Linux-Misc Digest #147, Volume #24 Fri, 14 Apr 00 09:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: Howtos... (Andreas Kahari)
Re: Q: migrate OS/2 to Linux ? (G. Asch)
Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation ("Erik Funkenbusch")
Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation (Fred Nastos)
Window 98SE internet share (Steve)
Re: internet (=?iso-8859-1?Q?St=E9phane?= POMATTO)
Re: Window 98SE internet share (Andrew Williams)
Re: Cd writing problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Is this OK - mount /home on loop device (John McKown)
LILO troubles with mixed SCSI/EIDE disks (Nylon)
Re: Forgot my ROOT PASSWORD... (Arjan Drieman)
Re: Download via email ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Cannot find platform independent libraries (Eric Headley)
Re: Copying NTFS, ext2 partitions (Robin Taylor)
small web server hardware (Alexis Bilodeau)
Re: Which X-Server to choose? ("Peet Grobler")
Re: What the heck is linux doing (slightly off-topic) ("F. Michael Orr")
Linux and RFC 1006 (OSI over TCP/IP) (Nicola Montecchiari)
Firewall Networking problem (Cyber World)
Re: Networking ("Brian D. Smith")
Re: name server ("Brian D. Smith")
Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation (Karel Jansens)
Re: linux box down after blackout (John McKown)
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From: Andreas Kahari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Howtos...
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 10:01:14 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Anyone can tell me where to find updated Howtos ?
>
> Especially need ones about DNS, DHCP and Firewalls.
>
> Thanks to answer to E-Mail.
>
> Have a nice day.
>
> Steph
>
>
http://www.linuxdoc.org/
/A
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Subject: Re: Q: migrate OS/2 to Linux ?
Reply-To: G. Asch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: G. Asch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 14 Apr 2000 01:28:09 -0400
Anthony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
A> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hello,>> is there a way to migrate a OS/2 System to a Linux System ?
>> I.e. to run OS/2 *.exe under linux ?
A> With Linux you get a MUCH more stable system, even if you dont do
A> 24/7, you can login in the morning and logoff at night without
A> crashing, day after day.
tztz. OS/2 is not Windows. I have an old 486 with os/2 3 for outdoor
wordprocessing, and I can't remember my last reboot.
OS/2 is unfortunately orphaned and dying, but it is as stable as St. Peter.
Come to linux for the fun!!
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From: "Erik Funkenbusch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 05:33:25 -0500
Eric Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:HxrJ4.2775$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > The aforementioned mouse.
>
> Sorry, but I saw a similar mouse advertised in the late 80s.
> It failed because it was too expensive, but MS did NOT innovate it.
Interesting. Nobody else in the universe except for you has seen this
mythical mouse. You have no names and no way to prove your statements.
Name the mouse and manufacturer or retract your statement.
> > Squiggly-underline spellchecking.
> > Squiggly-underline grammar checking.
>
> So a squiggly line is innovative?
> Spell and grammar checkers existed long before MS adopted them.
On-the-fly correct-as-you type grammar checking did not exist before.
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From: Fred Nastos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation
Date: 14 Apr 2000 10:18:47 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc Otto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>> No... MARKETTING would explain why windows has 90% Market share.
>> M$ isn't a software developer. It's a marketting company.
>>
> You can market a product as much as you want to. If people don't want
> it the product will fail.
That's the art of Marketing, convincing people they want something
they don't really need. Microsoft "excels" at that.
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From: Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Window 98SE internet share
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 10:30:02 GMT
I try to link two computer running on win98SE with 10/100 Mbs adapter. I have the
adapter setup, connected TCI/IP is added and asign my IP as:
Gateway:
IP: 192.168.0.1
Submask: 255.255.255.0
Share:
IP: 192.168.0.2 same Submask.
What else do I need to do to get it running? Please be detail since I'm new at this.
Thanks in advance.
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?St=E9phane?= POMATTO
Subject: Re: internet
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 12:37:36 +0200
Hmm....
