Linux-Misc Digest #60, Volume #24 Thu, 6 Apr 00 20:13:10 EDT
Contents:
HD backup to smaller HD ("Stefan Jensen")
Re: Netscape 6 (Jan Schaumann)
Re: Parallel Port not detected ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: ? comp.os.linux.announce ? (Charles H. Chapman)
Re: Real threads implementation under Linux? ("Chris Smith")
drivers for HP7200e CDRW (Parminder Lehal)
Re: sndconfig probs (billy ball)
RED HAT Chilly Peppers ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Installation Problem (Jonathan)
HELP: /dev/hda1 to /dev/st0 ("Martin Baute")
Re: Problem: Dell Dimension T700, Maxtor 54098U8 (40G HD) (Jonathan H N Chin)
Re: Netscape 6 (Bob Tennent)
Re: Problem installing Slackware Linux over NFS. (Scott Bishop)
Re: BOOKS ON LINUX ? (Johannes Nix)
Is the ASP mod for Apache good or not?? ("Calvin")
Re: Real threads implementation under Linux? ("Paul J. Lucas")
Re: Bash shell ----- Help ??? (Andy9701)
Re: Did I kill my monitor?? (Leonard Evens)
Re: Parallel Port not detected (Leonard Evens)
Re: RH 6.1 boot error ? (Leonard Evens)
Re: How do i install linux on a computer with Win98SE? (Leonard Evens)
Free Linux Books ("Computer User")
File transfer ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
can't print diacritical marks (Gary Krupa)
File Transfer ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: "Stefan Jensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HD backup to smaller HD
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 02:39:40 +0200
Hi,
which is the best way to backup a [running] system on a big hd (8GB, with
1GB used)
to a smaller hd (2GB) to use it in a other system ?
dd will not work, of course.
cp will fail with core dump, dont know why.
any idea ?
Bye,
Stefan
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Jan Schaumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netscape 6
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 09:27:48 -0400
Minko Markov wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Did anyone try the new netscape?
> It did not work here. I started
> "netscape" in the "package" directory,
> then it displayed some mozilla-like
> messages indicating the progress,
> and then exited. I mean, exited
> without any complaint of missing
> library or something similar. Very
> strange, no error message, no core
> dump, the process just terminates
> before the window shows up.
Hmm dunno why it didn't work for you- worked for me. But I didn't like
it too much - it ate up almost all my CPU and is still not able to
display DHTML correctly (or at all).
I'll wait a little longer before I start thinking about making it my
default browser...
(though a very nice small download)
-Jan
--
Jan Schaumann
http://jschauma-0.dsl.speakeasy.net
Mystics always hope that science will some day overtake them.
-- Booth Tarkington
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Parallel Port not detected
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 13:51:20 GMT
I had a problem with the parallel port when I tried to get the printer
to work with RH6.1
On the red hat web page there's a FAQ and somewhere in there was a
solution to my printing problem. I think I had to download an rpm and
run it. Anyway it might hold the solution to your problem.
Duncan
In article <38ec1461$0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Russell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Parallel port is not been detected in RH6.1, what can i do to resolve
this
> problem, what I've done so far is created a line in the
/ect/conf.modules
>
> alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc. this has made no difference to the
> printtool util.
>
> what is needed to get the parallel port to be recognized
>
> thanks in advanced
>
>
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From: Charles H. Chapman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ? comp.os.linux.announce ?
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 09:56:22 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Robert Lynch wrote:
> I've always enjoyed reading comp.os.linux.announce. Starting a couple
> of weeks ago (?) it seems to be missing. Is it still active, to
> anyone's knowledge?
>
> It could very well be a problem with my ISP's news service (Best.com;
> these days == Worst.com). I took a look on Deja.com and it doesn't
> appear there either.
comp.os.linux.announce is a -moderated- newsgroup. That means only
articles that the moderator allows are posted. Apparently the moderator
has been busy the last few weeks.
Chuck
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From: "Chris Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.programming.threads
Subject: Re: Real threads implementation under Linux?
Date: 6 Apr 2000 14:04:17 GMT
Paul J. Lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I noticed that when running a multi-threaded program (using
> POSIX threads) under Linux that it spawns multiple processes
> (via ps -ef). Is it really doing that? Are threads
> implemented or are they somehow "faked" by using multiple
> processed? What's going on with threads?
Linux implements threading by allowing a fork() to not really copy
everything. This allows a "mostly" complete implementation of pthreads.
