Linux-Misc Digest #153, Volume #24 Sat, 15 Apr 00 02:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: partitionless installation (Leonard Evens)
Re: Lost+found dir How to fix? (Leonard Evens)
Equivalent to DOS RAM Drive? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Linux, hard disks, UDMA, and such (was: mp3 problems) (Dances With Crows)
setting up xfstt and TrueType fonts (Tim Williams)
Re: Dual-booting between DOS/Win and Linux ("JediPenguin")
Re: Dual-booting between DOS/Win and Linux ("JediPenguin")
Re: Microsoft ("Robert L.")
Re: Dual-booting between DOS/Win and Linux (Robert Grizzard)
linux time keeping... (Andy)
Re: Equivalent to DOS RAM Drive? (Dances With Crows)
mail problem (Patrick O'Neil)
Re: setterm and color ls (Floyd Davidson)
Re: Lost+found dir How to fix? (swooz)
samba printing problems...continue (Patrick O'Neil)
Hard Disk Upgrade Mini How-To: New Version (Yves Bellefeuille)
Re: Dual-booting between DOS/Win and Linux (Mefisto)
Re: Q: Best printer for linux box? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: linux time keeping... (Paul Kimoto)
Changing the font of text consoles ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: linux time keeping... ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Linux (Craig Cobert)
creating bootable disk
Linux and C C++ (Neal)
Re: Linux ("Pencil Necked Geek")
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: partitionless installation
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 21:06:51 -0500
Bill wrote:
>
> What exacly is the "partitionless installation" on redhat 6.2?
It is installed in an existing FAT partition with enough space.
I think it is put in a file which acts like a loop back device
under Linux, but I am not completely sure.
>
> Does it just run on a UMSDOS filesystem?
I'm not sure what that is but perhaps.
>
> It doesn't have any partitions, so how do I access files that would normally
> reside in /etc, /dev, /usr?
I believe all those directories would be there.
>
> Can this be a permanment replacement for regular Linux, or not?
They don't recommend that. It must be booted from a floppy and
it is slow according to RedHat's documentation. It is mainly
meant as a way to get introduced to Linux. But they recommend
switching ultimately to a conventional installation with
partitions.
>
> Thanks.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Lost+found dir How to fix?
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 21:10:58 -0500
Matt wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I had a hardware failure that killed my Linux box. As a result I now have
> files in my lost+found directory. Question is: How do I put these
> files/dir's back where they belong?
Usually what you find in lost+found is fragments of files.
If you are lucky, you may be able to use an editor like
emacs to extract some useful text from such a fragment.
But you probably won't be able to reconstruct anything.
It is much simpler to reinstall Linux.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Equivalent to DOS RAM Drive?
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 01:26:18 GMT
Greetings,
I have been looking for some documentation on setting up something
analagous to a DOS Ram Drive under Linux. Is it even possible to create
, say, a 128Mb Ram Disk image, mount it, "format" it or at least trick
the OS into thinking it was an extremely fast ext2 partition? It seems
I might want to use the loopback driver, but what else?
Any help is greatly appreicated.
Thanks
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Linux, hard disks, UDMA, and such (was: mp3 problems)
Date: 14 Apr 2000 21:45:23 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 15 Apr 2000 02:16:37 +0100, Ian Molton
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>Jeff Workman wrote:
>whats this? could my linux not be using UDMA33 ? how do I find out if it
>is or not?
To accomodate old hardware, by default Linux uses the bare minimum of a
hard drive's capabilities. The emergence of UDMA33/66 has complicated
things, because there are about 8 different chipsets for UDMA/XX and the
lowlevel black magic that kicks one chipset into UDMA/33 mode can cause
another chipset to barf messily.
The easiest, quickest, and least painful way to improve hard drive
performance under Linux on a modern system is to put this line in
/sbin/init.d/boot.local (/etc/rc.d/rc.local for RH folks):
hdparm -c1 -u1 -d1 -m16 /dev/hda
Read the man page for hdparm to figure out what that actually does.
UDMA/XX support is not enabled by default for reasons mentioned above. If
you want this support, you should get a recent kernel, know what chipset
your IDE controller has, and compile support for that chipset in.
