Linux-Misc Digest #638, Volume #21 Thu, 2 Sep 99 05:13:23 EDT
Contents:
LILO (Mark Mykkanen)
Re: Amiga, QNX, Linux and Revolution (Petr Krenzelok)
question on free list (RWBRIAN)
forward mail no context ("Vincent")
Re: question on free list (M van Oosterhout)
Re: C vs C++ for Open Source projects (Drazen Kacar)
Re: WordPerfect cut&paste (Gene Wilburn)
Re: C vs C++ for Open Source projects (M van Oosterhout)
Re: Add Linux to OS/2 boot manager (Jerry Lapham)
Installing stuff ("Adam JBC")
Re: Console Lockup
Moving Linux ("Mick Howe")
Re: optical density software (William Park)
Re: Disabling control-alt-delete from a program ("B. James Phillippe")
Re: REAL PLAYER in LINUX. Which ver. (Ron Gibson)
Enlightenment wm focus problem (w RH6.0).. (nev okyay)
installing C++ on a computer without (Michael Byron Baer)
Re: fsck after power failure (Brandon Warren)
Running two window managers simultaneously? (Jason Bond)
Backspace with netscape ("Robert J. Schweikert")
Supported Harware ("Robert J. Schweikert")
Re: Unable to print ("Robert J. Schweikert")
Where is fips? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Making enlightenment the default window manager (Jason Bond)
Re: Add Linux to OS/2 boot manager (Hann Wei Toh)
Re: Enlightenment wm focus problem (w RH6.0).. ("R.K.Aa")
Re: Installing stuff ("Quiney, Philip (EXCHANGE:HAL02:HM10)")
E-mail questions for Linux (Bo Berglund)
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From: Mark Mykkanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: LILO
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 23:16:00 -0500
I have been trying to get a system running RH 5.1 to boot. I receive a
'LI' when I boot, but that's not the main problem I'm having. The problem
is that when I try to run LILO to fix the mapping, I receive the following
message:
First boot sector doesn't have a valid LILO signature
Does anyone know what's causing this and also how to fix it so that I can
boot correctly?
Thanks,
Mark
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Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 06:43:58 +0200
From: Petr Krenzelok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.qnx,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Amiga, QNX, Linux and Revolution
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Get your Amiga NG here -> http://softrare.com/openbsd-sh4
> :-)
>
> You know, if QNX wanted to start a real revolution, build some real
> Internet Good Will(tm) (and Mind Share for that matter), _and_ grow
> their market share, they could do the following:
>
> 1.> Port Photon to Linux/FreeBSD
> 2.> Release the source to Photon under GPL
> 3.> Create a robust QNX & NTO development environment under
> Linux/FreeBSD
> 4.> Add Linux compatible libraries for easy source code migration
> 5.> Add support for loading and running Linux binaries to QNX4 and QNX
> NTO
> 6.> Support UDI -> http://stage.sco.com/udi/f-specs-1.0.html
> 7.> Give the whole shebang (development environment) away for free.
>
Why to lose advantages of realtime OS, as QNX is? We Amigans are pissed of
by Linux enough. It's as multimedia friendly as Win3.1 is, so judge for
yourself. Linux is just big hype of last years, no technicla revolution, so
who cares ...
-pekr-
Czech Amiga News - http://www.realdreams.cz/amiga
>
> Companies and engineers that want to use Linux for embedded systems will
> do so anyway.
>
> QNX's market share and hence revenue stream from runtime royalties will
> not shrink.
>
> Have no Fear. Do the Right Thing.
>
> --aj
>
> P.S.
> Yes, I know it has all been said before by others, I just felt it
> could bare repeating.
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (RWBRIAN)
Subject: question on free list
Date: 02 Sep 1999 05:00:08 GMT
We received an error message on our Linux machine today that referenced the
"free list". Can anyone provide me with a definition of free list or point me
to a site where I can find out more info on the free list?
thanks
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From: "Vincent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: forward mail no context
Date: 2 Sep 1999 05:42:19 GMT
I want to forward mail no context no attach file. How can I do ?
Anyone can help me ?
