Linux-Misc Digest #553, Volume #20 Wed, 9 Jun 99 10:13:12 EDT
Contents:
Re: Linux on a 486? (Jim Henderson)
Oracle8i for Linux!!! ("tester")
Re: RealPlayer G2 (.ra, .ram) files?? (Pat Heuvel)
Re: WDC 8.4 ATA/66 with linux (Ray)
Bug in Linuxfilesystem !!! (Daniel Migowski)
Re: the last two characters of a dos text file are? (David Vrabel)
Telnet like root ("Angel")
Can System Commander revive a Linux partition? (Was: Re: LILO and BeOS) ("Aureliano
Buendia")
Re: time nightmare (John Forkosh)
Re: HOWTO erase CD-RW ???? (Jim Henderson)
Re: Making an ICQ server (Shice Beoney)
Re: Telnet like root (Jon Skeet)
Re: Linux on a 486? (Geoff Short)
Re: How do I turn off screen saver? (Dave Seyster)
Re: Cd-rom Install Problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: RealPlayer G2 (.ra, .ram) files?? (Mike Persell)
Re: Squid vs IP Masquerading (Frank)
Re: Oracle8i for Linux!!! ("Scot M. Greber")
Re: Solder pads for jumpers functional on USR modem? ("Tim Williams")
Re: Run time measurement with micro (or at least milli)-second (LEBLANC ERIC)
Re: How to get System Commander to boot Linux? (Leonard Evens)
Re: US Robotics 56K FAX INT PNP modem problem (M. Buchenrieder)
Network Configurator - What files does it touch? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Environmental Variables in a C Shell Script (Mark Tranchant)
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From: Jim Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux on a 486?
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 09:58:17 -0600
I plan to put a copy of Linux on a 386DX33 system I purchased when that
was current technology - it'll be used to operate amateur packet radio
stuff, should handle that load quite well.
I wouldn't think of running X, though, without sufficient memory. It'd
be slow with that type of processor, but probably managable if there
were enough memory in the machine.
Jim
Sparky wrote:
>
> I have an old 486SX25 PC just doing nothing, it is pretty poor spec with
> just a 120mbHD and er, that's about it.
>
> Would it be possible to run Linux on this, scrap the MS-DOS what was
> left on it and use it as a Linux machine?
>
> An if this is possible, would it be useable to run X-Windows on it such
> as GNOME or would this just be too slow?
>
> Thanks,
> Mark.
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
--
Jim Henderson
Novell Support Connection SysOp - http://support.novell.com/forums
Homepage at http://www.bigfoot.com/~jhenderson (email instructions
located here)
Please note that as an NSC SysOp, I do not provide support for Novell
products on a personal basis - if you need help with a Novell product,
please post a reply in the public newsgroup or visit the Novell support
forums at the URL above.
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From: "tester" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Oracle8i for Linux!!!
Crossposted-To:
comp.databases.oracle.misc,comp.databases.oracle.server,comp.databases,alt.linux,alt.os.linux
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 10:31:18 GMT
I heard a couple people already got their CDs... Anyone else have their CD
for Linux yet?!
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From: Pat Heuvel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RealPlayer G2 (.ra, .ram) files??
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 20:39:51 +1000
Gday Mike,
Mike Persell wrote:
>
> Dave Bailey wrote:
> > OK, I had forgotten the %s. Now it gets the title, author,
> > copyright, and says it's buffering the stream - but it never
> > actually starts playing the stream. Interestingly, it also
> > doesn't play the test file right. It seems to just keep
> > repeating a tiny smidgen of it over and over again.
>
> When you get the answer make sure you post it...I have the same
> problem on the G2 version.
>
> Mike
>From the www.real.com support page:
Why do I receive Errno error messages with my RealPlayer 5.0 for Linux?
Customers with the RealPlayer 5.0 for Linux on a system with the newer
Linux 2.1 or 2.2 kernels will experience a "General Error. An error
occurred: Error 1; audio write: Errno" error message. The current
Linux 2.1, and 2.2 kernels contain a modification to the audio device
that crashes the 5.0 Linux player.
