Linux-Misc Digest #906, Volume #23 Mon, 20 Mar 00 12:13:02 EST
Contents:
Problem Compiling QPopper (Greg Stucky)
Re: xmms problems after upgrade (Jesse F. Hughes)
Corel Linux
Corel Linux
Re: Netgear Nic for ADSL + Failure ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Hummingbird Exceed ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: lilo won't boot w2k on scsi (Leonard Evens)
Re: Do you hate vi? (Anthony Campbell)
Re: Netgear Nic for ADSL + Failure (Hal Burgiss)
Re: Win2000 trashed Lilo, of course. ("Chad")
Re: Partition problems (Svend Olaf Mikkelsen)
Re: Corel Linux (Rod Smith)
Re: Bash-2.04 available for FTP (Chet Ramey)
Re: xmms problems after upgrade (Jesse F. Hughes)
Re: Do you hate vi? vi or vim? Deathmatch! (Steve Lamb)
Re: W2K<->Samba Share Failure (Viktor Haag)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Greg Stucky)
Subject: Problem Compiling QPopper
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 15:11:44 GMT
I have downloaded QPopper and I wanted to compile it. Following the
direcetions it says to change to the directory where the source is
locaed and run the follwoing commands.
"./configure"
"make"
When I do this I get the following error message
"bash: ./configure no such file or directory"
Am I doing something wrong? Am I missing something I need to compile
this? Any help would be appreciated.
Greg Stucky
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: xmms problems after upgrade
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jesse F. Hughes)
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 15:18:48 GMT
"Gil F." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Jesse,
> Try and get the xmms binary from linuxmafia.org., then install with
> pkgtool.
>
Excellent suggestion. I wasn't aware of the linuxmafia site.
Unfortunately, the download link is broken. Hopefully, it is a
transient problem.
--
Jesse Hughes
"You see 300 of something, anything, and you go `[Man], that's a lot of
stuff.'" -- Jim Bigler, quoted in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Corel Linux
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 15:30:05 GMT
i have installed in MS-DOS. when i start the program, it runs up until the
login screen. then the screen flashes on and off and i can't login.
are additional system settings needed?
thanks
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Corel Linux
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 15:30:08 GMT
i have installed in MS-DOS. when i start the program, it runs up until the
login screen. then the screen flashes on and off and i can't login.
are additional system settings needed? my current operating system is
Windows 98
thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Netgear Nic for ADSL + Failure
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 15:26:04 GMT
In article <8b47ha$isa$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Good Day,
> I am pretty new at Linux, have went through the book and all info I
> could find, Card is FA310TX and I know it is supposed to read as
tulip,
> I get a constant failure to find eth0 everytime I reboot. I have
> configured everything and deleted everything. The only time I don't
get
> a failure is when I delete eth0. I have been on this for 3 days now
and
> am tired of trying to figure it out. If anyone has any ideas, I would
> be most appreciative
> ASUS p3b-f
> celeron 400
> Netgear FA310 TX
> Lucent DSL Pipe Modem
> RHat 6.1
> Thanx in advance
> Allnone
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
>
I have the same problem with the same mobo and D-link via chip NIC. If
you read dmesg, the IRQ the driver can find is 0. I tried eveyyting,
including assign an IRQ to the very PCI slot that my NIC is on without
success. The same NIC has no problem with any other board. Does your
Windows have the same problem? Anyway, I'm returing the board.
Dzuy
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Hummingbird Exceed
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 15:29:09 GMT
Anyone know where I can download a copy of Hummingbird Exceed from?
Thanx!
