Linux-Misc Digest #907, Volume #23 Mon, 20 Mar 00 15:13:06 EST
Contents:
Re: Do you hate vi? vi or vim? Deathmatch! (Steve Lamb)
Help LILO 10101... Problem!!! ("Martin")
Re: W2K<->Samba Share Failure ("Robert L. Klungle")
Re: Win2000 trashed Lilo, of course. PROGRESS!! (John Hasler)
Running script with telnet (Matheus Cunha Torres)
RH 6.0 Viper V770 : Screen Resolution ("KellPro Mail - Micah")
Re: How do I get rid of LILO? (Neil Koozer)
rpcinfo says nfs isn't using tcp (chad)
Re: Do you hate vi? (Matt Chiglinsky)
Re: Do you hate vi? (Matt Chiglinsky)
Re: Help LILO 10101... Problem!!! (Neil Koozer)
Re: AOpen .. Lothar ("Yu, Horace [WDLN2:2X22:EXCH]")
Re: Can MySQL on Linux take this? (Ken Williams)
Re: Help LILO 10101... Problem!!! (Irv)
how to verify if the SMTP server is ok? (Ljubomir Josifovski)
Problem installing Netscape Communicator ("Richard Phillips")
Re: Hummingbird Exceed ("Jeff Susanj")
Re: Does KPilot work? (Krish Mohan)
Re: Do you hate vi? (BSD Bob)
LinuxPPC / RedHat: setting default language to English (william henry hsu)
Re: Help - can't install gcc (Tony R. Bennett)
LinuxWaves.com relaunched! (Kelechi Odu)
Re: Installing&Uninstalling More Than One OS Help (jdaspinw)
Re: Problem installing Netscape Communicator (Andreas Kahari)
Re: Win2000 trashed Lilo, of course. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Do you hate vi? (Heiner Steven)
glftpd upload problem (vossenn)
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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 17:20:23 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Haynes) wrote in
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>Cut the crap. Whatever a 'Chinese restaurant type' is I dunno, but maybe
>they're suited to the pick-&-choose approach. Real hackers write their
>*own* tools.
>In Emacs Lisp.
In Perl. Lisp is a speech impediment, not a language.
--
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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From: "Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Help LILO 10101... Problem!!!
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 17:20:10 -0000
When installing RH 6.1 on my system after the LILO configuration has
completed upon rebooting my system I get the 10101010... string running
accross the screen. I then have to boot into DOS and "fdisk /mbr". I have an
IBM Deskstar 20.5GB drive with 2 partitions of 10GB running Win 98 and a 4GB
Quantumn Fireball running Linux. I did not have any probs with LILO before
the IBM drive was installed.
Any help on how to get around this problem will be greatly appreciated.
Martin
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From: "Robert L. Klungle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: W2K<->Samba Share Failure
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 17:53:15 GMT
Viktor Haag wrote:
> "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.
You were right. Slackware 6 (Linux-2.2.6) had samba2.0.3.
Upgrading to samba-2.0.6 fixed the problem
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Win2000 trashed Lilo, of course. PROGRESS!!
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 16:11:20 GMT
Brad writes:
> I have not given up. I would really like it however if someone could save
> me from the misery of this situation..
Sounds like you are booting the rescue disk. It assumes that your Linux
installation is hosed and needs repair and so sets you up with a ramdisk as
a base of operations for your repair efforts. If I understand you
correctly there is nothing wrong with your installation: you just want to
reinstall lilo. Boot from the boot disk. This should mount the partitions
on your hard drive and put you in Linux just as if you had booted via lilo.
Then run lilo.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin
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From: Matheus Cunha Torres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.sco.misc,alt.os.linux.slackware,comp.os.linux
Subject: Running script with telnet
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 14:04:06 -0300
Is it possible to telnet another box and run a script from your machine
in the foreign host. As an example, suppose I want to telnet a pop
server
(telnet foreign.domain.com 110) and automatically delete the messages
there and log out. It's just an example, I know there are pop reader
that
can do that...
Is ther any option in telnet that allows me executing the comands after
conecting?
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From: "KellPro Mail - Micah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RH 6.0 Viper V770 : Screen Resolution
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 18:05:18 GMT
I installed RedHat 6.0 Kernel Build 2.2.5-15 and the screen is so large
that I cannot do hardly anything because of it spreading things across the
virtual desktops. The part I don't understand is that linux detects my
video card as a Diamond V770 and allows me to set the screen resolutions I
would like to have. But it always comes up the same size. I have
reinstalled 3-4 times already and don't seem to be getting any closer.
