functional enough at the time
and I'd removed it. This was shortly before Wordperfect and Applix
came out on Linux. Vi clones and Pico were the only editors I had.
No time to download anything.
I opened Elvis-1.8 in a huge-text xterm, showed her
the insert command and how you have to hold shift to make select and paste
work, and had to take a restroom break. By the time I got back, she
was well into the document, and remarked that the mouse was a lot more
powerful in Elvis than in Word. In Elvis, the cursor arrows work in
insert mode. Who sez "vi" isn't user-friendly?
Cameron
(who has just found vim's 'set mouse=a' and no longer mourns elvis-1.8)
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From: Peter Caffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Display X on TV?
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 22:59:22 +0800
Oliver D. Bedford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> According to their web-page a VGA2TV converter is at least as
> expensive as a new graphic card with included converter. Of course, I
> have no clue about the display qualities.
Mind you, the advantage of an AITEch PSC1106 or other `cable converter`
style device is that it can be used with any card with VGA socket. So you
don't have to ditch the TV capability if/when you upgrade your VGA card to
the next Voodoo 6 standard on [insert new standard bus style] :).
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From: Peter Caffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: silly windows
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 23:21:05 +0800
Lew Pitcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Because the designers of MSDOS (and the follow-on product, 'Windows')
> borrowed a number of concepts and utilities from Unix and it's brothers.
Mostly from CP/M initially. QDOS and MSDOS 1.0 was a barely disguised
CP/M clone. Interesting to note that MSDOS 1.0 did *not* support
subdirectories.
> The tree-structured directory and it's commands come from the Unix
> side of the world, as does the networking components of ping, ftp, etc.
That's one thing that I think we're *all* glad they didn't steal from
CP/M.. otherwise we'd be changing directories by typing `user 402`.
> Winsock is a port of BSD sockets to the Windows environment, with API
> changes that were made necessary by the difference between BSD Unix
> and MicroSoft Windows.
More importantly, as Windows 3.1 did not have support for networking
built in, most early Windows network apps needed to be compatible with
Trumpet Winsock (a third party supplier from Australia).
Trumpet's network socket drivers were highly dominant up until the end of
Win3.1's life-cycle. This was largely, IMHO, because they offered
v1.0-Beta as non-time-limited shareware (which allowed universities to
distribute it).
I suspect that in bridging the gap between support for old Windows 3.1
apps using Trumpet Winsock interface layers, they happily sacrificed any
vague desire they may have wanted (ho ho ;) ).
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Elvis: syntax highlighting?
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 11:25:16 GMT
Hi
I have downloaded the elvis-2.1 src and was wondering if there are any
options that allow for syntax highlihgting?
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
fraf
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (C Lamb)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Linux on Dual Pentium-II machines
Date: 18 May 1999 12:18:43 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Keith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: With the present generation of Celeron processors you can use a PGA
: processor in a Slot-1 adaptor which already contains the SMP
: modification. I have a pair of Celeron 300A processors running quite
: happily in my home machine. Just remember you need NT or Linux to take
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
or BeOS or FreeBSD or OpenBSD
or Plan9 or Solaris x86 or...
HTH
C
: advantage of the second processor.
: I guess Intel will stop connecting the SMP pin from the die if dual-
: Celeron machines become popular.
: Just my opinions,
: Keith.
: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
: Marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: > [snip..]
: > Hi
: > A Celeron isn't capable of SMP. You'd have to go into a lot of extra
: > work in order to get it done. this involves more than just a
: > screwdriver.
: >
: > Bye
: >
: > Marc
: >
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From: Alex Kaufman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: news: Linux growth at 25% per year.
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 08:06:57 -0400
>I would expect
> that 6.2, which wil probably be out around August (normal scheduling for
> the releae), the kernel will be 2.3.6 :)
2.3.6 is a development release of a Kernel, no way will RedHat release
an upgrade with an unstable build. They probably include the latest
*production* version, 2.2.9?