Various customers have written in to inform us of a solution to this
problem created by a 5.0 Linux Player user. This customer has sent us
the URL where his solution/patch is located:
http://www.i2k.com/~jeffd/rpopen/
IMPORTANT NOTE: All customers experiencing this problem are welcome
to visit the site listed above, upon their own discretion.
RealNetworks has done no development or testing of this customer's
solution.
Please consider this note prior to using the fix available on this
site.
At the current time, RealNetworks is planning for G2 Development for
UNIX. The fix for the Errno errors will be included in a future
version of the UNIX Player.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.
HTH,
Pat
--
+---------------------------------------------------------+
+ "Logic clearly dictates, that the strokes of the many +
+ outweigh the strokes of the two..." +
+ (Apologies to Mr Spock) +
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ray)
Subject: Re: WDC 8.4 ATA/66 with linux
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 19:07:53 GMT
On Tue, 08 Jun 1999 10:16:15 +1000, Outlaw Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>has anyone succesfully installed linux on western digital caviar 8.4GB
>ATA/66 hard drive? I tried it once with fips and everything screwed up,
>dos and ext2 partitions. thank god for jaz drives :)
The drive should have come with instructions on how to turn ATA/66 off
(either a software util. or just a jumper setting). Aside from that there's
really nothing special about that drive. That said, I don't have much
experience with fips so there may be some issues (maybe fips doesn't like
fat32 formatted drives?) to consider.
--
Ray
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From: Daniel Migowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Bug in Linuxfilesystem !!!
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 20:50:32 +0200
I tried to delete some files.
There are the results (compare the sum of free and used to total!)
Q: Why are there MB's of data gone? (Not by the filesystem, or am I that
wrong?)
(btw. i moved 80MB from a full /home to / and only 20MB were freed!!!!)
Q: How do get them back?
Q: Is it a bug or am I too silly?
Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/hdb3 1018329 295148 670569 31% /
(~47MB loss)
/dev/hdb5 1523192 702138 742338 49% /usr (~8MB
loss)
/dev/hdb7 194405 123261 61105 67% /var
(~10MB loss)
/dev/hdb6 1313470 1232407 13190 99% /home (~95MB
loss)
/dev/hda1 2096320 1363136 733184 65% /c (0MB
loss)
/dev/hda5 2027776 1229472 798304 61% /e (0MB
loss)
/dev/hdb2 2096192 1218976 877216 58% /d (0MB
loss)
/dev/hdc 606184 606184 0 100% /cdrom
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From: David Vrabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: the last two characters of a dos text file are?
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 20:08:47 +0100
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Charles Wilkins wrote:
> I am specifically interested in which characters are used at the end
> of the line in a dos text file because these text files cannot execute
> under Unix or Linux.
>
> I have written a conversion script in Perl that does the following:
>
> It takes the dos text file and strips the last two characters from
> each line.
> It then adds \n (the newline character) to the end of each of the
> lines.
>
> The problem with my script is that it doesn't check for the existence
> of these codes before chopping. This could be particularly harmful to
> a non-dos text file.
>
> I am sure that the last character code is \n because my script works
> properly on dos text files.
> What I would like to do is check for the existence of the next to the
> last code. In order to do this, I need to know what that code is.
I use tr, perl is a bit over the top for this.
tr -d '\r' < old_file > new_file
to delete the '\r' character leaving the '\n' intact.
David Vrabel
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From: "Angel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Telnet like root
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 13:02:33 +0200
I'm working with Red Hat 6.0. I can't telnet and login like root, but
like another account it's OK.
�How can I open a telnet session like root?
Thanks
Angel Belda
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Aureliano Buendia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Can System Commander revive a Linux partition? (Was: Re: LILO and BeOS)
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 15:28:07 +0400
First off, I wish to thank all the guys who tried to help me to tweak LILO.
I now believe I'd be better off with System Commander.
