Linux-Misc Digest #393, Volume #21 Sat, 14 Aug 99 00:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: Can't add partition to drive ("Duy D.")
Re: Is Linux A Memory Hogging OS? (Jim Richardson)
Re: Okidata 6e works under Linux? (The Hedge Fox)
frontpage 2000 as DSO, apache 1.3.6 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [Q]On Linux, How can C program access Database? (Kelly Burkhart)
Re: How do I remove a hard drive? ("Charles Sullivan")
Re: "locate" doesn't work (Chris Mahmood)
Re: Linux and the Dung Beatles (Chris Mahmood)
Re: /etc/bashrc file (Chris Mahmood)
Re: rename root account? (Chris Mahmood)
HYMEN! www.hymen-photo.com 3568 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: getting winmodem to work (Chris Mahmood)
Re: markets are creations of the state (Richard Kulisz)
Re: public health VS. medical research (Richard Kulisz)
Re: Linux BIGGEST Problem-Must Read ("Gilbert Groehn")
Re: markets are creations of the state (Richard Kulisz)
Re: Can't add partition to drive ("Charles Sullivan")
Re: Can't add partition to drive ("Charles Sullivan")
Re: getting winmodem to work (MattCero)
Where can I download The Redhat logo?? (L'acheteur)
LS120 (root)
Re: Formating dos partition for Linux and removing LILO (Cameron L. Spitzer)
Where can I download The Redhat logo?? (L'acheteur)
Re: Installation problems ("Duy D.")
Re: Lilo in swap partition (Cameron L. Spitzer)
Re: markets are creations of the state (Richard Kulisz)
how to setup mount at startup? ("kawing")
Re: Text Editor (brent verner)
Re: minimum linux for playing sound (William Burrow)
Re: Linux BIGGEST Problem-Must Read (MattCero)
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From: "Duy D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.general
Subject: Re: Can't add partition to drive
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 16:43:43 -0500
Craig wrote:
> I want to add a partition to a drive that already has a single
> DOS/Win95 partition on it. I've defragmented that partition.
> Now I want to convert the free space at the end to a Linux
> partition. However, when I run cfdisk in RH 6.0 Linux, it tells me
> that there is only 1.3 MB of free space, whereas Win95 reports
> 300 MB of free space.
>
Was the 300 MB of free space on your windows partition?
>
> Can anyone tell me how to work around this problem?
>
> ------------------ Posted via CNET Linux Help ------------------
> http://www.searchlinux.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Richardson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Is Linux A Memory Hogging OS?
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 11:28:11 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 10 Aug 1999 15:21:24 GMT,
Paul Hovnanian, in the persona of <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
brought forth the following words...:
>Donal K. Fellows wrote:
>>
>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>> Donn Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > Someone suggested that the temperature of the CPU increases as
>> > the CPU usage increases. By his reasoning, the larger the idle
>> > time, the cooler the CPU will be. How true is this?
>>
>> This is definitely true for virtually all CPUs currently in use[*] and
>> is particularly the case in CPUs in use in the embedded market,
>
>I'm no expert on this subject, but might the CPU power use at idle
>depend on exactlt what the OS does in its idle loop? In order to
>truly idle the CPU, the OS can't just have the scheduler running
>something in a loop. That would keep the CPU awake.
>
Heat is a product of many things, inluding clock speed, voltage and current
draw of system. Reduce any of these (and all others remaining the same), and
the heat thrown off will drop. Some CPU's can drop their clock speed down
at idle periods. Especially ucontrollers for cell phones etc.
--
Jim Richardson
Anarchist, pagan and proud of it
WWW.eskimo.com/~warlock
Linux, because life's too short for a buggy OS.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (The Hedge Fox)
Subject: Re: Okidata 6e works under Linux?
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 21:55:27 GMT
In article <7ontij$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Harold Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[Posted and mailed]
>
>Works Great just choose HP4 and print. However If you boot to 98/95
>The stupid thing will (at least mine does) Pick Hiperwindows which Linux
>can not work with randomly (even though I tell it I want HP4 to be the
>default.