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From: "Charles Sullivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: FAT32X and fips...
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 13:13:33 -0400
FIPS.EXE v 2.0 will handle FAT32. It's shipped with RH5.2.
Partition Magic 4.0 is another alternative.
Ron wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I haven't been keeping current with this NG, but I ran across a problem
>with FAT32X and my hard drive.....
>
>I got this new 13G WD drive and am running W98. I made the new drive
>the master drive and made my existing 4.3G WD slave. I have AMBIOS
>which is won't really handle big drives over 8G, so when I added the 13G
>
>drive, the drive was automatically formatted into FAT32X.
>
>Well, I soon found out that I couldn't use my Partition Magic 3.0 to
>manipulate FAT32X. I couldn't use System Commander 4 Deluxe either. I
>downloaded a program called BootIt. The website I downloaded it from
>said it could handle FAT32X....well, I found out that it couldn't.
>
>Anyone know what DOES manipulate FAT32X? Can Fips? Is there late
>version of Fips that can handle FAT32X?
>
>ANY info will be greatly appreciated......even BIOS info.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Ron
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Hahn)
Subject: Re: Modem Redialing?
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 12:28:36 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 17 May 1999 23:17:43 -0700, Jason Bond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Is there an easy way to get a modem to redial on, say,
>a busy signal using the usual pppd and chat scripts?
>
At least in the older releases of Slackware, there was a script
called "redialer." I used it to redial my ISP when the line was
busy. Since I got diald working 1 1/2 years ago, I have not used
it since.
--
Frank Hahn
Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at
once.
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From: "Kurt C. Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MAKEDEV don't know how ...
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 08:47:30 -0500
i added a smart and friendly (yamaha) scsi cd-rw to my rh5.2 server and have
not been able to get it to work. the dmesg output says, the kernel sees the
cd-rw as sr0 scsi 0,channel 0, id 6, lun 0 and my scsi tape as st0 scsi 0,
channel 0, id 2, lun 0. but when i try #/dev/MAKEDEV -v sr0 i get the error
MAKEDEV: don't know how to make device sr0. so, i tried #/dev/modprobe sr
and got the error can't find module sr. the scsi tape works fine, scsi
tape is a module in the kernal, scsi cdrom support is in the kernel . . . .
kurt c. anderson
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Please help mounting hda2
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 23:12:31 +1000
I am having no luck at all mounting my primary slave hard drive. My set
up is this..
Primary Master c: (Win98 Fat32)
Primary Slave d: (Win98 Fat32)
Secondary Master (Linux)
So, three hard drives. I have a line in my /etc/fstab file that goes
something like...
/dev/hda1 /mnt/w98 vfat ....etc etc etc....
(sorrry I dont remember the exact syntax and I am in windows now)
That works so I made a new file in /mnt called w98d and in the fstab
file added a new line...
/dev/hda2 /mnt/w98d vfat .....same as the above line....
I rebooted the machine and the mounting of hda2 didn't work.
I am using Redhat 5.1. What do I need to do to get this to work.
thanks
Brad
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From: "Ron van Middendorp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Q: Can Linux read IRIX (5.3) filesystem?
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 14:33:49 +0200
Reply-To: "Ron van Middendorp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cool...
Fot the time being I'm gonna update my current kernel and check out efsmod.
Thanks!
Ron
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Gianni Mariani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > The IRIX CD's used to be written using the efs file system. I believe
there is
> > an experimental SGI efs file system available for Linux.
> > http://aeschi.ch.eu.org/efs/
>
> I see that this has appeared in the development 2.3.2 kernel
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Problems with cut-and-paste
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 16:57:35 GMT
I've got two problems regarding cut(copy)-and-paste.
1. I'm unable to copy from one tty and paste to another.
2. I'm unable to copy from lynx, running in an xterm.
I did not have these problems until I recently did a complete
reinstall, going from Debian 1.2 to Debian 2.1.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Damerell)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: AutoInstall is for experts, not beginners!!!
