Linux-Misc Digest #855, Volume #23 Wed, 15 Mar 00 11:13:02 EST
Contents:
Deleting the Partition? ("Brandon A. Duhamel")
FS:Cheap DEC Systems for Linux (DeepSpace Technologies)
Re: duplicating disks under linux (R Leigh)
Re: duplicating disks under linux (Stephen Rank)
Re: unkillable linux box (cathy gramze)
Re: No Sound (Philipp Maier)
removing linux partition (kman)
Re: Deleting the Partition? (kman)
Plotting Tool for Linux? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: license for vmware (Gwidon Naskrent)
Re: Problems with Adaptec 1542b SCSI & Sony SDT-5000 DDS2 DAT (Heinz Oswald)
Re: removing linux partition (cathy gramze)
Re: sleep(5) from telnet (Greg Porr)
IBM Turbo 16/4 Token-Ring ISA (Tobi)
Re: Unix commands (Andreas Kahari)
Re: Installing Redhat 6.1 or Corel without GUI (Ron)
Re: rcp/rsh examples (Ron)
How to remove Linux partitions... (Dances With Crows)
determine processor speed (Ben Donnelly)
Re: How to make a boot disk for a SCSI system ("David ..")
login incorrect...What now!? ("John Dixon")
Re: IBM Turbo 16/4 Token-Ring ISA (Lew Pitcher)
Older Dell Pentium 90 won't recognize 10G Hard Rive (Vlar Schreidlocke)
NYC LOCAL: NYLUG Wednesday 15 March 2000: Meet the Andover.net New York City Team
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: determine processor speed (Matthew Haley)
Re: DiskDrake under Mandrake 7.0 (Tom Brinkman)
Re: unkillable linux box (Dances With Crows)
DHCPd/net-pf-17/3c59x help (Sergey Dashevskiy)
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From: "Brandon A. Duhamel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Deleting the Partition?
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 14:12:45 GMT
Hey there,
I was hoping any of you out there could tell me how to go about deleting
the Linux partition on my HD and initializing and/or reformatting the
entire drive as one DOS partition? I tried booting from a floppy and
running FDISK, but it doesn't seem to want to recognize and delete the
Linux partition, and when I did a format, I only succeeded in wiping out
Windows from the DOS partition. Thanks in advance. Please post here as
well as email me if you can, otherwise just a reply to the group would
be fine.
Cheers,
Brandon
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Subject: FS:Cheap DEC Systems for Linux
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (DeepSpace Technologies)
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 14:19:10 GMT
We have a large number of DEC Pentium machines. They make great Linux boxes.
They also were originally made to run Nextstep/Openstep and Windows
NT(Nextstep/Openstep were single processor only). Specs are below(For further
information we have a complete manual online under the Specs & Info section):
SYSTEMS ONLY
DEC P60 - $35.00
DEC P90 - $50.00
DEC P90 DUAL - $65.00
DEC P100 - $75.00
DEC P100 DUAL - $90.00
DEC Celebris XL 5133
133mhz Pentium with dual capability mid tower (Socket 5),
32mb memory,
onboard 53C810 SCSI 2 port,
Cogent e+ ethernet LAN combo,
Sound blaster Vibra 16 sound card,
Diamond Stealth 64 2mb video card,
3.5" floppy,
Keyboard, and Mouse
$110.00 **Quantity Pricing Available**
ADD a 17" PCXBV-KA monitor for only $90.00 more.
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32mb memory,
onboard 53C810 SCSI 2 port,
Cogent e+ ethernet LAN combo,
Sound blaster Vibra 16 sound card,
Diamond Stealth 64 2mb video card,
3.5" floppy,
Keyboard, and Mouse
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We accept VISA, MC and AMEX
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Frederick, MD 21701
301-663-3033
301-620-9634(fax)
"http://www.deepspacetech.com/"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (R Leigh)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.help,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.misc,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: duplicating disks under linux
Date: 15 Mar 2000 14:28:33 GMT
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000 14:04:24 -0000, Harry Overs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Is there a quick and easy way of duplicating a whole drive under linux, as a
>quick way of installing a machine.
>
>i.e. setting-up one machine and drive and then copying that to 10 other
>disks
You can just copy the data wholesale between hard disks by using the block
devices which correspond to the entire disk.
`man dd'
`man split' for the details.
