Linux-Misc Digest #623, Volume #21 Tue, 31 Aug 99 22:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: Had it with RH6 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
General Questions about CDR and CD-RW (Jason Bond)
new user? (Will Snyder)
Re: Newbie question : AMD K6 2 etc Graphics (Christopher Browne)
Re: Directory tree: function to display? (Jayan M)
Re: Optimal Linux RAID Support? Questions. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Avermedia98 & bttv problems ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: HowTo extract from a tar archiv ... ("Mark P. Nelson")
Memory (Assad Khan)
Re: new user? (Assad Khan)
proftp replacing wuftp - error ("jmr")
Re: Mandrake ("Christopher W. Aiken")
Re: new user? ("Christopher W. Aiken")
what's a "jiffy" in /proc? (Virginie Galtier)
Mandrake (Dennis)
Re: Sun acquires StarOffice; gives it away for free ("Mike Palmer")
Caldera 2.3 - What is in it? (Dennis)
Re: News Proxy (Jimmy Lio)
Re: InoculateIT detected the (W95/Happy99.worm) virus in Mailbox (Pub lic Folders),
Sender (Jumbo) !!! (Spike!)
Can't talk on GPIB unless I'm root ("Gary J. Weiner")
Re: help with .deb (Paul Kimoto)
bios related install problem???? ("aftab")
Re: Sun acquires StarOffice; gives it away for free (Philip Lehman)
Re: Cat Command not Found ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Can't talk on GPIB unless I'm root ("Gary J. Weiner")
Re: zero-length partition, input/output error, couldn't "mv" directory name.
couldn't e2fsck. (Andries Brouwer)
Re: why not C++? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: source for icewm??? (J.H.M. Dassen (Ray))
Re: Save my 486... Linux and HDD controller board ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Had it with RH6
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 23:31:52 GMT
Michael McConnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, Steve D. Perkins wrote:
:> > SB16 PNP worked flawlessly under 5.2, and is broken by default in 6. I
:> > got it to work, only after pouring through several HOWTOs including
:> > one for a completely different model sound card.
:>
:> I've been complaining about the exact same problem on this group for
:> about a week-and-a-half, and haven't heard any possible solutions yet.
:> What exactly DID you end up doing to make your sound card work?
: I got a friend's machine with SB16 PnP to work ni RH6 by using ALSA (supplied
: on the Eridani RH6 CDs).
This is all mildly puzzling to me. I'm running a SB16 PnP on an
out-of-the-box RH6.0 installation and had no problems during install or
after. In fact, I'm listening to a CD through it right now.
Antryg - Tried most of them...came back to RedHat.
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - "Everyone should have a sig quote. This one is mine."
http://www.pobox.com/~antryg (sadly outdated)
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From: Jason Bond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: General Questions about CDR and CD-RW
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 14:26:19 -0700
I just bought a new CD-RW and had a few question about the process of
recording cd's.
1) Can one record on a CD-RW disk in more than just session? That is,
can I record a track; stop; and then come
back at a later time and record another track on the same CD-RW disk
without writing over the first track?
2) Can the same be done for CD-R disks? Or does
the buring all have to be done in the same session?
3) Which is the best program to use for cd buring?
Thanks much,
Jason
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From: Will Snyder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: new user?
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 23:31:03 GMT
How do I create a new user in SuSe 6.1? (adduser didn't work, and I am
using bash)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Newbie question : AMD K6 2 etc Graphics
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 23:54:24 GMT
On Tue, 31 Aug 1999 16:32:15 +0200, Levy, Richard
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have a K6-2 350 chip. With Windows, I needed DirectX version 6 to
>support the on-chip graphics acceleration. With my CAD work the
>difference was noticeable under Win95.
>
>Do I need a special set of drivers to make use of this acceleration on
>Linux? What about a special addon for the X server.
>
>I am about to install Red Hat 6 or Debian but am not sure which yet.
There is not yet significant support for "MMX variations" (e.g. -
Intel MMX, AMD '3DNow') for either the Linux kernel or for XFree86.
This means that this doesn't presently represent an issue that would
"break any ties" between your selection of one distribution or
another:
- Both Red Hat and Debian use X servers from The XFree86 Project,
which means that neither has any persistent advantage from the X
perspective;
- Both Red Hat and Debian use the same stream of Linux kernels as
managed by Linus Torvalds, again meaning "no persistent advantage;"
- Ditto for compilers like GCC and libraries like GLIBC.