Vincent Lee mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 15:42:32 +1000
From: M van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: question on free list
RWBRIAN wrote:
>
> We received an error message on our Linux machine today that referenced the
> "free list". Can anyone provide me with a definition of free list or point me
> to a site where I can find out more info on the free list?
> thanks
Okay, for future reference, it would be very useful if
you could display the exact message. There are at least
two places where that term might come up:
Kernel memory management and
ext2 filesystem
Without more information it's a bit hard to do anything
about it.
Martijn van Oosterhout
Australia
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Drazen Kacar)
Crossposted-To: gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: C vs C++ for Open Source projects
Date: 2 Sep 1999 05:19:14 GMT
Matthew Cline wrote:
> What are the disadvantages of using C++, instead of C, for an Open
> Source project. The only two disadvantages that I can think of are:
>
> 1) Not all potential users might have a C++ compiler.
> 2) There will always be more C programmers that C++ programmers, since
3) If you intend to produce code which could be compiled with
most (all?) of the existing C++ compilers, you'll find it
very hard. You'll end up not using many C++ features which
made you choose C++ in the first place.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gene Wilburn)
Subject: Re: WordPerfect cut&paste
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 01:52:33 GMT
On Thu, 02 Sep 1999 01:32:54 GMT, Rod Smith
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[Posted and mailed]
>
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gene Wilburn) writes:
>> Has anyone figured out how to cut and paste from a terminal window into
>> WordPerfect 8 for Linux? I cannot move things from less or Emacs into WP.
>> Have tried right-mouse, middle-mouse, standing-on-my-head-mouse, paste
>> from the Edit menu mouse, and even tried clicking the mouse while
>> simultaneously drinking Cherry Coke, but nothing gets from here to there.
>
>It SHOULD work the same as copying between any other X-based applications:
>
>1) Left-click and drag in the source window to select text.
>2) Position the cursor in the WP window.
>3) Middle-click to paste text.
>
>Note, however, that some source windows seem to block the X clipboard.
>It's possible that this is your problem. Try pasting into another window
>(say, an xterm) to see if that works. If it does, and you can't paste
>into WP, post again with more details, including your window manager and
>the name of the program from which you're trying to select text.
>
>--
>Rod Smith
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>http://members.bellatlantic.net/~smithrod
>Author of _Special Edition Using Corel WordPerfect 8 for Linux_, from Que
I live and die by drag & paste. I use this feature of Linux constantly and
WordPerfect 8 is the only program I have encountered that did not allow me
to paste. I don't have a 3-button mouse, so I always do the L+R thing.
So, by way of confirmation, you have no difficulty drag + paste from an
xterm into WP8?
Gene
--
I've got a bad feeling about this! -- Han Solo
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Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 15:46:27 +1000
From: M van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: C vs C++ for Open Source projects
Matthew Cline wrote:
>
> What are the disadvantages of using C++, instead of C, for an Open
> Source project. The only two disadvantages that I can think of are:
>
> 1) Not all potential users might have a C++ compiler.
This should get much better now, since EGCS has a much better C++
compiler. The older version of g++ was *way* out of date and
not being maintained much.
> 2) There will always be more C programmers that C++ programmers, since
>
> anyone who can program C++ can also program C. Thus, making a in C++
> will prevent some of the development community from working on it.
Sort of. C++ is a superset of C but it is also an object oriented
language, and to be honest, to write good object oriented code
is hard.
Bad C++ can be even harder to read then bad C.
The other thing is that i think the kernel headers are not C++
compatable.
HTH,
Martijn van Oosterhout
Australia
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jerry Lapham)
Subject: Re: Add Linux to OS/2 boot manager
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 00:37:13
In <7qi8r5$qb8$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 09/01/99
at 04:08 AM, Hann Wei Toh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Follow the usual procedure for Linux installation. But when asked where
> you want to put LILO, answer that you want it to be placed at the root
> partition. After completed installing Linux, reboot the machine and go
> to OS/2. In OS/2, run the boot manager configuration program and add
> the Linux root partition there as a bootable partition.