>
Is there some way to telling the 6e to switch to HP4 mode when Linux
boots up? I don't want to have to use DOSEMU and the Okidata DOS
utils or remember to change it in Windows when I reboot.
The Windows software is buggy. It will switch you to HiPerWin even
if you manually set it HP4P.
--
C. Chan < [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
PGP Public Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: frontpage 2000 as DSO, apache 1.3.6
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 02:31:27 GMT
I've compiled frontpage extensions as a DSO, when I try to use LoadModle
on it I get the following:
undefined symbol: ap_call_execute
Also, I would like to know the default directories for apache in
Redhat/Mandrake 6.0. Here is what I have so far:
/etc/httpd/conf
/etc/httpd/modules linked /usr/lib/apache
/etc/httpd/log
/usr/sbin/httpd
/home/httpd/html
I'm trying to compile apache on a test machine and then copy httpd over
to another. I need exact settings but compiling from the source
defaults to /usr/local/apache
Eric
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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Crossposted-To: comp.databases,comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Re: [Q]On Linux, How can C program access Database?
From: Kelly Burkhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 12 Aug 1999 20:36:22 -0500
"Jessica Kim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I had C program on Linux.
> I'd like to access Database at C program.
> Tell me how I can access Database.
>
>
>
>
I've written a C++ interface to Oracle OCI and ODBC. You can find it at:
http://www.sky.net/~kburk/libdbc/libdbc.html
--
Kelly R. Burkhart
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[The litigation] industry was, of course, up and running before the
tobacco litigation, but that taught lawyers just how lucrative it
could be to blame individuals' foolishness on, say, Joe Camel.
-- George F. Will
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From: "Charles Sullivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: How do I remove a hard drive?
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 22:15:05 -0400
John Thompson wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
<snip>
>First, make sure you have some working linux boot
>diskettes. When you removed hdb, what was hdc became hdb
>and lilo was not able to find your kernel anymore. That's
>why it craps out when you try to reboot.
<snip>
That's the way Windows assigns drive letters, but are you
sure Linux works like that? My RH documentation indicates
that /dev/hdc would be the master drive on the secondary
IDE controller regardless of what was connected or not
connected to the primary controller.
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From: Chris Mahmood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: "locate" doesn't work
Date: 13 Aug 1999 14:53:47 -0700
"Russell S. DiPesa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> It is not my script. It come with RH5.2. It should be run every day by the
> system, since it is in cron.daily. Aynway, there is a /var/lib/locatedb and
> it has a size of 0 bytes.
It doesn't matter whose script it is, if it produces this error (which
you said it did) then it is broken:
[root@mail cron.daily]# locate man
locate: /usr/local/var/locatedb: No such file or directory
Either set $LOCATE_PATH to /usr/local/var/locatedb, use the -d option
with locate, or run updatedb with the --output option.
-ckm
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From: Chris Mahmood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux and the Dung Beatles
Date: 13 Aug 1999 14:58:41 -0700
"Ewoud Booyse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> You know, people keep talking about Linux all day as if it was something
> worth talking about. I think you people are wasting your time since
> Microsoft surely has some plan of getting rid of Linux.
You know what? You are absolutely correct. Oh well, I enjoyed Linux
while it lasted...
root@loafer> cat /dev/null > /dev/hda1 ; cat /dev/null > /dev/hda2
-ckm
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From: Chris Mahmood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: /etc/bashrc file
Date: 13 Aug 1999 14:45:10 -0700
On Sat, 07 Aug 1999 00:57:49 GMT, Jose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I know that the /etc/bashrc file can be used if the for "system wide"
>initializing before the person logs into the the system, but is there
>a file I can use for when the person logs out? I don't want to use
>the files that are in the person's home directory.
Why not put the .bash_logout you want in /etc/skel, make it owned by
root and not modifiable by them?
-ckm
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From: Chris Mahmood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: rename root account?
Date: 13 Aug 1999 15:10:54 -0700
Steve Maughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I was wondering: is there a way to create another user account
> with root priviladges but with a different name?
