Linux-Misc Digest #141, Volume #21 Fri, 23 Jul 99 22:13:09 EDT
Contents:
XDMCP problem (Zhengdong Zhang)
Re: A bit of techie humor! ("Groman")
Re: CIA assassinations (Ashley Penney)
Database access program (Marten Larsson)
Q: How to reload /etc/csh.cshrc script ("Youngert")
lynx problem
hairy ramdisk/mount/ln question (jerrad pierce)
Re: CIA assassinations ("R.Bloch")
Re: .bashrc not loading (Cameron L. Spitzer)
Support of NTFS? (-ljl-)
Re: Free web site software...? (Jason Earl)
Re: Linux friendly ISPs (Tim Koruna)
Linksys Cards Acting Up ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linksys Cards Acting Up (Timothy J. Lee)
Re: Linux 6.0: can't access floppy drive anymore (Lev Babiev)
Re: Good IRC client for Linux? (Mark Brown)
Re: Free web site software...? (Andr� Bell [aka Andre Bell])
Re: StarOffice on RH6.0 ("Robert J. Schweikert")
Re: Linux friendly ISPs ("Robert J. Schweikert")
Re: [newbie q] Online w/ root ("Robert J. Schweikert")
Re: SUN Disk Label - How to remove?? (William Burrow)
Re: Download Manager (Frederic L. W. Meunier)
Re: Spanning Compressed Image (Cameron L. Spitzer)
Re: modules.dep 0 in size? (aka depmod) (Paul Kimoto)
What kind of network ("Noah Roberts (jik-)")
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From: Zhengdong Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: XDMCP problem
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 18:15:59 -0500
Our lab has two RH linux machines: one is running RH5.0 the other RH6.0.
The strange thing is that we can access the RH5.0 machine but cannot
access the RH6.0 machine from a NCD diskless workstation. Sometime the
name of the RH6.0 machine is in the name list. Even though its name can be
selected but an X session cannot be started.
Any suggestion on how to solve the problem will be appreciated. Thanks.
Zhengdong Zhang
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From: "Groman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: A bit of techie humor!
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 16:17:59 -0700
Well, here are several phrases used by hardware techies who are
upgrading/modifing
a computer:
"I don't know what that does. You probably don't need it."
"Hand me the hammer."
"Hand me the fuse, ok...I am connecting it...Lighting it...Now
RUN!!!"
"I am sure this will work"
"Don't worry, I've done this before."
And
The
Number one:
"oops."
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message <7nancv$voi$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Top 20 replies by programmers when their programs don't work:
>
>20. "That's weird..."
>19. "It's never done that before."
>18. "It worked yesterday."
>17. "How is that possible?"
>16. "It must be a hardware problem."
>15. "What did you type in wrong to get it to crash?"
>14. "There is something funky in your data."
>13. "I haven't touched that module in weeks!"
>12. "You must have the wrong version."
>11. "It's just some unlucky coincidence."
>10. "I can't test everything!"
>9. "THIS can't be the source of THAT."
>8. "It works, but it hasn't been tested."
>7. "Somebody must have changed my code."
>6. "Did you check for a virus on your system?"
>5. "Even though it doesn't work, how does it feel?
>4. "You can't use that version on your system."
>3. "Why do you want to do it that way?"
>2. "Where were you when the program blew up?"
>
>And the number one reply by programmers when their programs don't work:
>
> 1. "It works on my machine."
>
>If you want to read more jokes go to:
>
>http://www.milomail.com/com/humor.html and click on e-mail archive.
>
>
>
>
>Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ashley Penney)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: CIA assassinations
Date: 24 Jul 1999 00:47:32 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 23 Jul 1999 16:00:49 +0600, R.Bloch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) gabbered:
:Joseph T. Adams wrote:
:> In comp.os.linux.advocacy Richard Kulisz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:> : You, sir, are an idiot.
:> You are an ass.
:It's going good, keep it up. Call'im a fag.
No no no, you've not argued extensively in USENET recently, have you?
