Linux-Misc Digest #109, Volume #24 Tue, 11 Apr 00 13:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: Netscape and newsgroups
Re: Programming Languages on Linux (Lew Pitcher)
Re: Symlink question (Lew Pitcher)
Re: Help moving /var to partition (Lew Pitcher)
Download via email ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
PC Beeps 3 times - then dead? ("Peet Grobler")
Re: Help : Disable the BEEP. (Jan-Willem Stroeken)
Re: DVD-Player and Linux ? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Download via email (Villy Kruse)
Corel Office for Linux NOT ready for Prime time (Ralph C Blach)
Re: repartitioning with FIPS (GreyCloud)
Re: kill a zombie process (Villy Kruse)
Re: NT and Linux (peter pilsl)
symb link problems (Drew Roedersheimer)
Re: generic scsi driver (Josef Moellers)
Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation (Paul Black)
Red Hat Linux 6.1
some newbie questions ("Joe M.")
Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation
Re: Mylex DAC960 in IBM Server 320 (Johannes Hromadka)
Re: some newbie questions ("Peet Grobler")
Cheap/Free alternatives to Hummingbird eXceed ("Gast Primus")
Kernel experiment - sort of works ("noel")
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Netscape and newsgroups
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 00:16:09 -0600
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Monday, April 10, 2000 11:58 PM,
Silviu Minut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Lately I've been experienced the following weird thing.
> Netscape crashes (bus error) when I try to read comp.os.linux.setup.
> Every single time I try. I open "communicator",
> it lists the groups I'm subscribed to, starts to download the headers
> and then it disappears. The problem started about
> a week ago. Has anybody experienced this? I know about bus errors and I
> know netscape sometimes does that. I just don't understand how it
> consistently crashes on comp.os.linux.setup while the other newsgroups
> are fine. Any suggestions? I'm running 4.07-1. The system is RedHat 6.0
> with kernel 2.2.14.
>
AFAICT, it's simply a fact of life. Bus errors and Netscape seem to go hand-in-hand.
I've tried all the fixes, and nothing really seems to work. I'm currently on
Netscape 4.72, glibc 2.1.3, and kernel 2.3.48, and I still have as many bus errors.
Maybe try upgrading to 4.61--that seemed like a fairly stable release.
Maybe Netscape 6 will be better.
--
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except me. I'm always getting in the way of something...
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From: Lew Pitcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Programming Languages on Linux
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 06:28:08 GMT
Peet Grobler wrote:
>
> What programming languages are there on linux? I know about C++, Fortran and
> Pascal. But anything else? Anything that's "own" to Linux?
Let's see... We had this question come up a couple of months ago, and
I believe that we concluded that there were something like 30+
programming languages useable on Linux. Most of then are freely
available, but a few are commercial products. Off the top of my head,
there was...
COBOL, C, C++, Fortran, Simula, Modula, Lisp, Pascal, Perl, Python,
Java, TCL (and TK), Bash, Csh, Ksh, pdsh, and Assembly language
(platform specific). I know I've forgotten more of the list than I've
remembered.
--
Lew Pitcher
Master Codewright and JOAT-in-training
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From: Lew Pitcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Symlink question
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 06:28:11 GMT
Lion wrote:
>
> If I have the symlink /home/user1/link, which points to /home/user1/work
> /some/stuff/Picture1, and I then create a symlink in /root/link which
> points to the first symlink (/home/user1/link) then does the new symlink
> actually point to /home/user1/link and then gets directed from there to
> /home/user1/work/some/stuff/Picture1, or does it point straight to
> /home/user1/work/some/stuff/Picture1?
The /root/link symlink points at /home/user1/link
The /home/user1/link symlink points at
/home/user1/work/some/stuff/Picture1
Symlinks are resolved when the file is opened, while hardlinks are
resolved when the file is created.