>
> I've tried creating another user (called "jim" for example) with
> user id set to 0 (like root), but when I access that account, a
> "whoami" reveales that I am root. This is not what i want - i want
> it to say i am "jim". Is ther any way to do this?
Why oh why would you want to do something like this? Given that you
can't operate your news client (I had to wrap your 100 column lines),
think this is a good idea, and you can't figure this one out on your
own, it would be irresponsible of me to give you the answer.
Hint: 0 == 0
-ckm
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
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From: Chris Mahmood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: getting winmodem to work
Date: 13 Aug 1999 14:29:56 -0700
Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Chris Mahmood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > > no, a pox on manufacturers who do not release specs or open source
> > > drivers to their hardware. the shoddiness of the hardware per se
> > > isn't the real evil.
>
> > Yes, but continuing to purchase their hardware while they continue to
> > withhold specs. is not giving them much incentive to release them.
>
> i am not advocating purchasing these hardwares. my point is this.
> the problem is manufactures who do not release specs or open source
> drivers. if they would publish their interface, we can evaluate if
> the hardware is losing or not. the lack of interface specification is
> *the* reason software modems suck. it doesn't matter if the modem
> hardware is good or bad.
Come on, is there any reason to think that they don't suck? Sure,
they also suck for philosophical reasons and, as you correctly point out,
that is reason enough not to buy them. There is so much other
hardware that has no or incomplete support (USB, Firewire, scanners),
why bother?
> if we have no specs and cannot use it for
> that reason, then the lack of specs means it's crap. the obvious
> conclusion is still `don't buy'.
Agreed.
-ckm
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Kulisz)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: markets are creations of the state
Date: 14 Aug 1999 02:45:39 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jeffrey C. Dege <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>The *existence* of a market is due to government intervention. Markets
>>of things cannot exist without property and property is established by
>>government coercion, by the Law and the threat of force.
>
>Markets depend upon people cooperating and agreeing to a common set of
>rules, no more.
Boy are you a utopian moron. Markets depend on coercion of people who
refuse to cooperate and agree to the imposed rules. Universal rules
*CANNOT* be established. Even super-majoritarian rules are iffy.
>What you seem to be saying is that people only cooperate when forced
>to by governmental force.
What I'm saying is that there will always be a subset of humans who
will only cooperate when forced to by governmental force. I belong to
that subset.
>I don't believe this to be true.
What do your beliefs have to do with fact?
--
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Kulisz)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: public health VS. medical research
Date: 14 Aug 1999 02:59:55 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Marco Anglesio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>No, they're problems everywhere. Look at TB in prisoner or aboriginal
>populations in Canada, for example. There is a significant and serious
>rate of infection.
Most people don't concern themselves with prisons; as evidenced by
the appalling conditions in Canada's penitentiaries (I'm saving
"dungeons and torture chambers" for the USA's system even though
I'm told it applies here as well).
>The difference is that in most other first world states, especially those
>with socialized health systems, more or less emphasis is put on correcting
>them as a matter of the public good rather than on a user-pay basis. (And
>that isn't to blame on the US's public health efforts, either, which have
>done good work; they're merely, if merely is the word, chronically
>underfunded, relatively unsupported, and quite often politically suspect
>for legislators).
Agree completely. Note that no nation I know of (maybe one of the
Scandinavian nations, but I doubt it) has a socialized medical system.
Rather, we all have more or less partially /nationalized/ medical
systems. There is a world of difference; in a socialized system,
patients would have a say (like members of cooperatives do).
--
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From: "Gilbert Groehn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux BIGGEST Problem-Must Read
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 22:35:31 -0400
Hi Matt:
I agree with you completely. If Linux is going to go anywhere
it must be usable by the average computer literate individual.
After over a week of fooling around trying to get SuSE 6.1
installed properly I finally nuked the SuSE package and installed
CALDERA 2.2. The entire installation took about two hours
and I had a usable system up and running. Still have the sound card
and printer to get configured but it works fine for web browsing and
give me something to lear Linux on.
I got my copy of Caldera 2.2 with a SAMS 'Teach Yourself Linux' manual
for $18.95 at Staples. What a difference.