Afterwards, everything should work automagically, and the boot messages
will say something like
VT 82C597 Apollo VP3
Chipset Core ATA-33
Split FIFO Configuration: 8 Primary buffers, threshold = 1/2
8 Second. buffers, threshold = 1/2
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xe000-0xe007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
ide0: VIA Bus-Master (U)DMA Timing Config Success
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xe008-0xe00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
ide1: VIA Bus-Master (U)DMA Timing Config Success
There's a program called "bonnie" which benchmarks hard drives. Try it
out with various combinations of hdparm options and see what gives you the
fastest throughput.
FWIW, kernel 2.3.99-pre3 gave me almost a 50% improvement on disk
performance as measured by bonnie over kernel 2.2.13.
--
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.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Williams)
Subject: setting up xfstt and TrueType fonts
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 21:54:49 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi.
I'm trying to get TrueType fonts on my RedHat 5.2 machine. I compiled
xfstt and put it in /usr/X11R6/bin/. I did
% xfstt --sync
% xfstt &
% xset fp+ unix/:7101
all from the command line and this works fine. Now where is the
correct place to put this so this happens on each login/boot up?
I tried putting
FontPath "unix/:7101"
in /etc/X11/XF86Config, but then X wouldn't start, so I had to boot up
single-user to take it out. I tried putting
xfstt --sync
xfstt &
xset fp+ unix/:7101
in /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0, but that didn't seem to do anything.
Should I put this in my ~/.Xclients file? Please help. Thanks.
--
Tim Williams
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From: "JediPenguin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.linux
Subject: Re: Dual-booting between DOS/Win and Linux
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 21:16:14 -0500
>/usr/X11R6 on this system is about 65MB.
>I ran X for several years on a
>386/33 system with 8M of RAM and 340M of disk.
WHOA!!!
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From: "JediPenguin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.linux
Subject: Re: Dual-booting between DOS/Win and Linux
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 21:24:14 -0500
_HOW_ do you install a minimal distro and how do you tell what is fluff?
Here is my dilemma:
I have a P100//16ram//1gigHD Acer. I have partitioned my Linux / to about
650MB and swap to around 64MB. I want to put a distro on (No X---console
only) to use as a development box. Problem is, almost any CD I use has a
graphical boot CD and really taxes my system. I've tried Mandrake 7.0 which
won't boot ANY WAY AT ALL. Storm2000 gets to the installation, but in
graphic OR text install, it just hangs. Mandrake 6.0 is the only I've got
working of the three. Any recommendations? (I highly appreciated Storm
asking me about X as an option---Mandrake does not work that way.) Thanks.
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From: "Robert L." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Microsoft
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 02:31:07 GMT
Lenine Liebenberg a �crit dans le message <38f72177$0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hi there all you deluded mother******
>
>Just wanna tell you that Linux will never ever rule as microsoft is the
>richest, most established company in IT today. As far as I am concerned
you
>people are all fucked up to think that freesoftware will get you anywhere
in
>this world.
>
>If you disagree (which you probably will as you are all screwed up) don't
>hesitate in e-mailing me so we can sort this out once and for all and I can
>win you all over to a decent OS
>
>aout
>Lenine
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>OR
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
You think i use Linux cause is free? Hahaha.....
You are sooo stupid.
I use it cause it do think i can't do in w98, i mean, doing something else
than debuging.
I like debuging program, but my program.
I'll try to find a virus for w98, and i'll send it to you. Execute it (as a
single user, not the administrator ) and erase it after 1 full day.
Do the same, send me a virus for Linux. I'll execute it for 1 full day and
erase it after.
After erasing every infected file, send here these spec.
Number of infected file.
Time to eradicated them.
How many user don't use the computer while erasing the virus.
How many money did you lose ( for your Anti-Virus tools ).
How many time did the restore take.
I'll do the same on my side. OK, find one virus for Linux, i'll send you a
w98 virus.
( try to find a good virus for Linux )
P.S. Yes, i'm on w98 now, cause some user want to play SIMS, did someone is
porting this program? Did Maxis even think of porting it or we have to make
it from scratch?
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From: Robert Grizzard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.linux
Subject: Re: Dual-booting between DOS/Win and Linux
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 21:27:44 -0500
JediPenguin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> _HOW_ do you install a minimal distro and how do you tell what is fluff?