Date: 18 May 1999 13:46:32 +0100 (BST)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gilles Pelletier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phillip Deackes) �crivait/wrote:
>>I use Debian which I think is an excellent compromise between the raw
>>nuts'n bolts of, say, Slackware and something Commercial like COL.
>>Debian can be so much easier (apt for example) but requires a little
>>prior knowledge. Well worth the extra effort.
>It's this �little prior knowledge� bit that I don't like too much.
>Usually it turns out to be a fair amount of knowledge.
>Besides, I checked the installation instrucctions on Debian's site and
>it doesn't look a lot different. No down to earth, create this
>directory, edit this file, approach there.
Debian installations tend to talk back to you. "I have created the file
/etc/foobar", that kind of thing. There hasn't been the same effort to
hide the details as with the commercial distributions.
>They do seem to be lagging way behind the others distros though. They
>say they want to be sure their distribution is rock steady but I
>wonder how their "potato" would stand against Redhat's 6.0 or Suse's
>6.1 at the present time.
I'm not sure what you mean here; I hope you aren't just a victim of
version number dicksizing. Debian are well ahead in terms of the quantity
of software that forms the distribution; about a factor of 3 more than Red
Hat. They've also done much better in terms of the a.out-ELF and
libc5-glibc transitions; a glibc Debian can not only run libc5 binaries
(if the right packages are installed) but has a complete compilation
environment for libc5; conversely, a libc5 Debian 1.3 system could be
gradually upgraded to glibc. Even when there's no such 'flag day', Debian
handle partial upgrades much better; I can easily run a few packages from
potato on my slink system without worries. Debian, also, have a good
facility for applying security updates; point 'apt' at some repository of
packages, and it automatically identifies which are newer versions of
packages on the system, and installs them if you please - if you don't
like apt/ dselect, it's a one-liner from dpkg.
Perhaps you could clarify exactly why you think Debian lags behind?
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From: Jonas Pedersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: cant login as root Mysql user in MySQL
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 12:50:21 +0000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have just installed mysql rpms successfuly.
> and am facing problem, when trying to set the password
> for the root.
>
> On typing gives : /usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root password 'mypass'
> gives
> "/usr/bin/mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost; failed
> erro: 'Access denied for theb user: 'root@localhost'..."
>
> I have already run the /usr/bin/mysql_install_db .
>
> But i *can* log in as mysql -u mysql.
> What gives? Why cant i login and root?
> Have i missed anything.?
>
> --vod--
>
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Well, as default the root user in the mySQL database have no password.
So try log in like this:
/usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root
You can set the password for the root mySQL user by updating the mysql
database. I can't remember how to do it right now, but try looking in
the manual.
Jonas Pedersen
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From: "John E. Garrott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: The Vi Lovers Home Page
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 07:19:21 -0700
Scott Lanning wrote:
>
> D. J. Birchall ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
SNIP A BUNCH
>
> : * It runs on just about everything, even clunky old PC's with nothing
> : but floppy drives.
>
> Granted...but in that case I use pico.. I'm serious. I use it alot
> for quick editing. alias pi='pico -k -m -n30 -t -w -x -z' <vroom vroom>
> But for coding I always use emacs. I guess once I got used to it,
> vi would be okay, too. It *MUST* have some neat features if it's
> revered by some people.
>
> --
> Scott Lanning: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://physics.bu.edu/~slanning
Pico isn't bad. Joe isn't either. But all the emacs people I
personally know, while extolling the virtues of emacs, are using
vi for most jobs. The majority of their emacs work is precanned
stuff like database interfaces.
John
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From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: The Vi Lovers Home Page
Date: 18 May 1999 09:21:26 -0400
Aqeel Mahesri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> All of our CS course readers' reference sections on emacs begin: "In
> the interests of truth, beauty, and justice -- and to undo, in some
> small part, the damage Berkeley has done by foisting vi on an
> already-unhappy world -- Emacs will be the official CS(course
> number) text editor this semester."
