Linux-Misc Digest #291, Volume #21 Wed, 4 Aug 99 21:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: Warning! The eclipse approaches... ("Alan J.
Laser")
Re: DAO Cd-recording. (Aaron Ginn)
Re: users can't mount cdrom (Jeff Greer)
Re: Did SUSE 6.1 egcs lose C++??? (Nix)
Re:(Recommendations) Database program ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Real*6 to float? (Victor Wagner)
Need Linux Help. ("Gilbert Groehn")
Re: Changing the Hostname (Leonard Evens)
Re: can't find module st, also 9Gig SCSI disks? OK? (Leonard Evens)
Re: newbie: what is "Segmentaion fault"? (Jens Schwepe)
SO 5.1 installation (Daniel Forester)
change default runlevel depending on kernel? (Siemel Naran)
Re: newbie: what is "Segmentaion fault"? (Siemel Naran)
Re: Linux and NT on one system....help!!! (Jens Schwepe)
Installing rpm file on RedHat 6.0 (Daniel Bizuneh)
Re: Need good Linux equiv to Win95/98/NT4 find text in file function (John Hasler)
Re: Must root and swap partitions be primary? (Leonard Evens)
Re: mount theory, lost space, and other sundry cack (Leonard Evens)
Re: Lilo Problems (Leonard Evens)
how to queue mail? (Siemel Naran)
Re: newbie: what is "Segmentaion fault"? (Jens Schwepe)
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From: "Alan J. Laser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
sci.geo.petroleum,sci.crypt,alt.pets.ferrets,alt.sport.bowling,comp.os.ms-windows.ce,soc.culture.europe,alt.prophecies.nostradamus,alt.catastrophism,alt.prophecies.cayce,alt.messianic,alt.atheism,sci.skeptic,sci.astro,sci.archaeology,alt.current-events.earth-changes
Subject: Re: Warning! The eclipse approaches...
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 16:13:19 -0700
Haha. "monsteriferous" I wonder what monster it is bearing?
Maybe some sort of bear monster... a bear-monster bearing comet.
Alan
reject wrote:
>
> That "monstriferous" Comet Lee will be seen during the
> solar eclipse this August 11th, followed by WWIII, the
> 1300-meter "King of Terror" meteoroid impact before 10
> October 1999, and *many* catastrophic events, including
> the >20 degree shifting of the polar axis before 2002!
> The Tribulation prophesied even by our Lord and Savior
> Jesus Christ is begun. ANSWER THIS: Are you prepared?
>
> Godspeed,
> Daniel
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From: Aaron Ginn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DAO Cd-recording.
Date: 04 Aug 1999 15:05:58 -0700
Knut Erik Lang� <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am searching for a utility which can record cd's in DAO-mode, maybe
> something like cdrwin for Windows. I'd like to be able to backup my
> Playstation games.
>
> Any ides?
Get the latest alpha version of cdrecord, something like 1.8.24.
The rpm is available at http://rufus.w3.org/linux/RPM/CByName.html.
If you've never used cdrecord, and you have an IDE CD-R drive,
you need to compile SCSI emulation into the kernel. See the
CD-Writing HOWTO for more info.
HTH,
Aaron
--
Aaron J. Ginn Motorola SPS
Phone: (480) 814-4463 SemiCustom Solutions
Fax: (480) 814-4058 1300 N. Alma School Rd.
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chandler, AZ 85226
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff Greer)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: users can't mount cdrom
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 23:10:16 GMT
On Wed, 4 Aug 1999 18:35:19 -0400, "gus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I ain't the big linux expert, but as a Net Admin in a corporate environment
>with 150+ users, there are arguable reasons for making it difficult to
>freely use CD-ROMs:
<snip>
I agree with leaving in the flexibility and it is needed, but I
am speaking about the desktop arena, which is not the same as the
large network arena.
Linux is useless in the desktop arena because it has far too much
uneeded complexity. Making easy ways to do things for desktop
users will in no way diminish Linux's power and flexibility. The
complexity and power would still be there, but users would have a
choice in doing things the easy, default way or the harder more
flexible way.
