Linux-Misc Digest #462, Volume #20 Wed, 2 Jun 99 13:13:09 EDT
Contents:
boot new kernel on SuSe 6.1 (Paul Rowland)
Mandrake Kde rpm's on RH (hazzmat)
Re: SuSE vs Red Hat? (David Fox)
Re: Informix IDS and Kernel 2.2.x (Damijan Sencar)
Re: pc speaker (Lee Sau Dan ~{@nJX6X~})
Re: MAIN BOARD CMI 8330 SOUND CHIP and Kernel 2.2.8 (Lee Sau Dan ~{@nJX6X~})
Re: SuSE vs Red Hat? ("Rec0il")
Debian Linux Automatically logs in as root (Brian Rectanus)
glibc-crypt-2.1.1 ? (Robert Burrows)
Re: enlightenment (Dan Nguyen)
Re: Dumped Redhat like a stale girlfriend...SuSE is for me (J.H.M. Dassen (Ray))
Re: Access ZIP drive attached to Linux PC from windows? ("Mac Q. Flores")
AfterStep or KDE or ...? Which one? (Yibing Fan)
Re: 16-bit C compiler (bcc) for x86 (Uwe Bonnes)
Re: syntax of cron commands (Donovan Rebbechi)
A Mind Reading Device (BPM Mixmaster Remailer)
Re: /dev/sda4 not a valid block device? (Phillip George Geiger)
Re: Enlightenment access problem! (Dan Nguyen)
Choices, choices... (Max da Newbie)
Re: Disk Druid not improving, and why... (benjamin j snyder)
Re: PPP problem?! (Vladimir Florinski)
Re: File exchange between Windows 95 and Linux in a computer. ("M.W. van der Molen")
Re: All of a sudden system will not boot (Joel Kreager)
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From: Paul Rowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: boot new kernel on SuSe 6.1
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 07:08:41 -0400
Compiled new kernel in SuSe 6.1 size is approx. 435k. On reboot it gives
the message:
Loading Linux...Uncompressing Linux...Ok booting the kernel and hangs.
I've tried make zImage, lilo, bzImage, bzlilo and still it hangs. It
boots fine from the boot disk initially made at the SuSe 6.1 install.
Any suggestions?
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From: hazzmat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mandrake Kde rpm's on RH
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 11:23:09 -0400
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Hello,
I am trying to install KDE rpms from Mandrake 6.0 ontop of
RH6.0 (hedwig). A post to /. from bero@mandrake stated this was
possible. And it seems to be possible >EXCEPT< that the rpms are
installing all over the /usr tree. (!!!!!) startkde appears in /usr/bin,
for example. I want them right where I can keep an eye on them in
/opt/kde (where they should go anyway) CAn someone with Mandrake 6.0
confirm that the mandrake rpms are actually packaged so as to install
kde in /usr? Or did I somehow mess it up; and if I did, how can I
convince the rpmdb that the /usr-> path for these packages should be
redirected to /opt/kde?
Thanx
--
Mothra is coming! (put away that golden Rhodan)
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Hello,
<br>
I am trying to install KDE rpms from Mandrake 6.0 ontop of RH6.0 (hedwig).
A post to /. from bero@mandrake stated this was possible. And it seems
to be possible >EXCEPT< that the rpms are installing all over the /usr
tree. (!!!!!) startkde appears in /usr/bin, for example. I want them
right where I can keep an eye on them in /opt/kde (where they should go
anyway) CAn someone with Mandrake 6.0 confirm that the mandrake rpms are
actually packaged so as to install kde in /usr? Or did I somehow mess it
up; and if I did, how can I convince the rpmdb that the /usr-> path for
these packages should be redirected to /opt/kde?
<br>Thanx
<pre>--
Mothra is coming! (put away that golden Rhodan)</pre>
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From: d s f o x @ c o g s c i . u c s d . e d u (David Fox)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: SuSE vs Red Hat?
