Linux-Misc Digest #366, Volume #21 Wed, 11 Aug 99 16:13:11 EDT
Contents:
Re: Upgrading shared libraries (Paul Kimoto)
Re: Any Support for PCI Modems? (Charles E. Taylor IV)
Re: Marx vs. Nozick (Martin R. Green)
Red Hat IPO (Was: Re: E*Trade: Dishonest or incompetent?)( (John W. Eaton)
Re: how? Linux replace Windows. (John Thompson)
Is is at all possible to mount a remote device over a network?
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
glibc-2.1 installation woes (was Re: Plea for binary texinfo ...) (Paul Kimoto)
Re: Tar Limitations (brian moore)
can't load library --> libstdc++.so.2.9 (HELP!) (gp)
Re: My Linux box was hacked! (Alan J Rosenthal)
BTTV/BT878 - fullscreen problems (Nick C.)
Re: modem question ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
/etc/issue.net ("Brian D. Jones")
Re: Upgrade from RH5.2 to 6 (Leonard Evens)
Re: Booting Linux or DOS/Win3x (DeAnn Iwan)
Re: LILO and booting problems ("Norm Dresner")
Re: Booting Linux or DOS/Win3x (Leonard Evens)
Re: What is Applixware? (Leonard Evens)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: Upgrading shared libraries
Date: 11 Aug 1999 10:58:39 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael Jenner wrote:
> libgd.so: gd.o gdfontt.o gdfonts.o gdfontmb.o gdfontl.o gdfontg.o \
> gd.h gdfontt.h gdfonts.h gdfontmb.h gdfontl.h gdfontg.h
> rm -f libgd.so
> $(CC) $(LDFLAGS) -o libgd.so \
> -W1,-soname,libgd.so.1.3 gd.o \
^^^ "-Wl", no?
> gdfontt.o gdfonts.o gdfontmb.o gdfontl.o
> cp libgd.so /usr/lib/libgd.so.1.3
> ln -s -f libgd.so.1.3 libgd.so
> ln -s -f libgd.so.1.3 libgd.so.1
> ldconfig
>
> However, running "ldconfig -v | grep libgd.so", "ldconfig -p |
> grep libgd.so", and "dir libgd.so*" all reveals that libgd.so
> points to the new .so file,
... because ldconfig does not affect that symbolic link. It stays
where you put it. (The libgd.so symbolic link affects what happens
when you link, not what happens at runtime.)
> but libgd.so.1 points to the old lib,
> i.e. libgd.so.1.2
... because you probably want to give your new library the soname
"libgd.so.1". You can read about this in section 6 of the (Linux)
GCC HOWTO (http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/GCC-HOWTO-6.html).
--
Paul Kimoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Charles E. Taylor IV)
Subject: Re: Any Support for PCI Modems?
Date: 11 Aug 1999 15:45:58 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Alex Flinsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I saw an external modem at compusa the other day and it specifically stated "Windows
> Version" on the outside of the box, but I don't know if that means that it is a
> "winmodem" or that it came with some Windows software.
It was probably the software. My external modem said the same thing -
but it also mentioned Windows 3.1, NT, etc.
--
Charles E. "Rick" Taylor, IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://orangesherbert.ces.clemson.edu
"We got the MRxL, and you got none!"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin R. Green)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Marx vs. Nozick
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 16:33:33 GMT
I know it was a joke, so was my comment. Sigh, I should have stuck
with my first impulse and included a smiley emoticon.
CIAO
On Wed, 11 Aug 1999 13:27:44 +1159, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rodger
Donaldson) wrote:
>On Tue, 10 Aug 1999 16:34:01 GMT, Martin R. Green
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>UMM, excuse me, but doesn't *every* OS manufacturer want this? Doesn't
>>Linus? (in fact Linus is content with nothing short of World
>>Domination)
>
>It was a joke, son. Linus has gone on record repeatedly as an advocate of
>choice who wants people to be able to walk into a store and get Windows,
>MacOS, Linux, or whatever.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John W. Eaton)
Crossposted-To: misc.invest.stocks
Subject: Red Hat IPO (Was: Re: E*Trade: Dishonest or incompetent?)(
Date: 11 Aug 1999 12:57:27 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Rikli) writes:
> My most recent complaint about E*Trade happened about 30min ago. Perhaps
> others will have a similar story to tell.