But rest assured that the figures you are seeing are not memory usage per
thread. That's the memory usage of the entire process; it just shows up
several times. With some kernel modification in place, 'ps' could probably
recognize this and do something about it to make it clearer, but that
doesn't exist right now. I tried writing some patches to implement
complete POSIX threads on Linux... there's quite a bit of opposition to the
idea among Linux developers who never got past UNIX as of mid 80's, and I
eventually gave up on ever getting such stuff included in the kernel.
What you've got now is a ps that essentially just lists all threads in the
system. Some of the numbers it lists are process specific, so it's
reporting them the same for each thread in the process. It has no way of
finding out which threads belong to which processes.
Chris
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From: Parminder Lehal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: drivers for HP7200e CDRW
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 09:40:42 -0400
Hello,
I am looking for drivers fro my HP 7200e (external) Cd RW.
This is the only thing which is making me keep WINxx on my
computer. Help Please.................
Thanks,
P.S. Lehal
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (billy ball)
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.laptops,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: sndconfig probs
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 14:07:53 GMT
On Thu, 06 Apr 2000 12:40:52 +0100, Simon H. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>My Linux system has no working sound at present (e.g. CDs). Running
>sndconfig, all goes well until I get to the bit where it plays a sound
>sample. I've tried several configurations: in some cases I can't hear
>the sound, so I guess in these cases I've got it configured wrong. In
>other cases I still don't hear any sound but get a message like:
>
>Modprobe error:
>
>/lib/modules/2.2.12-20/misc/cs4232.0:
>init module: Device or resource busy
>uart401: Device or resource busy
>
>which may as well be Greek to me. It's RH6.1 on a Toshiba Satellite. Any
>suggestions?
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/
>
>Thanks (again!)
>Simon
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RED HAT Chilly Peppers
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 13:56:35 GMT
Microsoft was found guilty of violating the antitrust laws. Do you agree
that the ruling will improve competition in the marketplace, as stated
in Red Hat?
http://www.DoSurvey.com/cgi-bin/showitem.cgi?surveyid=50000082
http://www.DoSurvey.com
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From: Jonathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Installation Problem
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 14:00:29 GMT
In article <8cgpu7$1tf$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I am trying to install Redhat linux 6.1 in my Pentium 150 PC. But
> installation does not seem
> to be that smooth as I
> thought it would be. There are two hard drives attached to my IDE
primary
> port.
> Capacity of one is (Primary) 10.2 GB and the other one is (slave) 1
GB.
> Initially I tried to
> install Linux in the slave hard drive, hdb that is. But while copying
the
> package I got the message
> that I need 592 MB more space to install all the packages that I have
> chosen.
> So I decided to install Linux in my primary drive. Which is
partitioned to
> logical drives of capacity
> (C:) 2GB and (E:) 7GB. Since I didnot want to dedicate the whole of
7GB to
> linux, I decided to
> partition the drive to two equal halves od 5125 GB each. I did that
and
> reinstalled windows 95
> in c drive. Things are pretty fine for windows and it recognised all
drives
> properly.
> But when I tried to install Linux again I got a message:
> "An error occured reading the partition table for block device hda.
The
> error was no such file
> or directory."
> I have repeated the whole procedure couple of times but only to
stuckup with
> the same message.
> Now the most amazing part, I partitioned the primary drive back to its
> original configuration
> of 2Gb and 7 GB and this time when tied to re install Linux the
installation
> software could
> recognise the hda. I deleted the 7GB dos partition to make room for
Linux.
> But while
> installing the packages I still got a messsage that 592MB more space
needed
> to complete the
> instalation.
> This makes me wondering if there is any configuration file which
linux had
> written during
> first installation?
>
> Besides when I tried to go to the expert installation mode the
installation
> software comes
> up with a message:
> " Insert your driver disk and press OK to continue"
> Now which driver disk do I need?
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Debangshu
>
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The problem with installing to your large h/d is probably a bios issue
with your drive geometry. See the Large Disk Mini HOWTO for a
technical explanation: http://www.linux.org/help/ldp/mini/Large-Disk-
4.html#ss4.1
You should be able to install your /boot partition to the second h/d
(hdb) and your /usr /var and whatever other partitions you like to the
large drive (hda).
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From: "Martin Baute" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HELP: /dev/hda1 to /dev/st0
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 16:16:01 +0200
Hello...
I don�t read this group regulary, so please, if you have an answer for
me, reply by e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks in advance!
This is probably a RTFM question, but I don�t know where to find
the correct FM... ;-)
I have both Windows and Red Hat 6.1 installed. I also have a SCSI tape
(HP 1588A) attached.