If you have two identical hard disks as /dev/hda and /dev/hdb :
dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=1024 ; sync
should copy the contents of hda to hdb, including the partition table, boot
record etc.
You can also store the raw image in a temporary file, but if it's larger than
2Gb (currently the max. file size on Intel) then pipe the output through split:
dd if=/dev/hda bs=1024 | gzip | split -b 2040m - rawimage.gz
should compress and split the data into 2040Mb chunks with the name
rawimage.gz.xx (where xx is a postfix of two letters which increases in
alphabetical order).
cat rawimage.gz.aa rawimage.gz.ab [...] | gunzip | dd of=/dev/<dev> bs=1024
should replace it.
NB. The split syntax comes from the Solaris man page and might be slightly
different for GNU/Linux.
HTH,
--
Roger Leigh
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From: Stephen Rank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.help,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.misc,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: duplicating disks under linux
Date: 15 Mar 2000 14:31:26 +0000
"Harry Overs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[ "Harry"?! ]
> Is there a quick and easy way of duplicating a whole drive under linux, as a
> quick way of installing a machine.
dd(1) would do the trick, though it might not do the _right_ trick,
especially if your disks aren't _exactly_ the same :)
tar(1) (possibly with gzip(1)) would perhaps be better.
> i.e. setting-up one machine and drive and then copying that to 10 other
> disks
I'm sure that others here would have a better way of doing this.
> Regards
>
>
> Paul.
[ "Paul"? Identity crisis? ]
HTH,
Steve
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Subject: Re: unkillable linux box
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (cathy gramze)
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 14:45:22 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (A Favored Son) wrote in
<tsFz4.3672$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>>Boot via a distrib floppy or cdrom and when it asks you to partition
>>the thing, use fdisk and just wipe the things out.
You aren't listening to me. I've *tried* booting to the floppy. Repeatedly,
in fact. It won't, even with the BIOS set to do it. I'll try the first
guy's password advice, and if it works I'll see if I can get the A: drive
to mount and read a floppy. If it won't, I'll try swapping out the floppy
drive.
>>> I inherited an old 486 Red Hat 5.2 box,
>>> password. I've set the BIOS to boot to the A: drive, rebooted with a
>>> bootable DOS disk (to trash the partitions with) and watched as Linux
>>> cheerfully booted from the hard drive. How can I kill this Linux off
>>> so I can get on with my fiendish plan to create a better Linux box?
>>>
cathyy
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From: Philipp Maier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: No Sound
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 15:41:04 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
David Steuber wrote:
>
> David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> ' I'm running SuSE 6.2 (kernel 2.2.10).
> ' Sound card is a soundblaster.
>
> Well, I'm doing something wrong. I've tried OSS and my SoundBlaster
> AWE 64 is still silent. Maybe I should restore the kernel drivers.
> Anyone have a working isapnp.conf?
If I'm not totally wrong you can't use OSS, as the AWE 64 is not
supported. You can't use isapnp either, AFAIK, as this is a PCI device.
Again, this is easy, you just have to edit the conf.modules, as I
described it on my homepage...
PM
--
Sylt, SuSE Linux, Maerklin mini-club, Psion Serie 5mx Pro & GPS:
http://www.philipp-maier.de
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From: kman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: removing linux partition
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 14:37:05 GMT
I have a problem with my linux partition. I have a 6 GB drive that has
a 3GB primary partition and a 3GB extended partition. On the extended
partition which I created with fdisk (dos) I made a partition of about
1.2 Gb on which I tried to install Corel Linux. For some reason the
install exited after 10% was completed and I had to restart. On
restarting the install took place but on the remaining 1.5GB.
I am now unable to remove the extended partition with fdisk (it says
that the logical driveon the partition has to be removed). However it
does not find any logical drive on the partition (ext). I want to
remove all the data from the drive (free 6GB) by removing the
partition. Any idea how I can go about doing that. My bios does not
support lower level formatting
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From: kman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Deleting the Partition?
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 14:40:05 GMT
Hi Brian,
I have the same problem as you. Please mail me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
if you find a solution.
Thanks and cheers
Karan
====================================================
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Brandon A. Duhamel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hey there,
>
> I was hoping any of you out there could tell me how to go about
deleting
> the Linux partition on my HD and initializing and/or reformatting the
> entire drive as one DOS partition? I tried booting from a floppy and
> running FDISK, but it doesn't seem to want to recognize and delete the
> Linux partition, and when I did a format, I only succeeded in wiping
out
> Windows from the DOS partition. Thanks in advance. Please post here as
> well as email me if you can, otherwise just a reply to the group would
> be fine.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Brandon
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Plotting Tool for Linux?