SuSE may be a more complete package but in addition to being
difficult to install and configure (for me anyway) the major applications
(Applix) were bogus expired demo copies.
Cordially,
Gil Groehn
MattCero wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Ok everyone, like me I'm sure most of you reading this want Linux (any
version
>or release) to do great and some day soon to pass Microsoft and all the
little
>MicroSurfs in Redmond, WA. Read this and tell me if it makes sense.
>The best way for Linux to be on everyones PC is to make it installable.
The
>more people who can install it successfully, the more PCs will have it and
then
>the more people will have reason to write software for it and perhaps make
some
>money on the side. The more software that is available will mean that
people
>will want to install the OS. Remember the argument 'Gosh, get an IBM
>compatible, there's just tons more software than with the MAC or Apple'?
Well
>go back to step one, if people can't install the dog gone thing (Linux)
then
>how the hell is the operator base ever to grow big enough to snowball into
>something what MS is today? Well most of the help FAQs I read all assume
>people can log onto the internet with a fully operable Linux machine.
HELLO!
>Remember the first step, We have to install it and get it to run first.
Most
>people 'trying' this new OS will only have access to the internet using
their
>old OS which is probably Windows. So tell me, if there's a file out there
to
>get my ASUS 3800 TVR working properly in Linux on some web site, in some
tar,
>tgz, rpm or whatever format, how can I download the thing using my MS
Windows
>based internet connection, AND THEN put it in my /tmp directory when I
reboot
>in Linux. YA, THE PARTITION THINGY GETS IN THE WAY A LITTLE DOESN'T IT!?
It
>will be especially hard if it's too big to fit on one floppy! Not only
that,
>could the manual explain how to take things off a floppy and on the Linux
>partition if it does fit on a floppy? Even if I get over into my /tmp
>directory, the setup after that is like the early days of DOS. I'm sure
>there's a way but do you honestly think the average user wants to tinker
with
>their computer for a few days when Windows installs most of the time as
>advertised with little tinkering? The Red Hat folks need (well, to hire me
for
>project mgmt/development) to assume that getting it installed/running
properly
>and viewable is the most important obstacle they'll face. After that,
people
>can then, for the most part, use the GUI to figure things out.
> Does this make any sense to people or am I just philosiphising
>pointlessly? Feedback please here or email me off the group at
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Talk to ya soon I hope, Matt
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Kulisz)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: markets are creations of the state
Date: 14 Aug 1999 02:50:52 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, W.A. Scheer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Quite an interesting twist - but still twisted. Governments do not "create"
>markets, they simply protect the rights of individuals, their property, etc.
No shit, moron. Once upon a time, it used to be a right to own slaves
and government "simply" protected that right. You're assuming that there
is a universal *obvious* set of rights. There is not. Kantian human
rights are non-obvious as evidenced by the legions of selfish assholes
who are quite willing to let others starve to death.
If the fact that markets are creations of the state is "twisted" then
why is it that only two complete and absolute neophytes objected to it?
>The government protects me from you taking a club to my head. They have not
>"established" my life (or my head).
What an irrelevant non sequitur.
--
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From: "Charles Sullivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.general
Subject: Re: Can't add partition to drive
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 21:45:52 -0400
What's the total capacity of your drive? Is LBA supported
and enabled in your BIOS? Linux sometimes has problems
seeing drive space beyond cylinder 1023 without a little
help from the user.
Craig wrote in message ...
>I want to add a partition to a drive that already has a single
>DOS/Win95 partition on it. I've defragmented that partition.
>Now I want to convert the free space at the end to a Linux
>partition. However, when I run cfdisk in RH 6.0 Linux, it tells me
>that there is only 1.3 MB of free space, whereas Win95 reports
>300 MB of free space.
>
>Can anyone tell me how to work around this problem?
>
>
>------------------ Posted via CNET Linux Help ------------------
> http://www.searchlinux.com
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From: "Charles Sullivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.general
Subject: Re: Can't add partition to drive
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 21:50:19 -0400
Looking at your message again, I wonder if you're confusing
the amount of unused space _within_ your DOS partition (as
reported by Win) with the amount of free space _after_ your
DOS partition (as reported by cfdisk).