>
> I was one of the lucky few who got in on the initial E*Trade conditional
> offer process for Red Hat (RHAT) @ $10-12 last week, IPO'ing today.
[Remainder of account of RHAT IPO experience elided.]
My experience was different, but not by that much. On July 20, I
received a message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] saying in part
In appreciation of your contribution to the open source community,
Red Hat is pleased to offer you this personal, non-transferable,
opportunity.
...
Red Hat couldn't have grown this far without the ongoing help and
support of the open source community. Therefore, we have reserved a
portion of the stock in our offering for distribution online to
certain members of the open source community. We invite you to
participate.
(I think that the first sentence of the second quoted paragraph is a
particularly important one to understand.)
So, I decided that I would try to participate in a small way, mostly
for the fun of being in on this from Day One (in more ways that one, I
think, since I have been writing free software longer than Linux has
been around).
Applying to buy shares was not trivial for me since at the time I
received the initial offer, the deadline for accepting was just one
week away and I didn't yet have an account with E*Trade. So I set one
up and deposited enough funds to cover the commission and 100 shares
at $12 (which was then the top end of the expected price range) but
not much more (E*Trade is not my regular broker, nor do I really want
them to be, so I saw no particularly good reason to put a lot of extra
cash there). Yes, 100 shares is not much, but remember, I was mostly
in it for fun (and perhaps a little profit). Of course I realized
that the range could change at any time, but I did not expect it to
change without some opportunity to react.
Eventually, the deadline for placing a conditional order slipped by
one week. On August 1 (I think, I had just returned from a ten day
trip to attend a funeral, so my memory of the exact time is a little
foggy), I was able to place my conditional order (unlike many others,
it now seems). Then yesterday the price range was changed (I just
happened to check the web site to see the notice) and notice was given
that NEW conditional orders would have to be placed if the offering
was outside the original range. So I watched this morning to see what
would happen. I must have noticed the alert about the price being set
at $14 just after it happened, because I was able to enter a new
order although others, even if they were paying attention, were not
fast enough (I'd estimate that the window of opportunity for this was
open for less than an hour). Although I was fast enough to get
another order in, I had not funded my account sufficiently to buy
100 shares at the new price, nor was it possible to buy less than a
100 share block. So, it seemed that I was SOL, but I still wasn't
sure when trading would actually begin, or whether I might be able to
make up the deficit in time.
A bit later, someone from E*Trade actually called me one the phone in
an attempt to let me know that I would need to place a new conditional
order, but by the time E*Trade placed the call *it was already too
late* as the web site showed that they were no longer accepting new
conditional orders. So I too wonder why they even bothered to call.
While I was on the phone, I explained my situation. I was transferred
to a broker who told me that I could not change my order to fewer than
100 shares, and that the only possible way that I could get shares
would be to initiate a wire transfer to deposit additional funds to my
account. But I decided against even trying that because it seemed
unlikely that there would be enough time, my bank would cahnge me a
hefty fee, and the whole process was starting to be somewhat less than
fun (which was my real reason for doing this anyway).
Thanks (I suppose) to Red Hat for trying to make a token offer of
appreciation to those who have worked so hard to make Linux possible.
Now I have yet another reason for not installing Red Hat distributions
on my systems (FWIW, I use SuSE currently, because the nice folks
there keep sending me free copies in the mail; I've never received
anything similar from Red Hat).
Finally, I do know that in `fast moving market conditions' one has to
be prepared to move quickly. But I think this whole thing was handled
in a sloppy way, at least for the little guys like me.
jwe
--
In the beginning, Ken Thompson | Octave: http://www.che.wisc.edu/octave
wrote the searching tool grep. | Me: http://www.che.wisc.edu/~jwe
-- A. Hume, SP&E (1988) |
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how? Linux replace Windows.