Date: 01 Jun 1999 23:05:42 -0700
p <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello,
>
> I must agree with the this point of view. I have tryed Redhat 5.2 and
> results were OK. Recently installing Suse Linux 6.1 on my laptop has
> made me a believer. I actually installed it on my laptop after 2
> attempts.
>
> Redhat has sold out. Suse is were its at.
I'd be more interested if Suse didn't have a proprietary package
manager. Proprietary software seems a bit risky to me. Or has that
changed? Or was I misinformed?
--
David Fox http://hci.ucsd.edu/dsf xoF divaD
UCSD HCI Lab baL ICH DSCU
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From: Damijan Sencar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Informix IDS and Kernel 2.2.x
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 07:48:50 +0200
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Scott wrote:
>
[snip]
> Also note: the current version of Informix OnLine and SE will gag on shadow
> passwords on Linux in certain circumstances (e.g. CONNECT ... USER 'username')
> where username != current username/uid will choke if the server
> is on a machine with shadowed passwords -- it's a known bug.
>
New IDS 7.30 UC7.2 has now support for shadow password.
By the way where exactly can I get kernel parameters for running IDS correctly? I
have RH6.0 with 2.2.5 kernel and it works well.
But when I try to upgrade kernel I lost of course all RedHat kernel patches. 8-(
I looked at RedHat.com but didn't find anything. In IDS 7.30 doc I foud that
patches are located at ftp.redhat.com:/pub/support/large-fd but redhat ftp server
refuses connection....
Damijan
>
> --
> Alan Denney yosemite at accesscom.com
>
> The lyric for the Mozart piece ("Confutatis Maledictis", from his Requiem)
> used in the TV ad for Microsoft's Internet Explorer translates to:
> "The damned and the accursed are convicted to flames of hell."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lee Sau Dan ~{@nJX6X~})
Subject: Re: pc speaker
Date: 02 Jun 1999 23:36:08 +0800
>>>>> "Dustin" == Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Try this shell command
>>
>> echo '^[[10;500]^[[11;1000]'
>>
Dustin> Nice trick. However, this will not solve the beep with
Dustin> emacs.
Why not? Issue that command before starting emacs. Then, all the
beeps will be a tone with frequency 500MHz and duration 1000ms.
(Emacs beeps by send a ^G to the console.)
If you're under X, use 'xset b ...'. This should change the beep
sound because Emacs uses the XBeep() calls to beep under X.
Dustin> I would like a global fix. I know this is
Dustin> possible. Unfortunately, the answer isn't very
Dustin> forthcoming. :)
Maybe, I don't understand what you wanted.
--
Lee Sau Dan $(0,X)wAV(B(Big5) ~{@nJX6X~}(HZ)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lee Sau Dan ~{@nJX6X~})
Subject: Re: MAIN BOARD CMI 8330 SOUND CHIP and Kernel 2.2.8
Date: 02 Jun 1999 23:32:17 +0800
>>>>> "Adriano" == Adriano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Adriano> I wanna know how can I configure my CMI 8330 Sound Chip (
Adriano> on board ) under kernel 2.2.8 ? Thanks
Read the file Documentation/sound/CMI8330 under the source code tree.
--
Lee Sau Dan $(0,X)wAV(B(Big5) ~{@nJX6X~}(HZ)
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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: 2 Jun 1999 15:44:54 GMT
I am refering to the full distro. $80 vs$34. Sure if you have the bandwidth
and the drive space go for the download. But I don't have a CDR.
Considering there are 5 CD's in the full SuSE 6.1 distro....
--
*Fear the government that fears your guns
*The Second ammendment is not about hunting, it is about Liberty
Mohd H Misnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> On 1 Jun 1999 21:00:12 GMT, Rec0il wrote:
> >Redhat is too expensive! Get SuSE.
> >
>
> Uggh.. USD1.99 or a free download off the net is 'too expensive'?
>
> --
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From: Brian Rectanus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Debian Linux Automatically logs in as root
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 11:55:07 -0400
I just installed the potato version of Debian and it seems that
something is causing root to be automatically logged in on the first
virtual console.
