Linux-Misc Digest #914, Volume #23 Tue, 21 Mar 00 10:13:03 EST
Contents:
Re: How can I get files from my Win98 c: drive in Linux? (kev)
Re: Senile Netscape... (kev)
How do i read my linux partition from dos (pete)
Problem installing Netscape Communicator (Jim Hansen)
Re: Can MySQL on Linux take this? (lavachpe)
Re: Memory Not Recognized (Robert Heller)
Invalid file descriptor (Masoud Pajoh)
Re: Do you hate vi? (Martin =?iso-8859-1?Q?Norb=E4ck?=)
Re: virgin sources and linux (Gordon Haverland)
Re: How can I get files from my Win98 c: drive in Linux? (Andreas Kahari)
Re: Memory Not Recognized ("Buck Turgidson")
windows floppy & linux floppy ("Robert Weaver")
Re: User password required to reboot (John Strange)
Re: depmod: unresolved symbol(s) (Karl-Heinz Herrmann)
Help: Directory list of /usr/local ("Jobath")
Re: windows floppy & linux floppy ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: How do i read my linux partition from dos ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Library Questions (Matt Starnes)
Re: Red Hat Linux 6.2 & XFree86 4.0? (Gregory Brennan)
Problems upgrading to Xfree86 3.3.6 ("Pepito Grillo")
Writing an application ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Writing an application (Jan Schaumann)
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From: kev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How can I get files from my Win98 c: drive in Linux?
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 13:27:03 +0000
You should be able to mount your C: drive directly, with something like:
mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/winc
vfat is the filesystem type in this case (allows long windoze filenames),
/dev/hda1 is the device (may be different on your system, issuing a 'df'
command will give you a clue), and /mnt/winc is the place on your linux
filesystem to mount the windoze filesystem.
For an easier time, you could use linuxconf, and look for "Access Local
Drives".
HTH,
- Kev
ShiDeng wrote:
> I have two operating systems installed on one hard drive. Windows 98 and
> Linux. How can I get files from the c: drive of Windows 98 in Linux? I
> tried to copy the files to a floppy disk and use "mount /mnt/floppy" as
> root, but it gave me some error message. Can anyone help me for solving this
> problem? Thanks!
>
> Shi
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From: kev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Senile Netscape...
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 13:29:25 +0000
Thomas Zajic wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Mar 2000 03:55:31 +0000, Jon McLin wrote:
>
> > Periodically (random intervals) Netscape 4.61 loses all references
> > to news servers (and newsgroups) other than than my default news server.
> > Platform is Mandrake 6.0
> >
> > Until Opera arrives for Linux (and I'm willing to pay Big Bucks for a
> > Reliable Product...), any ideas on how to avoid this?
>
> Use a newsreader instead of a web browser.
Erm...Netscape _is_ a news reader!
- Kev
>
>
> Thomas
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From: pete <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How do i read my linux partition from dos
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 13:30:08 GMT
I have Windows 98 and linux installed on a duel booting machine. I can copy
and look at my DOS partition from linux but do not know how to look at my
linux partion from DOS.
Any suggestions will be most greatful.
Thanks
Pete
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From: Jim.Hansen@342-101 (Jim Hansen)
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 23:06:58 GMT
Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED]
20 Mar 00 13:49, you wrote to All:
r> I have downloaded Communicator because the one that comes with Corel
r> Linux doesn't appear to include an email/newsgroup client. I have
r> unzipped it into a directory where a readme file tells me the advised
r> way to install it is to run a file called 'netscape.ns' (or something
r> similar) which is a Bourne Again Shellscript if my understanding is
r> correct. Everytime I click on this file though, all that happens is a
r> window flashes up very quickly and then dissapears (I don't see it
r> long enough to give more info). Nothing else happens! Am I doing
r> something wrong? Any advice on how to get this installed gratefully
Try using the terminal program to start it, it should show you the error.
I've installed 4.7 and it was actually quite easy. I went into the
/usr/bin
directory, copied the netscape file to a backup, then linked the new
netscape
version to /usr/bin/netscape.
Next, I backed up the Netscape file in the X11 directory then copied the
Netscape.ad file in netscape4.7's directory to the X11 directory. The
exact
directory is listed in Netscape.ad.
That was all it took.
r> received! Rich. P.S. How do I uninstall the version that is currently
r> installed prior to putting the new one on?
That, in a sens, uninstalls it while still keeping the default settings.
Jim
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From: lavachpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can MySQL on Linux take this?