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 10:59:41 -0600
~Stuart~ wrote:
> Does Linux install and replace windows?
Only if you want it to... :-)
> or do I have to somehow delete/uninstall windows?
You don't have to; linux and Windows can co-exist on the
same machine. Windows won't be able to see your linux
partitions, which is a Good Thing. Linux, OTOH, can access
your Windows partitions just fine if you need to move stuff
between operating systems.
> Do all current programs running under windows - run ok under Linux?
No. Linux is a completely different operating system and
requires its own native executables. But you should be able
to find linux analogs to most of your Windows programs, the
most notable exceptions being Windows games, which
constitute the only reason why Windows is still installed on
this machine...
> How do I obtain the OS.. is it downloadable from the Net'?
You can download it but you probably don't want to do this
unless you have a pretty fast connection. We're talking a
couple hundred megabytes at the minimum. You'd be better
off buying it on a CD from cheapbytes or linuxmall where
they can be had for US$2 plus shipping. Or do what I did:
go to your local public library and find a few books on
linux to check out. Chances are one or more of them will
have a CD included you can install from and the book can be
handy in getting you up to speed while you install and
configure the system.
> Am I gonna be happy with it ?
That depends. If all you expect to do is play the latest
whiz-bang games on the computer you probably won't like
linux. If, OTOH, you enjoy tinkering with your machine and
getting to uderstand how it all works then linux is for you.
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Is is at all possible to mount a remote device over a network?
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 18:18:50 GMT
Is there any possible way (I doubt it, but I figured I'd ask) to mount
a remotely located disk location???
Thanks in advance!
Heather
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: glibc-2.1 installation woes (was Re: Plea for binary texinfo ...)
Date: 11 Aug 1999 13:28:05 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <7os1co$9b7$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Anyway, so, the next thing this JDK wanted was glibc 2.1 so off I went
> to the ftp server and got it and tried to install it. However, the
> configure program stopped and said I only had gcc 2.75.3 or something
Probably "2.7.2.3".
> and that I needed a newer C compiler, so I went to a GNU ftp mirror and
> got gcc 2.95 and tried to install that. It seemed to be OK, so I tried
> glibc again. It still said I had gcc 2.75.3! I realised this was
> because I had the old one installed in /bin and the new one
> in /usr/bin, and /bin was first in the path.
You could just change the PATH in your shell to order the directories
the other way.
> it now said that I had gcc
> 2.95 and that was no good, despite the INSTALL saying it was fine. I
> delved into the configure script and found the reason - it said it was
> only OK if gcc version was 2.9[1-9].* Changing this to 2.9[1-9]* fixed
> the problem - is this a bug?
Fixed in glibc-2.1.2-pre2.
> After fiddling with this, I finally managed to do a configure and a
> make. When I tried a make install, however, it died on me again,
> trying to install the manuals.
Didn't you get an error message for this when configuring?
You could try "make -k install", which will try to complete what is
possible following errors.
--
Paul Kimoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Subject: Re: Tar Limitations
Date: 11 Aug 1999 16:52:01 GMT
On Wed, 11 Aug 1999 15:26:16 +0100,
Jon Skeet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> What architecture are you running on? AFAIK, i386 Linux will not handle
> files with sizes > 2Gb, as it runs out of address space for memory mapped
> I/O. I believe there is *some* way of doing it, but you'll need to
> recompile things (including tar) - and I'm afraid I don't have any
> references for it. If you're on Alpha (or another 64 bit architecture)
> then you may have found a bug in tar.
Actually, you would have to do a lot of work to do it.
Think of 'lseek' or 'fseek' and how they would handle >32bit values for
offsets.
The only real solution is to leave the 32 bit world: anything else is
really ugly.
--
Brian Moore | Of course vi is God's editor.
Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | If He used Emacs, He'd still be waiting
Usenet Vandal | for it to load on the seventh day.
Netscum, Bane of Elves.