Craig wrote in message ...
>I want to add a partition to a drive that already has a single
>DOS/Win95 partition on it. I've defragmented that partition.
>Now I want to convert the free space at the end to a Linux
>partition. However, when I run cfdisk in RH 6.0 Linux, it tells me
>that there is only 1.3 MB of free space, whereas Win95 reports
>300 MB of free space.
>
>Can anyone tell me how to work around this problem?
>
>
>------------------ Posted via CNET Linux Help ------------------
> http://www.searchlinux.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (MattCero)
Subject: Re: getting winmodem to work
Date: 13 Aug 1999 22:40:50 GMT
Good philosophy, I'm onboard with it, Matt
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (L'acheteur)
Crossposted-To: soc.culture.singapore
Subject: Where can I download The Redhat logo??
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 03:17:41 GMT
Does anyone knows where / which websites can I dowload the Wallpaper
sized Redhat logo for my desktop wallpaper?? Thk in advance!!
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From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LS120
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 19:21:04 -0700
My LS120 is there and works fine as /mnt/LS120
What are the parpamaters to set it up to read and write the full 120 megabytes?
mount /dev/hdc /mnt/LS120 is what I have now.
Also, where should this go so I do not have to enter it every time I boot up?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron L. Spitzer)
Subject: Re: Formating dos partition for Linux and removing LILO
Date: 14 Aug 1999 02:48:13 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Warren Bell wrote:
>I'm going to turn my dos partition into a Linux partition. I want to
>have Linux boot directly now, how do I do this? Do I remove LILO?
>
>How do I make it as a standard Linux install without a duel boot that
>goes right into Linux?
>
>I was thinking going into /etc/lilo.conf and removing the second option
>and the time delay, but I don't want to do it where it's a hack or
>somthing.
Be sure you can boot from floppy in case you break LILO.
Delete the "other=" stanza from /etc/lilo.conf and run lilo.
Test your boot.
If it works, edit /etc/lilo.conf and delete the delay.
Then run lilo again.
Running lilo only takes a second.
You will hate life if you break LILO without a recovery path.
Cameron
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (L'acheteur)
Crossposted-To: soc.culture.singapore,sg.marketplace
Subject: Where can I download The Redhat logo??
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 03:18:22 GMT
Does anyone knows where / which websites can I dowload the Wallpaper
sized Redhat logo for my desktop wallpaper?? Thk in advance!!
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From: "Duy D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installation problems
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 22:05:20 -0400
Chris Warner wrote:
> I would like to install RH on my computer, but I have a problem I get disc
> druid to recognise my partitions.
>
> What I do is several ext2 partions in Partion Magic 4 and boot os the rh 5.2
> install cd and get to the point of selecting which partition to put the main
> part of os into and the apps into, but there are no ext2 partions shown in
> partition list.
>
> Has anyone tryed this way of insalling RH and does anyone know of a cheap
> way of getting hold of an RH6 cd as I don't won't or need the full boxed
> version.
>
> All help received greatfully
>
> Chris Warner
Base on my own experience with PM4 and Disk Druid, sometimes, disk druid
doesn't recognize logical partitions created by PM4. Use PM4 to make some free
space on your disk, then use disk druid or fdisk to create linux partitions
during the installation.
You can get cheap updated RH6.0 CDs (original RH 6.0 + update files) at
www.lsl.com, www.cheapbytes.com, or www.linuxmall.com. However, I really
don't recommend linuxmall.com, because I doubt if they ship the updated version
of RH6.0, plus they have defective CD (FreeBSD 3.2) but post no warnings. (BAD,
I'm still waitting for a replacement CD, which won't be shipped any time soon.)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron L. Spitzer)
Subject: Re: Lilo in swap partition
Date: 14 Aug 1999 02:57:15 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, William Burkett wrote:
>That seems to explain why you CAN put the boot loader in the swap
>partition, but what I'm wondering is why you would WANT to. Can you
>think of any advantage to setting things up this way?