I've never tried it in that order, but I was told it wouldn't work because
OS/2 Boot Manager wouldn't accept a new partition marked as Linux. When I
added COL 2.2 to my OS/2 system, I created a couple of new logical
partitions in empty space in my extended paritition with Partition Magic
2.x. Then, without formatting either, I added one to Boot Manager with
OS/2 FDISK. I made them Linux root and swap in Lizard custom setup.
-Jerry
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E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Written Thursday, September 02, 1999 - 12:37 AM (EDT)
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MR/2 Ice tag: Paint baboon bottoms; leave no stern untoned
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From: "Adam JBC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Installing stuff
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 14:42:38 +0100
Hi,
I'm trying to install this program called PLP. It's a RPM file so I figured
it should be straight forward, but...
It says "libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 is needed by plptools-0.4-1"
So where can I get "libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2" and how do I install it?
When I installed Linux, I choose *everything* in setup (Linux Mandrake btw)
so I was a bit suprised when it said it needs what looks like a standard C++
libary.
Thanks in advance.
Adam
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Console Lockup
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 05:31:04 GMT
muzh wrote:
> Which compiler did you use to compile the kernel?
> SuSE still uses gcc-2.7.2.3 to compile theirs -- apparently the more
> recent egcs-2.9x can still do weird things to kernels. I tried
> compiling 2.2.12 with egcs --> system which froze often. Recompiled
> with gcc-2.7.2.3 --> reliable system.
> Any other thoughts?
> PS I have replied ONLY to comp.os.linux.misc . I think an attempt
> should be made to reduce the total number of Linuxnewsgroups --
>
> cll
>
The default compiler on slackware 4 is gcc-2.7.2.3.
I'm still interested in the difference between the PCI S3 card and
the AGP ATI card. I've had no problems with the S3. I'm going to
try running a 2.0.x kernel again and see if it locks up.
Anyone know of any issues with the 2.2.x kernels and AGP?
Regards,
David Bradley
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From: "Mick Howe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Moving Linux
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 14:59:00 +1000
I need to remove a couple of partitions on my hard disk, how can I do it
without breaking Linux or fix what breaks.
the current partitions are:
300 mb DOS stays
8 mb OS/2 BootManager stays
400 mb OS/2 System goes
400 mb OS/2 Data goes
1600 mb OS/2 Data stays
700 mb NT4 System stays
80 mb Linux / stays
1000 mb Linux /usr stays
500 mb Linux /home stays
80 mb Linux swap stays
/\/\ick
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From: William Park <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: optical density software
Date: 2 Sep 1999 05:27:45 GMT
Anni Hienola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello
> I'm looking for software that could be used for measuring optical
> densities from photographs or scanned x-ray films. In Windows there
> exists atleast an old and buggy Tina and then ImageQuant (or something
> like that). Have any of these been ported to Linux or has anyone
> released anything similar for Linux? A free source would be a surplus.
> Net surfing did not give any results.
> Anni Hienola
Hi Anni,
Exactly what do you mean by "optical density"? My only guess is you
want to measure the intensity attenuation caused by scattering and
absorption.
In any case, why don't you write your own, using Python or Perl?
Yours truly,
William Park
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From: "B. James Phillippe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Disabling control-alt-delete from a program
Date: 2 Sep 1999 05:43:40 GMT
On Tue, 31 Aug 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Can someone explain how to disable the console control-alt-del key
...
> I realise the program will have to be setuid root but thats not a
> problem.
...
You might want to investigate the loadkeys(1) option to remove the
CTRL-ALT-DEL binding to Boot. You can do this on the fly without fiddling
with init.
-bp
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# bryan at terran dot org
# http://www.terran.org/~bryan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ron Gibson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,alt.os.linux.caldera
Subject: Re: REAL PLAYER in LINUX. Which ver.
Date: 2 Sep 1999 06:27:09 GMT
On Thu, 2 Sep 1999 02:33:03, root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > It does work, you just need the proper patch.
> >
> > The problem is with kernal version 2.2+
> >
> > I couldn't get it to work under any conditions. Supposedly help is on
> > the way.
>
> I have Caldera OL 2.2 with kernel 2.2.5. I am using Realplayer G2 alpha
> version. I had to install libstdc++-2.8
> though. You can download that as an RPM from Redhat.