I have already installed it and it boots Win98 and BeOS perfectly well.
Unfortunately, just like the BeOS Booter, it fails to boot my Linux
partition complaining that it contains a 'defective boot record'.
Hmmmm... Defective, all right, maybe.
Just a little background: I have a separate harddisk (secondary master.
Primary master has Win and BeOS on it) dedicated to Linux and I followed all
reccomendations of DiskDruid when running the RedHat 5.2 installation
procedure, i.e. three partitions were created on the Linux drive:
Primary (Linux native) - 17 Mb (root partition?)
Swap - 100 Mb
Extended (Linux native)- 1202 Mb
LILO was installed to the MBR, which apparently resides on the Primary
master harddrive. Now, the MBR somehow got overwritten, and all the stuff
LILO had put on it got scapped.
My question is: Is there any possible way for me to recover the Linux boot
record so that System commander can boot into that particular OS?
I would itch at the idea of having to reinstall Linux and redo all the fancy
X customization :o) Although this is the most likely option, I feel there
MUST be a way to recover things.
And boy, am I eager ! I bet by the time yor kind replies to this reach me,
everything will be desperately screwed up again ;D
Thanks.
Aurelito
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Forkosh)
Subject: Re: time nightmare
Date: 9 Jun 1999 07:25:34 -0400
kev ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: At first I tried 'date -s ' command to set the time in Linux. This
: seemed to work, but the next time I booted Linux, the time was wrong
: again.
Try
clock -w
after you set the date. This will write the new system date
back to the CMOS clock (see man clock).
John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Jim Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: HOWTO erase CD-RW ????
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 09:51:58 -0600
I use the command:
cdrecord dev=0,1,0 speed=2 blank=fast
You will need to change your device and possibly speed, but that'll do
it.
Jim
Nguyen-Dai Quy wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I use xcdroast for my CD burner.
> I don't know how to erase a CD-RW with xcdroast ? Or with another soft ?
> My sys is RH-5.2, kernel 2.0.36, PC Pentium 200.
> Thanks in advance.
--
Jim Henderson
Novell Support Connection SysOp - http://support.novell.com/forums
Homepage at http://www.bigfoot.com/~jhenderson (email instructions
located here)
Please note that as an NSC SysOp, I do not provide support for Novell
products on a personal basis - if you need help with a Novell product,
please post a reply in the public newsgroup or visit the Novell support
forums at the URL above.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shice Beoney)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Making an ICQ server
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 11:17:03 GMT
On 9 Jun 1999 10:29:08 GMT in comp.os.linux.networking,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Justin The Cynical) uttered the following profound
gem of wisdom:
>On Mon, 07 Jun 1999 02:47:38 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
>
>[snip]
>
>->they're still missing a few of the features of the new client. I'd
>->really like to see somebody port AIM to *NIX, since that's the best 2
>->person chat client that I've found, and it does really well with
>->firewalls since it uses almost only UDP, from what I've seen.
>
> Why wait? The 'official' port works fine. I'm using it now, and have
>been using it for a while. Works fine. Check freshmeat.net of AOL's home
>page.
There's also GAIM, an AIM clone that's available from linuxberg. And
from what I've seen on winehq.com, AIM runs pretty well under Wine.
--
"Windows has detected the presence of a more efficient, faster,
and more reliable Operating System installed on your system.
Do you wish to delete it?
Yes Yes"
-What M$ would LIKE to do about Linux
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jon Skeet)
Subject: Re: Telnet like root
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 12:46:05 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm working with Red Hat 6.0. I can't telnet and login like root, but
> like another account it's OK.
>
> �How can I open a telnet session like root?
Well, you need to be sure that you want to first - is your machine
accessible from the net? If so, it's probably not a good idea. However,
if it's just on a LAN it can be very handy.
I don't know if this is "the" fix, but to solve the problem on my box I
added the lines:
ttyp0
ttyp1
ttyp2
ttyp3
ttyp4
ttyp5
ttyp6
ttyp7
ttyp8
to /etc/securetty.
