Linux-Misc Digest #537, Volume #21 Wed, 25 Aug 99 15:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: Bypass Login ("Michael Halbig")
My LILO broke at Mandrake 6.0 with System Commander (Robert Washburne)
Telnet vs SSH (Warren Bell)
Re: Memory problem? Makrake 6.0 (Jayan M)
Re: modem setup on Linux... (Jayan M)
Re: ppp problems (W.G. Unruh)
Re: Telnet vs SSH (J.H.M. Dassen (Ray))
Linux Discussion Forums (Jay O'Connor)
Re: RealPlayer 5.0 wont work, Netscape 4.51, Slackware 4.0.0 (A Guy Called Tyketto)
Upgraded 2.0.36 to 2.2.10,->login: can't resolve getutent ("B. James DeVries")
Re: Can I switch Answer YOU BET! (Jerry Normandin)
Re: ppp problems (Paul Jimbo Duncan G7KES)
Re: running from RAMDISK (William Burrow)
Re: Unable to remove LINUX (Chris Butler)
Module slhc.o ? ("Angel")
Optimizing vmware (Ketil Z Malde)
Re: dpms without X? (Alex Yung)
Re: dual celerons??? (Justin Clancy)
Re: Bypass Login (Eric Hegstrom)
Re: VMware - wow! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: do these CD-Rs work? (Lew Pitcher)
Re: running from RAMDISK (-ljl-)
cdrecord - Need help urgently (me)
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From: "Michael Halbig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,de.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Bypass Login
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 17:27:32 +0200
Modifiziere die /etc/inittab:
Mach Dir dort Deinen eigenen Runlevel (z.B. 8) und starte in mit diesem
Runlevel Deine Applikation. Du kannst Dann auch genau entscheiden was Du
alles starten willst.(in deinem Fall startest Du in diesem Runlevel keine 6
mingetty `s )
ciao Michael
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From: Robert Washburne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: My LILO broke at Mandrake 6.0 with System Commander
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 11:45:31 -0400
Greetings!
I checked DejaNews, but couldn't form a search which described this
problem (at least not without returning 2000--5000 hits). Hopefully
someone out there has run into this...
First, the following configuration has worked well for the last year or
so;
- ADM K6-233
- two IDE hard drives. Both on primary IDE controller. 0x80 contains a
couple of Windoze on separate primary partitions.
- Two IDE CDROM drives; one burner, one 32X. Both on secondary IDE
controller.
- Future Domain 3260 SCSI controller with bootable BIOS.
- 500M SCSI hard drive (0x82) SCSI ID 4. Contained RedHat 5.0.
- SCSI 4x CDROM drive
- System Commander (commercial boot loader) installed on MBR of 0x80.
- LILO installed on SCSI root disk (0x82)
System boots. Goes through three BIOS's (graphics card, mother board,
SCSI). Then System Commander comes up and asks you to select an OS
(similar to LILO, but has more features necessary for multiple copies of
Windoze). I select "Linux" and it starts up the LILO on the SCSI
drive. Life is good.
I then ran the RedHat 5.2 upgrade. Had LILO installed to boot sector of
SCSI root drive as before. Everything still works.
I then made the following changes;
- Removed both SCSI drives.
- Installed two 2.1GB SCSI drives, SCSI ID's 1,2 (0x82, 0x83)
- Installed Mandrake 6.0 to SCSI ID 1 (0x82). No errors.
- Had LILO installed to the boot sector of the root partition (SCSI
drive).
I rebooted and System Commander noticed the new LILO. I selected it,
but this time the system hangs after "LI".
Again, this worked at RH 5.2, but now doesn't at Mandrake 6.0.
I checked the /etc/lilo.conf and all values appear to be reasonable with
boot, root, map, etc all pointing to where they should be. Linux is the
only thing LILO boots. I re-ran lilo, but it didn't make any
difference. I can boot from the boot floppy without any trouble and the
rest of the install works as advertised.
So, What's happening?
I could just get rid of System Commander and install LILO to /dev/hda1,
but then I lose the ability to boot to multiple versions of Windoze. I
keep Win3.11 (for some old classics which don't run under Win95) and
Win95 on separate primary partitions. System Commander allows this and
boots either one, hiding the other from view and malicious mischief.