--
Jeff Greer
B.S. computer science, University of MO - Rolla
==================================================
Windows NT has crashed,
I am the Blue Screen of Death,
No one hears your screams...
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From: Nix <$}xinix{[email protected]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Did SUSE 6.1 egcs lose C++???
Date: 04 Aug 1999 20:41:34 +0100
Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[snip huge volumes of excess quoted text]
> G++ is not ANSI compliant
With the exception of the standard C++ library and the `export' keyword,
gcc-2.95 *does* conform to the ISO C++ Standard.
g++-2.7.2.3 was not close to the Standard, but that compiler is many
years old now.
Learn whereof you speak.
> but that is not the reason that I say
> it's buggy and personnally I would never install it on my system.
Personally there are two C++ compilers I swear by:
The EDG compilers, because for generated code quality and
standards-compliance they are presently best;
and egcs-now-gcc, because I have the source and so can fix problems with
it, and because it isn't half bad for standards-compliance or generated
code quality now. When the new IA32 backend gets folded in (in gcc-3.0?)
it should be even nicer :) the improvements in that backend are quite
something.
> I ported a large library of my Visual Age for C++ to Linux because
> my program needed the string classes that I used under OS/2.
> What I found out was that g++ not only create crappy programs
Examples?
If you have a concrete (preferably small) example of this, *please* post
it to the gcc developers' mailing list, so it can be fixed.
Simply ranting about `crappy programs' doesn't fix a thing, and if you
don't even tell the developers what the problems you're hitting are, how
the hell can you expect them to get fixed? Being a gcc developer does
not unfortunately confer upon one the powers of telepathy!
> but that if I exceeded a certain number of virtual functions it
> would generate fixed pointer in lala land from that point on. Anyone
What does `generate fixed pointer' mean? Do you have some (sample
code|emitted assembler|RTL dumps) to illustrate the problem?
You haven't even said whether you mean
- virtual members in one class
- virtual members in one translation unit
- virtual members in one class including all parents
- the `this' pointer is misaligned when dealing with a virtual member in
an inheritance graph shaped like *so* when *this* inheritance relation
is private and *this* one is protected
or what.
Were you getting `missing virtual table' errors at link time? If so read
the FAQ, this is documented there (as well as in the info pages).
> who has had frequent illogical core dump with C++ programs might
> understand a bit now.
No, because your description above was so vague as to be worthless.
gcc>2.7 is one of the most stable compilers I have ever used. I've only
encountered two code miscompilation bugs --- one of them was due to bad
hardware, the other was fixed within the week (!)
Simply saying `ooh, it's broken, it's crappy, don't install it because
it doesn't work' without actually giving examples so that the problems
can be fixed is IMHO asking to be ignored (until such time as you come
up with examples, that is).
In my experience most people who say that g++ is broken on the egcs/gcc
list really mean `this undefined behaviour / vendor-specific extension /
unspecified behaviour doesn't work with gcc as it worked with my vendor
compiler'.
> I haven't had time to test egcs yet and if it screws up on mine
> as you say it does on yours I'm not about to use this g++ shit to
> get things to work.
Ah, unfounded ad hominem attacks. I was hoping you'd found some real
bugs here, but I'm starting to disbelieve it now :(
For the record g++ does not `screw up' especially frequently. Very large
projects have been built with g++ in the past.
It is not `shit', and IMHO you've got a nerve saying that it is given
that you don't appear to have given one bit of your time to improve it,
not even to the extent of reporting probable bugs. (At least, if you
reported these bugs then it does not show up in the mailing list
archives. However, they are a little broken atm so I may be wrong here.)
> There's got to be a way to get this to compile
> without reverting to this garbage.
I'm sure this sentence was meant to mean *something*...
> I'll buy Comeau C++ if need be.