--
Jon Skeet - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Geoff Short)
Subject: Re: Linux on a 486?
Date: 9 Jun 1999 10:53:37 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: On Tue, 08 Jun 1999 11:59:55 +0100, gus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:
: How about on a 486DX2/66 with 48 Meg RAM and 800 Meg HD?
:
: I want to utilize this otherwise unused box primarily as a
: proxy server. (Our Windoze-based software crashes constantly.)
: Main reason I'd like to use X is for the convenience of having
: multiple terminal windows open, however I can live without it
: if too much for this hardware. I take it that memory and disk
: space should be sufficient, but the CPU is a bit on the weak side.
Sounds like a very nice machine to use :) X might be a bit slow,
depending on the graphics card you have and how you set it up: lots of
colours and a flashy window manager will not show the machine in a good
light, but 256 colours and a light wm like fvwm will be significantly
faster.
Geoff
--
============================================================================
Ever sit and watch ants? They're always busy with Geoff Short
something, never stop for a moment. I just [EMAIL PROTECTED]
can't identify with that kind of work ethic. http://kipper.york.ac.uk/~geoff
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Seyster)
Subject: Re: How do I turn off screen saver?
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 01:00:32 GMT
On Tue, 08 Jun 1999 03:52:08 -0400, Joe Pelkey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Whenever I'm at the command prompt or in X Windows, the screen keeps
>shuting off after about half an hour. I have Slackware-3.6 and can't
>seem to find any programs to modify this setting.
man "setterm" and then look at /etc/rc.d/rc.M
Dave Seyster
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Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 21:49:56 -0400
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.help,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Cd-rom Install Problem
Dudley Brooke wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >I am trying to install Redhat 6.0 on an old Gateway 486 DX2 66 with a Sony
> >CDu31a Cd drive. When I select the cdu31a driver it say it can't find the
> >drive anywhere. I tried all of the drivers. The Sony 5xx driver gives me a
> >box saying it is initializing the drive but then gives me an error. I tried
> >to use what the Redhat FAQ tells me to do, but it didn't work. My system
> >consists of two hard drives, the first partitioned into two. My cd drive
> >takes F: in dos and win95. Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Collin
>
> At the boot prompt try typing 'linux hdc=cdrom' , some CDs are pretty sloppy
> about reporting that they are CDs. I have assumed the CD is secondary master,
> if it is an older board, and you are running it from the sound card ide
> channel, then there is a workaround, but I can't remember, try the CDrom howto,
> it is pretty good.
>
> Dudley Brooke
I am new to Linux, and I am at the very beginning of trying to install Redhat 5.1
on a 33Mhz, 8 Meg RAM, i486 system. I am having a similar problem trying
to get the Redhat installation to recognize my Mitsumi CD-ROM.
The installation keeps asking what type of CD-ROM I have; SCSI or Other.
I respond with 'Other', and then go on to select the Mitsumi Device Driver.
Unfortunately, I am then asked to provide I/O Base Address information, in
the form.... mcd=<something>
I do currently have Windows95 on this particular system, which I am going to
complete over-write with Linux. My Win95 system tells me that the Base I/O
address of the CD-ROM is 0320-0323.
>From the documentation I read on the Redhat site, it looks like I am supposed
to respond mcd=io_port,IRQ during the Redhat installation.
I tried various combinations of mcd=0320,15 .... mcd=320,12 .... but nothing
seems to work.
Can anyone provide me with some suggestions ?
/Alan
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From: Mike Persell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RealPlayer G2 (.ra, .ram) files??
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 01:28:27 GMT
Dave Bailey wrote:
> OK, I had forgotten the %s. Now it gets the title, author,
> copyright, and says it's buffering the stream - but it never
> actually starts playing the stream. Interestingly, it also
> doesn't play the test file right. It seems to just keep
> repeating a tiny smidgen of it over and over again.
When you get the answer make sure you post it...I have the same
problem on the G2 version.