Here is what happens:
On boot, no login prompt comes up in the first virtual console, instead,
just a password prompt. After 60 seconds, the login timesout and I get
another password prompt. This happens continuously.
I assume that something in the install did this and didn't turn it off.
How do I turn it off?
-Brian Rectanus
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Burrows)
Subject: glibc-crypt-2.1.1 ?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 15:53:40 GMT
I am thinking of upgrading my glibc from 2.0.7 to 2.1.1. For this I
understand I need glibc-crypt-2.1.1.tar.gz but I cannot find it. Do I
really need it, and if so where can I get it?
TIA,
--
Robert Burrows
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Dan Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: enlightenment
Date: 2 Jun 1999 15:24:25 GMT
benjamin j snyder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I just downloaded an image of RH6.0 and burnt it to a CD. The default manager
: is Enlightenment (which is GREAT since I couldnt get it to install in 5.2 due
: to my own stupidity). What my question is, is how do you get the windows to be
: translucent? I can get them to be translucent when I am moving them, but dont
: know how to make the backgrounds translucent. Any info and/or links would be
: greatly appreciated.
Check out a program called e-conf.
--
Dan Nguyen | It is with true love as it is with ghosts;
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | everyone talks of it, but few have seen it.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | -La Rochefocauld, Maxims
25 2F 99 19 6C C9 19 D6 1B 9F F1 E0 E9 10 4C 16
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J.H.M. Dassen (Ray))
Subject: Re: Dumped Redhat like a stale girlfriend...SuSE is for me
Date: 2 Jun 1999 15:25:13 GMT
Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I appreciate the publicity Redhat has given Linux, but I refuse to pay $70
>for slick marketing and commercialism.
You can check out places like www.cheapbytes.com and www.lsl.com for cheap
distribution CDs.
In any case, SuSE is IMO much more commercial than Red Hat. Red Hat's core
system is free software; cheap CDs of it are available, and Red Hat
contributes quite directly to free software development. Last time I
checked, YaST (SuSE's setup utility) wasn't free software, which prevents
folks like CheapBytes from offing affordable CDs.
Ray (a happy Debian user and developer)
--
UNFAIR Term applied to advantages enjoyed by other people which we tried
to cheat them out of and didn't manage. See also DISHONESTY, SNEAKY,
UNDERHAND and JUST LUCKY I GUESS.
- The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
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From: "Mac Q. Flores" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Access ZIP drive attached to Linux PC from windows?
Date: 2 Jun 1999 15:29:07 GMT
if you are already able to access your ZIP drive from your linux PC, the
next step is to make sure that you can access your linux PC from your
windows boxes. to do this you need to run and configure SAMBA in your
linux PC. read
http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/SMB-HOWTO.html
also, smb must be configured in your kernel. on the windows side, they
must be running client for MS networks.
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Erik Cuynen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
<7j2hiu$p36$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Hi,
>
> at our office, we recently have installed a linux PC, being part of a
large
> ethernet network.
> The other 4 PCs are running win98 and are connected to the network as
well.
> what must be done in order to allow all 4 PCs to read and write files
from a
> ZIP
> drive attached to the linux PC???
>
> Please provide sufficient information, I am a Linux newbie ; - )
>
> Thank you in advance!
> erik [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> system: SuSE 6.1
> Pentium II
> ZIP 100 MB
>
>
>
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From: Yibing Fan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: AfterStep or KDE or ...? Which one?
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 12:04:18 -0400
Hi Everyone,
I just started to use linux a month ago. Slowly, I am getting
everything running my way. I just switched to AfterStep and then I
heard about KDE. I read about it, and now I am confused about so many
choices of desktop environment. Which one do you recommend?
I need a good file manager, I tried mc, xfm came with RedHat5.2 and
later dfm. mc still need a lot improvement to be in the same league as
its windows counterpart. I can't stand xfm. dfm is OK but still fall
short. KDE's file manager must be great, as I read. But is that the KDE
a resource monster?
Many thanks in advance.