There are few persistent performance issues that would cause Red Hat
to be preferable over Debian, and the same is true for most
distributions.
--
"Linux and other OSS advocates are making a progressively more credible
argument that OSS software is at least as robust -- if not more -- than
commercial alternatives." - Microsoft lamenting Open Source Software in the
"Halloween Document"
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://www.hex.net/~cbbrowne/linuxarch.html#MMX>
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From: Jayan M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Directory tree: function to display?
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 21:51:09 GMT
There is a tree utility on the Redhat cd. The install defaults to
not installing this one.. Look in the RPMS directory on the redhat CD
or their ftp site..
Jayan
Stephan Houben wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> > Is there a function analog to the DOS function 'tree' under Linux
> > which prints a nice pipeable overview of the directory tree?
>
> There are several options.
> The simplest is `ls -R' which lists all files in all subdirectories.
>
> But if you want to get fancy, you can use `find'.
> Some examples:
>
> find .
>
> This gives you all files and subdirectories under the current path `.' .
>
> find . -type d
>
> Only lists directories.
>
> find . -type d -maxdepth 2
>
> Only go two levels deep.
>
> See `man find' for lots more info.
>
> Greetings,
>
> Stephan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Optimal Linux RAID Support? Questions.
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 00:25:31 GMT
In article <7qgbqv$cec$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello, I am in the process of configuring and setting up some Linux
> servers for my company, [snip]
>
> The question is this... software or hardware based RAID? And what
> are the hardware requirements?
I think that setting up software raid in Linux for a company is a
very bad idea at this time. I have done a kernel patch in kernel
2.2.11 to stripe a couple of drives together as an experiment, but
no way would I do this on a machine used for business.
Depending upon how dead in the water your company would be if the
RAID array has problems, I'd recommend finding a company that does
this professionally. You need to decide how fault tolerant the
system needs to be, and provide for a backup mechanism that is fast
enough so that you're not backing up during high-usage times.
I know, this isn't exactly the question that you asked, but I felt
strongly about this and wanted to make sure you had taken these
factors into account. There's just so many factors to take into
account when choosing a RAID+backup solution that I'd personally
stick with proven SCSI hardware, known redundancy, hot-swapping
of bad disks and fast tape backup. You may find that backing up
250Gb of data requires a very expensive tape drive, like digital
linear tape. Scary to get it wrong!
As a note, there is a mail archive for linux kernel RAID that's
worth looking into:
http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-raid%40vger.rutgers.edu/
Good luck with your storage quest.
- Leo
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Avermedia98 & bttv problems
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 23:53:40 GMT
I'm trying to compile bttv for avermedia98.
i've tryed card=18 but all i see is
fuzzy images sometimes only BW and no sound.
the application i use is xawtv.
My sound card is soundblaster64 PCI (it works ok).
can you help me with this one ? thanks..
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Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: "Mark P. Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HowTo extract from a tar archiv ...
Date: 1 Sep 1999 00:00:44 GMT
Chris Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I'm not sure I understand fully. Tar by itself, with no added command
: line parameter will not do absolute-path, so if you <tar xvf
: filename.tar> it will untar the archive in the pwd. It should only be
: when you do a <tar xvf --absolute-path filename.tar> that it will
: cause it to untar in the incorporated paths. Or am I confused?
: chris
You are confusing GNU tar with common (or garden) tar.
Using a regular, unenhanced tar, untarring an archive that has been
created using something not too clever, like 'tar cf /dev/st0 /usr/bin'
will give you something that will _always_ untar to /usr/bin, because
of the leading slash in all the filenames, and it does't matter what
directory you are in when you try to untar it.
This is why you should always do something like this instead:
'cd / && tar cf /dev/st0 usr/bin'
Fortunately for the original poster, GNU tar will automatically strip
leading slashes off pathnames in stupidly created archives (unless you
tell it not to). SO, if your Solaris box comes with some other version
of tar, you should dump it and get GNU tar instead--problem solved.
HTH.
--
Mark P. Nelson, Programmer/Analyst
Department of Integrative Biology, Thomson Laboratory
Clotho, Lachesis, Atropos -- the only sysadmins that matter
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From: Assad Khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Memory
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 20:56:34 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Can Linux support up to 4GB memory? Im going to Aspsys.com to build a
very powerful Alpha machine :)
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From: Assad Khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: new user?