Now Windows stubbornly refuses to make a 100% backup of itself while
running; so I tried to use Linux for making a backup of the Windows
partition for "worst case" scenarios. I had some success with:
cat /dev/hda1 | bzip2 >/winbak.bzip
bzcat /winbak.zip >/dev/hda1
But this puts a lot of stress on the hard drive. I would prefer to make the
backup directly to the tape (/dev/st0), but I don�t know how. The "tar"
man�s and info files didn�t really help either. Can anyone help me?
(I know this kind of backup wouldn�t be of much help when the HD is
killed completely, since it will only restore to the exact same /dev/hda1.
But I cannot think of another way for backing up the strange stuff Windows
does with links and absolute file positions...!?)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonathan H N Chin)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Problem: Dell Dimension T700, Maxtor 54098U8 (40G HD)
Date: 6 Apr 2000 15:36:54 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Edward L. Hepler) writes:
>The system came up but reported multiple errors on /dev/hda6 (the BIG /home
>partition)... Thinking that perhaps I had forgotten to tell the RH installer
>to format /home, I did a "mkfs" on /dev/hda6... Then I rebooted...
>The system booted... I made a few changes... Then decided to reboot to see
>that everything was OK... When the system came up again, /dev/hda6 was
>reported as having errors again... The boot dropped into root mode so that
>I could manually run fsck... I instructed fsck to fix all the problems that
>it reported... Then ran fsck a second time... It reported a clean /dev/hda6.
>The machine rebooted after exiting root mode... I verified that I could
>get into X-windows, etc., then asked for a shutdown -r... The system rebooted,
>again reporting a corrupted /dev/hda6...
I have a similar problem. I have the same maxtor drive.
My BIOS doesn't recognize it. Linux does, sort of.
(I have just obtained a flashable version of the latest BIOS
that I intend to try out tonight.)
I can use fdisk to set CHS to 79406/16/63 and make a single
partition that covers the entire disk and then run mke2fs.
However when I mount this partition, I get many errors.
A fsck will claim to have fixed the problems, but then a
subsequent remount will give the same error messages.
If I use fdisk with CHS set identically, but partition into
a 3.xG partition and three 12G partitions and then run mke2fs
I get no problems when I mount the resulting partitions.
The kernel in question is 2.2.9, the ext tools are fairly recent
(but the machine is not here so I can't quote the version).
-jonathan
--
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<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | systems mangler | tel/fax: +44 1223 335986/330508
"respondeo etsi mutabor" --Rosenstock-Huessy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Tennent)
Subject: Re: Netscape 6
Date: 6 Apr 2000 14:33:36 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 06 Apr 2000 09:27:48 -0400, Jan Schaumann wrote:
>I'll wait a little longer before I start thinking about making it my
>default browser...
>
>(though a very nice small download)
>
8086475 netscape-common-4.72-6.i386.rpm
3213147 netscape-navigator-4.72-6.i386.rpm
2503620 netscape-v304-export.x86-unknown-linux-elf.tar.gz
10761903 netscape-v600pr1.x86-unknown-linux2.2.tar.gz
It's still about 5 times larger than netscape-3.04 and only slightly
smaller than 4.72 (common+navigator). I'm sticking to 3.04 as my default!
Bob T.
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From: Scott Bishop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Problem installing Slackware Linux over NFS.
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 09:59:52 -0500
Hey Thomas,
Thomas Zajic wrote:
>
> On Wed, 05 Apr 2000 16:17:27 -0500, Scott Bishop wrote:
>
> > I'm having a bit of a problem with installing Slackware Linux 4.0 over
> > our network using NFS. The server has all the requisite servers running
> > (portmap, mountd, and nfsd). In the /etc/exports file is the line:
> >
> > /cdrom 192.168.1.100(ro,insecure,all_squash)
> >
> > In hosts.deny is the line "ALL: ALL", and in hosts.allow is the line
> > "portmap: 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0".
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> You need a similar line for 'rpc.mountd' as well, see 'man mountd'.
That was it. :) As soon as I added the line for rpc.mountd, it worked.
Thanks! :)
--
--Scott Bishop
WALKER BOLT Manufacturing Co.
(Notice: The opinions stated in this message are not necessarily those
of my employer, nor of any other sane individual for that matter.)
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From: Johannes Nix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: BOOKS ON LINUX ?