I am running: Tyan s1590s, AMD K6/III 400, Viper V770 Non-Ultra,128Mb Ram,
Princeton EO40 (In RH monitor list) and Dual Booting w/ Win95.
Ctrl+Alt+( + or -) did not help any remained the same size. I am running a
V770 and the RH install detected it as such. Also since everything is so
huge the screens extend into the "virtual desktops" making it nearly
impossible to do anything or read things. I am currently using Gnome but
have KDE and the rest of the enviroments installed. I would like to get all
of them working.
Thanks,
Micah
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
P.S. If you can tell me how to tell X not to autostart. I can do things from
the console can't I? (as far as modifying files and stuff).
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From: Neil Koozer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: microsoft.public.win2000.beta.file_system,microsoft.public.win98.fat32
Subject: Re: How do I get rid of LILO?
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 10:11:16 -0800
Jon Davis wrote:
>
> A few months back I tried dual-booting between Win2k and Red Hat Linux 6.1.
> Linux kept choking so I killed it. Now, a few months later, I'm trying to
> dual-boot between Win2k and Win98 by switching boot-up drives in the BIOS,
> where Win98 is going on the same hard drive that I had put Linux on before.
> But I can't seem to be able to get rid of LILO. I have formatted the drive
> from within Win2k and from within DOS, and I tried "fdisk /mbr" but still no
> go. The whole Linux kernel seems to be booting, but bootup dies when it
> tries to mount the file system since I formatted the drive.
>
> What gives? Any ideas?
Maybe you were operating without LILO in the mbr in the first place, and
the partition containing LILO is marked as 'active'. Check with fdisk
(either dos or linux fdisk) to see which partition is active.
Neil.
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Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 13:13:13 -0500
From: chad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: rpcinfo says nfs isn't using tcp
I am trying to set-up nfs and when I run rpcinfo, it says that nfs is
only using udp and not tcp. I am getting error messages saying
"Permission denied" when trying to mount a drive and think this is the
problem because the HOWTO has it listed as tcp in addition to udp.
Any ideas?
-chad
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matt Chiglinsky)
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.editors,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Do you hate vi?
Date: 20 Mar 2000 18:17:43 GMT
On 20 Mar 2000 09:40:46 GMT, Martin Norb�ck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Did I mention that I use vim to answer usenet posts?
>
Oh, I use vi to answer Usenet posts.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matt Chiglinsky)
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.editors,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Do you hate vi?
Date: 20 Mar 2000 18:18:46 GMT
On Mon, 20 Mar 2000 10:19:14 +0000, Paul Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Norb�ck) wrote:
>> Did I mention that I use vim to answer usenet posts?
>
>I use vim to clean my toilet.
>
>Paul
vim is for crazy people who want something as powerful as emacs but as
cryptic as vi. ;)
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From: Neil Koozer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Help LILO 10101... Problem!!!
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 10:21:47 -0800
Martin wrote:
>
> When installing RH 6.1 on my system after the LILO configuration has
> completed upon rebooting my system I get the 10101010... string running
> accross the screen. I then have to boot into DOS and "fdisk /mbr". I have an
> IBM Deskstar 20.5GB drive with 2 partitions of 10GB running Win 98 and a 4GB
> Quantumn Fireball running Linux. I did not have any probs with LILO before
> the IBM drive was installed.
>
> Any help on how to get around this problem will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Martin
When you get "L 01 01 01..." that is LILO relaying the '01' error code
from the bios. The '01' means 'invalid command', which in turn means
that you're trying to access material from an area that is inaccessible
to the bios (either above cyl 1023 or on the secondary itreface). Your
4gb drive should be completely below cyl 1024 if it is set to LBA in the
bios setup. If it is on the secondary interface, try moving it to the
slave position on the primary.
Neil.
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From: "Yu, Horace [WDLN2:2X22:EXCH]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AOpen .. Lothar
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 13:10:43 -0500
Alex wrote:
> I have the same modem an it worked great with Windoze 98, Linux RH 5.2
> and RH 6.1. Just link you modem to the /dev/ttyS? you need and you are
> good to roll.
>
Thanks for your response ... I have a couple of questions though :
(1) by "same modem", do you mean you are using the FM56-P or the FM56-PVS??