Mike
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank)
Subject: Re: Squid vs IP Masquerading
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 14:03:34 +0200
[This followup was posted to comp.os.linux.misc and a copy was sent to
the cited author.]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
>
> What do you mean by this? I do ftp through squid all the time from various
> Linux boxes.
>
as far as i know squid handles ftp requests via the ftpget program. this
doesnt work for most of the graphical clients on connected win machines.
(though it does work when using the browser as ftp client)
for me socks5 did the thing, because many clients support socks proxies
and as i said, i can even use icq and mirc on the clients.
> But socks doesn't do caching.
>
>
thats right but it is not important for me to have a ftp cache...
Frank
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From: "Scot M. Greber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.databases.oracle.misc,comp.databases.oracle.server,comp.databases,alt.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Oracle8i for Linux!!!
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 08:26:10 -0400
I heard on technet, that everything 8i for Linux has been delayed to the end
of june, but again no confirmation ...
tester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:01beb263$352e0f30$24921e18@obi-wan-kenobi...
> I heard a couple people already got their CDs... Anyone else have their
CD
> for Linux yet?!
>
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From: "Tim Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Solder pads for jumpers functional on USR modem?
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 07:09:36 -0400
My two cents...
I wouldn't.
1. The modem's firmware is designed for jumperless operation. Otherwise,
there would be jumpers there with a "Plug & Play" setting available.
2 .The reason for the jumper pads? Why spend all the money designing a new
circuit board when a current one can be used, leaving out the jumper pins.
3. Adding your own jumpers might have some undesirable effects, such as
wiping the firmware.
In short? Get another modem. If your modem was designed for "jumpered"
operation, there would be jumpers there. Yes, sometimes manufacturers will
leave out the jumpers, even though they are fully operational. It's up to
you to decide it you want to take that chance.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7jhbil$dp0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have a USR internal ISA 56K modem (model 5607-2) that I would
> like to use with Linux. This is NOT a Winmodem. However, it
> is Plug-and-Pray.
>
> There are no jumpers on this modem, but there are solder pads where the
> jumpers would be. The circuit board is silkscreened with docs of what
> the jumpers would do if present. Does anyone know if this modem can be
> manually configured by soldering wire jumpers across the pads?
>
> It seems like this should work, but I don't know if any internal changes
> were made to go along with not having the jumper pins in place. Would
> like to hear if someone knows for sure before I take a soldering iron
> to it...
>
> --
> Roger Blake
> (remove second "g" from address for email)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (LEBLANC ERIC)
Subject: Re: Run time measurement with micro (or at least milli)-second
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 01:57:02 GMT
Virasit Imtawil ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
:
: Dear All,
:
: I am sorry if this is not where I should write but I would like your
: help. I am a beginner here. I use Redhat linux (kernel 2.0.32). I would
: like to know how to measure CPU executing time within the C source code in
: micro (or at least milli)-second resolution. I tried clock() command but
: it's just second resolution which is extremely coarse. For example, I have
: a C code like
I'm a beginner too...
If it is for optimisation purpose, you might try compiling your program
with profiling enabled. It will give you an usage summary per functions.
It has a resolution of .01 seconds.
$ gcc -pg test.c -o test
Run the program normally
$ ./test 240
Done.
$ gproff > outfile
Part of the outfile will look like this:
[taken from the gprof info page]
% cumulative self self total
time seconds seconds calls ms/call ms/call name
33.34 0.02 0.02 7208 0.00 0.00 open
16.67 0.03 0.01 244 0.04 0.12 offtime
16.67 0.04 0.01 8 1.25 1.25 memccpy
16.67 0.05 0.01 7 1.43 1.43 write
: x = time_start();
: ---;
: ---;
: ---;
: ---;
: y = time_finish();
You might want to put the code in betwen the x = ... and the y =... on a
separate function so that you can measure it alone.
There's more examples and howto in the info documentation of gprof.
Matt Welsh's book, "Running Linux" had some examples of profiling too.
Regards,
E.
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: How to get System Commander to boot Linux?