Date: 06 Apr 2000 17:33:54 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve) writes:
> On Wed, 05 Apr 2000 00:09:37 +0200, Luca Marchese wrote:
> >ALL THE BOOKS ON LINUX IN THE WORLD ARE HERE
> >
> >SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHERS GUIDE
> >
>
> Are they all written in block capitals?
>
Muahahaha!
I think that the problem with books about Linux is that the subject is
changing far to fast for most books being useful for more than one or
two years. At least newbies should read first the users' guide and
then most howtos and then they should ask around to borrow some really
good books which will last for twenty years or more. They are
recommended in various reading lists which are floating around.
But from someone who doesn't respect the basic rules for the usenet I
wouldn't even dream to expect that he has grasped enough Unix and
network culture to sell ONE good book about Linux.
Johannes
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From: "Calvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Is the ASP mod for Apache good or not??
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 23:35:17 +0800
Hi,
THere are two ASP mod for apache
http://www.nodeworks.com/asp
http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/modules/by-module/Apache
Anyone used them??? Any comments on it???
Best regards
Calvin
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Crossposted-To: comp.programming.threads
Subject: Re: Real threads implementation under Linux?
From: "Paul J. Lucas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 06 Apr 2000 15:39:19 GMT
In <01bf9fd1$8718e480$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Chris Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I tried writing some patches to implement complete POSIX threads on Linux...
>there's quite a bit of opposition to the idea among Linux developers who never
>got past UNIX as of mid 80's ...
That seems totally lame.
>What you've got now is a ps that essentially just lists all threads in the
>system. Some of the numbers it lists are process specific, so it's reporting
>them the same for each thread in the process. It has no way of finding out
>which threads belong to which processes.
Well, you can still look at the "parent process" ID apparantly.
- Paul
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From: Andy9701 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Bash shell ----- Help ???
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 15:25:56 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Say we have two directories /home/john/ftp/current
and /home/john/ftp/backup
>
> The file would look something like this.
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> cp /home/john/ftp/current/* /home/john/ftp/backup/
It might be easier to use this instead:
cp -r /home/john/ftp/current /home/john/ftp/backup/
The -r argument says to copy recursively, so everything in current,
even any subdirectories and their contents will be copied.
Hope this helps,
Andy
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: Did I kill my monitor??
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 10:59:24 -0500
Chetan Ahuja wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I have just had a horrifying thing happen to me. I am running
> Mandrake7.0-2 with xfree3.3.6-4. The graphics card is a Nvidia RIVA
> 128 (4MB memory) using the SVGA server and the monitor is a Pansonic
> SL70 ( 17 inch). I was running X windows at 1152x864 ( Xvidtune
> made me that modline). Everything was running within specs (hsync
> vsync etc). I have been running at this resolution for a couple
> of weeks and before that have been running at other high
> resolutions for months with the exact same hardware software
> combo.
>
> So here's what happened just now. For some reason, I switched to
> console 2 (from the X console 7). I've been doing this commonly without any
> problems for years with all sorts of hardware running linux and in
> particular with this combination of hardware for months. The
> display.. instead of switching to the console mode, just flickered
> in a wierd way. I hurriedly went back to console 7. But now, it
> seemed as if the display had been switched to a very low resolution
> automatically somehow, i.e. the xterm that I had open was huge
> and I could see only part of it. And the image was twiseted in a
> wierd way. I exited the xwindows using the
> windowmaker exit function but the display never went to the console
> mode. It just went blank. The monitor automatically switched to the
> power save mode it goes into when there's no signal. I could not get
> it back to showing me anything. So ultimately I telnetted in from
> another machine on the network and shut down the machine.
>
> Now here comes the real stinker. The monitor would not show me
> anything now. I switch on the computer but monitor never switches
> to display mode (that is it stayes in the power save
> mode). Thinking ( almost wishing) that I might have burnt out my
> display chip somehow, I connected the monitor to another
> computer... no go. The monitor has gone OFF. And by the
> way... there was no visible smoke or any smell or a noise to
> indicate that the monitor had actually "blown up" or
> anything. It's just... off.
>
> Anybody has any idea what might have happened.... Its a pretty good
> monitor and I would hate to lose it. Anybody had similar
> experience...?? Anybody had experience with Panasonic with regard to
> monitor repair... Is there any hope of repairing it or should I just
> give it up as a lost cause???
>
> Any hints clues etc would be appreciated.