Very strange. It seems your mouse driver under X overloads your processor.
Do you use a specific mouse driver like intellimouse or so ?
Maybe you should try to chang mouse driver for X
You can also type Ctrl+Alt+F12 to see if any error message concerning mouse.
(Type Ctrl+Alt+F7 to come back to X).
Hope this will help.
Steph
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a �crit :
> I am useing linux redhat 6.1 with the gnome in xwindows. When trying to
> bring in a website, any site, the pages stall unless I start moving the
> mouse. As long as I move the mouse around, pages load just fine. If I stop
> moving the mouse the downloading stalls. this is useing Netscape 4.61.
> Thanks for asking for the clarification on this question, I hope I
> explained this better.
>
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From: Andrew Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Window 98SE internet share
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 12:48:53 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Activate M$ file-and-print serving.
To access w98-exported shares from linux, use smbmount
To access linux-exported shares when under Win98, Samba.
You could use my web-page (url in the sig) as a starter, section 2 lists other docs.
smbmount is documented in section 4.14
Steve wrote:
> I try to link two computer running on win98SE with 10/100 Mbs adapter. I have the
>adapter setup, connected TCI/IP is added and asign my IP as:
> Gateway:
> IP: 192.168.0.1
> Submask: 255.255.255.0
> Share:
> IP: 192.168.0.2 same Submask.
> What else do I need to do to get it running? Please be detail since I'm new at
>this. Thanks in advance.
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Cd writing problem
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 10:41:06 GMT
Minor, devil-in-the-details nitpick here, but did you actually
enter "dev=hcd" as opposed to "dev=hdc"? Assuming you've got SCSI
emulation working, this looks like your problem right here--/dev/hcd
isn't a valid device, while /dev/hdc (first device on second IDE chain)
is...
In article <8d4o5i$iah$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have a problem with writing a cd with debian.
> i have a hp cdwriter of HP (9110i) (ide), when i enter the following
> command: cdrecord -checkdrive dev=hcd it return a error message like:
^^^^^^^
> WARNING: device not valid, trying to use default target...
> scsidev: 'hcd'
^^^^^
> scsibus: 0 target: 6 lun:0
> cdrecord: Cannot do inquiry for CD-Recorder
> cdrecord: Success. test unit ready: scsi sendcmd: fatal error
>
> I know that the writer isn't scsi but i have read that ide is
compatible
> to.
>
> Do i something wrong ? Or is there another program to make cd's with
> linux ? I had made disk images with mkisofs succesfully....
>
> Lot of thanks in advance.
>
> Daans
>
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>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John McKown)
Subject: Is this OK - mount /home on loop device
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 05:48:50 -0500
Reply-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Well the question is in the subject. What happened is that I just recently
got a new harddrive. Basically for storing MP3s. So I made it one big
partition. After ripping about 100 CDs and storing so nice and neat, I
noticed that the partition that I had /home on was running out of space.
Since I now plans which will require more space on /home (yes, I could put
the stuff elsewhere, but I don't want to), I needed to expand /home.
In a blinding flash of <brilliance/stupidity>, I decided that I could use
the loop device. I created a /MP3/home.ext2 file using "dd". I then
did a mkfs on it, mounted it on the loop device, cp'ed /home to it, umounted
/home, mount -t ext2 /MP3/home.ext2 /home. Everything looks good. The reason
that I didn't just create a /MP3/home subdirectory and a symlink from /home
to it is, because, um, well, I don't know really.
Anyway, is it overly stupid to put a filesystem on a loop device? It seems
to be working fine.
John
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From: Nylon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LILO troubles with mixed SCSI/EIDE disks
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 11:11:28 GMT
Hello Folks,
I'm looking for some hints about a problem with getting my
system to boot correclty
using LILO.
The scenario is the following:
- Award BIOS v4.51PG let me choose hunt sequence:
SCSI,C,A/C,SCSI,A, etc.
- Main system has 3 large EIDE disks and 1 CD-ROM.