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 20:13:15 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
try 'useradd' without the quotes
Will Snyder wrote:
> How do I create a new user in SuSe 6.1? (adduser didn't work, and I am
>
> using bash)
>
> ------------------ Posted via CNET Linux Help ------------------
> http://www.searchlinux.com
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From: "jmr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux
Subject: proftp replacing wuftp - error
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 02:47:32 +0200
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Hi!
I tried to replace wuftpd with proftpd by doing the following:
rpm --install <proftp-package>
Now it tells me there is a conflict with wuftp, which I understand very =
well ;) So, now:
rpm --erase <wuftp-package>
that tells me anon-ftp would be in conflict with that, so:
rpm --erase <anonftp-package>
rpm --erase <wuftp-package>
Then finally:
rpm --install <proftp-package>
rpm --install <anonftp-package> (I tried with and without this)
I also changed the entry in inetd.conf but now every connection fails =
anyway:
ftp> open 192.168.1.177
Connected to 192.168.1.177.
421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection.
:(
Trying to run the proftpd program NOT as service unveils the following:
]# proftpd -n
attempted bind to 0.0.0.0, port 21
bind() failed in inet_create_connection(): Address already in use
I understand there is a problem, but please someone tell me where =
exactly!
Probably because of the reason in bold the daemon doesn't work either.
Help & thanks in advance.
Regards,
----
J.M. Roth
NJC - Technical Support
(352) 091 710200
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From: "Christopher W. Aiken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mandrake
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 20:10:33 -0500
Try:
www.cheapbytes.com
www.linux-mandrake.com
...cwa
Dennis wrote:
>
> Where can one get this distribution on CD in the US? The only one I
> have seen is from McMillian (MCD), and they don't seem to be to
> responsive about what is included.
>
> Dennis,
--
===================================================================
Christopher W. Aiken
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.cwaiken.com
SuSE 6.1, Kernel 2.2.5
The box said 'WIN95/98 or better.' so I installed LINUX!
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From: "Christopher W. Aiken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: new user?
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 20:13:42 -0500
Use YAST
...cwa
Will Snyder wrote:
>
> How do I create a new user in SuSe 6.1? (adduser didn't work, and I am
> using bash)
>
> ------------------ Posted via CNET Linux Help ------------------
> http://www.searchlinux.com
--
===================================================================
Christopher W. Aiken
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.cwaiken.com
SuSE 6.1, Kernel 2.2.5
The box said 'WIN95/98 or better.' so I installed LINUX!
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From: Virginie Galtier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: what's a "jiffy" in /proc?
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 20:21:48 -0400
Hi
The proc man indicates that in /proc/<pid>/stat, utime is "The number of
jiffies that this process has been scheduled in user mode."
But I found 2 definitions for "jiffy" (in
http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc):
1. The duration of one tick of the computer's system clock.
2. Confusingly, the term is sometimes also used for a 1-millisecond wall
time interval.
So in the case of /proc/<pid>/stat, should I consider the first
definition or the second?
Thank you for your help
Virginie
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From: Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Mandrake
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 18:17:09 -0400
Where can one get this distribution on CD in the US? The only one I
have seen is from McMillian (MCD), and they don't seem to be to
responsive about what is included.
Dennis,
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From: "Mike Palmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sun acquires StarOffice; gives it away for free
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 17:35:18 -0700
Reply-To: "Mike Palmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sun says they're going to open the source, under the Sun Community Source
License Agreement. Has anyone read this? Can anyone comment (intelligently,
of course) about the differences between this license and the GPL?
-- Mike --
Tim <nada> wrote in message news:37cc3c7c$0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Runs on Windows, Linux, OS/2, and Solaris SPARC/Intel.
>
> www.sun.com
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From: Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Caldera 2.3 - What is in it?
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 18:14:46 -0400
Anyone know what is in this and when it will be released?
Dennis,
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From: Jimmy Lio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
tw.bbs.comp.linux,alt.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions,info.ncsa-telnet,hk.comp.os.linux,hk.comp.os.unix,hk.comp.pc,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: News Proxy
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 07:51:52 +0800
Jerry Craker wrote:
> leafnode does not "cache" newsgroups per-se. However, it does server as
> both server/client. You set it up to download from the up-line
> newsserver, and connect to it through your news client.