Suppose you had one enormous drive, three OSes, and didn't want to
use EZ-drive etc.
/dev/hda1 Linux swap 10 cylinders
/dev/hda2 MS Win-NT 600 cylinders
/dev/hda3 MS Win-98 600 cylinders
/dev/hda4 "extended"
/dev/hda5-15 Linux partitions.
LILO is installed in the swap so the NT boot loader can be on the MBR.
The LILO-related files (boot.b, chain.b, message, map, kernels)
are on the NT partition.
In this scenario, placing LILO on (one of) the swap area(s) was the
only way to avoid the EZ-drive hack. Kudos to VA Linux (VA Research)
for this innovation.
Cameron
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Kulisz)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: markets are creations of the state
Date: 14 Aug 1999 02:40:53 GMT
In article <0fu1p7.ej5.ln@localhost>,
Stuart R. Fuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>W.A. Scheer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>: Quite an interesting twist - but still twisted. Governments do not "create"
>: markets, they simply protect the rights of individuals, their property, etc.
>: The government protects me from you taking a club to my head. They have not
>: "established" my life (or my head).
>
>Actually, *morality* protects you from me taking a club to your head.
Let's meet and I'll show you just how much morality protects you from
being clubed over the head. Morality, if you have any inkling of its
actual (as opposed to religious propaganda) definition, has at best a
very tenuous hold on humans.
>Government just punishes me if I were to do so.
--
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From: "kawing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: how to setup mount at startup?
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 16:27:13 -0700
Hi,
I am setting up the SUSE6.1 and the following problems really give me
headache:
1. The system never mount cdrom and floppy drive automatically and
successfully at startup. So I need to umount and then mount both of them
manually everytime. So what file should I edit so that the system will do
that at startup?
2. I cannot setup my Sound Blaster 16 compatible sound card. I installed
RedHat 5.2 on the same machine before and it just work perfectly. But when
I remove the comment on the /etc/conf.modules on the sb.o part and reboot
the machine and check using lsmodule, I found that the sb.o is never loaded.
Even I type:
#/sbin/modprobe sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=5 dma16=1 (which are all my correct
settings about that hardware)
I still cannot get the sb.o to be loaded. So what should I do to load sb.o
and make my sound card works?
3. I connect the linux box as a client to a WinGate proxy on a WinNT/98
multi-boot machine. My question is how to get the micq works in this
situation? I tried gtkicq and it cannot find the proxy. (Wingate has SOCK5
proxy)
4. Is there any media player in linux that can play .dat files? I have VCDs
in this format but cannot find the player.
All suggestions are welcomed.
Kawing
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From: brent verner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Text Editor
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 23:40:08 -0400
Suddn wrote:
>
> I telnet into my Linux server from a windows box. I need to work with text
> files (C++ Source) but I hate the VI editor. Is there any editors that are,
> well, more user friendly that will work?
>
> Thanks.
http://www.vim.org
Vim stands for Vi IMproved. my choice of editors across
the network or on my box. also has a nice gui version.
give it a shot!
brent
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Burrow)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: minimum linux for playing sound
Date: 14 Aug 1999 03:29:59 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 14 Aug 1999 02:30:46 GMT,
Andre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>My friends,
>
>What should be the minimum setup for a standalone linux box to play sound
>(mp3)?
The minimum you would need would be:
1) kernel with sound
1a) lilo or something to boot with -- optional for floppies
2) init
3) /lib, /bin, /etc, /dev (at least ttys, media devices, audio and dsp)
4) a shell
5) mp3 player and any libs it has
Statically link your shell, /bin and the mp3 to get rid of /lib, if
desired. There is a shell with much of /bin builtin, called sash I
believe.
>Can I erase /usr/bin and alike?
If you don't need anything in there.
>Should I keep most daemons?
What do you need daemons for?
--
William Burrow -- New Brunswick, Canada o
Copyright 1999 William Burrow ~ /\
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (MattCero)
Subject: Re: Linux BIGGEST Problem-Must Read
Date: 13 Aug 1999 23:34:57 GMT
Good point, Matt
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