Unless the latest LILO can do this as well?
Thanks for any help.
--
Bob Washburne
610-939-3551 (office) 610-939-6058 (fax)
800-759-8888 1636840# (pager)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 14:34:18 +0000
From: Warren Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Telnet vs SSH
I hear that you sould use SSH instead of Telnet for remote access. If I
switch to SSH, will a windows machine still be able to telnet into my
machine with their telnet client or will they have to get a SSH client?
Is SSH compatible with Telnet clients?
Thanks
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From: Jayan M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Memory problem? Makrake 6.0
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 13:17:44 GMT
Just curious, how do you know the swap partition has not been
touched?
Did you check if the swap is activated? Try swapon /dev/xxxx
where xxxx is your swap partition.
Jayan
Chris Mahmood wrote:
> Warren Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > After the machine
> > being up for one day I have just about 5M free. What's going on?!
> What's going on is that you haven't even bothered to look at the FAQ
> or attempt to research your question on deja. There is no "free" ram
> (in the Windoze sense) in linux--what isn't used by processes is used
> as cache.
> -ckm
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From: Jayan M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: modem setup on Linux...
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 14:46:09 GMT
Have seen that most of the 'Compaq' modem's are
also belong to the cr**py 'Winmodem' class..
Get a real modem..
Check out this site for some real cheap ones that work in Linux
http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~comech/tools/CheapBox.html#modem
Jayan
Rob Clark wrote:
> In article <7pvm4m$81$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I just installed Linux-Mandrake and I went
> >through the various setup routines both through
> >the X-Windows Control Panel and the KPPP program
> >and neither one could open my modem (with or
> >without the proper COM port address). My modem
> >is a Compaq 33.6 kps. Is there any other setup
> >method to fix this or does it have to do with the
> >kernel or ppp versions?...
>
> It is probably your modem, which is likely to be controllerless... please
> check the model number in the "CNT" section of the list at:
>
> http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
>
> Rob Clark, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (W.G. Unruh)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: ppp problems
Date: 25 Aug 99 14:56:08 GMT
Jayan M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>etc.. at least one entry for 'nameserver'.
>Replace the above dummy domain name and nameserver
>IP addresses with yours.
>You can get this info from your ISP's website.. or call the darned
>1-800 number or local support number that their invoice shows :-)
Unless that ISP happens to be Freeserv in the UK. They do not publish thier
DNS numbers and when you call them ( at 50p/min) they tell you that those
numbers are secret and cannot be divulged!
(an irate email to them finally produced the numbers)
>Have fun and never give up!
Sometimes those are incompatible.
>Jayan
>Casey Coulthard wrote:
>> Ok I had the same problem in Kppp
>> try getting the dns server info from you ISP and load that in kppp its in
>> one of the tabs in the account setup
>> or load them into netconfig. if you cant find it
>> click the blue and white icon on the desktop called kappfinder
>> then open the kmenu (button in lower left coner like windows start button.)
>> hover over personal (>menu)
>> mandrake linux (>menu)
>> administration (>menu)
>> select network configuration (this should only show up if logged in as root)
>> click the name tab this is your list of dns name servers(I think)
>> you should have at least one set of number in the lower box.
>> get behind it hit enter to goto the next line and enter the dns name server
>> for you ISP.
>> the box up is for other domains for searching I log onto mindspring.com so
>> that is what I have to put in there your isp tech support should be able to
>> help you out. Also when you have this done hit the save button. This
>> worked for me. but it is still flakey. At time is won't respond. But when
>> I use it to proxy my win98 box the connection flies. Later
>>
>> Casey
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> > I recently installed Linux-Mandrake 6.0 and am having some
>> > difficulties connecting to the internet. I have followed all the
>> > instructions for setting up my modem and ISP connection but always
>> > receive the same error during the connect process, "Timeout expired
>> > while waiting for the ppp interface window to come up." My modem
>> > initializes, dials the number and connects. It then supplies the
>> > username and password before the connection window goes into a
>> > "Logging onto network" process. This process sits for a while before
>> > I get the timeout error mentioned above. I have searched all over the
>> > internet but can't find any info to help me out in this situation.