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From: gp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: can't load library --> libstdc++.so.2.9 (HELP!)
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 18:30:50 GMT
I am attempting to run KDE Slackware Edition 1.1.1 on my Redhat Linux
5.2 (kernel 2.2.10). When I try to do so, I get this message: can't
load library libstdcc++.so.2.9. Prior to installing KDE, I
successfully installed QT-1.44. What am I missing or doing wrong?
Please help.
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Crossposted-To: comp.security.unix,comp.os.linux.setup
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alan J Rosenthal)
Subject: Re: My Linux box was hacked!
Date: 11 Aug 99 16:52:49 GMT
Rene Grothmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Sorry, but English is not my native language. So, what does "prowess"
>mean? I could not find it in my dictionary.
This is getting rather off-topic, but what dictionary doesn't have that word?
I'd be astonished if any remotely normal English language dictionary didn't
have the word "prowess". On the other hand, I'm not familiar with any of
the decision processes for including words in translation dictionaries,
if that's what you meant (e.g. English-German dictionaries). But back on
the first hand, my Collins GEM English<->German dictionary, which is pretty
small (although the GEM dictionaries are pretty cool), lists prowess and
translates it to \"uberragende(s) K\"onnen, if that helps...
>And besides, to which
>category of hackers in the cited text are you counting yourself. Maybe
>to the crackers?
I think it's pretty clear that he thinks highly of traditional "hackers" but
thinks ill of mere "crackers".
Back to the topic at hand, I think that some "crackers" are genuine hackers,
and in the old days they basically all were; but nowadays very few are.
They're not mutually exclusive, they're pretty independent. You can want to
enhance or destroy a computer, and you can do it with great or little skill.
In my opinion, it's a sign of the sophistication of computer security that
the "exploit" programs can be written so as to automate the break-in process.
But it's not a sign of sophistication for someone simply to run one of them.
Being an *author* of some of them probably is indicative of being a "hacker",
although I lament that person's choice of focus. (And on the other hand,
some of them don't require great skill to write these days because the
basics (e.g. the "shell code") exist and can be copied.)
What do comp.security.unix folk think of an additional "vfaq" question for my
file, entitled "Why do some people get so upset when system penetration is
called 'hacking'?"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nick C.)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardwarec
Subject: BTTV/BT878 - fullscreen problems
Date: 11 Aug 1999 18:35:05 GMT
OK, I posted another thread about the BTTV driver and no sound on an
AverMedia TV98, but I already fixed that myself (and there was MUCH rejoicing,
since I'd been working on getting it to work for MONTHS). Now I have a great
picture, perfect (mono) sound, and there's only one problem left. I can't
get xawtv to go fullscreen. Here is my setup:
Kernel 2.2.11
XFree 3.3.3.1, running at 16 bit color depth 1280x1024 resolution
xawtv 2.46
gnome core 1.0.4, libs 1.0.8
When I try to get xawtv to go fullscreen, the display "blacks out" (gets
replaced by a black screen with a few blue or green lines on it), something
dumps core, and I have to ctrl-alt-bksp to get out of X. I can still press
esc to shut down xawtv however, and I can still see the mouse pointer, so X
is not locking up. It's just failing to properly display a full-screen
picture. Any help getting over this final hardware hurdle would be appreciated.
BTW: If anyone needs help setting up an AverMedia TV98 BT878 TV card under
Linux (that should be enough for DejaNews :) ), e-mail me, as I would be happy
to save someone the headaches I experienced setting it up.
--
Nick C. - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | E-mail address contains a spamblock
"Stupidity should be painful." | Remove IFRICKINHATESPAM to e-mail
-Anton Szandor LaVey | [EMAIL PROTECTED] for the bots
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: modem question
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 16:10:52 GMT
I did not see a model number for your actiontec modem. But, unless
it is one of their call waiting modems, it is a win modem. So, no luck
using it as it is in Linux
John
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
redover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I just got rid of my winmodem i bought a Aopen IUT/2 . I had good luck
> with it today very happy camper.