Don't have Red Hat, using Slackware and I haven't a clue as to what to
do with the alpha as the one I got has an exe extension.
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: nev okyay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Enlightenment wm focus problem (w RH6.0)..
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 23:08:03 -0700
after I installed RH6.0, I really liked the default window manager that
came
with it (I think it is enlightenment which works with gnome).
however, I noticed that there was a problem with handling focus. if I
click
on a window on the task bar, that window is not raised. this is also
true if
a new window is created. if there are number of windows, it is nuisance
to
find the right one.
I changed my window manager to kde, and it is working fine, but I'd like
to switch back.
Is there any fix for this focus problem? I haven't seen anything about
this
on the RH site..
thanks for help..
- nev
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Byron Baer)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: installing C++ on a computer without
Date: 1 Sep 1999 23:31:50 -0700
I run a system with RedHat 5.0, and recently needed to install some
packages which use C++ libraries. However, I didn't install C++ on my
computer, so - according to a friend - I need to get
libstdc++-2.8.0-8.i386.rpm
However, RedHat 5.0, unlike 5.1 and up, has no such RPM. Here's what it
has got (alphabetically):
lha-1.00-6.i386.rpm 25 Kb Mon Nov 10 00:00:00 1997
libc-5.3.12-24.i386.rpm 2190 Kb Mon Nov 10 00:00:00 1997
libelf-0.6.4-1.i386.rpm 22 Kb Mon Nov 10 00:00:00 1997
libg++-2.7.2.8-6.i386.rpm 502 Kb Mon Nov 10 00:00:00 1997
libg++-devel-2.7.2.8-6.i386.rpm 938 Kb Mon Nov 10 00:00:00 1997
libgr-2.0.13-4.i386.rpm 90 Kb Mon Nov 10 00:00:00 1997
Any idea what I can do? I would mind upgrading to a more recent version
of Linux, but, according to the latest RedHat, I don't have enough disc
space to do so. I don't want to switch Linux flavors just to for this.
Aside from this, things work fine as is.
Michael
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brandon Warren)
Subject: Re: fsck after power failure
Date: 2 Sep 1999 06:19:46 GMT
All I know is that that is where Red Hat 5.2 places it, and
where Mandrake 6.0 places it (after applying their initscripts
update).
As far as not being needed by more recent kernels, I'm no
expert, but:
- Mandrake 6.0 had it commented out, saying that it wasn't
needed, and now their updated initscripts have put it back in.
- I haven't had power failure related disk corruption until I
moved from RH 5.2 to Mandrake 6.0 (I haven't tested
Mandrake 6.0 with /sbin/update enabled yet)
- According to some kernel notes at www.linuxhq.com, some people
have reported filesystem corruption with 2.2.9 and 2.2.10. Could
this due to /sbin/update no longer being used?
- Brandon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto) writes:
>In article <7qjoaa$8i2$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Brandon Warren wrote:
>> Do you have /sbin/update enabled in /etc/inittab?
>You mean the little daemon that flushes the filesystem buffers every few
>seconds (and is apparently not needed in recent kernels)? Why would you
>put it in inittab? (Usually it would start during the bootup sequence,
>somewhere in the single-user-mode startup script.)
>--
>Paul Kimoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: Jason Bond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Running two window managers simultaneously?
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 23:35:39 -0700
Call me a retard, but I'm wondering if it's possible to run two
window managers simultaneously....that is, in different X-sessions,
if such a thing exists. If it does, how does one start them?
And if one can run two window managers at the same time,
are there any serious problems with memory sharing, etc?