Likewise, not a bad compiler at all. But I like my compilers free (not
least because they improve *fast* when bazaared).
gcc-2.7.2 was far obsolete by the time egcs was released, and it is
definitely a substandard C++ compiler. However, saying that egcs is
without even trying it, and assuming it is exactly like gcc-2.7.2 (when
it is years of development time beyond 2.7.2!) is not sensible.
Please give it a chance.
--
`The plague, dirt, lack of running water, illiteracy, ignorance, and
oppressive political and social systems are what made the dark ages what
they were.' --- Gus Hartmann in the Monastery
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re:(Recommendations) Database program
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 23:16:27 GMT
Thanks for the Reply.
Any recommendations given the following criteria?
Cost: Minimize <= $1,000 would be given consideration at this time for
a server and 5 concurrent connections.
Somebody with SQL server background and very little Linux background
could learn and administer in 2 to 3 months. (Or any comments on
how long this would expect to take would be appreciated)
Can MS SQL 6.5, 7 databases be transferred over readily.
Documentation: Are there newsgroups available. Third party
documentation(Recommendations).
Interfaces: Can user friendly interfaces be readily built for the
database using C C++. How-to-documentation readily available.
I plan to take any feed back I get and try to go through the
documentation. This will also be based on evaluation license cost.
I went to the Oracle site and looked for the cost on their systems.
They toughted that they understood the headaches of forecasting cost
using MS products. After 15 minutes prerusing their site I felt the
cost might be lower, but wasn't convinced I wouldn't be stepping out of
the frying pan and into the fire.
Art S. Kagel wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > Is there a linux equivalent to Access or SQL ?
>
> Only:
>
> mSQL
> MySQL
> PostGreSQL
> Informix
> Oracle
> Sybase
> Interbase
> Yard SQL
> Solid Server
> AdaBase
>
> and many many more.
>
> Art S. Kagel
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Victor Wagner)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: Real*6 to float?
Date: 4 Aug 1999 21:21:46 +0400
In comp.os.linux.misc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: Please can anybody help me in converting a real*6 (Pascal!) to a float in
: c? Is there perhaps a standard facility for it, or is it not all that
: simple?
Really, you should get Borland Pascal Programmers manual. There was
described bit fields of both 6-byte real and C-compatible double type.
Both look as
struct real {
int sign :1;
int mantissa:n;
int exponent:m;
}
where exponent was always represented as real binary exponent + 2^(m-1)
to be always positive.
So all you need is to know n and m for both types and declare such
structures. Then you just assign mantissa and sign and perform some
calculation on exponent before assignment.
: Thanks for any suggestions!
: Regards,
: Gerard
: ------------------ Posted via SearchLinux ------------------
: http://www.searchlinux.com
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I don't answer questions by private E-Mail from this address.
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From: "Gilbert Groehn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Need Linux Help.
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 19:51:06 -0400
I have the SuSE LINUX Ver. 6.1 (KDE 1.1, Kernel 2.2.5)
and am getting ready to load it to a bare 90 Mhz Pentium
with 1 Gig HD and 48 Mg of RAM.
My main interest is in using it as a supplemental web browser
and I am wondering what browsers are available for Linux?
I am a neophyte to unix and Linux and wonder if I may be getting
in over my head. I do want to learn the system but have somewhat
limited time for experimentation.
The SuSE manual seems reasonably understandable but any additional
pointers would be most appreciated.
Thanks in advance for any help and/or guidance you may be able to
furnish.
Please cc any answer directly to my email address as I do not
monitor the group.
Cordially,
Gil Groehn
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Changing the Hostname
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 15:58:13 -0500
Mikeg wrote:
>
> I'm new to Unix. I have Redhat6.0 Linux installed. I'm trying to change
> the local host name but I can't figure it out. I searched DejaNews and see
> there are alot of people in my boat, but no one really had an answer. Has
> anyone here successfully done this?
>
> Thanx,
> MikeG
The name of the computer should be in /etc/HOSTNAME.
See also the man page for the command hostname.