>
> Wayne Power wrote:
> >
> > I have an ActionTec v.90 voice/fax/windows modem. Is there any chance
> > of getting this to work under Linux?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > --wmp
>
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From: "Brian D. Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: /etc/issue.net
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 13:51:39 -0400
For some reason, /etc/issue.net (text that gets displayed when machine
is telnetted to) keeps getting remade maybe every day (I haven't kept
track). Why? How do I make this stop, or how do I control how and when
it remakes itself?
thanks...please cc [EMAIL PROTECTED]
brian
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Upgrade from RH5.2 to 6
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 13:48:26 -0500
Aaron Dershem wrote:
>
> I've gotten RH5.2 installed at home and it runs just fine. I even upgraded
> the kernel to 2.2.6 with no hitches. Are there any compelling reasons to
> upgrade to 6.0? If so, is there a lot of work involved, or is it just a
> matter of upgrading the RPMs?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Aaron Dershem
If you upgrade, do it from the upgrade CD or equivalently
by ftp. It would be too much effort upgrading all the packages.
The main advantage that 6.0 has is that gnome is completely
integrated in it. And of course any upgrade will fix a
variety of bugs (and unfortunately provide new ones).
I put off upgrading because I was comfortable with 5.2, but
I've now upgraded three machines I use (and several others
for other people), and I am glad I did. Gnome took some time
getting used to, but I am really beginning to like it.
There were the usual variety of problems involved in upgrading.
But except for learning how to use and otherwise fiddle with
gnome, the amount of time it took was not exceptional. Most
things worked immediately and in some cases it took me a day
or two to fix others.
The main disadvantage of RH6.0 is that it seems to require
considerably more disk space; in my case typically
650 MB or more. (But I have gimp and other such programs
installed.) I don't know exactly how much of this is because
of gnome.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: DeAnn Iwan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Booting Linux or DOS/Win3x
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 14:16:27 -0400
there is a HOWTO for multi-booting linux with MS operating
systems. The howtos explain the limitations and requirements in gory
detail. In brief, you can install DOS (and Win3x) on your 720MB drive
(as primary), then install linux on the second drive (delete all DOS
partitions first so that there is free space for linux), and then put
LILO in the master boot record to allow dual boot. But read the howtos
first to see what you need to be aware of. It is a good idea to make a
bootable DOS disk with rescue stuff on it (fdisk, etc.) so that you can
still get to the disk if the master boot record somehow gets messed up
(which "shouldn't" happen but does often enough if you read this
newsgroup long).
"Martin R. Green" wrote:
>
> I am currently running RH6.0 on an old 486SX PC with a 1.2G hard
> drive, but I have found that I don't really have room to play with
> Linux properly in the space I have allocated for the Linux main
> partition. As a solution I am going to add an older Quantum 720M
> drive, setting up DOS on the 720M and Linux on the 1.2G drive.
>
> I need to be able to boot with LILO into either Linux or DOS with
> Win3x, but I believe only partitions on the primary drive can be made
> bootable, which means I probably need to do one of the following:
>
> 1. Make the 720M the primary drive and install DOS on it. Make the
> 1.2G the secondary drive, and install Linux on it. Let LILO be
> installed on the primary boot drive, and let it handle booting Linux
> from the secondary drive. I don't think this will work.
>
> 2. Make the 720M the primary drive, create a large DOS partition and a
> a small Linux boot partition on it, and install the rest of Linux on
> the secondary 1.2G drive. I *think* this is the way to go. "/" would
> be on the secondary 1.2G drive and "/boot" would be on the primary
> 720M drive.
>
> Has anyone done something like this before? Any suggestions or
> caveats?
>
> Also, should I allocate the Linux swap partition on the same drive as
> the rest of Linux, or will Linux run quicker if I place the swap
> partition on the 720M and the rest of Linux on the 1.2G? (both drives
> are about equally fast).
>
> CIAO and thanks - Martin.
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From: "Norm Dresner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO and booting problems
Date: 11 Aug 1999 19:27:42 GMT
1. Why are you trying to boot into single user mode? Is it because you
can't boot normally? If not, why not try that?