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 13:30:02 GMT
Hans Wolters wrote:
>
>
> Ken Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> found a keyboard
> and could not resist the temptation ....
> >Database will hold over 20,000 product(20,000 rows) but will also have
80,000
> >images(40,000 small images(4K each), 40,000 larger images(12K each))
and text.
> >will linux do? will mysql do? if not what other database?
>
> Both Linux and MySQL will do but you might want to change to another
> solution. If you dump the images on the linux filesystem and give them
> a good name (product_id or something like that) it will be a lot
> quicker.
>
> Regards, Hans
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I agree! By using the data structure as a pointer you can avoid a certain
amount of overhead to the data engine but you still have the issue of logs
and roll backs ect... that may be critical depending on what you are
attempting to do.
Regards,
Pete
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From: Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Memory Not Recognized
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 13:16:57 GMT
"Buck Turgidson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
In a message on Tue, 21 Mar 2000 13:01:58 GMT, wrote :
"T> I got it to recognize a total of 79348 by typing mem=80m at the lilo prompt.
"T> However, it still doesn't recognize the command in lilo.conf. Is there
"T> something syntactically incorrect about it?
"T>
"T>
"T> Buck Turgidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
"T> news:MyJB4.12960$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
"T> > I installed RedHat 6.1 on an IBM PC 350, which counts all 80MB upon
"T> booting.
"T> > I also just upgraded the BIOS, and added append="mem=80M" to lilo.conf.
"T> But
"T> > it only sees 64 MB, no matter what I do.
"T> >
"T> > Any thoughts as to what to try next?
"T> >
"T> > free summary
"T> > -------------------
"T> >
"T> > [root@lacalena /etc]# free
"T> > total used free shared buffers cached
"T> > Mem: 64136 34168 29968 25496 3284 20492
"T> > -/+ buffers/cache: 10392 53744
"T> > Swap: 116888 0 116888
"T> >
"T> >
"T> > lilo.conf
"T> > -----------
"T> > [root@lacalena /etc]# cat lilo.conf
"T> > boot=/dev/hda
"T> > map=/boot/map
"T> > install=/boot/boot.b
"T> > prompt
"T> > timeout=50
"T> > default=linux
"T> > append="mem=80M"
Move the above to ...
"T> >
"T> > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.12-20
"T> > label=linux
"T> > initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.12-20.img
"T> > read-only
"T> > root=/dev/hda8
*Here*.
It is not 'lilo' that needs to be told about the memory, but the kernel
itself. The 'mem=80M' is a kernel parameter that you want lilo to
append to the kernel boot command.
"T> >
"T> >
"T>
"T>
"T>
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Subject: Invalid file descriptor
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Masoud Pajoh)
Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 07:38
Hi;
Her is what I did. In order to have repository of the installed files,
I used Partition Magic and split the '/' partition in two. the second
one will be intact in case I have to reinstall Linux for any reason.
I moved a bunch of files, including some not yet installed, to this new
partition. Now no matter which one of these files, mostly RPM's,
I choose to install I receive "Invalid file descriptor: CPIO failed"
after which different paths are given.
Question: Is there a way to repair these files? Or am I out of luck
and have to download them again (exactly what I was trying to avoid?)
Thanks for any suggestions.
Masoud
BTW, I use RH6.1.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin =?iso-8859-1?Q?Norb=E4ck?=)
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.editors,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Do you hate vi?
Date: 21 Mar 2000 13:41:40 GMT
21 Mar 2000 13:40:01 +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Roman Belenov) ->
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Norb�ck) writes:
>
> > Did I mention that I use vim to answer usenet posts?
>
> Does vim have an internal newsreader ?
Nope, but I use vim to write the answer.
If you check my headers you see that I use slrn.
n.
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From: Gordon Haverland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: virgin sources and linux
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 06:47:26 -0700
Conway Yee wrote:
>
> I have known for quite awhile that RedHat has the bad habit of using
> modified kernel sources in their distribution. Personally, I found
> this quite annoying as I wanted to upgrade the kernel but found that I
> was STUCK with that provided by RedHat since certain patches in the
> kernel source (i.e. RAID) were not found in the virgin sources.
>
> While modified kernel sources were annoying, I could live with it.
> Now I find out that they use modified sources for many of their
> packages. This is getting sufficiently annoying that I may want to
> switch all of my computers to alternative sources. Top on the list is
> Debian. Can anyone tell me if they use virgin source code in
> compiling?