The next step is for them to claim to killfile each other, but then
still carry on insulting each other, then one must refer to the other
using a Nazi term, then we invoke Godwins Law and all go and drink
beer together and be merry.
--
Ashley Penney - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Marten Larsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Database access program
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 11:01:46 +0200
Is there a Linux program through which I can access a database in the
same way as I can do with MS Access? I want to be able to see the
contents of different tables, modify values and put filters on
different columns (although I would not mind using SQL for the
latter). The program could for example be written in Java and use
JDBC for the database connection.
/M�rten
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From: "Youngert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Q: How to reload /etc/csh.cshrc script
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 19:44:37 -0400
What instruction should I issue to reload a newer version of /etc/csh.cshrc
under a csh or tcsh shell?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: lynx problem
Date: 23 Jul 1999 23:42:21 GMT
I am using Slackware 4.0 , Lynx 2.8.1rel.2 , libncurses.so.1.9.9g .
When I set Options Menu:
Assumed document character set: big5
Display character set: Chinese or Taipei (Big5)
then Accept Changes, something happened.
I cannot see text or html any more, only 1 or 2 lines appears.
Anyone can help ? thank you very much.
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From: jerrad pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: hairy ramdisk/mount/ln question
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 18:31:03 -0400
Okay so here's what I want to do:
mount a ramdisk to a frequently accessed directory, essentially "shadowing" it?
but, I want to have a cron job periodically run through and copy the ram drive's
contents to the actual directory
I thought I might be able do this by creating a hardlink to the directory so I can
access it's contents even though it's a mount point. So far I haven't been able to do
a hard-link to the directory (yes, as root..)
The only other way I could think to do it is have the cron job unmount the drive,
remount elsewhere, copy from elsewehere to the directory, unmount elsewhere and
remount to the directory. That seems awfully messy and uncool.
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
PS> Please (b)cc me with any replies
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From: "R.Bloch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: CIA assassinations
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 20:39:25 +0600
Ashley Penney wrote:
>
> On Fri, 23 Jul 1999 16:00:49 +0600, R.Bloch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) gabbered:
> :Joseph T. Adams wrote:
> :> In comp.os.linux.advocacy Richard Kulisz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> :> : You, sir, are an idiot.
> :> You are an ass.
> :It's going good, keep it up. Call'im a fag.
>
> No no no, you've not argued extensively in USENET recently, have you?
Nope. Now, that makes me feel excluded >:(
> The next step is for them to claim to killfile each other,
What's 'killfile'? I heard this term before.
> still carry on insulting each other, then one must refer to the other
> using a Nazi term, then we invoke Godwins Law and all go and drink
> beer together and be merry.
Sounds like fun <g>. That's what flame wars are for, I think.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron L. Spitzer)
Subject: Re: .bashrc not loading
Date: 23 Jul 1999 23:48:05 GMT
In article <RA5m3.1175$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steffan O'Sullivan wrote:
>Cameron L. Spitzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>But a login bash does not source .bashrc unless you tell it to
>>in your .bash_profile or .profile.
>
>I didn't check the man pages on this because, frankly, 75% of a man
>page is gibberish to me ... the key sentence is the one that
>distinguishes between types of shells, login or not, and I have no clue
>what that means. I don't even know what a shell is ...
A login shell is one that was invoked with a minus at the beginning
of its name. It looks in its argument list and says, "Gee, I'm '-bash'
(or '-su' or '-sh').
The login program invokes your shell with a minus. The su program
does that if you tell it to. Escaping to a shell from less(1)
or mailx(1), no minus.
Cameron
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From: -ljl- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Support of NTFS?
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 00:07:39 GMT
What is the present state of support for NTFS? Where can I track this,
pointers, ... ?
Any and all help will be appreciated.
--
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jason Earl)
Subject: Re: Free web site software...?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 00:25:37 GMT
On Sat, 17 Jul 1999 07:10:07 GMT, Andr� Bell [aka Andre Bell]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <_Rti3.4934$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andr� Bell [aka Andre Bell]) wrote:
>>Do you know of software I can install to my server which will allow
>>me to provide free web pages to anyone with a valid email address?