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 14:42:08 GMT
Hi all,
Does anyone know of a very good data plotting/curve fitting tool for
Linux that is similiar to Microcal's Origin software? Unfortunately
Origin is only available for Windoze systems and I am trying to migrate
all my existing Windows applications to Linux equivalents. If anyone
knows of any commercial software or freeware for Linux, I'd appreciate
it if you could point me in the right direction...
Thanks a lot in advance
JR
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From: Gwidon Naskrent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: license for vmware
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 15:58:51 +0100
On 14 Mar 2000, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> which say "Try Now". After 30 days, if you like it, you'll need to
> purchase a license -- $99 for home/hobbyist use, $299 for commercial use.
> No, it's not cheap, but IMHO it's a very nice product.
It's a damn shame since you need some 128 MB RAM to run wine. Oh, well,
it's getting cheaper every day.
GSN
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From: Heinz Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Problems with Adaptec 1542b SCSI & Sony SDT-5000 DDS2 DAT
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 15:54:58 +0100
Sean Akers schrieb:
> slowly. After the failure occurs I can no longer do anything with
> /dev/st0 without removing the aha1542 module and reloading it as I get
> "device not configured" errors.
does it work when it is compiled not as module ?
> Sent BUS RESET to scsi host 0
> st0: Error with sense data: [valid=0] Info fld=0x0, Current st09:00:
> sense key Not Ready
at www.adaptec.com there are some installtion tips
and a well done FAQ.
one hint is to modify the bus timing in case of probs.
> DMA Transfer Speed: 8.0
does it work with 5.0 ????
regards
Heinz
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Subject: Re: removing linux partition
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (cathy gramze)
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 15:14:00 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (kman) wrote in <8ao76g$lq4$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>I have a problem with my linux partition. I have a 6 GB drive that has
>a 3GB primary partition and a 3GB extended partition. On the extended
>partition which I created with fdisk (dos) I made a partition of about
>1.2 Gb on which I tried to install Corel Linux.
You installed past the 1024 cylinder limit: it was doomed anyway.
>I am now unable to remove the extended partition with fdisk (it says
>that the logical driveon the partition has to be removed). However it
>does not find any logical drive on the partition (ext). I want to
>remove all the data from the drive (free 6GB) by removing the
>partition. Any idea how I can go about doing that. My bios does not
>support lower level formatting
You need to follow the advice given to me for a different problem! Boot to
the cdrom or linux boot floppy. Do the install procedure up to the point
where you pick what to install. Choose the advanced options, not the
typical. Choose edit the partition table. Blow away the Linux partition(s).
Get out of the install. (Just shut the thing off if you have to!) Your
system should now see that area of your hard drive as free space.
cathyy
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Subject: Re: sleep(5) from telnet
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Greg Porr)
Date: 15 Mar 2000 10:17:26 -0500
In article <8ao31t$ilh$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>Fellow Linux Lovers,
>
>This week we had one of our Linux boxes display the following message -
>"sleep(5) from telnet, after select" every 5 seconds while an attempt to
>telnet to other hosts including localhost. We still were able to open
>another session and run other programs such as top and vi with no
>problems. When we rebooted, the "problem" is gone.
>
>What is this message about?
>From looking at the source code at:
http://www.go.dlr.de/cgi-bin/warex?linux/src/ztelnet-1.2.src.elf.tar.gz:a/ztelnet-1.2/telnet/sys_bsd.c
The message seems to come out if select() fails (returning -1), but only
if the errno is something other than EINTR or EBADF. You could use
ltrace to see what errno comes back from select(), and perhaps that
will shed some light on the root cause.
(Not sure if that source is for the same telnet package that you'd have, but
it's probably close enough, and it's web-accessible without having to
extract it from an rpm bundle.)
- Greg
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From: Tobi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IBM Turbo 16/4 Token-Ring ISA
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 15:30:16 GMT
I am setting up Suse 6.3 (Kernel 2.2.13) with the
IBM Turbo 16/4 Token-Ring ISA card. The system doesn`t recognize this
card.
Is this card supported ?
Anybody got this card working? I am desperate for an answer.