(2) if you are using the FM56-P, how do you link the modem?? ... I know in
Win98 it's using port 3e8 and IRQ 10 ...
Thanks ...
Horace
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Williams)
Subject: Re: Can MySQL on Linux take this?
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 18:30:11 GMT
>transaction logs, rollback, loadbalancing etc.
Explain what these are in detail? Load balancing is obivous - but what other
db's support it?
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From: Irv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Help LILO 10101... Problem!!!
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 18:38:38 +0000
Martin wrote:
> When installing RH 6.1 on my system after the LILO configuration has
> completed upon rebooting my system I get the 10101010... string running
> accross the screen. I then have to boot into DOS and "fdisk /mbr". I have an
> IBM Deskstar 20.5GB drive with 2 partitions of 10GB running Win 98 and a 4GB
> Quantumn Fireball running Linux. I did not have any probs with LILO before
> the IBM drive was installed.
>
> Any help on how to get around this problem will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Martin
Yes, i had this problem... it's not the master boot record that lilo has messed
up, it's the FAT tables. If you have Norton disk doctor, run that and it
should sort you out :-)
Irv
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From: Ljubomir Josifovski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.debian.user,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: how to verify if the SMTP server is ok?
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 18:33:18 +0000
How does on veriyf that the ISP's SMTP server is working? For example, I
try
> ljupco@cough:~ telnet ridingwood smtp
> Trying 143.167.59.249...
> Connected to ridingwood.shef.ac.uk.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 220 ridingwood.shef.ac.uk Mercury 1.46 ESMTP server ready.
> HELO cough.dcs.shef.ac.uk
> 250 ridingwood.shef.ac.uk Hi there, cough.dcs.shef.ac.uk.
> MAIL FROM: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 250 Sender OK - send RCPTs.
> RCPT TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 250 Recipient OK - send RCPT or DATA.
> DATA
> 354 OK, send data, end with CRLF.CRLF
>
> test.
> telnet ridingwood smtp from cough
>
> .
> 250 Data received OK.
> QUIT
> 221 ridingwood.shef.ac.uk Service closing channel.
> Connection closed by foreign host.
> ljupco@cough:~
([EMAIL PROTECTED] is my e-mail addr on the computer
which is my SMTP and POP3 server - ridingwood,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] is some other mailbox)
I neither receive this mail, nor a notification of failure on
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Does this mean that my SMTP server is not working for me? Or is my test
flawed?
thanks,
--
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Regent Court, 211 Portobello St, Sheffield S1 4DP, UK
tel/fax: +44-(0)114-222-1878/222-1810
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~ljupco
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From: "Richard Phillips" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.corel,comp.os.linux.setup,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Problem installing Netscape Communicator
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 18:49:53 -0000
Hello,
I have downloaded Communicator because the one that comes with Corel Linux
doesn't appear to include an email/newsgroup client. I have unzipped it
into a directory where a readme file tells me the advised way to install it
is to run a file called 'netscape.ns' (or something similar) which is a
Bourne Again Shellscript if my understanding is correct. Everytime I click
on this file though, all that happens is a window flashes up very quickly
and then dissapears (I don't see it long enough to give more info). Nothing
else happens! Am I doing something wrong? Any advice on how to get this
installed gratefully received!
Rich.
P.S. How do I uninstall the version that is currently installed prior to
putting the new one on?
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From: "Jeff Susanj" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hummingbird Exceed
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 18:28:56 GMT
I'm afraid that this is commercial software and not available for download
from a legal site. It seems to be aimed at companies so I am sure it costs
big bucks. It is a nice program as we use it at work to connect to our Suns
and SGs.
Jeff S.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message <8b5g3i$f2g$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>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: Krish Mohan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: cisco.linux-users,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: Does KPilot work?
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 10:52:00 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
I could not get kpilot to work with mandrake 7.02, albeit setting
everything properly. Did anybody get kpilot to work with mandrake 7.02? If
so, how?
regards
krish mohan
Rick wrote:
> Does anyone have KPilot working. I have tried it on my Mac and my Compaq
> laptop. All I ever get is a message that the Daemon cant connect to the
> Pilot. I have set the /dev/pilot link to the appropriate ports on each,
> but cant get a connection.
>
> Any and all help appreciated.
> --
> Rick
> To reply by email remove NOSPAM from my address.