>>
>>What would be ideal is an open source solution that allows anyone to
>>sign up online without me personally having to manually manage their
>>accounts for them. Preferably the software would allow anyone to
>>sign up for a free account, verify the name they want is available,
>>and setup the site for them, including any scripts I want installed
>>into their users area and cgi-bin subdirectories that I define.
>>
>
>FyI, here are the sites: http://www.ukwebs.com/webscripts/webnow.htm
>http://www.perlpalace.com/ultrahome/
>
>
>However, I still need to know where I can find information which
>explains how to setup an ISP on Linux.
>From what I read in your post it sounds like you want to do
web-hosting on Linux, and not Internet Service Providing.
Not that I am nit-picking, but sometimes knowing the correct
terminology helps when asking questions.
>What I'm looking for is information which explains which software to run to
>automate registration of new members and automate installation of approved
>scripts to the new user's cgi-bin and other subdirectories.
Depending on where the users cg-bin and root web directories are
perhaps all you need is to read the useradd(8) man page. It tells you
how to use a skeleton_directory (normally this is /etc/skel).
Basically any files that are in this special directory will be added
to the users home directory when the account is created.
Like most things *nixy the useradd command has a whole pile of command
line switches, and is incredibly flexible, but the default options
generally do "The Right Thing."
>I don't really need nor want the information dealing with dial up
>access, server/routers, newsfeeds, etc. I found a lot of that info
>already and it isn't what I've been looking for.
Like I said, it's the difference between being an ISP and providing
web-hosting services.
>What am I looking for? Well, if you've signed up for an ISP online
>and have accessed your ftp area or have worked with cgi you know that
>your ISP created one or more subdirectories which have several
>approved scripts in your cgi-bin, ftp, or other areas of your web
>space. Often those scripts are automatically edit with the new
>user's path to his ftp and/or new www area.
I suppose I am a little confused about this one. I generally don't
write CGI scripts that rely on the absolute path to work correctly,
but then, I don't web-host either.
>I want to be able to accomplish the same thing. That is, I want to be
>able to have a new user sign up online and have linux automatically
>create their account on my server, and then have linux automatically
>install additional scripts that I have approved. No use in me
>manually editing the scripts each time someone signs up because the
>computer can do it far more efficiently.
>
>I've done considerable online research to determine how to create an
>ISP on Linux and unfortunately am still stumped. I cannot find the
>information which explains which software controls automating an ISP
>or which software automates web space setup, including script
>installation.
>
>Do you know what software to use and how to accomplish auto
>installing scripts for the new user?
>
>Thanks!
I would take a look at putting the scripts you are considering into
/etc/skel and seeing what happens.
I hope that this wasn't painfully obvious to you.
If it is, my apologies.
Jason
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From: Tim Koruna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Linux friendly ISPs
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 20:16:14 -0400
Dhiraj Kacker wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I was looking for comments on Linux friendly ISPs, i.e.
> ISPs that offer support and help with Linux setup OR
> "standard" ppp scripts without much tweaking can be used
> to connect. In particular, I'd like to know how good the
> following ISPs are :
>
> 1. Earthlink
I use earthlink. They've not disappointed me yet. They've got a handy
page at
http://help.earthlink.net/techsupport/generic_settings/settings.html
that gives you all the information you need (DNS IP addresses, server
names, etc) to set up dial-up ppp.
TK.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Linksys Cards Acting Up
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 00:23:40 GMT
Has anyone had any problems with their LinkSys
Etherfast 100 acting up? I have 3 LinkSys cards
in my Linux RH6 PC. I've run into some instances
where a card would get stuck transmitting. I have
to do an "ifconfig eth0 down" then an "ifconfig eth0 up"
to reinitialize the thing, after which I can ping
the interface. Has anyone seen this? When the Tx
light is blinking like crazy I can't ping the
interface. I'm not actually sure if it's transmitting
anything, but the light is blinking. Also, I can
still ping the interface (or IP of that interface)
from the PC.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy J. Lee)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Linksys Cards Acting Up
Date: 24 Jul 1999 00:50:43 GMT
Reply-To: see-signature-for-email-address---junk-not-welcome
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
|Has anyone had any problems with their LinkSys
|Etherfast 100 acting up? I have 3 LinkSys cards
|in my Linux RH6 PC. I've run into some instances
|where a card would get stuck transmitting.