2. When you do boot from the floppy, what does the contents of /boot look
like? If the kernel images there are screwed-up, you could try creating a
new kernel.
3. Are there any option boards in the computer that might be hanging?
Linux is much more tolerant of missing stuff than broken things. Try
stripping the computer down to the barest possible configuration.
Norm
Andy Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> This may have nothing to do with LILO, actually. I'm trying to fix a
> machine and I'm not sure what the problem is. When booting, the machine
> gets to the LILO prompt. It's not connected to the network at this
> point, so I just type "linux single". It then says "Loading linux" and
> that's all she wrote.
>
> Part of the problem was that power was lost. The other part is that
> this was the first time rebooting after upgrading the kernel (via rpm).
>
> I've successfully booted with the rescue image disk, run e2fsck and lilo
> -r, to no avail.
>
> His machine is an intel ppro 200, running RH6, upgraded to 2.2.5-22 (or
> close to that).
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> --
> Andy Harrison
> Time Warner Cable of Maine
> Road Runner Associate Systems Administrator
> ICQ: 1467660
>
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Booting Linux or DOS/Win3x
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 13:57:55 -0500
"Martin R. Green" wrote:
>
> I am currently running RH6.0 on an old 486SX PC with a 1.2G hard
> drive, but I have found that I don't really have room to play with
> Linux properly in the space I have allocated for the Linux main
> partition. As a solution I am going to add an older Quantum 720M
> drive, setting up DOS on the 720M and Linux on the 1.2G drive.
>
> I need to be able to boot with LILO into either Linux or DOS with
> Win3x, but I believe only partitions on the primary drive can be made
> bootable, which means I probably need to do one of the following:
>
> 1. Make the 720M the primary drive and install DOS on it. Make the
> 1.2G the secondary drive, and install Linux on it. Let LILO be
> installed on the primary boot drive, and let it handle booting Linux
> from the secondary drive. I don't think this will work.
It should work if you put lilo into the master boot record of the
first drive. But you may not be able to set it up this way
on installation. You will have to make a boot floppy to boot
Linux initially.
>
> 2. Make the 720M the primary drive, create a large DOS partition and a
> a small Linux boot partition on it, and install the rest of Linux on
> the secondary 1.2G drive. I *think* this is the way to go. "/" would
> be on the secondary 1.2G drive and "/boot" would be on the primary
> 720M drive.
This will definitely work. You could also put your Linux
swap partition on the first drive or indeed you could put any
small Linux partition there. You need not actually put the
/boot partition on the first drive. But make sure you use
fdisk to toggle active the partition on the first drive where you
put the Lilo boot loader, (and toggle active off for the dos
partition). The way it works is the BIOS goes to the master boot
record on the first drive. If it finds the lilo boot loader
there, that tells it what to do next, which includes where
to find the kernel and what the root partition is. Otherwise,
it sees which partition is active and goes there where it
presumably finds the lilo boot loader and then follows instructions
from it. I think that is about right, but I welcome corrections.
If you don't set the active partition correctly the second
method won't work.
>
> Has anyone done something like this before? Any suggestions or
> caveats?
>
> Also, should I allocate the Linux swap partition on the same drive as
> the rest of Linux, or will Linux run quicker if I place the swap
> partition on the 720M and the rest of Linux on the 1.2G? (both drives
> are about equally fast).
>
> CIAO and thanks - Martin.
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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: What is Applixware?
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 13:40:33 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I just installed Red hat 6.0 and I need to know if Applixware comes w/
> RH6.0 applications CD and/or where can I Download it?
>
> Can anyone help? Thanks!
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
Applixware is a commercial vendor which sells office
software that runs under Linux. If you get the official
(expensive) RH6.0 release, it comes with an application
disk that contains a demo version of Applix, which has
a `Word' processor and spreadsheet much like Excel. But
you have to pay for the real version. I think it costs
about $80. You can find out more about it by looking
at
www.applix.com
If you want a free Office type product, consider Star Office.
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Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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