> UC Berkeley has officially appologized for the creation of the
> not-much-better-than-Windows-Notepad editor vi. Why do people still
> keep using it?
never mind vi, is there any chance of an apology for creating csh?
--
johan kullstam
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From: Paul Payne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.debian.user,linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: What happened to fdformat
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 13:55:56 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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
> this is what I get:
> ----------------------------------
> histria ~ # fdformat
> bash: fdformat: command not found
> histria ~ # man fdformat
> No manual entry for fdformat
> -----------------------------------
> (as root). How can I format a floppy ?
> Thank you,
> Cristian Barbarosie
>
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Type, without quotes, "mke2fs /dev/fd0", if you want an ext2 format
floppy. Don't know how to get a ms-dos format. If your floppy is not the
first floppy you will sub the zero with the right number, ie 1 for the
second floppy. Paul
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From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 2 linux/unix newbie questions!
Date: 18 May 1999 09:26:00 -0400
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi all,
>
> I just install RH 6, which went pretty smoothly, except for a few small
> bugs. The first time I log in as root, there's a core-dump file (now,
> everytime I log in as root, there's a core-dump file). How do I find
> out what caused it?
run `gdb' on the core file.
> Just try out the new gcc (2.8.1???), but it couldn't find stdio.h. I
> found the file somewhere in /usr directory, but gcc couldn't. Any
> idea??
0) ignore gcc-2.8.1. it's a loser. go with egcs-1.1.2 instead.
1) install the glibc-devel package?
> Thanks.
hth
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From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: silly windows
Date: 18 May 1999 09:16:13 -0400
"Nevyn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> ok i'll try again.....an read the spelling this time
> does anyone have any idea why windows has exe's that are linux
> commands?...ping and ftp are two but im sure i found more...look in ur
> windows directory...they use the same commands syntex(?) everything....y?
microsoft borrowed many concepts from unix eg directories. you know,
cd is a unix command. ping and ftp are useful and have been
appropriated (by rewriting) too. btw ping and ftp are not part of
linux per se. linux is just the kernel. ping and ftp exist on just
about every operating system which supports network connectivity.
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johan kullstam
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From: **Nick Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: advice partion etc
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 16:10:25 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Put one Linux partition (from which you will boot) in the first 8.4 GB.
You can then use other partitions beyond the 8.4 GB boundary, of course.
> Also can I use wine to run most M$ office stuff if needed?
Not in the real world. wine is cool, but clunky even for true Win32
apps. I don't think they've got Word 6 working on it yet (last time I
looked). Problem is M$ apps are the world's worst respecters of the
documented API.
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From: Keith York <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: how do I interrupt boot sequence?
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 14:34:57 +0100
I am using Debian linux and it is hanging during startup when it tries
to load a corrupt program.
How do I interrupt the startup to get a root prompt so I can remove the
offending line. (I tried ctl c etc but that doesn't stop it.)
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From: Richard Dynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: LILO docs available in PDF, Re: LS-120
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 13:00:35 +0000
Cameron Spitzer wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Rex Basham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Disk /dev/hda: 8 heads, 32 sectors, 963 cylinders
> >Units = cylinders of 256 * 512 bytes
> > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> >/dev/hda1 1 963 123248 83 Linux native
> >
> >Here is the /etc/lilo.conf from the LS120:
> >boot=/dev/hda1
> >timeout=100
> >prompt
> >image=/vmlinuz-2.2.8
> > label=linux
> > root=/dev/hda1
> > initrd=/initrd.img
>
> This file is missing an install= command to tell it what boot sector
> to use, and a map= command to tell it to write the mapfile on the
> LS-120's file system.
>
> Cameron
man lilo.conf:
install=boot-sector
Install the specified file as the new boot sector.
If `install' is omitted, /boot/boot.b is used as
the default.
I suppose "install=/ls120/boot/boot.b" would be useful if /boot/boot.b
doesn't exist. BTW, lilo will let you specify many of these options
as command line, although I don't know which set takes precidence.
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