--
Yibing Fan, Software Engineer
TSB International Inc. 5399 Eglinton Ave. West, Suite 115
Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada M9C 5K6
Tel:(416)622-7010 x501 Fax:(416)622-3540
email:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Uwe Bonnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 16-bit C compiler (bcc) for x86
Date: 2 Jun 1999 15:44:33 GMT
Shimpei Yamashita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
:>Samuel AU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
:>
:>> Would you mind telling me where to find 16-bit C compiler (bcc) for
:>> x86?
:>
:>you don't.
:>
:>why use a 16 bit compiler? linux is all 32 bit and has a decent 32
:>bit compiler in egcs/gcc. i am fairly sure you cannot even execute
:>the 16 bit code even if you manage to generate it.
: No, you can't. But where does he say the compiled code is going to run
: under Linux?
You _can_ execute 16 bit Code in VM86 mode. That's what dosemu does. And you
can set up the segments registers in a special way and do it like Wine
does. And you van take the emulator from Dosemu/Willow to run the code
emulated. There is another 16 bit emulator too.
Lot's of possibilities.
Bye
--
Uwe Bonnes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Institut fuer Kernphysik Schlossgartenstrasse 9 64289 Darmstadt
========= Tel. 06151 162516 ======== Fax. 06151 164321 ==========
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donovan Rebbechi)
Subject: Re: syntax of cron commands
Date: 2 Jun 1999 11:20:29 -0400
On 2 Jun 1999 01:39:58 GMT, L J Bayuk wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Maybe? The $(...) syntax requires ksh or posix_sh; bash won't do it.
nope. bash can do it
>Cron always uses /bin/sh which is probably bash on your system.
>Try `...` instead.
/bin/sh emulates the posix shell, so on linux , $( ) should stil work.
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Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 08:00:20 -0700 (PDT)
From: BPM Mixmaster Remailer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: A Mind Reading Device
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.m
In our discussions about privacy and how to be
anonymous there seem to be certain things taken
for granted. We assume that things we do in our
own home are private at least until we get out on
the internet. At that point there are differences
of opinion about the effectiveness of remailers
and which type is best. PGP is debated and how
long a key you need to be safe. One assumption
that never is stated much less questioned is the
fact that what we think about is 100% secret unless we communicate our
thoughts in some way. We know about "lie detecters", which don't really
detect lies btw, and we know about interrogation
techniques. Everyone assumes his or her personal
thoughts are his/her own. This is where we draw
the line and say "no one can follow me here" I'm
going to tell you that's no longer true.
The government will be happy for us to continue
worrying about traditional secrecy in the future.
There exists now a way to read minds. Just as our
voice conversations can be intercepted, our phone
lines tapped and our email sniffed. I'm not
talking about ouiji boards or any sort of crude
method like truth serum. This requires no psychic
ability and no cooperation from the victim. It
requires no conection to the one being read and
he/she may be totally unaware of what's going on.
This is a hardware device I'm talking about that
can not only tell you what the subject is thinking it can give you a
printout if you hook a
printer to it.
If you think this is off topic then stick your
head back in the sand and read no further. I'm
going to reveal details of this system that will
allow anyone with the technical knowledge to build his own. If you don't
have the knowledge but do
have the wherewithal you can hire someone to build it for you. This doesn't
require any component or
technology that doesn't already exist. In fact the parts and equipment
needed aren't even considered
"cutting edge", they have been around for years.
I am the originator of this method, I'm the
inventor. I've never seen this talked about
anywhere so I'm assuming I'm the first. That may
be naive and there may be researchers in giant
labs somewhere testing this right now. If so, it's been kept hush hush. I
will reveal the details of
this method tomorrow. If anyone is planning to say they already knew about
it or "we looked into that back in '86" then I challange you to publish the
details now. I won't publish until tomorrow so you have about 24 hours to
beat me to the punch. Go
ahead, steal my thunder and tell me how it's done. You don't have to give
all the details just a
general description will do. You can't because no
one knows but me and I invented it.