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 07:34:30 -0500
Mohamad SALEH wrote:
> "Edward J. Smiley Jr." a �crit :
>
> > I am trying to boot Win98, WinNT, and Linux using System Commander. I
> > know that you have to point System Commander at you Linux partition to
> > get it to boot. What partition do I want to point it at and how do I
> > point it?
> > Also in the future I would like to add Solaris 7. Would I have to do
> > this the same way? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks!
> > --
>
> I use simply LILO from Linux. It is possible to boot all Windows, Solaris
> and naturally Linux
> with LILO which is a natural solution when you have Linux.
This certainly works, but you probably have to put lilo in the linux root
file system
or something similar. If you try to put lilo in the master boot record,
there is
a reasonable chance you will make it difficult for NT or one of these other
systems to boot. The appropriate line in lilo.conf would look like
boot = /dev/hda*
where * is the number of the partition containing the Linux root
partition,
and of course it could be /dev/sda* for a scsi disk. If one has a separate
partition for /boot, then one would presumably be that instead.
With several OSs, there is a good chance there is more than one disk.
If Linux is not on the first disk, then you probably have to put lilo in
some partition on the first disk. My system has two disks and lilo goes
in a small partition toggled to be a Linux swap partition on /dev/sda.
I have also configued a system using Partition Magic's Boot Magic, and
that works quite well.
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: US Robotics 56K FAX INT PNP modem problem
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 11:35:03 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Champagne) writes:
>I've been unsuccessfully trying to get this modem to work with my
>Redhat 6.0 system. I believe this modem uses the 3Com Akita drivers
>and I don't think that it is a winmodem.
What model is it ? If it needs drivers, it probably is a winmodem.
>I see a 16550A UART on COM1
This is your onboard serial port.
>using setserial and since my mouse is PS/2 I believe that this is my
>modem -- it uses COM2 in Win98,
It isn't.
>but I'm sure plug and play may set it
>differently under Linux.
[...]
If it is a real modem, you'll need the isapnptools to get it working.
Then run
pnpdump > /etc/isapnp.conf
and see what you got.
Michael
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Lumber Cartel Unit #456 (TINLC) & Official Netscum
Note: If you want me to send you email, don't munge your address.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Network Configurator - What files does it touch?
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 02:09:05 GMT
I did a stupid thing in X-Windows on Red Hat 5.2. I run a linux/Win95
network and my linux box has two ethernet cards. One for a connection
to the internet, one for a connection to my Win95 box. I used the
Network Configurator in X-Windows to change the IP address of the card
I use to connect to my Win95 box (device is eth0). I had been
successfully using 10.0.0.1 as my linux IP and 10.0.0.2 as my Win95
IP. I had heard that there were problems with using these IPs on a
private network and I should use something in the 192.168 range
instead. So, I used the Network Configurator tool to change eth0 IP
to
a 192.168 address. Re-boot the system and it starts complaining about
SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument and route: network address doesn't match
route address . It took about half an hour for it to finish booting
(sysklogd and smbd just sat there till they timed out). Once it
booted
I tried using ifconfig on the command line to reset eth0's settings
back to what I previously had, but no luck. Ifconfig showed the
changes but when I re-booted, same crap. What files does Network
Configurator touch? I use X-Windows from my Win95 box, so I have to
edit the settings at the console on the command line (I don't run X-
Windows on the console, but that is another story).
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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From: Mark Tranchant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Environmental Variables in a C Shell Script
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 13:20:02 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
export SOMEVARIABLE ?
Mark
Paul Wickham wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> This should be straight forward, but I'm banging my head against a brick wall!
> I want to be able to modify the an environment variable within an executable
> script in Cshell and keep the change when I exit the script.
>
> If I write a script such as:
>
> #!/bin/csh -f
> setenv SOMEVARIABLE bananas
>
> The variable SOMEVARIABLE does not persist outside the script. What do I
> need to do to make it persistant?
>
> Any help will be appreciated.
>
> Cheers
>
> Paul Wickham
> Gardline Surveys Ltd
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