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From: BSD Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.editors,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Do you hate vi?
Date: 20 Mar 2000 16:11:27 GMT
In comp.unix.misc Matt Chiglinsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Lots of discussion here.
>>> It supports what I said in another thread:
>>> if you learned on vi, you love it.
>>> else, you hate it.
>>
>>Just as with all other blanket statements, this one is wrong. And stupid.
No, you just don't have the right toolset handy. The art of computing
is having the right toolset handy, on all your platforms.
> I write my C and lisp code in "emacs".
> I write my Unix config file in "vi".
> I write my DOS config files in "edit".
> I write my Windows config files in "notepad".
> I write my large (heh) Windows config files in "wordpad".
> I write my papers in "Word".
I use vi for all of the above. Works great, once you get used to it,
even on NT and Windoz (retch!) and dos. It has the portability that
I need so I can write anything, even a book, on dos/doz/unix and it
is fully transportable across platforms. Try that in word.....(not!),
A full DWB or equivalent on dos/doz/unix, plus TeX, and vi, makes for
real portability. Try that in word.....(not!).
Why does one need the overhead of all the other things? Bill Joy
had it right the first time!
> Did someone say _one_ editor is best? Slap them.
Nah, my only complaint is that I was never able to get a working vi
on my CP/M boxes. I was very close though, about 5 years back with
a vi that would just barely fit in a 56K tpa space. The problem was
the inefficiency of the usual CP/M compiler suites. Alas, about 2
years back, I jettisoned all the CP/M legacy stuff for Sun legacy stuff.
Vi is still the best, there.
The commonality of vi is its beauty, and legacy. Those that don't
have the use of it, are missing out, IMHO.
Vi (and ed) is one of the fundamental computing tools. The rest are fluff.
Bob
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.powerpc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: LinuxPPC / RedHat: setting default language to English
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (william henry hsu)
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 19:20:46 GMT
One of my students recently installed LinuxPPC 2000 on our lab's
PowerMac G4 (in a MacOS 9 dual-boot setup), and I decided to apply his
procedure to my iMac G3.
I got the drives partitioned using MacOS Drive Setup, reinstalled MacOS
8.6, and installed LinuxPPC 2000 (with "everything"), but I seem to have made
some language config error, because the default language is Japanese. This is
not just a config problem in GNOME/KDE, as all my man pages are in Japanese as
well. I tried just selecting "English" in the initlevel 5 (GNOME/Helix) login
screen, and it helpfully offers to make English the default, but when I log
in... everything's still in Japanese. I would like to add English language
support (and docs, including man pages and HOWTOs) without reinstalling the
entire OS (which took over 6 hours). Any instructions or pointers to docs
would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Bill
=======================================================
William H. Hsu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of CIS, Kansas State University
Research Scientist, Automated Learning Group, NCSA
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.cis.ksu.edu/~bhsu ICQ: 28651394
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tony R. Bennett)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Help - can't install gcc
Date: 19 Mar 2000 18:50:41 -0800
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Sat, 18 Mar 2000 02:22:51 -0000, A Slater wrote:
>>I cannot find gcc on my system. I guess mandrake do not provide it in
>>release.
>>If I have no exisiting C compiler how can I install a C compiler I need C
>>compiler so that I can install Java servlets.
>
>You can d/l it from almost any site that hosts a linux distribution, GCC is
>a C compiler it will also compile C++ and a few other languages aswell I
>think.
>
>--
>Cheers
>Steve email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>%HAV-A-NICEDAY Error not enough coffee 0 pps.
>
>web http://www.ndirect.co.uk/~sjlen/
>
>or http://start.at/zero-pps
>
> 4:53am up 17:05, 9 users, load average: 1.09, 1.11, 1.09
I have Mandrake 6.0 installed.
It comes with egcs 1.1.2...
You probably didn't select it as one of the facilities you wanted
installed... So, it's probably on your CD waiting for you to 'update'
it.
HTH,
Tony
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From: Kelechi Odu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LinuxWaves.com relaunched!
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 20:45:38 +0100
Hi all,
I wish to announce that LinuxWaves.com (http://www.linuxwaves.com) has
been relaunched. Bugs have been fixed and browser problems solved.
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� Banner Exchange for Linux Sites
� FREE email
� Download links
� Linux links Directory
� Community Forum etc etc.