I don't quite get it... Can you elaborate more?
Jimmy
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From: Spike! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: InoculateIT detected the (W95/Happy99.worm) virus in Mailbox (Pub lic
Folders), Sender (Jumbo) !!!
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 22:45:35 +0100
What the **** is all this crap?
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From: "Gary J. Weiner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Can't talk on GPIB unless I'm root
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 16:52:58 -0400
Hi there,
I've been working with the Linux Lab Project's GPIB driver and I can
talk to my scope when I run it as root, but I get errors when I try to
run it as a user.
I'm running Debian, using a ComputerBoards PCI GPIB card and using tcl
to send commands to the driver.
Any clues here? I'm a relative Linux newbie, any help would be
appreciated.
Thanks!
--
Gary J. Weiner \ "We've got a blind date with Destiny...and
[EMAIL PROTECTED] \ it looks like she's ordered the lobster."
http://www.hatrack.net \ -The Shoveler, "Mystery Men"
"Hang Your Web With Us!"\
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: help with .deb
Date: 31 Aug 1999 20:34:32 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, gc wrote:
> I have downloaded some software packages which are .deb archives.
> I have looked around the debian.org website to figure out how
> to open it, but the software which appears to do that is also in
> a .deb archive. So is there a way to open these things without
> having to install the entire debian os?
A .deb file contains some identification files and some .tar.gz
files. You can disassemble one using ar(1).
--
Paul Kimoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: "aftab" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: bios related install problem????
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 19:17:55 +0100
aftab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:...
> Cannot install red hat 5.2
>
> have a qaudtel bios by phoenix technologies.(version 2.01s)
>
> keep on getting CRC error VFS: c annot open root device 08:22
> Kernel Panic : VFS: unable to mount root fs on
08:22
>
> after some experimentation I find that the bios control sequence seems to
be
> causing the problems.
>
> Bios takes control of shadowing the system from ROM to RAm and same for
> VIDeo
> also one can enable and disable sytem memory cache via the bios.
>
> when the bios is set to shadow the system and video into ROM instead of
ram
> the booting disk works fine until I get to the section on making
partitions
> and hey presto its a kernel panic take cover!!
>
> WHat are the technical reasons for this and how can I get around this
>
> any help appreciated, thanks
>
> e mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Philip Lehman)
Subject: Re: Sun acquires StarOffice; gives it away for free
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 1 Sep 1999 00:16:59 +0100
On Tue, 31 Aug 1999 21:18:00 GMT, someone claiming to be
Kaz Kylheku <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Clue: StarOffice was already given away for free before Sun's acquisition.
> Free in the $$$ sense, that is to say. So nothing has changed.
>
> What would make news is if the source code were made open. There have been some
> buzzing rumors about that but nothing concrete.
http://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/faq.html
"[...] Publish the StarOffice specifications; [...] Offer source code
available through Sun's Community Source License; [...] Build a
community of developers who will build StarOffice components to be
embedded in other applications."
--
Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Cat Command not Found
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 00:56:59 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Virginia K. Wills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Would someone please help me!! I can't recompile my kernel to fit my
>stand alone system with ISP network connection only. I get a message
>that says bash /bin/sh cat: command not found.
>
>Because of this missing cat command I cannot install my Hewlett-Packard
>670C computer. The message is bash ghostscript not installed. It is
>installed.
>
>When I reboot my system I get
>
>/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit cat: command not found There is also error messages
>about the S10 network and sendmail error messages looking for a K99
>network etc.
>
>I have looked everywhere I can think of to replace this misssing cat
>command. All the dependency are correct. I cannot figure out what I am
>missing.
>
>I sent a message yesterday and no one has even answered.
>
>Virginia
>
On my system, cat is in /bin. Check to see if it is there. It
is one of the most elemental utilities used in linux. /bin (on my system)
also has things like bash, mount, echo, du. See if /bin looks fairly
complete. The only other thing I can think of is that your PATH variable
doesn't include /bin when you are running sysinit. What you might do
is try editing /etc/rc.d/rc.sysint (should be a text ASCII file) and
where it says cat give it the full path name /bin/cat (assuming you have
cat in your /bin directory).
--
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From: "Gary J. Weiner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't talk on GPIB unless I'm root
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 19:58:43 -0400
Grant Edwards wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Gary J. Weiner wrote:
> >Hi there,
> >
> >I've been working with the Linux Lab Project's GPIB driver and I can
> >talk to my scope when I run it as root, but I get errors when I try to
> >run it as a user.