Thanks much in advance,
Jason
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From: "Robert J. Schweikert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Backspace with netscape
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 02:16:12 +0000
Alright,
Still not fixed, his is kind of crazy but true. Whenever I shutdown Linux, don't ask
why I don't really want too,
but I only have one computer at this time and conflicting opinions about the OS that
should be running all the time
in the family. Anyway, upon restart I loose the BackSpace key in Netscape. My .xinitrc
reads as follows:
xmodmap -e "keycode 107 = Delete"
xmodmap -e "keycode 22 = osfBackSpace"
I also tryied using xkeycaps which produced somekind of modemap file, I added a line
to the .xinitrc as follows:
xmodmap ~/.xmodmap -`rjschwei-n`
This doesn't help either. I am running RH6.0 with Enlightenment as the window manager
and the GENOME desktop. The fix
I have is terrible, run xkeycaps, set the backspace key to backspace, write a new
modemap file, restart enlightenment,
and the finally restart Netscape. There's got to be a better way. I know I could
automate this sequence but that would
be a terrible hack job.
So the question is, is the .xinitrc file ignored for what ever reason? Is there
another file I shold use to get the
modmap file read during start up? How can I make this permanent, such that the
backspace key works ons start up?
Thanks a bunch for any suggestions.
--
Robert Schweikert
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Robert J. Schweikert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Supported Harware
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 02:17:33 +0000
Where can I find a list of currently supported hardware, of biggest
interest I suppose are the Graphics cards?
Thanks,
Robert
--
Robert Schweikert
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Robert J. Schweikert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Unable to print
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 02:31:19 +0000
Jim,
When I first installed Linux and added a user account i had a similar
problem. I logged in as super user (su) in a terminal window after
I was in my user account. Then I killed the printer deamon and restarted
it. I don't know what the magic was, but that did it for me.
Good luck,
Robert
Jim McIntyre wrote:
> I added a user to my system today, so I wouldn't have to work as root
> anymore. After creating the user, I lost all printing functions. I am
> able to print in Star Office, and other apps that use a GUI print setup,
> but if I try a command like "cat .bashrc | lpr", I get nothing. In Star
> office, I have to set up a new printer and print queue, so my problem is
> queue related. However, the command doesn't recognize this queue (lp0),
> or the standard queue (lp). Any advice is appreciated.
>
> Jim McIntyre
--
Robert Schweikert
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Where is fips?
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 12:13:27 -0400
Where can I find a copy of fips?
Thanks,
gh
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From: Jason Bond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Making enlightenment the default window manager
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 00:10:33 -0700
I'd like to try enlightenment but I can't seem to
get it to work. I've got all of:
enlightenment-0.15.5-100
X11R6 Xserver / distribution
Imlib
Fnlib
freetype
libjpeg
libtiff
libpng
zlib
libungif
installed from rpms and are the appropriate versions.
I've created a dummy account and run enlightenment from
the prompt and it asked if it could modify the appropriate
scripts to make enlightement the default window manager.
I clicked yes and it modified the .xinitrc (among other
files I imagine) file, but when I logged back in under that
account, it kept coming up with the fvwm window manager.
Is there something I'm doing wrong? Thanks,
Jason
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From: Hann Wei Toh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Add Linux to OS/2 boot manager
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 07:45:27 GMT
In article <37ce0296$2$ewyncunz$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jerry Lapham) wrote:
> I've never tried it in that order, but I was told it wouldn't work
> because OS/2 Boot Manager wouldn't accept a new partition marked as
> Linux. When I added COL 2.2 to my OS/2 system, I created a couple of
> new logical partitions in empty space in my extended paritition with
> Partition Magic 2.x. Then, without formatting either, I added one to
> Boot Manager with OS/2 FDISK. I made them Linux root and swap in
> Lizard custom setup.
I forgot to mention that the partitions should be created within OS/2.
The Linux installation program should only format the partitions
concerned.
As for the order, I can't recall what exactly I did. Anyway, to be
safe, it is always all right to add the partitions to the boot manager
first (they probably need to be formatted as HPFS or FAT before doing
so), and then start installing Linux on them.
Hann Wei
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From: "R.K.Aa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Enlightenment wm focus problem (w RH6.0)..
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 07:58:04 GMT
Upgrade. It didn't work under the vanilla RH6 install.
The RPM's for newer and less bugged GNOME and enlightenment files are
found on the RedHat errata site
Don't run the upgrade while X is running.
Download ALL the related files.
For some you MAY have to use this for:
rpm -Uvh --force filename.rpm
Try only Uvh first, add --force if files are whining about lacking
dependencies.