- SCSI bay, external self-powered, has 2 large disks and 1
DAT
Config:
- First EIDE has W95
- First SCSI has Linux
Ideal boot:
- Let 1st EIDE have his MBR unaltered
- Let LILO on 1st SCSI's MBR
- Let BIOS hunt for SCSI,C,A
In this case, if SCSI bay is not powered-up at system
startup,
BIOS will just boot W95 (SCSI-less).
If SCSI bay is available, then LILO will prompt
for what to boot...
Some debugging:
When
- BIOS hunts for C,SCSI,A/C,A,SCSI
- LILO is on /dev/hda
- lilo.conf specifies that
device = /dev/sda
bios = 0x83
LILO can boot (Linux, W95) correctly.
When
- BIOS hunts for SCSI,C,A/SCSI,A,C
- LILO is on /dev/sda
- lilo.conf states that
device = /dev/sda
bios = 0x80
device = /dev/hda
bios = 0x82
LILO can boot just Linux.
When W95 is requested, loading starts but hangs.
...loading W95
I've alredy tryied guessing values (0x81,0x82,0x83...)
for what BIOS is really calling /dev/hda when sequence
SCSI,C,A is set.
Then I used a test utility to verify that /dev/hda is indeed
called 0x82.
What can be wrong?
Why it works fine booting from /dev/hda and not from
/dev/sda?
It just changes where LILO is stored and what drive BIOS is
looking first for booting...
Some ideas?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Arjan Drieman)
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,nf.comp.linux,redhat.general,linux.redhat.misc,aus.computers.linux,alt.linux
Subject: Re: Forgot my ROOT PASSWORD...
Date: 14 Apr 2000 11:16:55 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 13 Apr 2000 11:21:17 -0230, Tux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Do I have to reinstall Linux if I forgot my root password, or is there
>some way to get back into the system without doing this...???
You can also try to type "Linux init=/bin/bash" at the lilo boot prompt.
That'll immediately give you a shell... perhaps you'll have to mount
the filesystem read-write after that:
mount / -o remount,rw
and then you can edit the password and/or shadow file.
Don't muck around with this too much, your filesystem might not like it.
Arjan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Download via email
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 11:27:57 GMT
Very True, I would only use it when the connection is just too bad,
These usually deal with obscure programs on single servers, for which I
cant find any mirrors. even http://ftpsearch.lycos.com/?form=medium cant
allways find them!!!
(I do admit I should have worded the request better! I ment raw transfer
rate when I said faster)
jollyroger
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse) wrote:
> 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: Eric Headley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Cannot find platform independent libraries
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 11:28:12 GMT
I am trying to install RedHat 6.2. Having downloaded the files, I am
now trying to install it via NFS. After I specify the IP and the
directory for the machine I am using as my NFS server I get the message
"Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix>
Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix>...." .
A number of other messages follow terminated by
"You may now safely reboot you system"
What is going on ? Slakware is a lot smaller, and I didn't get these
kinds of problems to install.
Eric Headley
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Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 22:43:31 +1200
From: Robin Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: nz.comp,comp.os.ms-windows.nt,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc
Subject: Re: Copying NTFS, ext2 partitions
use ghost,
you can download a 14 day trial version from symantics web site
Should be able to do it in that time frame..........
Donald Gordon wrote:
> I have a new HDD, and would like to copy the NTFS partition (it has NT4
> inside) from my old HDD onto the new one, while increasing its size.
> How can I do this? Or should I just give up and reinstall on the new
> HDD?
>
> Ditto for the Linux/ext2 partition. Will a plain cp -dpR from a boot
> floppy work (i'm worried about hard links, mainly) or should I use
> something else?
>
> TIA
>
> --
> Donald Gordon / donald at dis dot org dot nz / wellington, new zealand
>
> "Unix-to-Unix Copy Program," said PDP-1. "You will never find a more
> wretched hive of bugs and flamers. We must be cautious."