--
Lew Pitcher
Master Codewright and JOAT-in-training
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From: Lew Pitcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help moving /var to partition
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 06:28:13 GMT
Lew Pitcher wrote:
>
> John Jacques wrote:
> >
> > Hello, I want to move /var to it's own partition. I have many empty
> > partitions. How would I do this without a full re-install? I've tried
> > moving directories to partitions and then making soft links to them and
> > it doesn't work. Also, I've tried a hard link, but, it says the command
> > is not supported. When I do a "ls -l /" my /usr, /root, /home, and / all
> > show up as if they were regular directories, but, they are each on their
> > own partitions.
> >
> > Slakware 7.0 2.2.13 full install.
>
> Here's how...
>
> For the purpose of illustration with proper commands, assume that your
> empty partition is /dev/hda2
>
> 1) mkdir /mnt/temp_var
> 2) mkfs -t ext2 /dev/hda2
> 2) mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/temp_var
> 3) (cd /var && tar cf - . ) | (cd /mnt/temp_var && tar xvfp -)
> 4) umount /mnt/temp_var
> 5) cd / ; rm -rf /var ; mkdir /var
> 6) mount /dev/hda2 /var
Of course, don't forget to update your /etc/fstab to add the mount for
/var
--
Lew Pitcher
Master Codewright and JOAT-in-training
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Download via email
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 06:44:02 GMT
Hello all,
As we are all aware email comes in faster than net downloading. Does
anyone know of any services that allow you to choose a URL and have that
file mailed to you. Gets a bit annoying waiting 1/2 hr for 50K.
jollyroger
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Before you buy.
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From: "Peet Grobler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PC Beeps 3 times - then dead?
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 08:24:50 +0200
I installed Caldera Openlinux on a 386 (8MB Memory). It was then (upgraded?)
to a 486 with 4MB Memory. Now, the boot messages displays, up to the one
displaying information on my harddrive. The PC then gives three short beeps
and stops.
If I press Ctl+Alt+Del, it goes on, up to where the Ramdisks are loaded, and
it says "Compressed image found at block 0". It then hangs.
What's wrong here? Anybody please help!
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From: Jan-Willem Stroeken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help : Disable the BEEP.
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 08:31:44 +0200
use setterm -blength 0
Carl Fink wrote:
> On Sun, 09 Apr 2000 19:38:38 +0200 Gorka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >
> >��� Does anyone know how to disable the warning beep that often sounds
> >when you use the text terminal ???.
>
> Try "man bash" (if you're using bash) and search for "bell".
> --
> Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: DVD-Player and Linux ?
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 06:56:15 GMT
If you are willing to spend a little money the Creative labs 5x Encore
Dxr2 (NOT DXR3!!!!!) have both open source drivers for the dxr2 card,
and player on thier website www.opensource.creative.com. Since the card
is doing the decrypting you don't even get in trouble for having DeCSS
code on your maching. However if you want to allow your player to play
DVD's from other regions you can download code and instructions from
http://www.visualdomain.net/ which essentiall allow you to turn off the
regioning stuff hardwired in the drive and the card. For that I'm not
sure if you could get in trouble or not, but the card stuff is shareware
for 14 days and I suggest you support him if you decide to use his
software. Oh by the way the stuff from http://www.visualdomain.net/
needs windows. but you usually only need to use the program once anyway,
but don't worry the www.opensource.creative.com is strictly for linux.
jollyroger
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
cyrax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I would like to know if there is any DVD-drive-manufacturer who also
distributes
> linux drivers for its DVD-drive ? Is there any DVD-drive that
definitely works
> under LINUX (the right software etc...)???
>
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Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Subject: Re: Download via email
Date: 11 Apr 2000 07:14:08 GMT
On Tue, 11 Apr 2000 06:44:02 GMT,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello all,
>
> As we are all aware email comes in faster than net downloading. Does
>anyone know of any services that allow you to choose a URL and have that
> file mailed to you. Gets a bit annoying waiting 1/2 hr for 50K.
>
There used to be services like that, but when you get direct internet access
it is faster to download the information directly rather than get the data
via e-mail. For a 50k direct download you would probably have to download
60 to 80k of e-mail data for the same data, mainly due to the base64
encoding that is required for e-mail data.