>
> Uh, what are the errors?
Error in startup script: ibfind:
IBSTAT = < ERR>
IBERR = EDVR <OS Error>
while executing
"gpib find scope "
(file "gw.tcl" line 14)
>
> Have you checked the permissions on the /dev/XXXX file that's
> used for the GPIB board? Make the user your runnin as can
> read/write that file.
/dev/gpib0 is 777. I don't know if there are other devices I need to
check as well.
Thanks!
--
Gary J. Weiner \ "We've got a blind date with Destiny...and
[EMAIL PROTECTED] \ it looks like she's ordered the lobster."
http://www.hatrack.net \ -The Shoveler, "Mystery Men"
"Hang Your Web With Us!"\
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andries Brouwer)
Subject: Re: zero-length partition, input/output error, couldn't "mv" directory name.
couldn't e2fsck.
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 23:08:55 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lyndon F. Bartels) writes:
: Aug 26 22:26:49 gl1500 kernel: scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:21, sector 2
: Aug 26 22:27:26 gl1500 kernel: SCSI disk error : host 0 channel 0 id 2 lun 0
: return code = 28000002
: Aug 26 22:27:26 gl1500 kernel: extra data not valid Current error sd08:21:
: sense key Not Ready
: Aug 26 22:27:26 gl1500 kernel: Additional sense indicates Logical unit not
: ready, manual intervention required
: Aug 26 22:27:26 gl1500 kernel: scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:21, sector 2
This does not sound at all like a partition problem.
Maybe you have a rotten disk, or bad SCSI cables, or bad termination -
a hardware problem.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: why not C++?
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 00:46:33 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Nix <$}xinix{[email protected]> wrote:
>Andomar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>[dereferencing NULL and pasing it to functions]
>> How else would you pass the char at address 0 ? I mean,
>> there must be a way to allow that.
>
>You can't cast arbitrary ints to pointers in a Standard-conforming
>program, and pointers may have arbitrary internal structure. `Address 0'
>may be represented by something quite different to all-bits-0, and `0'
>(the null pointer constant) need not be represented by all-bits-0.
>
...<snip>...
The subject of this thread is why not C++? I think it was why not for
writing an OS. Could this be the answer?
- I'm not asking rhetorically; I really want to know.
I've stayed out of this thread because I'm not that much of an expert
on C++, but I've done my share of C and assembly language programming,
including working on device drivers and the like.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J.H.M. Dassen (Ray))
Subject: Re: source for icewm???
Date: 31 Aug 1999 16:13:07 GMT
Duy D. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Can somebody please tell me where I can find source code for icewm-0.9.41
>in tar.gz format? I know RedHat has it, but it's in rpm format. Why the
>hell does source code have to be in rpm format?
A source package format offers some advantages, e.g. separating original
source from fixes/improvements, standardising the build procedure etc. This
can however be achieved without resorting to RPM.
A quick search on freshmeat results in
http://freshmeat.net/appindex/1998/03/09/889429231.html which gets you to
http://www.kiss.uni-lj.si/~k4fr0235/icewm/devel/icewm-0.9.48.src.tar.gz
(I haven't tested whether older versions are available from there too).
>As a matter of fact, if somebody can tell me a good ftp site with source
>codes in tar.gz, he/she is going to be my hero for today.
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/{stable,unstable}/*/source/*/*
HTH,
Ray
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions,hk.comp.os.linux,alt.os.linux,tw.bbs.comp.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Save my 486... Linux and HDD controller board
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 21:10:26 +0000
Gavin Rogers wrote:
> In comp.os.linux.misc Jimmy Lio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I created a boot disk out of the disk image provided by my Mandrake RH
> > 6.0 CDRom... When the 486 is booted with the boot disk, the partition
> > check always give a bunch of error messages:
>
> > Partition Check:
> > hda/hda: status error: status=0x01 {error}
> > hda/hda: status error: status=0x04 {DiskStatuserror}
> > Drive not ready for command
>
> More than likely, the hard disk drive in your computer is starting to fail.
> Try your computer with a different hard disk.
>
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I have gotten messages similar to that when using hdparm trying to get 32bit
transfer w/sync, but when it resets, all is well.
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