Linux-Misc Digest #451, Volume #20 Tue, 1 Jun 99 19:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Moving files from Win95 to Linux (Jay Bigelow)
Mounting SunOS CDROM? ("D. Vrabel")
Mount CD-ROM over network and report as CD-ROM (Onno Ebbinge)
Re: Decent Partition Sizes?? (Robert Heller)
Re: Offline news (newbie alert) (William Wueppelmann)
Re: Can I use RPM in Slackware? ("Anthony J. Gabrielson")
Re: SuSE vs Red Hat? ("Rec0il")
Re: XWindows Server ("Anthony J. Gabrielson")
Re: Can't compile kernal, Need help ("Eric E. Fronheiser")
where o where might i find xagent??? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Moving files from Win95 to Linux (Roger Atkinson)
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From: Jay Bigelow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Moving files from Win95 to Linux
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 12:19:27 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'd like to download Star Office 5.1 at work (T-1 connection) rather
than downloading it over my dial-up connection at home and transport it
on a Zip disk. The machine I'd use at work is a Win95 box and I'd be
loading it at home on SuSE Linux 6.0. What's the best way to do this?
Sorry if this has been answered already.
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From: "D. Vrabel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mounting SunOS CDROM?
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 22:03:33 +0100
Hi,
Is it possible to mount a SunOS CDROM in linux?
David Vrabel
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From: Onno Ebbinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Mount CD-ROM over network and report as CD-ROM
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 23:00:07 +0200
I want to mount a CD-ROM (or ISO file, or directory) that
resides on my RH Linux 6.0 server over my network and my
WIN NT 4 machine must report it as a CD-ROM.
I've posted this question on some NT newsgroups but there
were mostly brain dead people...
I think I need a NT 4 device driver who can pull this off
but I can't find one. If it's really necessary I can write
the driver (I have the NT 4 DDK stuff) but I prefer a download...
Onno.
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From: Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Decent Partition Sizes??
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 21:06:13 GMT
azfar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
In a message on Mon, 31 May 1999 23:18:37 -0800, wrote :
a> Hi,
a>
a> I am going to setup a new box for almost all inet services.
a> Will be using Redhat 5.2 kernel 2.2.9. I will be using a
a> PII-300MHz based 64MB RAM and 4.3GB SCSI HDD.
a>
a> I will be giving some 3.8GB to Linux and rest to Win32.
a>
a> I need to know what are the decent partition sizes for /var,
a> /home, /usr, etc. I am willing to make these all separate
a> partitions.
a>
a> Would someone suggest ones?
W32 (FAT16) 500meg /Win32 /dev/sda1
64meg / /dev/sda2
64-128meg swap /dev/sda3
3.672-3.608gig *extended* /dev/sda4
64 /var /dev/sda5\
1.5gig /usr /dev/sda6 | (In /dev/sda4)
whatever is left for /home /dev/sda7/
*If* you want to run your own news server, you'll want to get a
*separate* disk for /var/spool/news.
a>
a> --
a> Azfar Kazmi
a> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
a>
a>
a>
a> **** Posted from RemarQ - http://www.remarq.com - Discussions Start Here (tm) ****
a>
--
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Robert Heller ||InterNet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/~heller || [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Wueppelmann)
Subject: Re: Offline news (newbie alert)
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 20:59:05 GMT
In our last episode (Sun, 30 May 1999 22:46:25 +0100),
the artist formerly known as Richard Brisbourne said:
>
>The bad news:
>Although I can wander around the directory structure reading the
>articles one at a time, using any handy text editor, I can't get a
>newsreader to work. (I've tried slrn and trn).
With slrn, slrnpull is the easiest solution. You use the slrnpull command
to post outgoing and suck incoming articles, and you can use slrn to read
the news offline. It's very simple to set up and configure, and is a good
solution if there are only a handful of users (or just you) reading a
handful of groups on your machine. The disadvantage is that many (if not
most or all -- I've never tried) news clients other than slrn will not work
with this setup. But slrn is an excellent news client anyway.
--
It is pitch black.
You are likely to be spammed by a grue.
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From: "Anthony J. Gabrielson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can I use RPM in Slackware?
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 16:46:36 -0400
Hello,
You can also use rpm2targz to make a tar ball.
Anthony
On Mon, 31 May 1999, Mircea wrote:
> The current directory (./) isn't in your default path. You must specify
> it when you use programs from the directory you're in, e.g. use
> ./filename instead of filename. Or type the complete path.