--
Steven Coutts
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: lilo won't boot w2k on scsi
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 09:22:54 -0600
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I'm trying to build a Linux / Windows 2000 system. I've
> successfully installed W2K (with NTFS) on a SCSI disk (SCSI device 0)
> which boots flawlessly when the bios is configured to boot in the order,
> "SCSI, A, C". I also have an IDE (primary master) with Red Hat Linux
> 6.1 which boots properly when the bios is configured for boot sequence
> "A, C, SCSI". Lilo is installed on this drive and boots Linux. However
> I have not successfully configured duel boot on this system. I would
> like to have the bios boot to the IDE and then use lilo to select either
> Windows or Linux. I modified /etc/lilo.conf to include the windows
> partition /dev/sda1. It now looks like this:
>
> boot = /dev/hda
> prompt
> default = linux
> vga = normal
> read-only
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.12-20
> label = linux
> initrd = /boot/initrd-2.2.12-20.img
> root = /dev/hda1
> other = /dev/sda1
> label = win
>
> When I run install lilo, the only error message I get says
> /dev/hdb (the zip drive) reports inconsistent size information. (When I
> disconnect the zip drive, this message goes away but my problem
> persists.) In either case, it says both "linux" and "win" were
> installed successfully.
> When I reboot I get the lilo prompt as usual. I can boot linux
> fine, but when I try to boot windows, the system prints "Loading win",
> then freezes. I know linux can read the disk because "fdisk /dev/sda"
> reports the correct information: a single bootable NTFS partition.
> I've tried changing "other = /dev/sda1" to "other = /dev/sda".
> Then, lilo reports "Error loading operating system", but still does not
> boot windows. I've also tried adding "table = /dev/sda" to the end of
> the file, but this has no affect.
> Here is a list of relavent hardware, for what it's worth:
> Epox EP-6VBA (motherboard)
> Adaptec AHA-2940 Ultra / Ultra W SCSI controller
> Quantum Fireball ST4.3S SCSI
> VIA Bus Master IDE controller (builtin to motherboard)
> ST51270A (IDE disk)
>
> How can I boot lilo from the primary master IDE such that I can
> choose between Linux on the same drive or Win2000 on the SCSI?
> Please email me any responses. Thanks.
>
> Eric Levy
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
The combination of SCSI and IDe may cause some problems, and Win2000
may have to be on the first disk. But you can try adding
table=/dev/sda
to the other sections to see what happens.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anthony Campbell)
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.editors,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Do you hate vi?
Date: 20 Mar 2000 15:45:57 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 20 Mar 2000 09:40:46 GMT, Martin Norb�ck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>20 Mar 2000 02:52:01 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matt Chiglinsky) ->
>> I write my C and lisp code in "emacs".
>I use vim.
>
>> I write my Unix config file in "vi".
>I use vim.
>
>> I write my DOS config files in "edit".
>I use vim.
>
>> I write my Windows config files in "notepad".
>I use vim.
>
>> I write my large (heh) Windows config files in "wordpad".
>I use vim.
>
>> I write my papers in "Word".
>I use vim.
>
>> Did someone say _one_ editor is best? Slap them.
>So go ahead and slap me.
>
>Did I mention that I use vim to answer usenet posts?
>
Yes, and also excellent for Latex and HTML.
Anthony
--
Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.1 (Windows-free zone)
Book Reviews: http://www.pentelikon.freeserve.co.uk/bookreviews/
Skeptical articles: http://www.freethinker/uklinux.net/
"To be forced by desire into any unwarrantable belief is a calamity."
I.A. Richards
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: Netgear Nic for ADSL + Failure
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 15:58:08 GMT
On Mon, 20 Mar 2000 15:26:04 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>In article <8b47ha$isa$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
>I have the same problem with the same mobo and D-link via chip NIC. If
>you read dmesg, the IRQ the driver can find is 0. I tried eveyyting,
>including assign an IRQ to the very PCI slot that my NIC is on without
>success. The same NIC has no problem with any other board. Does your
>Windows have the same problem? Anyway, I'm returing the board.
Have you tried turning off PnP in BIOS? That IRQ 0 thing, sounds like
PnP mischief.
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Chad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Win2000 trashed Lilo, of course.
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 11:07:02 -0500
You could try making NT Loader load Linux this should help:
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Linux+NT-Loader.html
Or get a Floppy Distro Such as Toms Root Boot and start it up like
zImage root=/dev/hda1
(where /dev/hda1 is your linux /, this will give you the File System on your
HD instead of your boot disk then you can add win2k to /etc/lilo.conf and
run lilo again)
hope it helps
later
"Brad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> Hi all
>
> I had win98 on the first hard drive and linux (redhat 6.0) sitting
> happily on the second of my PII300. Lilo would do it's thing during
> bootup and default me to Linux. This was good as I am trying to spend
> more and more time there.