>> > Any ideas? Some help on this would greatly appreciated!
>> >
>> > Thanks.
>> >
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J.H.M. Dassen (Ray))
Subject: Re: Telnet vs SSH
Date: 25 Aug 1999 15:36:12 GMT
[F'up set]
Warren Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I hear that you sould use SSH instead of Telnet for remote access.
Using SSH can protect you against various network attacks� like password
sniffing. Additionally, it can also provide a convenient and safe way to run
X applications on remote machines, and has a mechanism (ssh-agent) that can
help you if you have so many accounts you're forgetting their passwords.
>If I switch to SSH, will a windows machine still be able to telnet into my
>machine with their telnet client or will they have to get a SSH client?
>
>Is SSH compatible with Telnet clients?
SSH and telnet are completely different protocols. If your machine runs the
SSH daemon, but no telnet daemon, noone can connect to it via telnet. Of
course you can run both, but any client session using telnet will still be
vulnerable to attacks.
There are several Windows clients for SSH; see
http://www.net.lut.ac.uk/psst/ for pointers.
A different approach is to run telnet over SSL; for pointers, look around
www.openssl.org. I don't know if there are Windows clients for this.
HTH,
Ray
--
PATRIOTISM A great British writer once said that if he had to choose
between betraying his country and betraying a friend he hoped he would
have the decency to betray his country.
- The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
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From: Jay O'Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Linux Discussion Forums
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 10:46:52 -0600
All,
There is a new discussion board for Linux issues.
The location is
http://server2.ezboard.com:8080/bthecomputerdiscussiongroup
The are forums for discussion of various distributions, programming,
tools like Apache and MySQL, and some forums for disccussion of Win32
and WinNT programming as well.
Please stop by and take a look
Take care,
--
Jay O'Connor
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.roadrunner.com/~joconnor
http://www.ezboard.com
"Ay, but I wish Fortune would increase my Money as much as my Wife does
my Family." - Erasmsus
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (A Guy Called Tyketto)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: RealPlayer 5.0 wont work, Netscape 4.51, Slackware 4.0.0
Date: 25 Aug 1999 12:50:20 -0500
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Ron Gibson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Can anyone help me with setting up RealAudio 5.0/elf?
>
> I've followed the instructions for both plugin setup and helper
> application and neither works. I know it's not my sound card as I did
> get the old aout 3.0 version working and it played the demo file but I
> found when attempting to use that on broadcast.com that the version was
> too old. The kernel does have elf support. I can't even get the player
> to launch itself without netscape. No error messages either. And I've
> tried combinations of both plugin and helper setups. It appears that
> something is missing.
>
If you have not changed anything library wise (i.e.: still using
libc5), Check out /usr/src/linux/Documentation/Changes. The bug in
Realplayer 5.0 is no joke. Try the fix on it, as well. Worked for me,
back at the 2.1.119 stage. Should still work now.
BL.
- --
Brad Littlejohn | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Unix Systems Administrator, | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
WebMaster, NewsMaster.. Smeghead! :) | http://www.omnilinx.net/~tyketto
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From: "B. James DeVries" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Upgraded 2.0.36 to 2.2.10,->login: can't resolve getutent
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 11:58:32 -0400
Greetings all,
Yesterday I downloaded the 2.2.10 source from Sunsite, deleted the
symbolic link '/usr/src/linux'
pointing to '/usr/src/linux-2.0.36', untarred the source (creating
/usr/src/linux-2.2.10), recreated
the symbolic link 'linux', now pointing to 2.2.10, make menuconfig, make
dep, make modules, make zlilo
(Kernel To Big!), make menuconfig (modularize more), make dep, make
zlilo, 'Wander Off'.
Got back to work in another building, later, I decided to telnet in to
see if the process was done.
Telnetting into the box yielded the following.
Escape character is '^]'.
Linux 2.0.36 (linuxbox.alpeng.com) (ttyp0)
linuxbox login: root
Password:
login: can't resolve symbol 'getutent'
Connection closed by foreign host.