Do you have the ones with the "digital 21140" chip or
the other chip (PNIC, may say "Linksys" on it)?
I've had various troubles with Netgear FA310TX cards
that had the PNIC chips, though the older DEC 21140
chip cards work fine. Some have said that updating
the tulip.c driver fixes some of the problems with
PNIC chip cards, though I was able to get it working
in only some cases.
--
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Unsolicited bulk or commercial email is not welcome. netcom.com
No warranty of any kind is provided with this message.
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From: Lev Babiev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux 6.0: can't access floppy drive anymore
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 21:01:15 -0400
First of all there IS NO linux 6.0, latest version is 2.3.11,
if you're referring to RedHat 6.0 say so, RedHat != Linux.
To access the floppy you need to mount it first and then unmount
it before ejecting. In redhat you can usually mount with
mount /mnt/floppy
and unmount with
umount /mnt/floppy
you MUST unmount before ejecting a floppy or changes wouldn't be
written to the disk, also after unmounting wait for drive to
stop flashing.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I was copying files from my floppy disk onto a directory. THen I
> stopped transfering them for a while to add a few other things to the
> disk from another computer, and when I put the disk back into the
> Linux computer, I found that the changes either hadn't been made on
> the disk or else the Linux computer wasn't seeing them. So I tried
> changing the disk again on the other computer, to make sure I'd done
> it right, and still, the computer wasn't showing the added files.
> I fiddled with unmounting the disk, somehow (not knowing what I was
> doing), and now, the computer isn't seeing ANYTHING in the floppy
> drive. I'm in the /floppy directory, and when I put dir, it sees
> no files. I have absolutely no idea what I've done.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> by the way, I'm using the bourne shell, and to access the floppy, I
> typed:
> cd /mnt/floppy
> also, I know that the device is unmounted.
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From: Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.irc.questions
Subject: Re: Good IRC client for Linux?
Date: 23 Jul 1999 20:58:20 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (root) writes:
> Does anyone know of an X based irc client for Linux that can
> connect through proxy server like WinProxy.
irssi has an option for using a proxy, although I've never used it.
--
Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness)
http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/
EUFS http://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andr� Bell [aka Andre Bell])
Subject: Re: Free web site software...?
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 07:10:07 GMT
In article <_Rti3.4934$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andr�
Bell [aka Andre Bell]) wrote:
>Do you know of software I can install to my server which will allow me to
>provide free web pages to anyone with a valid email address?
>
>What would be ideal is an open source solution that allows anyone to sign up
>online without me personally having to manually manage their accounts for
>them. Preferably the software would allow anyone to sign up for a free
>account, verify the name they want is available, and setup the site for them,
>including any scripts I want installed into their users area and cgi-bin
>subdirectories that I define.
>
FyI, here are the sites:
http://www.ukwebs.com/webscripts/webnow.htm
http://www.perlpalace.com/ultrahome/
However, I still need to know where I can find information which explains how
to setup an ISP on Linux.
What I'm looking for is information which explains which software to run to
automate registration of new members and automate installation of approved
scripts to the new user's cgi-bin and other subdirectories.
I don't really need nor want the information dealing with dial up access,
server/routers, newsfeeds, etc. I found a lot of that info already and it
isn't what I've been looking for.
What am I looking for? Well, if you've signed up for an ISP online and have
accessed your ftp area or have worked with cgi you know that your ISP created
one or more subdirectories which have several approved scripts in your
cgi-bin, ftp, or other areas of your web space. Often those scripts are
automatically edit with the new user's path to his ftp and/or new www area.
I want to be able to accomplish the same thing. That is, I want to be able to
have a new user sign up online and have linux automatically create their
account on my server, and then have linux automatically install additional
scripts that I have approved. No use in me manually editing the scripts each
time someone signs up because the computer can do it far more efficiently.