>
> However, work commitments meant me getting my head around Win2000, so i
> dumped Win98 and install the behemoth 2000. Of course, it trashed Lilo.
>
> I made a boot disk and a rescue disk (rescue.img) and started up the
> machine. I thought i was pretty good getting to that point, but alas, it
> was not to be.
>
> I was presented with a # prompt. I could not find Lilo. I got the
> feeling that what I was looking at was the contents of a ramdisk that
> had been loaded from the floppies. (Am i close to the mark here?)
>
> Please tell me how do i reinstall Lilo? I do not want to have to
> reinstall Linux, again!
>
> Thanks
>
> Brad
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Svend Olaf Mikkelsen)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Partition problems
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 16:14:11 GMT
Pawe� Kot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I had some Linux patritions on my hard drive (primary and logical as well).
>I have overritten the partiotion table using DOS fdisk. Now, Linux can boot
>from the first partition but the other are not visible. And I need some data
>from a logical partition. Can I recover the old partition table? Or can I
>recover some data from some place on the disk to the first partition? Maybe
>DOS fdisk make backup of the partition table and I can recover it? And the
>last question: can I use Linux fdisk to set up the partitions without
>loosing stored data?
>
>Thanks in advance for help
>
>regards
>
>peKOT
You can go to my page http://inet.uni2.dk/~svolaf/utilities.htm
download Findpart, boot to DOS, do
findpart all fp.txt
and post the content from fp.txt. Then maybe I can help.
--
Svend Olaf
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Corel Linux
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 16:23:53 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> i have installed in MS-DOS. when i start the program, it runs up until the
> login screen. then the screen flashes on and off and i can't login.
>
> are additional system settings needed? my current operating system is
> Windows 98
First, Linux isn't a program that runs under DOS or Windows. You may have
started the install program in DOS or Windows, but Linux takes over the
computer completely and runs independently of DOS or Windows.
Second, it's unclear whether you mean that you've completely installed
Linux but that it's not behaving itself when you boot into Linux, or that
the installation program isn't working correctly. My suspicion is the
former.
If the problem is post-install, my guess is that you've got an X
configuration problem. Most Linux distributions, including Corel, now
start X automatically after installation. (X is Linux's GUI environment.)
The trouble is that if the X configuration is messed up, it goes into an
endless cycle of trying to start (the flash you mention), failing, and
trying again. The result is that you can't use the computer.
Unfortunately, fixing this problem is quite a stretch for a newbie. You'd
probably do better to start over with another distribution, and if the
installer gives you an option to start X when the system boots, select NO.
That way, you can start X manually (via the startx command) and report
problems to the newsgroup (you'll get error messages this way). When the
problems are fixed, you can change the configuration to start X
automatically at boot time. I know for a fact that Mandrake 7 gives you
the option of starting up without X. I think Caldera 2.3 does, too, but
I'm not positive of that. For my comments on these and other Linux
distributions, check my web site:
http://www.rodsbooks.com/distribs/
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux networking & WordPerfect for Linux
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chet Ramey)
Crossposted-To:
comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Bash-2.04 available for FTP
Date: 20 Mar 2000 16:46:46 GMT
In article <8auhp3$dbo$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Kenny McCormack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/bash-doc-2.03.tar.gz
>>ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/bash/bash-doc-2.03.tar.gz
>
>Typo! I was able to retrieve:
>
> ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/bash-doc-2.04.tar.gz
You are correct. I have fired my editor.
--
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
( ``Discere est Dolere'' -- chet)
Chet Ramey, CWRU [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
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Subject: Re: xmms problems after upgrade
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jesse F. Hughes)
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 16:53:34 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jesse F. Hughes) writes:
> "Gil F." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Jesse,
> > Try and get the xmms binary from linuxmafia.org., then install with
> > pkgtool.
> >
>
> Excellent suggestion. I wasn't aware of the linuxmafia site.
>
> Unfortunately, the download link is broken. Hopefully, it is a
> transient problem.
>
The site must've been temporarily down. Your suggestion worked like a
charm.