Check comp.mail.misc (I beleive) for regular performance review on these
e-mail services.
Villy
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From: Ralph C Blach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Corel Office for Linux NOT ready for Prime time
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 03:26:26 -0400
Well, I took the Plunge and I purchased WordPerfect Office 2000 for
Linux.
And I good news and Not so good news.
The good news, Its out and when It installs I looks great!
The bad news, Its not ready for Prime time.
Let me be Honest, I love Linux but I did not have have a good experience
with this product.
Heres what happend. I had numerous hangs where the product just hung
up. I had to use the ps command
to kill all the wine process. Once this had been done, Word perfect
would not start up agian.
I had to remove my installation from my home directory, and restart the
product. I lost a lot of editting.
This has the feel of a very beta product. I have found that Applixware
is much more reliable, but
unfortuneately, it just does not have the flexability of the word
perfect office suite.
I do feel that Corel will fix these problems, and I will wait, but for
now, I will use Windows for my heavy
duty word processing
--
Ralph "Chip" Blach
KF4WBK
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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From: GreyCloud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: repartitioning with FIPS
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 07:30:03 GMT
I've used fips2.0 on Win98 partion. Doesn't work unfortunately.
Windows 98 does a nasty thing to your hard disk by putting a marker at the
very end of the hard disk space.. the defraging utility will show a marker
at the very end.
You have to first have your emergency boot disk handy.
2nd: usd MS fdisk to remove all partitions.
3rd: boot up with the emergency boot disk.
4th: use MS fdisk and make your 1st partition for Win98 of about 4Gb.
If you don't, Linux will tell you that you are out of range for lilo.
5th: make the 1st partition active, then write this back to disk.
6th: reboot the floppy.
7th: format the C partition.
8th: hopefully your CD rom is bootable and re-install windows.
Windows will then happily occupy the 4Gb partition. After you install
linux, then go back in MS and create another partition for the rest of
windows to use. You will also increase your storage efficiency by having
smaller partitions for MS.
OR!!
Go buy the latest version of partition Magic to vary the size of
partitions without hurting Win98. You still need to ensure that linux can
reach under the 1023 cylinder limit for its partition.
Giorgos Stefanopoulos wrote:
>
>
> It crashes for me too but it repartitions my hard disk. Check if your
> repartitioned is completed with fdisk after crashing and rebooting
>
> Kirk Wythers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:8cl1r9$i29$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > FIPS crashes on me at the very end when I type "y" to write changes to
the
> > disk and exit. It gives the error:
> >
> > memory allocation error
> > cannot load COMMAND, system halted
> >
> > The only part of the instructions that I couldn't quite follow was the
> > instruction to uninstall the windows swapfile. What is ment by
uninstall
> it
> > in the 386enhanced part of the windows control panel?
> >
> > I'm running win98 on a 30 gig hard drive with one great big C:
partition
> (if
> > that matters)
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> >
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Subject: Re: kill a zombie process
Date: 11 Apr 2000 07:36:51 GMT
On Mon, 10 Apr 2000 17:54:47 GMT, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Andrew write:
>> As you said, a zombie process is already dead. It takes up no room in the
>> process table...
>
>Actually that is the only place it does take up room.
And when you have many of those it does become a problem when you can't
fork a new process anymore. On zombie is no problem; 200 zombie processes
will be a problem.
Villy
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From: peter pilsl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: NT and Linux
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 07:34:48 GMT
In article <8cs9sq$gic$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> Hello there....
>
> We run a NT network, recently I added a linux server and I was
> wondering if it was possible to set up user accounts from the NT domain.
>
> E.g. I don't want to sit and create 1500 accounts by hand!
>
samba can do it very good.
www.samba.org
1500 is a large number and I dont have experiences, so maybe you need to
split.
peter
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goldfisch.at.at
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From: Drew Roedersheimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: symb link problems
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 03:08:16 -0500
I'm trying to share my netscape bookmarks file
(~/.netscape/bookmarks.html) between root and my normal login account.