Any help will be appreciated.
Tobi
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From: Andreas Kahari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Unix commands
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 15:32:14 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
dEUS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Who has a list of all the unix commands with their options
> Or a good URL where I can find them.
>
> Especially the command to know who's fingering you.
>
> Thanx
>
> dEUS
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
This will work in a number of shells (bash etc.): Press <tab> twice. You
will then (after a short time) get a listing of all the valid commands
that are available to you. Use the "man" command to get info about how
to use a specific command. You may want to do "man man" for info on how
to use the "man" command.
/A
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From: Ron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installing Redhat 6.1 or Corel without GUI
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 10:17:09 -0500
Ed Hurst wrote:
>
> Tim Hicks wrote:
>
>> Can anyone tell me if it is possible to do this so as to save
>> on hd space. I have a 486 with only a 420Mb hd that will be
>> used as a proxy server....
>> will this suffice?
>>
>> tim
>
> Maybe, but it won't do anything. You might get by with that
> if you try to install RH 5.2, because it takes much less space,
> and is more suited to 486s. You'll have to choose packages VERY
> carefully, and stick with only ONE window manager.
>
> Ed
I have a box where I'm running RH 6.1 on a 486, 8MB RAM, and 225 MB hard
drive and it works just fine. However, it is not running X Windows.
The RH 6.1 setup loads a lot of packages by default--whether or not they
are needed. And most of the optional packages make little difference in
the HD space needed compared to what is used by the default packages. I
only use RH 6.1 because I'm running it on all my other machines. I'm
told Debian or Slackware will run better on a 486.
Ron from Michigan
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From: Ron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: rcp/rsh examples
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 10:26:36 -0500
Are your inetd.conf, hosts.allow, and hosts.deny files set up ok?
Ron from Michigan
Andy wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
> I'm trying to move some files between two RedHat linux boxes (both
> Intel, from 6.0 to 6.1). I want to use rcp to maintain the ownership
> and modes of the files and I also want to copy a large directory
> hierarchy (i.e. I need the -p and -r switches).
>
> I've tried using a variety of rcp command lines but none let me in.
> Reading the docs on both rcp and rsh don't help and wasn't able to
> find anything of much use.
>
> I have full access to both systems.
>
> If anyone can give me example commands, pointers to online resources
> (other than man pages) or general advice, I'd be very grateful!
>
> Cheers and TIA,
> Andy.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> "You don't buy beer, you only rent it."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: How to remove Linux partitions...
Date: 15 Mar 2000 10:36:48 EST
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000 14:12:45 GMT, Brandon A. Duhamel
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
shouted forth into the ether:
>I was hoping any of you out there could tell me how to go about deleting
>the Linux partition on my HD and initializing and/or reformatting the
>entire drive as one DOS partition? I tried booting from a floppy and
>running FDISK
There's your problem. DOS FDISK is too stupid to do very much with
partition tables, especially the ones that Linux fdisk writes. Boot from
a rescue disk or something, and try running Linux fdisk. That should
allow you to delete all the partitions on the drive. Or boot from a
rescue floppy and do "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdX bs=512 count=1",
replacing X with the drive's designation.
Once you've done that, boot from a DOS floppy and run DOS FDISK. Use that
to create one huge bootable DOS partition, then do FDISK /MBR if you
haven't done that already. Then the WinXX install CD should be happy.
Whether *you* will be happy with WinXX is a different question; one you
should ask yourself after every Blue Screen of Death.
--
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There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| Computers are lousy actors
But only Light too dim for us to see \#| Lusers are vicious drama critics
(Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| BOFHen burn down theatres.
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From: Ben Donnelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: determine processor speed
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 09:43:52 -0500
Does anyone know a way to determine processor speed of a box
from within linux. You can reboot and look at the bios
messages, but re-booting is so distastfull...
Bendy
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to make a boot disk for a SCSI system
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 09:39:55 -0600
If you are trying to install linux get the gdth-drivers-disk.img
from FTP it was the only way the install would see the drive. Once
installed you shouldn't need it.
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From: "John Dixon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: login incorrect...What now!?
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 16:44:25 -0800
After installing a new version of bash from the "cooker" ftp site I rebooted
to find that my Linux Mandrake 7.0 installation had forgotten my password.
I can't login....other than as guest, but then I don't have root access to
get at the problem. Is there anything to be done short of re-installation?