By now a number of you are wondering if I've lost
it and "gone 'round the bend" Some think I'm
bluffing and a few are wondering if it could be
true. I've certainly gone out on a limb and if I
can't back up what I'm saying then I will lose all credibility. The only
thing that would stop me
from giving the details tomorrow would be if I got a very $ubstantial offer
to keep quiet or to
develop the device. I consider that unlikely. It
will take a good science background to fully
understand how it works but I can explain the
principals to anyone. I don't expect everyone to
agree how well it will work but anyone with a
strong physics or biology background will admit it *should* work, if they
are honest.
You may be wondering if this is true why would I
reveal this? Do I have a patent? No, all I ask is
that the one who eventually cleans up on this give me some credit and one
percent of the gross they
realise from it. I'm a little guy without the
resources to set up a laboratory and then hire a
law firm to obtain and defend the patent. I'd end
up broke, broken and disillusioned. I've come up
with ideas before and couldn't do anything about
them and later saw big companies doing the exact
thing. At least this time I will be undisputedly
the one who talked about it first.
You will have to tune in tomorrow for the details. I suggest you print out
the article with the date
showing. It will be a historic event.
green man
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Details to this marvelous discovery will be posted in alt.privacy!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phillip George Geiger)
Subject: Re: /dev/sda4 not a valid block device?
Date: 2 Jun 1999 15:26:01 GMT
Glitch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: did u compile in scsi emulation support along with going under 'other
: scsi low level drivers' and selecting 'parallel port zip drive' or
: whatever it is called in there and compiling that into the kernel too?
It's the precompiled smp kernel Red Hat provides.
I have a SCSI CD-ROM and hard drive though (no IDE devices) so I believe
the necessary SCSI support is in the kernel.
I do have a disk in the drive; I believe it is preformatted but I have no
way of knowing. mkfs doesn't work with /dev/sda4 either.
Thanks,
: Phillip George Geiger wrote:
:
: > I'm trying to mount a parallel port zip drive.
: >
: > insmod parport
: > insmod ppa
: >
: > appear to work correctly, the drive even grunts once or twice.
: >
: > mount -t vfat /dev/sda4 /zipdrive
: >
: > produces the error in the subject line. Any suggestions?
: >
: > This is on a Red Hat 6.0 system running the provided 2.2.5-15smp
: > kernel. Thanks.
: >
: > --
: > Phil Geiger
: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
:
:
:
--
Phil Geiger
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Dan Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Enlightenment access problem!
Date: 2 Jun 1999 15:25:18 GMT
Jesus F. Christ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: whenever i try to use enlightenment (in suse 6.0) i keep getting
: "fatal error cannot initiliase Imlib?
: what is this and how can i correct the problem?
: I`m also getting can`t open xv in tkdesk??
: Help with either of these problems much appreciated!!
apperantly you don't have Imlib (short for image library) installed.
Imlib does all the grunt work for enlightenment.
--
Dan Nguyen | It is with true love as it is with ghosts;
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | everyone talks of it, but few have seen it.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | -La Rochefocauld, Maxims
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From: Max da Newbie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Choices, choices...
Date: 2 Jun 1999 14:31:13 GMT
So what's it going to be????
A newbie, just starting out in the world of Linux, wants to experiment and
network at home...
All these choices though...
Redhat, Caldera, Debian, Slackware...
So which should it be? Thoughts, considerations, experiences, loves and
hates all appreciated on this topic...
Max da Newbie
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (benjamin j snyder)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Disk Druid not improving, and why...
Date: 2 Jun 1999 15:40:16 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>btw what is it that is broken with disk druid anyway? i found it kind
>of awkward and confusing, but i think that is almost completely due to
>me running it a grand total of twice with over a year between.
I only foundit awkward the first time I used it. After that it seems to make
perfect sense to me. Although I went through it five or six time before I
got my system the way I wanted it (due to my newbie-ness at the time), and then
I had to redo it on another system as well.
I cant think of anything that I would need that disk druid doesnt offer. I can
always use partition magic as well (yes, I have windows on a second hdd - but
for games only).
I would like to be enlightened on how fdisk is more versatile, if any of you
who could inform me are still reading this thread.