I would like all changes done as root to show up for my normal login
account and vice-versa. I've created a symbolic link as follows:
ln -s /home/mylogin/.netscape/bookmarks.html
When I do a "ls -al" I get the proper listing like:
..... blah ...... bookmarks.html ->
/home/mylogin/.netscape/bookmarks.html
But then, when I write something to the root's symbolic link (i.e. add
or alter my bookmarks as root), the changes aren't reflected in the
linked file, and furthermore, the symbolic link no longer shows up as a
link in the /root/.netscape directory. It now appears as a file of it's
own. For some reason, it seems like when Netscape alters the file, the
file is recreated - not passed to the linked file. Am I wrong to assume
that a write to a symbolic link "should" update the file itself - not
create a new, unlinked file?? BTW, any changes to the file under the
"mylogin" account show up for the root user, but not vice-versa.... And
I'm running RH 6.1 but I haven't found any bug reports for anything
similar. Is there maybe a better way to accomplish this in Linux? TIA
regards
-DR
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From: Josef Moellers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: generic scsi driver
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 10:09:27 +0200
David E Allen wrote:
> =
> Is there anyone out there working with the generic scsi driver (my kern=
el
> is 2.2.14-5.0)? The scsi driver howto was a good start, but leaves out =
a
> lot.
> =
> My latest revelation is that the "real" scsi driver buffers a lot. I've=
been
> writing to the disk with the generic driver and /dev/sga, and checking
> results with "dd </dev/sda" - and actually not checking "results" at al=
l,
> but rather what must have been buffered much earlier. :-(
It's not "the scsi driver" that buffers, but the buffer cache.
Normally, all accesses to (scsi) disks are sent through the buffer cache
to improve performance.
If you send a command through the generic scsi driver sg, you talk to
the scsi driver directly, bypassing the buffer cache. If you then read
from the scsi disk sd, your request is first sent to the buffer cache
which may or may not go to the scsi driver to get the data from the
disk.
If you write data using sg, you will have what is called "stale data" in
your buffer cache.
Hope this helps,
Josef
-- =
Josef M=F6llers
Fujitsu Siemens Computers
SHV Server DS 1
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From: Paul Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 09:11:50 +0100
"Robert Moir" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Linux can handle that kind of treatment without trashing the entire
> system!
>
> So can NT if it is properly set up.
Obviously no one has managed to set it up correctly.
Paul
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Red Hat Linux 6.1
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 08:30:17 GMT
Hello everybody,
I'm very new with linux and I'm having a lot fo trouble with installing it
on my hard drive. I have 20GB HD and 14GB of it is for Windows 98. And 2GB
of it is for Windows 95 in Japanese. So, now there is 4.5GB left for Linux.
Everytime I try to install Linux it tells me that /boot partition is too
big. I understand that there is something about 1024 cylinder. Since I have
Windows 98 already installed, should I just erase all HD again or is there
some other way to do that? Say, move Windows to some other place on the
hard drive. I would like to keep partitions like they are right now if
possible. I'd be very greatful if somebody has a solution for my problem
and is willing to help me. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Mike
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From: "Joe M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: some newbie questions
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 20:36:08 +1000
hi i installed Slackware linux the other week and have come across a few
things i wanted to know.
i noticed that i could not run programs in there directories ie
#cd usr/games/adom
#adom
would not work, however entering:
#/usr/games/adom/adom
would work?? why is this so?
also i was wondering if there was a doc on the directory structure and
what each directory has in it. for example what is usr or home meant to
have in it and where i should put things.
Also is there a doc on system files, each one and what its uses are
including what files linux runs on startup and stuff
one more thing i noticed when looking through my directories the info
and man pages were still compressed do i have to decompress them to be
able to use them? if so why didn't it decompress them when it installed?
these thinks may even be in the man pages but i thought it would be
easier to ask people who already knew where i should look than hunt my
self sorry.