> -- decwars
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From: Alexis Bilodeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: small web server hardware
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 12:11:12 GMT
Hi,
I'm currently developping a web site using apache/php3/mysql. I want to
install it on my own computer if it's possible. The purpose of the site
is to bring my company on the Internet (of course) and to make my
products/prices available.
Here's my hardware:
PIII-450 on an Asus p3b-f mb
192 Mb PC-100 SDRAM
Diamond Viper V770 32Mb
SBLive!
8.4 Go Maxtor HD with 256k cache
10 Mbits/s ethernet card with cable modem internet access
I'm running Mandrake 7.0.
My questions are: what is really important to upgrade?
Is it sufficient for a small access server (don't we all start small? :
) )?
How much requests could it handle before going down?
Thanks a lot,
--
Alexis Bilodeau
eMagiK Technologies
819.371.9273
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Peet Grobler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Which X-Server to choose?
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 14:17:56 +0200
I've been there, didn't find much help.
Andras wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Peet Grobler wrote:
>>
>> Hi there. I've got a problem.
>>
>> Installed Mandrake 7.0 last night. Can't seem to get X11 to run with more
>> than 16 colors on VGA X-Server.
>>
>> I've got a S3 Trio32 AGP display card. I've tried the following servers:
>> S3
>> S3 Trio 32
>> AGP 2D/3D
>> SVGA
>>
>> None of these works. What should I do? Is there somewhere where I might
go
>> look for a linux X-Server for my card?
>ftp://ftp.xfree86.org
>>
>> Please help!
>>
>> thanks,
>> Peet
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From: "F. Michael Orr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What the heck is linux doing (slightly off-topic)
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 08:25:16 -0400
Dances With Crows wrote:
>
> On Thu, 13 Apr 2000 09:40:29 -0400, F. Michael Orr
> <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
> shouted forth into the ether:
> >I always found "od" difficult to use. Therefore, I
> >wrote this small C program to do the same thing. The NG may find it
> >useful.
> >--------------9560D796AC62679400234AD8
> >Content-Type: application/x-unknown-content-type-cfile;
> > name="vmdump.c"
> >Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
>
> It's entirely possible, but what is that garbage you posted? Source code
> is plain ASCII text. There's no need to encode it in any way. Fix your
> newsreader. I think you meant to say something like this... (coded in
> haste and with no taste!)
>
> #include<stdio.h>
> #define TRUE 1
> #define FALSE 0
> #define NUMCHARS 16
>
> int
> main (int argc, char **argv)
> {
> int i, j, c[NUMCHARS], flag;
> FILE *ifp;
> for (i = 1; i < argc; i++)
> {
> ifp = fopen (argv[i], "rb");
> flag = FALSE;
> while (flag == FALSE)
> {
> for (j = 0; j < NUMCHARS; j++)
> {
> c[j] = getc (ifp);
> if (c[j] == EOF)
> {
> c[j] = 0;
> flag = TRUE;
> }
> }
> for (j = 0; j < NUMCHARS; j++)
> printf ("%02x ", c[j]);
> for (j = 0; j < NUMCHARS; j++)
> {
> if (c[j] < ' ' || c[j] > 127)
> c[j] = '.';
> printf ("%c", c[j]);
> }
> putchar ('\n');
> if (flag == TRUE)
> {
> printf ("\n\n");
> fclose (ifp);
> }
> }
> }
> return 0;
> }
>
> --
> Matt G / Dances With Crows \###| Programmers are playwrights
> There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| Computers are lousy actors
> But only Light too dim for us to see \#| Lusers are vicious drama critics
> (Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| BOFHen burn down theatres.
Your newsreader can't read base64 encoding? It is a standard. Maybe
you need to change your newsreader options. You may want to try
Netscape.
--
F. Michael Orr
Sr. Systems Engineer
Norfolk Public Schools, Norfolk, VA, USA
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From: Nicola Montecchiari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux and RFC 1006 (OSI over TCP/IP)
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 14:15:06 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dear All,
I am planning to use the OSI stack for my application and I would like to know
if there is any (free of commercial) implementation library of the RFC1006 (OSI
over TCP/IP). Something similar to the OTS by HP if you know what I mean.
thank a lot!