> Here is my dilemma:
> I have a P100//16ram//1gigHD Acer. I have partitioned my Linux / to about
> 650MB and swap to around 64MB. I want to put a distro on (No X---console
> only) to use as a development box. Problem is, almost any CD I use has a
> graphical boot CD and really taxes my system. I've tried Mandrake 7.0 which
> won't boot ANY WAY AT ALL. Storm2000 gets to the installation, but in
> graphic OR text install, it just hangs. Mandrake 6.0 is the only I've got
> working of the three. Any recommendations? (I highly appreciated Storm
> asking me about X as an option---Mandrake does not work that way.) Thanks.
Slackware, what else? I have two 486s here with Slack on <150MB hard
drives; one is just under 45 MB and the other is just over. This isn't much
more than kernel and utilities; i.e., no development stuff or X or editors
other than cat and vi, but both boxen run -- and run well at that. (I do
have a somewhat more capable box to use; the other two are merely
support/pending support once I get motivated enough to do something with
them.)
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From: Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: linux time keeping...
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 02:34:56 GMT
Hi all,
I've gota pretty strange problem here. It seems when i reboot, the
clock "loses" an hour. It rolled over into EDT correctly, but when i
reboot it it goes back an hour, and still says its in EDT. Here's the
logs that led me to the conclusion:
Apr 14 20:57:07 bear syslog: klogd shutdown succeeded
Apr 14 20:57:07 bear exiting on signal 15
Apr 14 19:57:58 bear syslogd 1.3-3: restart.
Apr 14 19:57:58 bear syslog: syslogd startup succeeded
Ideas? Is it RH 6.1, or my hardware, or some other odd problem? It
had been working fine until this last week, but then i've had this
computer less then a year...
Andy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Equivalent to DOS RAM Drive?
Date: 14 Apr 2000 22:37:28 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 15 Apr 2000 01:26:18 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<<8d8gff$oqn$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
> I have been looking for some documentation on setting up something
>analagous to a DOS Ram Drive under Linux. Is it even possible to create
>, say, a 128Mb Ram Disk image, mount it, "format" it or at least trick
>the OS into thinking it was an extremely fast ext2 partition? It seems
Enable Ramdisk Support in your kernel first, then have a look in
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/ramdisk.txt
It might be as simple as a
# mke2fs -b 4096 /dev/ram0 32768 (32768 blocks of size 4K==128M)
# mount /dev/ram0 /mnt/somewhere
once the ramdisk support is in there.
If you want a 128M ramdisk, you'd better have at least 144M of actual RAM
in that system. Also, the ramdisk is usually not needed during normal
operation, because Linux automagically uses all the RAM it can to cache
stuff from the hard disk.
--
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.
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From: Patrick O'Neil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: mail problem
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 20:56:22 -0600
I have Mandrake 7.0 installed. As a user I have no problems
sending or receiving mail from my pop mail server. My wife,
on the other hand, can receive mail from her (different) pop
mail server but when she tries to send, using the same mail
clients I use, she cannot.
If I send mail with pine, netscape mail client, kde's mail
client...no problem. If she tries to send mail with netscape,
she gets a message that there was an error (not helpful).
If she sends mail with kde's mail client, she gets an error
as soon as DATA is sent. A message window then pops up
saying that a "SPAM-relay was detected" and gives an
"error 554". Huh? I don't understand what the problem is.
My mail is setup and works fine but her's wont get past
my system.
I have tried looking at mail settings via linuxconf but see
nothing that I can pinpoint as a cause for my wife not being
able to send while I can.
I have tried disabling spam-filtering in linuxconf but that
didn't work either.
Anyone? Can anyone help me?
patrick
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From: Floyd Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: setterm and color ls
Date: 14 Apr 2000 17:56:22 -0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt) wrote:
>On Fri, 14 Apr 2000 14:41:43 -0230, Neil Zanella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>Hello,
>>
>>I tried out setterm for setting the background and foreground colors on a
>>linux console but every time I do an ls --color the colors are set back
>>to white on black. Is this a bug or a "feature"?
>
>Each color in ls ends with \033[0m which sets color back to default.