Visit LinuxWaves.com at http://www.linuxwaves.com and have a lot of
fun...
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http://www.linuxwaves.com
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From: jdaspinw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installing&Uninstalling More Than One OS Help
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 12:38:36 -0800
The first thing you need to do is think good and hard about
how you want to set things up. This is what will prepare
you ofr the install and uninstall. Here's what you're
probably going to want to do, for the best results:
Decide which operating system you want to be the default
operating system to load. In this case, I'm going to assume
it's Windows 98. So, install Windows 98 first. Windows 98
is a nasty operating system to install on a computer already
running another OS, so it's probably wise to start with 98
no matter which way you go.
Following the installation of Win98, install NT or 2000.
Now, install Linux last, on the other hard drive. Make sure
that the /boot and swap and at least a little of /root are
stored under the 1024 cylinder limit, and then install LILO
at the end of the installation. Tell Lilo to point to the
bootable partitions of the hard drive, those will be the
first hard drive partition of each OS.
Do that and it should all work. When uninstalling, just
fdisk the non-dos partitions that are NT (assuming you
format NTFS and not FAT16), and Linux.
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From: Andreas Kahari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.corel,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Problem installing Netscape Communicator
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 19:53:50 GMT
In article <8b5rqc$3pa$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Richard Phillips" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
> I have downloaded Communicator because the one that comes with Corel
Linux
> doesn't appear to include an email/newsgroup client. I have unzipped
it
> into a directory where a readme file tells me the advised way to
install it
> is to run a file called 'netscape.ns' (or something similar) which is
a
> Bourne Again Shellscript if my understanding is correct. Everytime I
click
> on this file though, all that happens is a window flashes up very
quickly
> and then dissapears (I don't see it long enough to give more info).
Nothing
> else happens! Am I doing something wrong? Any advice on how to get
this
> installed gratefully received!
> Rich.
> P.S. How do I uninstall the version that is currently installed prior
to
> putting the new one on?
>
>
If it is indeed a shell script, then you are supposed to execute it from
the command line. Open a XTerm, move to the right folder and type the
name of the script. I don't know what window manager you're using or
what it's supposed to do when you double-click a script file.
I usually just remove every file that I know is associated with the old
Netscape installation, but I use a custom install so there are probably
differences in where files reside (I use the GNU 'stow' program).
Someone else may have a better solution.
/A
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Win2000 trashed Lilo, of course.
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 19:52:36 GMT
Brad,
I've got W2K installed alongside mandrake 7, and it seems fairly
well behaved so far. like all windoze OS's, it likes to be in the MBR,
but unlike NT, it can handle not being there. basically, it just
overwrote lilo in the MBR of your harddrive, probabaly /dev/hda. What
you need to do is either boot from a boot disk containing a copy of
lilo (you should have made one of these during your initial
installation of linux). if you end up at the # prompt, you're probably
in single user mode with no drives mounted... mount your root
filesystem by typing "mount /dev/hdaXX -t ext2" where XX is the
partition number of the ext2 filesystem containing your linux
installation... you may have to add the argument "/" to mount it to
your root directory... from this point you should have access to all
your subdirectories, including /sbin and /etc, assuming both of those
are on your main partition... /boot may be on a separate partition and
you may have to mount it explicitly. If i'm not mistaken, RH's default
installation puts it on a separate partition... this is why you
couldn't see boot.b before. so basically, make sure you have all your
partitions mounted, then all you have to do is rerun lilo and it will
install itself into the MBR for you, and you're good to go.
hope this helps
keith gaddis
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 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: Heiner Steven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.editors,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Do you hate vi?
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 20:54:31 +0100
Matt Chiglinsky wrote:
> I write my C and lisp code in "emacs".
> I write my Unix config file in "vi".
> I write my DOS config files in "edit".
> I write my Windows config files in "notepad".
> I write my large (heh) Windows config files in "wordpad".
You didn't say *why* you use "wordpad": because limitations
of "notepad" force you to do so. Did you have the same
problem with "emacs"? "vi"?
Sorry, just *had* to tease ;-)
Heiner
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From: vossenn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: glftpd upload problem
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 20:08:39 GMT
Hi,
don't know if someone can help me, but I'll try anyway. :)
I installed GLFTPD on my Linux. Users can download stuff, but can't
upload.
permissions on my upload dir are rwxrwxrwx.
Can someone help me?
thnx
Vossenn
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