Regards,
Nicola Montecchiari
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From: Cyber World <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Firewall Networking problem
Date: 14 Apr 2000 12:30:24 GMT
I have a problem to make a firewall router work in a real IP range.
IP: 202.181.233.0/26
GW: 202.181.233.1
I want to put a firewall inside this network and use all true ip for my web and
mail server.
External Network (Internet)
<router>
|
|
eth1|202.181.233.2/26
---------------
| | Server Network (DMZ)
| |eth0
| |----------------------------------------
| |202.181.233.60 | |
| | | |
| | | |
--------------- ------- -------
| WWW | | DNS |
------- -------
202.181.233.61 202.181.233.62
How to make a route to the Server Network?
Should anything need to add in the router?
Thanks a lot.
Danny
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From: "Brian D. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Networking
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 12:33:58 GMT
Chris wrote:
>
> I have a linux machine on my network with an odd card. I used the tulip.o
> driver on a hunch, and the ifconfig shows that it is up. If I ping myself
> on it (localhost) it returns the pings just fine, but I can't ping anyone
> else on the network, and no-one can ping me. I have both windows and
> linux machines on the network but none are reachable. Is there something
> else I need to do to make this odd network card work?
>
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Which Distribution? I'm using a tulip interface with my RedHat 6.2. My
only problem to date was the install misidentying it as a different DEC
NIC.
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From: "Brian D. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: name server
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 12:43:44 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am running a name server (BIND) on my linux (redhat 6.1)
> box for domain xxx.com. Now I have to set up a name server
> for another domain yyy.com.
>
> Can I maintain the two domains on one server ? Or do I
> have to set up another box for this purpose ?
>
> Thanks
>
> HH
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
Multiple domains can run from the same server. You just create another
zone block of type master:
zone "yyy.com" {
type master;
file "zone.yyy.com";
}
or something like that. I'm running more than a dozen zones from the
same server without incident. The OS is Solaris, but bind is bind.
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From: jansens_at_ibm_dot_net (Karel Jansens)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation
Date: 14 Apr 2000 13:45:34 GMT
JTK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip]
> > As it is, they just improved
> > combined some existing ideas.
> >
>
> BAHAHHAHAHHAHHAHAHHAHAHAAAA!!!
>
> Yeah, just a minor step from running on a special mouse pad to running
> on DAMN NEAR ANY SURFACE.
>
Check facts first; laugh later.
Honeywell made and sold an optical, go-on-any-surface mouse more than
a decade before Microsoft "invented" it.
[snip]
>
> The aforementioned mouse.
See above.
> Squiggly-underline spellchecking.
> Squiggly-underline grammar checking.
Those are not innovations, but annoyances, added to give the illusion
proofreading is no longer necessary. Besides, my WordPerfect 6.0 for
DOS has a _macro_ forgadssake that does on-the-go spellchecking! Even
5.1
had it already.
Karel Jansens
jansens_at_attglobal_dot_net
========================================================
"How to make God laugh?"
"Tell Him your plans."
(paraphrased from "Foundation's Fear" - Gregory Benford)
========================================================
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John McKown)
Subject: Re: linux box down after blackout
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 06:31:49 -0500
On Fri, 14 Apr 2000 12:49:40 +1000, Anson Lau
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>pressing 'Ctrl + Alt + F1' but I couldn't get back to the text login
>prompt...
I don't know what happened to your graphics, but in RedHat, you can normally
boot directly to a text-only prompt by entering:
linux init 3
At the LILO: prompt. This assumes that you haven't done any kernel updates.
The "linux" refers to the boot image and is the "normal" name with RedHat.
If this doesn't work, try entering a <tab> (that's the tab key) at the LILO:
prompt. This will list all the boot images. Select one of the names and
put the "init 3" after it like the example above.
Again, this should get you a text mode login. You'd then need to figure
out what happened to X. I'm not very X literate!
John
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