>Dumping the output if color ls to a file is actually how I figured out
>some of the ansi codes.
If setterm is used to change the default, then the above will reset the
color to that each time. For example:
setterm -store -foreground green -background black
>You could put setterm commands in your prompt or ansi screen codes in
>~/.bash_profile. Following are two different methods I used to do a color
>prompt (I used red for root), but I am not sure what sets the prompt in
>xterm (gnome terminal) because there is no PS1 in env there unless you su:
There is indeed a PS1 used to set the prompt while in xterm too.
># using setterm
>export PS1="`setterm -foreground blue -bold on`$PS1`setterm -default`"
Don't do that!
># or using ansi Esc codes
>export PS1="\033[01;34m$PS1\033[0m"
There is a serious problem with bash command line editing if you
do it that way. The number of characters in the prompt which
are not visible will still be counted, and if you extend a
command line past the end of the screen or try such things as
moving to the beginning of the command line with editing
commands, the results will not be correct.
Instead you can cause bash to be aware that some characters are
non-printing. Set your prompt like this, for example:
export PS1='\[\033[36m\]\h:\u \w >\[\033[m\]'
Everything between \[ and \] will be recognized as non-printing. Note
also the nice escapes that bash provides, \h is the host name, \u
is the user name, and \w is the working directory. In this case
the color that I've set is cyan.
All of that, and much much more, is very well explained in the
man page for bash.
>Perl script showing some ansi color codes (not sure how to set background
>colors, but you could see 'man terminfo' and play with the numbers).
>Note: \033 (sometimes displayed as ^[) is Esc:
To set background colors, use numbers in the 40's rather than 30's.
41 is a red background just as 31 is a red foreground.
To learn more about various escape sequences that are recognized
by the Linux console specifically, but also for a great deal of
information on other terminal standards, read the
"console_codes" man page. It also mentions a document
distributed with X that details xterm codes, but I would expect
there might be better documentation on current xterms available
with the xterm distribution (Thomas E. Dickey, the maintainer of
xterm, will no doubt post a response that has better information
about xterm specific codes and where to find documentation.)
Floyd
--
Floyd L. Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska)
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From: swooz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Lost+found dir How to fix?
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 22:59:49 -0400
> Usually what you find in lost+found is fragments of files.
> If you are lucky, you may be able to use an editor like
> emacs to extract some useful text from such a fragment.
> But you probably won't be able to reconstruct anything.
> It is much simpler to reinstall Linux.
yea, what he said...
usually you can scrap anything *found* in the lost+found dir. its
kinda sorta a tmp directory. ya know?
-swooz
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From: Patrick O'Neil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: samba printing problems...continue
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 21:10:48 -0600
I have a Mandrake 7.0 install with some updated rpms from
cooker. I have been having samba printing problems since
installing 7.0 and continuing since upgrading many related
files to cooker.
I find that I can connect to the samba server and get a list
of shares, which will list the printers I wish to use. When
I set them up, using the SAME settings as I used to get the
list of shares (username, password, workgroup, server), I
cannot print. Using printtool to set them up and test
print, everything is entered properly but nothing ever
results from trying to print the test pages. I don't get
any error messages, nothing in my logs, nothing. If I
try to simply print from the command line using "lpr
<filename>" nothing happens. No error messages, no
printout. If I try to check the lpq, nothing shows up.
I have been trying everything I can possibly think of to
fix this, changing permissions and ownerships on /var/spool/
lpd/lp and lp0 directories or the files contained therein.
Nothing works.
I have tried upgrading samba, lpr, printtool, DrakConf,
and all the associated/dependent files and nothing works.
No printing to samba shares.
Without error messages to guide from I don't know where to
start or what could be wrong. If I use CitrixICA and print
from a windows session to the same shared printer...no
problem. If I print from a Mac in the same office, no
problem.
Something is not right with the Mandrake default setup. I
don't know if it is in samba, lpr, or where but this didn't
happen with Redhat 6.0 which I was running before switching
to Mandrake 7.0. Can anyone give guidance as to where the
problem likely is?
patrick
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yves Bellefeuille)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Hard Disk Upgrade Mini How-To: New Version
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 23:18:07 -0400
Reply-To: Yves Bellefeuille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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The Hard Disk Upgrade Mini How-To has been updated. The new version is
number 2.11, dated 13 April 2000.