You probably also want an entry for your machine in
/etc/hosts. This could be a separate entry with some
fairly arbitrary IP address, or you could just add it
as an extra name in the line for localhost. I think
the hosts entry may be necessary to keep gnome happy.
In principle you can set all these things by using linuxconf.
But remember to apply the changes when you quit. Several
people have reported trouble making such changes with
linuxconf, which may have been due to not applying the
changes. But linuxconf also has some problems, so it
could be something else.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: can't find module st, also 9Gig SCSI disks? OK?
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 15:28:59 -0500
Bob Surenko wrote:
>
> In comp.os.linux.hardware Lyndon F. Bartels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : Hello,
>
> : I have the following hardware/software setup.
>
> : Intel P-II 350 CPU.
> : 192 Meg Ram.
> : S3 Virge video card
> : 3C509 ethernet card
> : Adaptec 2940UW controller.
> : 2 4.5G hard drives.
> : Adaptec 2910 SCSI controller
> : SCSI CD-ROM
> : Exabyte 8200 tape drive.
>
> : RedHat 6.0 Linux. As yet, with no updates.
> : 2.2-5-15 kernel.
>
> : When I boot the system, I get the following error message.
>
> : Enabling Swap Space [OK]
> : can't locate module st
> : INIT: Entering run level 3 yadda yadda yadda.
>
> : I'm assuming this has something to do with the tape drive? Any obviously
> : simple answers?
>
> : Also, I'm planning on adding 2 9G drives to this system for data storage.
> : I have the OS and httpd server setup on the existing 4.5s. I'm merely adding
> : the 9Giggers. I read somewhere that either Adaptec doesn't like drives larger
> : that 8Gig, or that Linux doesn't. What's the skinny? Am I doomed?
>
> : Thanks in advance,
>
> : Lyndon
>
> I've been having a similar problem. It seems Red Hat ships with SCSI Tape
> support already in the kernel, but right at the end of /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit
> it has a if statment and attempts to load the SCSI tape Module!
>
> Anyway, Does your tape drive work? If so, just comment that stuff out in
> rc.sysinit.
>
> I haven't fully tested this out yet because I think my tape drive is bad.
> (Didn't work in Win98 either)
>
> --
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> - Bob Surenko [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> - http://www.fred.net/surenko/ finger for PGP key
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
My Rh6.0 system does the same but it directs the error output
to /dev/null.
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Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: Jens Schwepe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: newbie: what is "Segmentaion fault"?
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 02:14:15 +0200
any program running on the system is assigned some memory space to store data
and everything else. the almighty kernel does this, and everyone is happy. just
one limitation for the program: it must not (= is not allowed to) write to
memory space that it does _not_ own. if it tries (the "segmentation fault",
because the wrong memory segment was adressed), the almighty kernel will cancel
this ungrateful program. it falls into pieces (exactly one piece, the "core",
as you asked) and this core is dumped into the current location the program
resided. it namely is a file "core" and contains all the memory data the
program was assigned when it failed, thus if you own 4Gigs of Memory and a
database process switching 3Gigs of memory over and over fails, you will have
3Gigs of "core" on your disk ;-)
Just delete it, if you find it. You will -hopefully- never have to go through
all the megabytes of crushed memory.
cu
Andrew de los Reyes wrote:
> hi.
>
> I'm a linux newbie. occasionally I get an error message "Segmentation fault
> (core dumped)". Could someone tell me where it's dumped to, is it sitting
> around wasting my limited HD space? Am I completely off base?
>
> thaks in advance,
> Andrew de los Reyes
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: Daniel Forester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SO 5.1 installation
Date: 5 Aug 1999 00:12:32 GMT
Hi, all, trying to install Star Office 5.1 here. Downloaded it, un-tarred
it, and am trying to run the "so51inst/office51/setup" program as per
instructions in the README. It doesn't recognize it. "bash: 'setup' not
found" or whatever. What else do I need to do to run it? It is chmod'ed
executable. thx....
--
Daniel E. Forester
Georgia Institute of Technology
http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~gte061f/
Black holes are where God divided by zero.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Siemel Naran)
Subject: change default runlevel depending on kernel?