Any suggestions greatly appreciated.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher)
Subject: Re: IBM Turbo 16/4 Token-Ring ISA
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 15:46:42 GMT
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000 15:30:16 GMT, Tobi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am setting up Suse 6.3 (Kernel 2.2.13) with the
>IBM Turbo 16/4 Token-Ring ISA card. The system doesn`t recognize this
>card.
>
>Is this card supported ?
>Anybody got this card working? I am desperate for an answer.
>Any help will be appreciated.
>Tobi
The "ibmtr" driver comes with the Linux kernel. It works well for me.
Lew Pitcher
System Consultant
Toronto Dominion Financial Group
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
(Opinions expressed are my own, not my employer's.)
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From: Vlar Schreidlocke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Older Dell Pentium 90 won't recognize 10G Hard Rive
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 15:51:25 GMT
I have an older Dell Pentium 90 computer that I want to make into a
Linux firewall box. I got a 10G hard drive for it, but the BIOS
apparently won't recognize anything above 2G, so Linux Mandrake can't
create the file system because no acceptable devices are recognized. I
can't find any 2G drives new. How can I make this box recognize the
larger drive so I can install Linux?
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: NYC LOCAL: NYLUG Wednesday 15 March 2000: Meet the Andover.net New York City
Team
Date: 15 Mar 2000 08:11:23 -0500
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volunteered. It was a huge success. Good job everybody!
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Stand-by Marchers to Protest DVD
NYLUG.org has been receiving sign-ups for people who can make themselves
available on short-notice to march peacefully in front of the courthouse
should the MPAA choose New York City as a jurisdiction for its next
hearing. If you want to become a stand-by marcher, please send me email at:
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Jim Gleason VA Linux Systems
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.valinux.com
phone: 212-858-7684 President, New York Linux Users Group
fax: 212-858-7685 http://www.nylug.org
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew Haley)
Subject: Re: determine processor speed
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 15:53:41 GMT
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000 09:43:52 -0500, Ben Donnelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Does anyone know a way to determine processor speed of a box
>from within linux. You can reboot and look at the bios
>messages, but re-booting is so distastfull...
cat /proc/cpuinfo
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From: Tom Brinkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DiskDrake under Mandrake 7.0
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 15:52:26 GMT
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
On 3/14/00, 11:09:22 PM, Steve D. Perkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>=20
wrote regarding DiskDrake under Mandrake 7.0:
> Does anyone know if the DiskDrake partitioning utility that comes with=
> the full version of Mandrake 7.0 can resize existing NTFS (Windows
> 2000) partitions?
Go to http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ and follow the
'mailing list' link, then search the 'expert' and 'cooker'
archives. I believe there was some discussion one on of those=20
lists about DiskDrake-NTFS=20
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: unkillable linux box
Date: 15 Mar 2000 10:58:40 EST
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000 14:45:22 GMT, cathy gramze
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>You aren't listening to me. I've *tried* booting to the floppy. Repeatedly,
>in fact. It won't, even with the BIOS set to do it. I'll try the first
>guy's password advice, and if it works I'll see if I can get the A: drive
>to mount and read a floppy. If it won't, I'll try swapping out the floppy
>drive.
Try disabling every boot device *except* the floppy in the BIOS setup.
With a certain mobo/BIOS combo, I had to do this to boot from a CD-ROM.
Or, if the "linux single" at the LILO prompt doesn't work, try "linux
init=/bin/sh".
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Matt G / Dances With Crows \###| Programmers are playwrights
There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| Computers are lousy actors
But only Light too dim for us to see \#| Lusers are vicious drama critics
(Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| BOFHen burn down theatres.
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From: Sergey Dashevskiy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DHCPd/net-pf-17/3c59x help
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 11:02:23 -0500
Hi all, I need a hand here, can't get my networking to work :/
I'm trying to connect to dhcp server, but at boot time it doesn't even
allocate /dev/eth0 device. I did compile 3c59x module, kernel is
configured to autoload it, it even tries, but then says that it can't
find net-pf-17 module. After looking up some information on that, I
added line "alias net-pf-17 off" to my module.conf file. That took care
of the error message, but it still doesn't allocate the device, and
doesn't load the module.
If I do modprobe -v 3c59x, it loads the module fine, but doesn't use it,
and doesn't grab the card's interrupt.
Running slackware, with I think 2.2.13 kernel
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