--
Ben Snyder
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From: Vladimir Florinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PPP problem?!
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 22:55:49 -0700
Frank Yan wrote:
>
> I set up my ppp stuff under RH5.2, everything seems fine at first.
> Everything is ok, like ping, telnet, netscape,..., but after a while I found
> something really unusual that the net speed is extremely slower than
> that under windows system. I can hardly surf the net by using netscape
> under RH, and when I download something from the net, the speed
> is extremely slower than under windows.
> I'm wondering if I did something wrong with the configuration or
> something not configured well with the modem, I've got a u.s. robotics
> external modem 56k, but the speed looks like only 56 :(
>
> Thanks for any help
>
> Frank
Post your /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0 and the output of ati4, ati5
and maybe ati6 (immediately after you disconnect). It would be nice to have a
session log (created, e.g., with 'chat -v') but don't forget to erase the
username and password!
--
Vladimir
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From: "M.W. van der Molen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: File exchange between Windows 95 and Linux in a computer.
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 09:02:05 +0200
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Cai wrote:
>
> I just installed Redhat Linux 5.2 in my pc. Now there are two OS in it.
> I am using LILO to get into either system at a time. I am wondering how
> I can access the files in windows system when I am in Linux? Thanks a
> lot for your message.
> Cai
Cai, it is quite easy.. if everything is OK that is.
Let's assume you have install Windows on your hard drive's first
partition.
It is called /dev/hda1 under Linux.
And let's say the second and third partitions are Linux swap and Linux
root
partitions respectively (/dev/hda2 and /dev/hda3).
If Linux is on a second drive this will be /dev/hdb, SCSI drives will
have
sd instead of hd.
You can check your partitions by running fdisk and typing 'p'.
Typing 'mount' will show you the currently mounted ('active')
partitions.
In this case described above the file /etc/fstab on your computer
will/should
look something like this:
# file /etc/fstab
# device mountpoint fs options
#
/dev/hda3 / ext2
defaults 1 1
/dev/hda2 swap swap
defaults 0 0
none /proc proc
defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy msdos
noauto 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660
noauto,ro 0 0
(the line with proc may or may not be present, and the last numbers may
be
somewhat different)
All you need to do is add:
/dev/hda1 /mnt/win vfat
defaults 0 0
to this file and create the mountpoint: 'mkdir /mnt/win'
if then type 'mount /mnt/win' you should see your Win95 files with their
long names appearing under /mnt/win (hint: 'ls /mnt/win')
The next time you reboot this mounting should be done automatically.
If you get an error message:
'mount: fs type vfat not supported by kernel'
try: 'modprobe vfat' to load the vfat module (=part of the kernel that
handles
access to vfat (=Win95) filesystems.
If this returns: 'can't locate module vfat' then you should recompile
the
kernel with vfat support (preferably as a module), and that is where the
easy part ends. Please see the kernel docs or other postings in this
newsgroup
on how to compile a kernel.
Good luck,
Matthijs
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joel Kreager)
Subject: Re: All of a sudden system will not boot
Date: 1 Jun 99 19:14:45 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Chunky wrote:
>All of a sudden my 2.2.7 linux system will only boot up to the point :-
>
>VFS: Mounted Root (ext2 filesystem) read only
>Free unused kernel memory 48K freed
>
>I can mount the root FS from a rescue disk but beyond this point I have no
>idea what to do to repair the system.
First boot your emergency floppy, then try:
e2fsck -f /dev/hdXX # whatever your root partition is called
If this replies that the file system is fine then see if you have
dumpe2fs /dev/hdXX | more
this should give you block offsets to other copies of the superblock.
You may well not have dumpe2fs on the rescue disk. Most of the time I
believe the spacing between these backup copies is 8192.
Then try:
e2fsck -f -b 8193 /dev/hdXX
This might be dangerous if the file system superblocks are not 8192
blocks appart, but I did have to run it once when my system completely
crashed. e2fsck may have to be run as fsck -t ext2 on some rescue
disks -- I don't know.
--
==================
Joel Kreager
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