Date: 5 Aug 1999 00:14:40 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have two kernels. One is fully graphical (ie, the bootup is fully
graphical), and the other is text. For the graphical kernel, the
default runlevel should be 5 and the system should run kdm. For the
other kernel, the default runlevel should be 3 and the system should
not run kdm.
I've noticed that my /etc/inittab has this line
# Default runlevel.
id:5:initdefault:
And also this
# Run kdm in runlevel 5
kdm:5:respawn:/opt/kde/bin/kdm -nodaemon > /var/log/kdm 2>&1
I want it to be
id:(graphics?5:3):initdefault:
Possible?
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Siemel B. Naran ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Siemel Naran)
Subject: Re: newbie: what is "Segmentaion fault"?
Date: 5 Aug 1999 00:18:11 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 05 Aug 1999 02:14:15 +0200, Jens Schwepe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>any program running on the system is assigned some memory space to store data
>and everything else. the almighty kernel does this, and everyone is happy. just
>one limitation for the program: it must not (= is not allowed to) write to
>memory space that it does _not_ own. if it tries (the "segmentation fault",
>because the wrong memory segment was adressed), the almighty kernel will cancel
>this ungrateful program. it falls into pieces (exactly one piece, the "core",
>as you asked) and this core is dumped into the current location the program
>resided. it namely is a file "core" and contains all the memory data the
>program was assigned when it failed, thus if you own 4Gigs of Memory and a
>database process switching 3Gigs of memory over and over fails, you will have
>3Gigs of "core" on your disk ;-)
>
>Just delete it, if you find it. You will -hopefully- never have to go through
>all the megabytes of crushed memory.
One can also do this
cat /dev/null > core
This creates a core file of size 0. When the program want to dump core,
it will see that there is already a core file, even though this file has
size zero. And the program won't dump core.
I've noticed that my new system never dumps core, even for a segmentation
fault. How can I make it dump core again?
--
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Siemel B. Naran ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Jens Schwepe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux and NT on one system....help!!!
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 01:57:05 +0200
look at the linux+nt mini-howto, which describes exactly the procedure that
you need.
lilo won't boot your NT box because it does not know about NTFS (I guess you
chose that when formatting your nt-partition). it will, hopefully, in the
future and there are some updates to the kernel so that you can mount
ntfs-partitions and securely read from and (merely not securely) write to
them.but this shouldn't be your problem now.
I have '98 (with Fat32), NT (with NTFS) and Linux on one 10GB-Drive, and
(after some re- and re- and reinstalling) it now works, if one knows what to
do ;-)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I had Windows NT installed on my system. I installed Redhat linux 6.0
> on the same system. But lilo gave me an error message during the
> installation process when I tried to include the NT partition in the
> boot sequence. So I omitted it for now. How can I setup the computer
> now so I can boot both systems. I have linux running now and it's
> working great of course. But I need to run NT sometimes. What should I
> do?
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: Daniel Bizuneh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Installing rpm file on RedHat 6.0
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 17:19:00 -0700
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I am trying to install ptolemy software from Berkeley on my RedHat 6.0
machine. I used the command "rpm -i file_name" to install the software,
but I keep getting the following error message:
error: failed dependencies:
/bin/sh is needed by ptolemy-bin-0.7.1p1-3
/bin/sh is needed by ptolemy-bin-0.7.1p1-3
/bin/sh is needed by ptolemy-source-0.7.1p1-3
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/bin/sh is needed by ptolemy-source-0.7.1p1-3
/bin/sh is needed by ptolemy-usersman_html-0.7.1p1-3
I have looked in /bin/ directory to make sure I have "sh" and "csh"
executable files. I noticed that
both "sh" and "csh" are linked to "bash" and "tcsh" respectively. The
question is how can I avoide the dependency problem that I keep getting?