> Thanks
> Chetan
>
>
>
>
> My question is, obviously the monitor has
>
>
>
>
>
I don't have anything to add to the discussion except the
comment that your monitor's failure almost certainly wasn't
caused by anything you were doing. It was probably on the
brink of failure and almost any major change would have put
it over the edge.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Parallel Port not detected
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 11:11:32 -0500
Russell wrote:
>
> Parallel port is not been detected in RH6.1, what can i do to resolve this
> problem, what I've done so far is created a line in the /ect/conf.modules
>
> alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc. this has made no difference to the
> printtool util.
>
> what is needed to get the parallel port to be recognized
>
> thanks in advanced
Did you reboot?
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH 6.1 boot error ?
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 11:10:36 -0500
RON ROUSE wrote:
>
> After what I thought was a good install of Linux and Xconfigurator the
> system asked me if I wanted to start Xwindows automatically after booting. I
> said yes.
> The system shut down correctly after "sending termination" messages etc. It
> went through the normal machine initialization, accessed the harddrive and
> displayed LI on the screen with the cursor flasning after the I
> and the system is hung. Any ideas?
One cause of this could be that the lilo boot loader did not get
installed properly for some reason during the installation. That
error message definitely indicates something is wrong with it.
Try booting from the installation meda, i.e. either the installation
floppy or the CD, and at the boot prompt at the bottom of the
screen use
vmlinuz root=/dev/XXXX
where XXXX is your root partition. After doing this, check that
you have an /etc/lilo.conf file and as root run the program
/sbin/lilo
If you don't know what your root partition is, give us some
more details about your disk. Likely possibilities might
be /dev/hdaN where N = 1,2,3,5,6,7. It can't hurt to experiment.
If that still doesn't work, there are other things to try, but
let's first see if that does work.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How do i install linux on a computer with Win98SE?
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 11:17:24 -0500
Greg May wrote:
>
> I have a laptop with win98se on it and i would like to split the hard drive
> between windows and linux but i cant figure out how to repartition my FAT32
> hard drive. Please help me. Thanks in advance
>
> --
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The fips2 utility on the Linux release CD can resize a Windows
partition after it has been defragged PROVIDED it is possible
to move all the files on the partition to the first part of
the disk by defrag. But some vendors put unmovable files
at the end of the windows partition. You can see that during
defrag by clicking on the right button to show details. Also,
if the disk has not been dfragged, fips will fail.
In that case, the easiest thing to do would be to use Partition
Magic which can handle the resizing. It is best to make a
PM mergency disk from Windows during installation and not actually
install PM in Windows. Then run PM from that floppy. PM
will also tell you when you have resized your windows partition
so it lies below cylinder 1024. In most cases you need
10 or 20 MB free below cylinder 1024 to be able to use lilo
to boot Linux from your hard disk. If you use fips, you have
to make sure of that manually.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: "Computer User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,linux.ads,linux.misc,linux.redhat.announce
Subject: Free Linux Books
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 10:56:18 -0500
The following Linux books are available in digital format at www.ibooks.com
for free:
Maximum Linux Security
Sams / Sept 1999
With Linux becoming more and more popular as a platform to run Web and
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Linux at Work
Wiley / April 1999
A practical guide to highly sought after Linux business applications,
including the Linux operating system, server, network, and business
application environment.
There are also Free books on the following subjects:
> Windows 2000
> Java
> Unix Administration
> XML
Go Here to get your book...
www.ibooks.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: File transfer
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 15:54:57 GMT
I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to transfer files across a
serial cable from a pc running windoze to a loptop running linux.
Thanks,
Carson
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DMR Consulting Group
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From: Gary Krupa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: can't print diacritical marks
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 09:09:57 -0700
Reply-To: Gary Krupa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I'm running slackware v.3.5, kernel v. 2.2.9.
I haven't been able to get my printer, an HP Paintjet, to print the accents
accompanying the text. They appear on the screen when I run pine, vim, or
in x-windows. They just won't print. Instead, strange characters print in
place of the accents.
I inserted a line in my printcap filter file that contains an escape
sequence for a foreign language symbol set. Although another escape
sequence in the same file worked for generating CF LF, this sequence didn't
work. The output was different from before, but the characters weren't what
I was hoping to see printed. The same thing happened when I inserted the
roman-8 symbol set escape sequence.
Does anyone have a clue as to how to do this? And I've already read the
Printing-Howto and Printing-Usage-Howto. Are there any other documents I
could read about this, and where are they?
Gary Krupa
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: File Transfer
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 15:55:41 GMT
I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to transfer files across a
serial cable from a pc running windoze to a loptop running linux.
Thanks,
Carson
--
Carson R. Wilcox
Senior Architect
DMR Consulting Group
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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