I believe most distributions do us "favours" and use
modified
sources for the kernel. Which means that context diffs are
often the only ones which have a chance of correctly being
applied. It doesn't matter what distribution I go with now
(I've used Slackware, SuSE and Debian), I always go to
kernel.org for kernel source. I still go to Debian (or
tarballs)
for other packages.
Gord
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From: Andreas Kahari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How can I get files from my Win98 c: drive in Linux?
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 13:51:24 GMT
In article <KfKB4.19656$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"ShiDeng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have two operating systems installed on one hard drive. Windows 98
and
> Linux. How can I get files from the c: drive of Windows 98 in Linux? I
> tried to copy the files to a floppy disk and use "mount /mnt/floppy"
as
> root, but it gave me some error message. Can anyone help me for
solving this
> problem? Thanks!
>
> Shi
>
>
What exact error message did you get when trying to mount the floppy? Do
you have a /mnt/floppy/ directory?
If you know the name of the partition that Windos lives on (/dev/hda1,
/dev/hda3 or similar), you may mount it using the 'mount' command:
mount /dev/hdwhatever /somecatalog
There are som flags for file system type that might be good to know
about. Read the manual pages for 'mount' and 'mnttab'.
/A
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From: "Buck Turgidson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Memory Not Recognized
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 14:05:31 GMT
Sorry to be dense. I tried this per your suggestion, but I am still stuck
at 64 MB. Does the following reflect your suggested changes?
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
default=linux
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.12-20
label=linux
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.12-20.img
read-only
root=/dev/hda8
append="mem=80M"
Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> "Buck Turgidson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> In a message on Tue, 21 Mar 2000 13:01:58 GMT, wrote :
>
> "T> I got it to recognize a total of 79348 by typing mem=80m at the lilo
prompt.
> "T> However, it still doesn't recognize the command in lilo.conf. Is
there
> "T> something syntactically incorrect about it?
> "T>
> "T>
> "T> Buck Turgidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> "T> news:MyJB4.12960$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> "T> > I installed RedHat 6.1 on an IBM PC 350, which counts all 80MB upon
> "T> booting.
> "T> > I also just upgraded the BIOS, and added append="mem=80M" to
lilo.conf.
> "T> But
> "T> > it only sees 64 MB, no matter what I do.
> "T> >
> "T> > Any thoughts as to what to try next?
> "T> >
> "T> > free summary
> "T> > -------------------
> "T> >
> "T> > [root@lacalena /etc]# free
> "T> > total used free shared buffers
cached
> "T> > Mem: 64136 34168 29968 25496 3284
20492
> "T> > -/+ buffers/cache: 10392 53744
> "T> > Swap: 116888 0 116888
> "T> >
> "T> >
> "T> > lilo.conf
> "T> > -----------
> "T> > [root@lacalena /etc]# cat lilo.conf
> "T> > boot=/dev/hda
> "T> > map=/boot/map
> "T> > install=/boot/boot.b
> "T> > prompt
> "T> > timeout=50
> "T> > default=linux
> "T> > append="mem=80M"
>
> Move the above to ...
>
> "T> >
> "T> > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.12-20
> "T> > label=linux
> "T> > initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.12-20.img
> "T> > read-only
> "T> > root=/dev/hda8
>
> *Here*.
>
> It is not 'lilo' that needs to be told about the memory, but the kernel
> itself. The 'mem=80M' is a kernel parameter that you want lilo to
> append to the kernel boot command.
>
> "T> >
> "T> >
> "T>
> "T>
> "T>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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From: "Robert Weaver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: windows floppy & linux floppy
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 14:19:25 GMT
I have tried to mount a windows floppy that has a linux program on it, but I
have been unsuccessfull. Does anyone know how I can fix this?
thanks, Robert
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Strange)
Subject: Re: User password required to reboot
Date: 21 Mar 2000 13:51:02 GMT
If you can run linuxconf you can click on the user and
give them shutdown priv.
If not, chmod +s /sbin/shutdown This would allow ANYONE to
shut the box down. Not recomended for more than a one user system.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: When a normal user is logged in and wants to reboot the machine, Linux
: prompts for the user's password. How do I turn this off? It's very
: annoying.
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From: Karl-Heinz Herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.powerpc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: depmod: unresolved symbol(s)
Date: 21 Mar 2000 15:17:06 +0100
Hi,
"Paul J. Lucas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> # depmod -ae
> /lib/modules/2.2.15-2.8.0/fs/lockd.o: unresolved symbol(s)
> do_lockdctl
> /lib/modules/2.2.15-2.8.0/misc/mouse.o: unresolved symbol(s)
> adb_mouse_interrupt
When I did a lot of modules in and out again recompiles this happened
here too. doing a:
make clean; make dep; make bzImage ; make modules; make modules_install
got rid of the unresolved symbols.