The console is still logged in as root.
Do I dare make module_install? If the machine reboots, will I need a
boot diskette? Can I fix the
error such that login works in the current environment (2.0.36 running)
and will continue to work
after the 2.2.10 kernel is running? Is 'make all' in order?
Thanks,
Jim DeVries
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From: Jerry Normandin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.apps,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Can I switch Answer YOU BET!
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 13:06:53 -0400
OH MAN, That's not a bug, it's a feature!
YOU need to create an adequate swap for any flavor
of Unix. Linux included.
How much memory? How much swap?
I've got 128MB and 256MB swap. I never had
a problem, however when I was debugging some
code that digitizes video to a raw device and then
extracts the video frames I had a memory leak.. sure
the swap grew.. but I was able to kill the app and
fix the code. Linux is very stable.
You don't want to fill up the swap on any machine..
If you allow that to happen the current app swapping
would probably segfault.
Baden Kudrenecky wrote:
> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Clay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >Sure, I've done it (sort of). I still miss the workplace shell (a lot),
> >and setting up Linux can be a trying experience (though it keeps getting
> >easier and easier), but, I finally had to acknowledge that OS/2 is going
> >practically nowhere (program development seems weak to non-existent) and
> >I have yet to have a misbehaving program lock up Linux (lockups still
> >happen to me with Warp, mostly, but not exclusively, related to my use
> >of Communicator - Linux is, in my opinion, staggeringly stable).
> >
> >BTW, why _is_ it that Linux is so much more stable than OS/2? Does it
>
> I have had Linux lock up with the same frequency or more than
> OS/2. Just try filling up your swap partition. Many times
> Netscape 4.61 locked up on the x-server, however, one nice thing
> about Linux, is that "kill -9" or a a x-server reboot cures it
> all. I think one reason that some people don't lock up the
> x-server as much as PMShell, is that there is not as much to do
> on the x-sever (I use KDE), however, when I have it fully loaded
> with Java apps running, and many browser's windows open, then
> there are frequent problems. I even occasionally have to
> reboot.
>
> baden
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://baden.nu/
> OS/2, Solaris & Linux
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Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 16:58:49 +0000
From: Paul Jimbo Duncan G7KES <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: ppp problems
"W.G. Unruh" wrote:
> Unless that ISP happens to be Freeserv in the UK. They do not publish thier
> DNS numbers and when you call them ( at 50p/min) they tell you that those
> numbers are secret and cannot be divulged!
> (an irate email to them finally produced the numbers)
Demon publish theirs, or at least its relatively public knowledge now,
because they always used to give that information out.
Paul
~~~~
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Burrow)
Subject: Re: running from RAMDISK
Date: 25 Aug 1999 15:34:25 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999 04:35:37 GMT,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>How do you set it up to have a RAMDISK available after booting?
>
>Which files of the system need to be copied to ramdisk if the harddisk
>is to be shut off after booting?
It depends what you want to do. If you want a fully working GUI, you
are going to need a lot of RAM. A web server might not need much more
space than its htdocs tree and binaries.
You will want to use initrd to start with, check the kernel docs:
Documentation/initrd.txt
--
William Burrow -- New Brunswick, Canada o
Copyright 1999 William Burrow ~ /\
~ ()>()
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Butler)
Subject: Re: Unable to remove LINUX
Date: 25 Aug 1999 16:51:58 +0100
[comp.os.linux.misc - Thu, 19 Aug 1999 22:42:15 GMT] * Jayan wrote *
> yeah baby! another root user posting to newsgroups!
Looks like he was using X as root as well. Yuck...
--
Chris Butler
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: "Angel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Module slhc.o ?
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 18:13:03 +0200
Could someone tell me what module slhc.o is used for ?
Thank you.
Angel Belda
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Crossposted-To: comp.emulators.misc
Subject: Optimizing vmware
From: Ketil Z Malde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 14:13:33 GMT
Hi
VMware looks great, although I haven't gotten around to testing it on
a "real" computer yet, only a meagre P133 over a slow network, and
with neither floppy nor CD to boot an OS from.