Linuxmafia.org is a wonderful site for Slackware junkies.
--
Jesse Hughes
"You see 300 of something, anything, and you go `[Man], that's a lot of
stuff.'" -- Jim Bigler, quoted in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
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Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.editors,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Do you hate vi? vi or vim? Deathmatch!
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Lamb)
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 16:54:18 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shyamal Prasad) wrote in
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>Really? Memory and resource hog?
Yes.
>I'm using XEmacs to write and post this reply, I also use it read my
>mail (local spool and also IMAP from an MS Exchange buffer), I am
>running a Python interpreter under it, *and* I have at least 15 file
>buffers and tag tables open, and its been running a few days.
Bully for you. My OS is called "Linux" not "EMACS".
> PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME CPU COMMAND
> 687 exushml 1 23 0 17M 15M sleep 13:36 1.18% xemacs-20.4
> 643 exushml 1 34 0 23M 15M sleep 13:36 0.64% Xsun
> 4771 exushml 1 34 0 6584K 5080K sleep 0:01 0.03% kscd.bin
> 4893 exushml 1 34 0 4784K 2496K sleep 0:00 0.02% vim
> 731 exushml 1 4 0 40M 27M sleep 12:55 0.00% netscape
>At 15M resident (17M total), XEmacs is simply not a bad deal compared
>to vim with 2.5M resident (4.7M total) doing nothing at all right now.
{morpheus@teleute:~} ps ux
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
morpheus 8469 0.2 1.9 2068 1216 pts/1 S 08:42 0:00 vim
morpheus 8499 0.2 1.3 1600 824 pts/4 S 08:44 0:00 nvi
morpheus 8505 2.0 0.9 1324 572 pts/5 S 08:45 0:00 elvis-tiny
Odd. Mine weighs in at 2Mb, 1.2M of which is resident. That is compared
to nvi which doesn't doo much more than vi at 1.6M/825k respectively and
elvis-tiny which, agian, doesn't do much more than vi at 1.3Mb/572k
respectively.
Those are all doing nothing. So what why does your nothing differ from
my nothing?
Further, if we take that vim doing nothing and expand it out to the size
of your EMACS I can load, what, 15 or so? :)
>If I could just find a good replacement for netscape I'd be set! That
>is a real memory hog, not xemacs.
I consider an editor that clocks in at 17Mb as bloated, esp. on my
machine which has 64Mb. Let's look at it that way, hmmm? 15Mb is 23% of my
memory. 1.2Mb is a scant 2%.
>There was a time when I used to apologize for Emacs' size (say four
>years ago), but not anymore. I find that a sad reflection on current
>software practices.
Of which EMACS led the way. You should still be apologizing.
>ever used), but I find the complaint that EscMetaAltCtrlShift is
>bloated increasingly lame.
It is still equally valid. Let's have real fun. ;)
morpheus 8862 5.0 1.1 1556 748 pts/1 TN 08:53 0:00 joe
joe, my former favorite editor, 1.5Mb/748k respectively. Woo. :)
--
Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your
ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboard of souls.
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Subject: Re: W2K<->Samba Share Failure
From: Viktor Haag <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 20 Mar 2000 11:48:24 -0500
"Robert L. Klungle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I upgraded from NT4 to W2K two days ago and now can't access
> shared disks/files on W2K from Linux (W2K<-Linux). Get "RPC
> Failed" whenever I try. Can see the Linux Icon in "Entire
> Network". W98<->Linux still works. W2K<->W98 works. All pings
> work. Anybody solved this yet??
A number of points: first, make sure you're using a recent build
of Win2K (i.e. a release build, or close to it). Secondly, make
sure you're using a recent version of Samba. You can read Win2K
shares successfully through Samba 2.0.5 and 2.0.6 (at least you
can on my machine 8-)). I'm pretty sure that versions of Samba
prior to 2.0.5 had problems reading shares on Win2k machines (and
Win2k itself, by the same token, had problems reading Samba
shares provided by older versions of Samba)...
--
Viktor Haag Senior Technical Writer, RIM
"Well, after she impaled me with a twobyfour, things changed alot."
My opinions are my own, only.
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