I've done considerable online research to determine how to create an ISP on
Linux and unfortunately am still stumped. I cannot find the information which
explains which software controls automating an ISP or which software automates
web space setup, including script installation.
Do you know what software to use and how to accomplish auto installing scripts
for the new user?
Thanks!
Andre
p.s. I've found two software programs which allow creating web space on my
server for others to sign up for. The programs range from $60 - $150.00.
Neither can install scripts written by other authors :(
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From: "Robert J. Schweikert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: StarOffice on RH6.0
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 19:31:26 -0400
Thanks Bob for answering the question. Oh and by the way you 're right I
should read the docs, i.e. readme files that come with the distribution.
To answer my own question, second part, there is no harm in deleting the
so51inst directory.
Bob Martin wrote:
> Try running the script, soffice, like the readme file says to, instead of
> soffice.bin
>
> Robert J. Schweikert wrote:
>
> > I completed what I thought and according to install shield was a
> > successful install of star office. However, when I try to start it using
> > ./soffice.bin I get the following error:
> >
> > /usr/local/Office51/bin/soffice.bin: error in loading shared libraries:
> > libgo516li.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> >
> > However, the library got installed and I found it in:
> >
> > /usr/local/Office51/lib/libgo516li.so
> >
> > StarOffice itself is installed in /usr/local/Office51.
> >
> > Two questions do I have to move this library somewhere else? If not why
> > is it not found?
> >
> > And a third question not concerning this problem.
> > Can I get rid of all the stuff in the so51inst directory which got
> > created when I untared the downloaded file?
> >
> > Any help is appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Robert
> >
> > --
> > Robert Schweikert
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
Robert Schweikert
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Robert J. Schweikert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Linux friendly ISPs
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 19:42:09 -0400
Dhiraj,
I can't comment on any of the ISPs you mentioned I use Mindspring and
though not officially supported they have a couple of set-up pages
covering Linux and the Techs there are in general reallly helpful with
any questions, even if Linux is not officially supported as of yet.
Robert
Dhiraj Kacker wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I was looking for comments on Linux friendly ISPs, i.e.
> ISPs that offer support and help with Linux setup OR
> "standard" ppp scripts without much tweaking can be used
> to connect. In particular, I'd like to know how good the
> following ISPs are :
>
> 1. Earthlink
> 2. Att World Net
> 3. Compuserve
>
> (these are the ones that have local access numbers in my area).
>
> I presently use Prodigy, but their connection speeds are very slow.
> Comments about other ISPs are also welcome.
>
> (BTW, I was shocked to learn that MSN does not have a 800 number
> tech support. On second thoughts, I should have expected a
> 900 number !!!).
>
> Thanks in advance for your time.
>
> -dhiraj
--
Robert Schweikert
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Robert J. Schweikert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [newbie q] Online w/ root
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 19:39:03 -0400
Faysal,
It is usually not agood idea to use the root account for much else other than
you you absolutely have to work on the set-up of yur machine. The reason being
inadvertent file delition and other stuff. As root you have read write access
to everything and as we all know everyone gets happy fingers sometimes and
deletes stuff that we figure out two minutes later we shouldn't have. Now if
you do this with a systems file your pretty much out of luck and have a lot of
work.
Robert
faysal wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> Does anyone know why it is recommended not to connect to the net using root?
>
> Thanks,
> F
--
Robert Schweikert
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Burrow)
Crossposted-To:
comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sun.misc,linux.debian.sparc,linux.redhat.sparc,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: SUN Disk Label - How to remove??
Date: 24 Jul 1999 00:47:30 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 23 Jul 1999 19:57:35 GMT,
Peter Radcliffe <25$10$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> probably said:
>>I've salvaged a couple of SCSI-2 drives from old Sparc LXs to run
>>linux on in a PC. Everything works ok, but the linux kernel always
>>reports the disk carries a Sun label during boot - even after I've
>>"low level" formatted the disks using the SCSI controller bios utility
>>(both Buslogic and Adaptec).
If low level formatted, there should be nothing left on the drive.