TIA
Joe
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Reply-To: <btolder>
From: <btolder>
Subject: Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 00:47:33 -0700
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> That is a tough call. I will pick 'C' becuase it is the foundation
> for C++ and Unix and POSIX OSs (including Windows NT) are written in
> it. Yes, the first few revs of Unix were in PDP assembler. Now only
> about 5 - 10 percent is assembler. I also admit that C was not the
> first compiled language (COBOL or FORTRAN was). It is the language
> that brought computing to the masses in a big way. I learned C in the
> early 80's based on K&Rs first edition of The C Programming Language.
Bringing something to the masses usually means that market penetration has
exceeded 10-15% of the total available market. I don't think any programming
language has reached this critical mass.
C's biggest differences over BCPL was the introduction of (stronger) typing,
structures and pointers with some smarts. The first two showed up earlier in
Pascal (and Algol before that). It could be argued that pointers were a
problem looking for a solution, since Pascal (and Java, VB, etc) programmers
can get by for years on end without ever having to deal with pointers.
What C did do, as you pointed out, is pull together a wide range of good
ideas from other languages and roll them into one. Just as Java has done,
and just as Windows has done.
> ' Hopefully it will prove the point that nobody really is doing **any**
> ' ground-up innovation. Instead, it is an endless list of subtle tweaks
and at
> ' some point one of them grabs hold (for whatever reason).
>
> I think I listed some pretty good innovations. They were new or
> nearly new when they came out.
I agree. But none were invented in a vacuum.
>Java may be questionable becuase it
> brought together technologies from other languages. Lisp had GC
> first. Smalltalk was OO. Simula 67 was as well and inspired the
> classes in C++. TCP/IP and Ethernet are what the Internet is built
> on. Berkley used C to implement Sockets. Sockets made TCP/IP
> programming easy. I can go on, but I'll give you another turn.
Again, none of the above suddenly appeared with the inventor screaming
"Eureka!" They all grew slowly and relied on the input of many individuals
and companies.
> ' > I can't think of a single innovation to come out of Microsoft. Not
> ' > one. Perhaps you can enlighten me as to Microsoft's most important
> ' > innovation?
> '
> ' Bringing quality software to the masses at a reasonable price. Bill
Gates is
> ' to software what Henry Ford was to cars.
>
> CP/M did that. I learned C on a CP/M based system. DOS is nothing
> more than a CP/M clone that, when it got popular, started to make
> incremental improvements. The Commodore 64 was the first really
> popular computer. It did not even use CP/M or DOS. The TRS-80 was
> also popular. It used TRS-DOS based on CP/M.
Again, the numbers you are talking about don't really count as "the masses."
While CP/M *could* have also added the incremental improvements that DOS
did, the fact is they didn't. That is a huge difference.
> Now you may point out that C was derived from BCPL. Fine. But BCPL
> and B were both DOA. AT&T had the brilliance to release C to the
> world without charge. C is the langauge of Unix, and Unix is the core
> OS of the Internet. C is also the language of Windows.
It's interesting that you point out that BCPL and B were DOA. That indicates
to me that you also value market acceptance as an important criteria and not
just the technical merits of the software. Is that true? Do you not cut
Windows some slack (and ack its importance) for being so widely adopted and
used?
So, now that we have the above out of the way, I'll tell you what I think is
important that microsoft have done (flame away, I'm not going to respond to
any of these since, as I've shown above, it is too easy to find prior art
that is close and belabor the point).
1) Cleartype. Yes, I've seen the web page claiming it to be an old
invention. However, I've seen cleartype in action and if that is a 20 year
old technology, then someone should be shot for not using it on LCDs because
it is that fantastic. The fact that it is that fantastic and the fact that
is hasn't ever been used on LCDs says to me it is 100% new.
2) Total abstraction of a wide range of underlying hardware, including a
wide range of audio and display technologies (and hardware accellerators).
3) Optical mouse. Doesn't need a special mouse pad and never needs cleaning.
4) Windows CE. Kernel as small as 300K, killer development tools, wide range
of CPUs supported, great story for debugging on remote targets over a serial
port.
5) Games. Windows is the first generic OS to make a really compelling game
platform. The DirectSound, DirectMusic, DirectPlay, etc. APIs kick ass.