> P.S.: When building a kernel, is it OK to "strip vmlinux"
> before installation?
No idea.
K.-H.
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From: "Jobath" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help: Directory list of /usr/local
Date: 21 Mar 2000 08:24:45 -0600
Help: can someone give me a list of the directories in /usr/local.. I
deleted the directory (thinking the directory would be recreated when I did
a ./configure).
I need the list of directory so I can recreate them.. thanks...
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: windows floppy & linux floppy
Date: 21 Mar 2000 14:27:17 GMT
Robert Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I have tried to mount a windows floppy that has a linux program on it, but I
: have been unsuccessfull. Does anyone know how I can fix this?
Not unless you tell us what you did. A simple
mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt
as root should be fine. But why don't you simply type "mdir" or some such?
That's what the mtools are for.
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: How do i read my linux partition from dos
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 14:27:57 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
pete <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have Windows 98 and linux installed on a duel booting machine. I
can copy
> and look at my DOS partition from linux but do not know how to look
at my
> linux partion from DOS.
>
> Any suggestions will be most greatful.
>
> Thanks
>
> Pete
>
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get explore2fs for windows from http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/
it can read/write ext2 filesystems.
gr,
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From: Matt Starnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Library Questions
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 09:08:01 -0600
Thank you very much, I'll give it a try.
Matt
Paul Kimoto wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matt Starnes wrote:
> > I am trying to install Libnet 1.0.1 on my system and am running into a
> > problem. This problem kind of goes to all development libraries I try to
> > install. I do the configure and make and make install, but the programs
> > that require these libraries can never find them. I try doing
> > /sbin/ldconfig to refresh the cache but to no avail. So my question is:
> >
> > Do I have to do something to get the library to install?
>
> I assume that you are installing these self-built libraries somewhere like
> /usr/local/lib.
>
> If your programs do not find the libraries at _runtime_, then you need to
> check that /usr/local/lib (or whatever the relevant library lives) is in
> /etc/ld.so.conf, then run ldconfig(8). Alternatively, you could put
> /usr/local/lib in the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH first.
>
> If your programs do not find the libraries at _link_ time, then you need
> to link with the "-L/usr/local/lib" flag. (Note that ldconfig(8) is
> irrelevant here.)
>
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Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 09:51:32 -0500
From: Gregory Brennan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Red Hat Linux 6.2 & XFree86 4.0?
The Beta RedHat 6.2 I have running uses 3.3.6. There is no sign of a
4.0 in the RPMS directory.
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From: "Pepito Grillo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problems upgrading to Xfree86 3.3.6
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 14:25:53 GMT
<<sorry about my english>>
(P3 600, mandrake 6.1, geforce 256)
I�ve downloaded these files from xfree server to upgrade 3.3.5 -> 3.3.6
to use my geforce.
preinst.sh Pre-installation script
postinst.sh Post-installation script
extract XFree86 extraction utility
Xbin.tgz Clients, run-time libs, and app-defaults files
Xdoc.tgz Documentation
Xlib.tgz Data files required at run-time
Xman.tgz Manual pages
Xset.tgz XF86Setup utility
XVG16.tgz 16 colour VGA server (XF86Setup needs this server)
Xfnts.tgz 75dpi, misc and PEX fonts
XSVGA.tgz SVGA server
I follow the installation instructions, but when i try to descompress the
files with the provided extract file i always get an incorrect operation
error(core dumped).
any idea???????
if you have a best solution, please tell me, i only can see X in 320 x 200.
I'm a newbie so please keep the anwers on understandable level.
thank you.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Writing an application
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 14:49:27 GMT
I've written some code to do some basic CFD (computional fluid dynamics
- i.e. science stuff). What I need is to move the interface for this
program from a text format to a graphical user interface.
I'm running the latest version of Gnome on Red Hat version 6.0.
Does anyone know any user groups, bits of software or web pages that
might be useful to me.
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From: Jan Schaumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Writing an application
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 10:08:38 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I've written some code to do some basic CFD (computional fluid dynamics
> - i.e. science stuff). What I need is to move the interface for this
> program from a text format to a graphical user interface.
>
> I'm running the latest version of Gnome on Red Hat version 6.0.
>
> Does anyone know any user groups, bits of software or web pages that
> might be useful to me.
Qt would be good, I guess. check http://www.troll.no
-Jan
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