>
> MST
>
>
> Beed wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > I downloaded RPM Software and installed it. everything went
> > fine. but, When I tried to installed a software with RPM extension, I
> > always got a message saying that there file can't be found? anyone has
> > any ideas as to why this is happening? Thank you in advance.
> >
> > Jack
>
>
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From: "Rec0il" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: SuSE vs Red Hat?
Date: 1 Jun 1999 21:00:12 GMT
Redhat is too expensive! Get SuSE.
Syed Mujtaba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Hello folks,
> i am currently in the market to buy Linux, and cannot decide whether
> to get SuSE 6.1 or Red Hat Linux 6? any input on the matter would be
> most appreciated.
> thanks
>
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From: "Anthony J. Gabrielson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.redhat,linux.redhat.misc,msn.computingcentral.os.linux
Subject: Re: XWindows Server
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 16:45:07 -0400
try this line : xterm -bg black -fg cyan -display your ip:0 &
Anthony
On Mon, 31 May 1999, David Watson wrote:
> Jeff Grossman wrote:
>
> > I almost got it running. I got the log-in screen, but I enter my log-in but
> > nothing happens. It displays the login screen again after a few seconds.
> >
> > Jeff
> >
> > --
> > Jeff Grossman ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> >
> > Charles Mulks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:7iqdi3$ojg$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> > > >
> > > >Hello,
> > > >
> > > >I want to run Xwindows from a telnet session under Windows98. What is a
> > > >good Xwindows Server? And how do I make it work? I am running Redhat
> > 6.0.
> > > >
> > > >Thanks,
> > > >Jeff
> > > >
> > > >--
> > > >Jeff Grossman ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > take a look at http://www.msu.edu/~mulksc/LinuxHints
> > >
>
> There is problem with gdm in the RedHat 6.0 release which stops xdcmp working
> properly.
>
> I changed to xdm and no problem.
>
> As root :
>
> cd /etc/X11
> rm prefdm
> ln -s ../../usr/X11R6/bin/xdm prefdm
> /sbin/telinit 3 ; /sbin/telinit 5
>
> cheers
> Dave
>
>
>
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From: "Eric E. Fronheiser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Can't compile kernal, Need help
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 17:22:50 -0400
type 'which make'. if you have it installed this will tell you where it is
on your system. If it is there you can type 'echo $PATH' to see if it is in
your path.
If you do not have it the file is make-3.whatever.i386.rpm. To install it
'rpm -ivh make3-3.whatever.i386.rpm'
good luck
Spotillius Maximus aka "Spot" <*****@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
<7j1eto$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>>1. Are you sure you have "make" on your system?
>
>I did a file search and didn't find it. If it's there I don't know where.
>If it's not, how do I get it on there?
>
>>2. Is make's directory in root's path?
>>
>
>Not sure, don't think so..
>
>Thanks
>
>
>>
>>
>>Spotillius Maximus aka \"Spot\" wrote:
>>>
>>> I've read the books and how to's and come up with the same error message
>>> when I issue the 'make config' command. It say's that the make command
>>> can't be found. I tried this on two systems with RedHat 5.2 and the
same
>>> thing happens. 'make zImage, zdisk don't work either. I'm logged in as
>>> "root". What am i doing wrong? Thanks
>>>
>>> Ed
>>
>>--
>>Here I. Am
>>
>>"They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety
>>deserve neither liberty nor safety."
>>-- Benjamin Franklin
>>
>>"Humans seem to be the only animals that need to be trained in natural
>>behavior."
>>--Masaaki Hatsumi
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: where o where might i find xagent???
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 21:47:02 GMT
hi
i cant seem to find this proggie
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From: Roger Atkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Moving files from Win95 to Linux
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 12:51:07 -0700
This is exactly how I did it. Once you download and copy the file to
your Zip you can then mount the Zip as VFAT on your Linux box and then
cp it to your hardisk at home for install. Worked great and saved a lot
of time.
HTH, Roger Atkinson Unix Sys Admin
Jay Bigelow wrote:
>
> I'd like to download Star Office 5.1 at work (T-1 connection) rather
> than downloading it over my dial-up connection at home and transport it
> on a Zip disk. The machine I'd use at work is a Win95 box and I'd be
> loading it at home on SuSE Linux 6.0. What's the best way to do this?
> Sorry if this has been answered already.
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