I might use it to run a bunch of instances of Windows in order to test
programs, and one thing that worries me, is the memory consumption.
Booting more vmware inststances than I could fit into physical memory,
seemed like a really poor idea - the computer went from a brisk pace
to a crawl in no time.
Does anybody have any experience booting several instances of NT with,
say, 16Mb each, and leaving it to Linux to manage virtual memory for them?
(I.e. I'd expect any VMware/NT instance that needed a lot of memory
intensively to swap like mad, but Linux should quickly have the
necessary parts of the VM's disk image in cache anyway, and the
swapping should be a lot faster than going to disk.)
Any experimental data here? Suggestions to optimum memory allocation
for various Windows versions? Any benchmarks or estimates on how much
swapping to Linux' disk cache costs?
-kzm
--
If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Yung)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: dpms without X?
Date: 25 Aug 1999 18:28:04 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
clee ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Is there an interface which would allow me to turn off my monitor without
: accessing the X server? I am interested in turning off my monitor via a
: script whenever the power goes out and my UPS starts running off the
: battery. I don't always have X running, otherwise I might try using some
: variant of "xset -powersave off".
: "man -k dpms" and searches for "+linux +dpms" only bring up references to
: xset. I know this has to be possible. Can someone point me in the right
: direction?
man setterm
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From: Justin Clancy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: dual celerons???
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 17:05:21 +0100
"Duy D." wrote:
> Can somebody shed some light on how to configure a dual celerons? (the
> easiest way, no drilling please). What is the best supported MB,
> preferably with scsi controller? Thanks!
I use a SuperMicro P6DLS for a dual PII (not Celeron)
system and it work just fine.
--
Justin Clancy
Windoze has detected that a gnat has farted near your computer. Press any key to
restart
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From: Eric Hegstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,de.comp.os.linux,jaring.os.linux
Subject: Re: Bypass Login
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 09:17:21 -0700
or you can use the a command like the following in your boot script
(inittab of the proper rc file):
su --login UserName
where Username is the account you want to start. Make sure to NOT start
mingetty on that tty.
Here is one simple way. (I actual create a new run level myself)
In /etc/inittab do the following:
set the default runlevel to 5
id:5:initdefault:
remove level 5 from the line that starts mingetty on tty1
1:234:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1
change the line to run xdm in level 5 to run the su command
x:5:respawn:/su --login UserName
where UserName is the user whose account you want to jump into. You can
then put the startup stuff in the .profile or .bashrc file in the
~UserName directory.
I would like to thank Tristen Wibberley for pointing out the su --login
command to me yesterday. Saved lots of work.
Cheers,
Eric
==========
Bartosz Klimek wrote:
>
> stan168 wrote:
> > Is there anyway to bypass the login session and straight away run my
> > application after linux started? Also is there anyway to start my app
> > without starting the window manager after the X Windows started?
> >
> > My situation is just to start only my application for the user to use and
> > prevent the user to mess around with others after booting the system.
>
> It's all possible. This is what we like about Linux :)
>
> Have a look at /etc/inittab. You can modify it so that it runs your
> script after system starts up. In my system the last line of the file
> is:
>
> x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon
>
> You could change it to (e.g.):
>
> x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/my_script
>
> /etc/X11/my_script would start X11 and then your application.
>
> However, I think it would nice to modify the X11 startup scripts so that
> your app is started instead of a window manager.
>
> This is just an idea. Maybe there is some more elegant solution.
>
> Good luck,
>
> --
> Bartosz Klimek
> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
Eric Hegstrom .~.
Senior Software Engineer /V\
Sonoran Scanners, Inc. // \\ L I N U X
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /( )\ >don't fear the penguin<
520-617-0072 x402 ^^-^^
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: athome.users-unix,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: VMware - wow!
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 17:52:18 GMT
In article <B3Ps3.2187$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"me" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "VMware products provide developers and users with the ability to:
>
> Run multiple operating systems concurrently on a single PC--without
> repartitioning or rebooting.
> Interoperate among each of these operating systems.
> Isolate and protect each operating environment, and the applications
and
> data that are running in it.