Thanks,
Daniel Bizuneh
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need good Linux equiv to Win95/98/NT4 find text in file function
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 22:58:16 GMT
Lucius Chiaraviglio writes:
> On such machines I frequently need to find files containing a certain
> string wherever they may be on the entire hard disk (or even an entire
> network share). I would like to be able to do this cleanly under Linux
> as well.
Use rgrep.
--
John Hasler This posting is in the public domain.
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Must root and swap partitions be primary?
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 15:43:46 -0500
Hankel O'Fung wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> 1) Must the root partition and the swap partition be primary partitions?
> Can they be logical partitions?
They can be logical partitions.
>
> 2) Given that I have only one IDE hdd with a primary DOS partition and
> an extended DOS partition on it. If both linux partitions mentioned in
> (1) must be primary, does it mean that I cannot create any linux
> extended/logical partitions (since 2 DOS partitions + 2 linux partitions
> = 4 partitions already attain the 4-partition limit)?
>
> Thanks.
>
You should be able to delete the extended partition either using
the DOS fdisk or during (custom) installation, using the Linux
fdisk. Then you can create up to three partitions, with one
for swap. If you need a boot partition so the kernel will
be all below 1024 cylinders, you would then create a boot,
/ (root), and swap partition. If you can fit / (root) all
below 1024 cylinders, on a relatively small disk, you may not
need more than two partitions (including swap).
If you are nervous about deleting the extended partition, you
can do it all within the extended partition,a nd you won't be
effectively limited about the number of partitions. But use
a few as possible and make sure the root partition is big
enough for expansion. 1.5 Gig would not be overly large.
> Cheers, Hankel
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: mount theory, lost space, and other sundry cack
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 14:56:14 -0500
"W.G. Unruh" wrote:
>
> "Matt Arnold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >William Wueppelmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> described how to add
> >a new drive by saying:
>
> >> 1. mount the new partition under a temporary point like /mnt
> >> 2. copy /home to /mnt using the -a (archive) option
> >> 3. verify that the contents have been copied (unmount the partition
> >> and remount it and then check)
> >> 4. delete the contents of /home (but not the directory itself)
> >> 5. add a line to /etc/fstab that mounts the partition under /home
> >> 6. reboot, or better yet, just unmount the partition from /mnt and
> >> remount it on /home.
>
> >The above excerpt clearly describes how to add a new drive to increase the
> >amount of available space to your linux system. But I still have one
> >nagging question. What happens if we skip step 4? What happens if we don't
> >delete the original content? Let me give an example to explain further...
>
> The new partition will be mounted over the old contents,and those old contents
> will be inaccessible (but still there and taking up disk space.) Of course you
> can do this to test things out to make sure that you did not screw upbefore
> you erase all of your old work. Then once you are sure, umount /home
> rm -r /home/*
This could be dangerous advice, particularly to a new user of Linux.
Think of what the following minor typo (as root) could do
rm -r home/ *
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Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lilo Problems
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 15:24:16 -0500
sj grevett wrote:
>
> Please could you tell me how to get rid of lilo? I have tried formating the
> hd but that has failed along with fdisk. It has sent one of my systems into
> an internal loop as linux is no longer installed on it but lilo is left.
What you probably want to do is to restore the Master Boot Record.
Under Windows, make a startup disk. (Use any machine with Windows
Use Add/Remove Programs
in the Control Panel; it is an option under that.) Boot
from the startup floppy and run
fdisk /mbr
That should restore your master boot record.
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Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Siemel Naran)
Subject: how to queue mail?
Date: 5 Aug 1999 00:31:31 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'd like to queue mail and send it all off at once. Is this possible?
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Siemel B. Naran ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Jens Schwepe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: newbie: what is "Segmentaion fault"?
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 02:34:02 +0200
As you mention it:
I've written really bad hacks while coding network solutions. My SuSE 6.1 did not
core dump, either. Maybe a "feature" of the 2.2.x Kernel ?
Don't know and don't care.
Siemel Naran wrote:
>
> I've noticed that my new system never dumps core, even for a segmentation
> fault. How can I make it dump core again?
>
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> Siemel B. Naran ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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