6) Palm-size PC. MAME game emulator in the pocket. MP3 player in the pocket.
DOOM in the pocket. All my mail available via my cellphone in the pocket.
Too cool.
7) Making computers easy and cheap. Mac did beat M$ to making them easy.
Others might have been cheaper. Microsoft made them easy and cheap at the
same time, which was crucial to mass market acceptance. Nobody else was
doing that in 1992.
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From: Johannes Hromadka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Mylex DAC960 in IBM Server 320
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 10:45:22 +0200
=A0yvind J=E6gtnes wrote:
> =
> I had the same problem... but one of my friends have made bootdisks for=
this.
> I'll mail them to you when i get them.
I got an IBM Server 320 with Mylex PCI controller.
I wan't to install SuSE Linux 6.3, but loading the DAC960 module fails.
Any hints how to overcome this problem
Hannes
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From: "Peet Grobler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: some newbie questions
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 11:06:42 +0200
Joe M. wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>hi i installed Slackware linux the other week and have come across a few
>things i wanted to know.
>
>i noticed that i could not run programs in there directories ie
>
>#cd usr/games/adom
>#adom
What message do you get?
>
>would not work, however entering:
>
>#/usr/games/adom/adom
>would work?? why is this so?
>
>also i was wondering if there was a doc on the directory structure and
>what each directory has in it. for example what is usr or home meant to
>have in it and where i should put things.
>
See the Linux Documentation Project (LDP) (Should be able to install it
aswell). There's a document called Systems Administrators Guide (sag). VERY
useful document. Explains the directory structures, plus a lot of useful
information for newbies.
>Also is there a doc on system files, each one and what its uses are
>including what files linux runs on startup and stuff
>
also in sag.
>one more thing i noticed when looking through my directories the info
>and man pages were still compressed do i have to decompress them to be
>able to use them? if so why didn't it decompress them when it installed?
>
man decompresses these files as they are needed. You do not need to do this.
>these thinks may even be in the man pages but i thought it would be
>easier to ask people who already knew where i should look than hunt my
>self sorry.
If you can't install LDP, let me know, I'll find the url for you.
>
>TIA
>Joe
Whatever,
Peet
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From: "Gast Primus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Cheap/Free alternatives to Hummingbird eXceed
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 09:38:06 +0100
Hi
I have been testing an evaluation copy of exceed but my boss says it's too
expensive and telnet sessions are next to useless for what we want to do.
Does anybody know of a cheap / free alternative to exceed bearing in mind I
really only want xterms.
Thanks in anticipation of your help.
Iain
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From: "noel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Kernel experiment - sort of works
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 10:16:26 +0100
Hi there ,
I have a PC booting win98 /NT4, windows2k, Redhat 6.1 and mandrake 7
and it works great - finally. I use mandrake lilo to boot.
my question is as follows ... but in summary, when you compile a new
kernel and change
the lilo.conf "image=" entry, what happens to the "initrd"
entry????
Maybe I am experminting too much :()
problem is
=====================
Basically my Mandrake 7 uses the 2.2.14-15 kennel and my Red Hat uses
2.2.12-20.
so I decided to compile the 2.2.14-15 kernel into Redhat.
- boot Redhat, compiled 2.2.14-15 kernel source
- created a kernel !
- copied the bzImage to the RedHat /boot/bzImage-2.2.14-15
- boot mandrake, and edit the mandrake /etc/lilo.conf to pickup the new
Red Hat Kernel.
- changed image=/rhboot/vmlinuz-2.2.12-20 to
image=/rhboot/bzImage-2.2.14-15
- no problems here.. ......
What about the INITRD line: it reads something like follows (ignore the
/rhboot - its mandrake lilo!)
initrd=/rhboot/linuz-2.2.12-20.img
What can I change this to? I have no IMG file from compiling the new
kernel???
By the way my Redhat boots fine with the new kernel except a few flashing
messages near the end
of bootup ... something about different kernel version ..... boot.p or
something.
I checked the /var/logs but could'nt find the exact errors , but ,,, ah
well
a puzzled newcomer,
noel.
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