> Encapsulate and manipulate each operating environment, and have the
> availability to roll back and restart, or move an environment among
> differently configured machines. "
>
> www.vmware.com
>
Okay, I've loaded up VMware and yes Wow is appropriate but I can't seem
to get Windows95 to use the bridged network to reach my host computer's
(Linux) Network interface.
Now I the host uses connects to the network via dhcp and I state in
Windows95 that it should use dhcp but I can't seem to get it up and
running so that I can use Windows95 to reach the internet.
Any suggestions?? Thanks inadvance.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher)
Subject: Re: do these CD-Rs work?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 18:33:52 GMT
>I'm about to find out about the Mitsumi CR4802TE
>Under Linux 2.0.36 (Slackware 3.3 w upgraded kernel) it works properly as a normal
>CDROM.
>I've made the recommended ide-scsi changes, and cdrecord recognizes it. The docn with
>cdrecord seems to indicate that it *is* supported, but there's nothing like a live
>test.
>I'll post my results in the next couple of days.
Weeks later, after my vacation.....
I have made a couple of CDROMs using the Mitsumi 4802te on my system, and have
had only a few, minor problems. My system consists of an old 80MHz 486 (on a
VESA motherboard), 16 Mb memory, and a 3 G hard drive. I'm running Slackware
3.3 upgraded to the 2.0.36 kernel. I downloaded and installed the latest stable
release of cdrecord, cdparanioa, and a TCL frontend called CDRTOASTER.
I've got a couple of moderately cheap CD-RW disks ('Shark' brand name, I
believe), and a box of BASF CD-R disks. So far, I've packaged one audio CD and
one data CD on the BASF disks, using the CD-RW disks as prototyping tools.
First, I'd cut an (audio or data) CD on the CD-RW disks, and when that worked,
I would re-do the work onto a CD-R disk. The CD-RW disks didn't read properly
in my CD walkman or on another CDROM drive, but read OK on my home stereo CD
player. I'd guess that the recording worked OK, but the audio system's laser
wasn't tuned to properly track the CD-RW disks. Data CD-RWs read properly on
both the CD recorder, and another CDROM drive.
In any case, cdrecord had only minor problems cutting CDs; it times out in the
'fixating' stage (with a 6 line report), but retries the operation
successfully. I believe that this has been reported, and may have something to
do with the fact that the drive uses a large, onboard buffer, and that the
cdrecord program attemts to 'fixate' the CD immediately after dropping the last
of the data into this buffer. We'll see if a fix comes up, but the problem
doesn't affect the accuracy or quality of the recording.
As for setup, I followed the CD-Recording HOWTO, and the README documentation
that came with cdrecord. I've configured my kernel for IDE-SCSI support as per
the documentation, and included the append hdc=ide-scsi option in LILO.
In other words, I'm a satisfied customer.
Lew Pitcher
System Consultant, Integration Solutions Architecture
Toronto Dominion Bank
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
(Opinions expressed are my own, not my employer's.)
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From: -ljl- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: running from RAMDISK
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 18:04:50 GMT
In article <7pvrqo$45t$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> How do you set it up to have a RAMDISK available after booting?
>
> Which files of the system need to be copied to ramdisk if the harddisk
> is to be shut off after booting?
Look in the following:
http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/recovery/
both rescue* and resque* are stand alone systems, i.e. don't touch
your hard-disk. I use "resque_disk-2.0.22.tar.gz", which uses Linux
2.0.22, with a system that has the latest kernel. The author provides
enough info to create a more current version, just haven't go around
to it. Resque is a single diskette (1.44M) system.
Hope this is of utility.
--
Louis-ljl-{ Louis J. LaBash, Jr. }
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Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 20:26:07 +0200
From: me <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: cdrecord - Need help urgently
hello
i need to know how to elimitate the 2 second gap that cdrecored writes
to disk when recording audio disks.
this is the command i currently use:
cdrecord dev=0,0 speed=2 -v -multi -audio defpregap=0 track1 track2
track3
but even with the default pregap set to 0, it still records 2 seconds of
silence between tracks.
is this right?
please help
ali
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