But again: This is the approach when you install ALL the files.
Else, you may get "real" dependancy trouble with the --force parameter.
There's an amazing lot of files there but most are small.
(And rpm installs are done as user root.)
http://www.redhat.com/corp/support/errata/RHEA1999024_01.html
http://www.redhat.com/corp/support/errata/RHEA1999021_01.html
If you use the gnome spreadsheet (gnumeric) there's an upgrade for that
too, very recommended, as it suddenly made that app *usable* ;)
http://www.redhat.com/corp/support/errata/RHSA1999023_01.html
K.
nev okyay wrote:
>
> after I installed RH6.0, I really liked the default window manager that
> came with it (I think it is enlightenment which works with gnome).
> however, I noticed that there was a problem with handling focus. if I
> click on a window on the task bar, that window is not raised. this is
> also true if a new window is created. if there are number of windows,
> it is nuisance to find the right one.
[]
> Is there any fix for this focus problem? I haven't seen anything about
> this on the RH site..
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From: "Quiney, Philip (EXCHANGE:HAL02:HM10)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installing stuff
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 08:08:17 +0100
Adam JBC wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to install this program called PLP. It's a RPM file so I figured
> it should be straight forward, but...
>
> It says "libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 is needed by plptools-0.4-1"
>
> So where can I get "libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2" and how do I install it?
>
> When I installed Linux, I choose *everything* in setup (Linux Mandrake btw)
> so I was a bit suprised when it said it needs what looks like a standard C++
> libary.
>
Hi,
I have looked on Rufus at the Mandrake release
(http://rufus.w3.org/linux/RPM) and the required RPM is
libstdc++-2.9.0-3mdk.i386.rpm
On your system do an 'rpm -qa |grep libstdc' to check that it is
installed and (for reasons of paranoia)
rpm -qil `!!`
Watch the quotes it is the backward single quote (top left of the
keyboard) - the above line acts on the result of the previous command -
neat shortcut eh ;-)
This will list the files which make up the RPM and should include
libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2
If all is well then the PLP RPM file may be broken. As a last resort
install it with the --nodeps switch so it won't fail to install because
of dependancies. This won't guarantee it will work on your system but
you can at least try it. If this fails then from rufus or elsewhere get
the source rpm and rebuild the binary rpm (rpm --rebuild <src package>)
on your machine. If this works then (in all cases I have come across) it
will install.
HTH
Phil Q
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bo Berglund)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc.help,comp.os.linux.misc.misc
Subject: E-mail questions for Linux
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 07:18:58 GMT
I have set up a Linux (RH 6.0) machine which is located on a fixed IP
on the Internet. This IP does not have a domain attached so it is not
visible on any Internet DNS service. The Apache web server works just
fine as does the SMPTP email service for sending mail when I use the
IP as part of the address. But I have yet to fiugure how to:
1) Send email to a user on the Linux machine
2) Retrieve the email from outside the machine (POP3)
Details:
1) I have tried to send email from my normal Internet mail account
using the address syntax <username>@<IP address> like:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (fake IP of course)
Result: The ISP returns my email saying it cannot resolve the name
123.221.123.221. Why resolve an already resolved address?
I have also tried sending through the SMTP server on the Linux box and
this time no mail is returned, but when I log on using Telnet to check
my email there is none waiting.
What have I to set up on the Linux machine to get this working?
2) When I try to connect to my fictitous mailbox with Eudora using the
account name [EMAIL PROTECTED] (from example above) it fails to
connect. So there is no service for POP3 it would seem.
How can I set up the Linux machine to serve out the email on POP3?
NOTE:
I am now very far from this machine so my only inroad is through
Telnet. I hope I can do the setup changes necessary this way as I have
been able to do for Apache. So please don't tip me on using the
Linuxconf Gnome program, it simply will not work through Telnet.
Please direct me to any conf file and service that need to be modified
and started.
As you might have guessed I am comparatively new to Linux although I
am an old hand at computer systems.
TIA
Bo Berglund
Software developer in Sweden
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
PGP: My public key is available at the following locations:
Idap://certserver.pgp.com
http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371
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