You will need to create a DOS partition table to use the drive with
Linux, just type ``o'' in Linux fdisk.
--
William Burrow -- New Brunswick, Canada o
Copyright 1999 William Burrow ~ /\
~ ()>()
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frederic L. W. Meunier)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Download Manager
Date: 24 Jul 1999 01:31:51 GMT
On Fri, 23 Jul 1999 22:20:40 +0100, John Napier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>John Napier wrote:
>
>> Is there a Download Manager for Linux like "GoZilla" or "Getright"
>>
>> which can auto-resume (or even manually resume) broken downloads.
>>
>> This seems to be the only thing windoze does better than linux.
>>
>> I have had several large downloads frustrated by the connection dropping
>>
>> before completion.
>In reply to my own question and in case anyone else is interested Kget
>which is a linux KDE app but will happily run under different xwindow
>managers works fine.
You're wrong. Kget no longer exists. Now it's Caitoo. Other good X based
downloaders are Pavuk (a must, great tool for mirroring) and Downloader for X.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron L. Spitzer)
Subject: Re: Spanning Compressed Image
Date: 24 Jul 1999 00:44:07 GMT
>Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
>> I want to compress files, and span the compressed image(s) across several
>> disks. g(un)zip and tar don't seem to have the capabilities to do that.
>> Can anybody suggest how to do this?
>
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Christopher W. Aiken wrote:
>I thought I saw something called "split" when I installed Linux.
>Could be wrong though, won't be the first time and definitely
>not the last :-) Good place to start.
I used to download kernel source to floppy at work to bring them home.
This works:
split -b 1440k linux-2.2.10.tar.gz
# (produces nine and a half floppies worth of xx? files)
cp xaa /dev/fd0u1440
floppycontrol -f
cmp xaa /dev/fd0u1440
Repeat for floppies xab through xai. The cmp is because floppies
suck. Chances are among ten floppies you will have one or two bad.
tar cvf /dev/fd0u1440 xaj
(Use /dev/fd0H1440 if you are on Red Hat. Use /dev/fd0 if you trust it.)
To restore, copy all the pieces back
cp /dev/fd0u1440 xaa
...
cp /dev/fd0u1440 xaj
tar xvf /dev/fd0u1440
cat xa[a-j] > linux-2.2.10.tar.gz
If you do not have space for the xa? files, you can still do it:
expr 1440 '*' 1024
dd if=linux-2.2.10.tar.gz bs=1474560 skip=3 count=1 of=/dev/fd0u1440
# (produces the xad disk, for example.)
And you can still verify the diskette was written correctly.
floppycontrol -f
dd if=linux-2.2.10.tar.gz bs=1474560 skip=3 count=1 | cmp - /dev/fd0u1440
Cameron
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: modules.dep 0 in size? (aka depmod)
Date: 23 Jul 1999 21:45:12 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <gUJj3.11$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Byron Faber wrote:
> I managed to get my system into a state where depmod -a
> always generates a modules.dep files of 0 bytes in size.
Is the partition (where modules.dep needs to go) full?
What if you invoke depmod with the "-v" (verbose output)
flag?
--
Paul Kimoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: What kind of network
From: "Noah Roberts (jik-)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 23 Jul 1999 18:53:43 -0700
I have 2 PCs, a P150 oced to 200 with 3.1G and 48M RAM, and a P60 350M
and 24M RAM. The P60 appears to hold a complete system minus all the
development crap and LARGE binaries like netscape and XEmacs and
stuff. But, I want to give tha PC access to those utilities.
Now, netscape is easy...just use X networking, course the user has to
config on that PC...no biggie since NS does itself. But what about
things which edit files which the user of the P60 would want on their
HD? I want it to act like its running locally...maybe even do just
that.
I was thinking maybe I want a beowulf, but I don't need SMP tasking.
I want the network to act like all drives are on that terminal.
However....I might want things like Star Office as well, which might
not run well on a P60.....
I know nothing about networking. What kind of design am I shooting
for and stuff? It needs to be cheap....old ethernet cards are the
best I can do, but I would rather serial since its already there.
I also want net access to both through the P150.
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