This document explains how to copy, or migrate, a Linux system from one
hard disk to another, for example when replacing a small hard disk with
a larger one. It has been tested with Red Hat 6.0, Debian 2.1, Slackware
3.5 and SuSE 6.2, and contains specific instructions for each of these
distributions.
The Mini How-To is currently available at the co-author's WWW site at:
http://www.storm.ca/~yan/Hard-Disk-Upgrade.html
(HTML version)
http://www.storm.ca/~yan/Hard-Disk-Upgrade
(plain text)
It will soon be available from the Linux Documentation Project archives
at:
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Hard-Disk-Upgrade.html
(HTML version)
http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/Hard-Disk-Upgrade
(plain text)
and all LDP mirrors.
Principal changes in this version: Use of "tar" to copy hard disks no
longer recommended due to a bug.
Yves Bellefeuille
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From: Mefisto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.linux
Subject: Re: Dual-booting between DOS/Win and Linux
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 22:17:08 -0500
debian, slackware dont have graphical interfaces. and slackware it's pretty
easy to install.
JediPenguin wrote:
> _HOW_ do you install a minimal distro and how do you tell what is fluff?
> Here is my dilemma:
>
> I have a P100//16ram//1gigHD Acer. I have partitioned my Linux / to about
> 650MB and swap to around 64MB. I want to put a distro on (No X---console
> only) to use as a development box. Problem is, almost any CD I use has a
> graphical boot CD and really taxes my system. I've tried Mandrake 7.0 which
> won't boot ANY WAY AT ALL. Storm2000 gets to the installation, but in
> graphic OR text install, it just hangs. Mandrake 6.0 is the only I've got
> working of the three. Any recommendations? (I highly appreciated Storm
> asking me about X as an option---Mandrake does not work that way.) Thanks.
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Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 23:25:23 +0200
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Re: Q: Best printer for linux box?
I recently bought a Lexmark OptraColor 40. It is network PS printer and
supports Linux/Unix as well as windows. It work great for both systems
for me. Check www.buy.com clearance page. When I bought it was $94 (new)
compared to more than $300 in stores.
Good luck
Aydin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Can somebody recommend a printer?
>
> My Epson Action Laser 1400 is driving me nuts, because the sheet
> feeder constantly pulls in two sheets and jams. I want to replace
> it with a new/used printer, but have no idea which one avoids that
> problem.
>
> Here are my priorities, in order:
>
> Required:
>
> 1. GOOD non-jamming sheet feeder which accepts ordinary paper
>
> 2. Runs perfectly under Linux (possibly with some fiddling)
>
> Optional:
>
> 3. Color
>
> 4. Two-sided printing
>
> 5. Cheap
>
> 6. Fast
>
> Any recommendations? I'm considering a refurbished Epson Color Stylus
> 440, because it satisfies #2, #3 and #5; does it satisfy #1? Is there
> a printer which satisfies all six conditions?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Len.
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: linux time keeping...
Date: 14 Apr 2000 23:27:30 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andy wrote:
> I've gota pretty strange problem here. It seems when i reboot, the
> clock "loses" an hour. It rolled over into EDT correctly, but when i
> reboot it it goes back an hour, and still says its in EDT.
This could happen if your hardware clock (as opposed to the system,
software clock) is in your local time zone (as opposed to UTC [== GMT])
and has never been updated to reflect the time change. You can use the
hwclock(8) program to examine and set the hardware clock; see its man
page.
--
Paul Kimoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Changing the font of text consoles
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 03:42:09 GMT
Hi!
I'd like to know how to change the font of my Linux text consoles. I
want a font that displays all the characters a DOS box can. Can you
help?
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: linux time keeping...
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 04:00:05 GMT
You have 2 clocks the software and hardware clock. If you reset the
software clock but not the hardware clock, when you reboot you'll go
back to the old time. do a man on hwclock.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've gota pretty strange problem here. It seems when i reboot, the
> clock "loses" an hour. It rolled over into EDT correctly, but when i
> reboot it it goes back an hour, and still says its in EDT. Here's the
> logs that led me to the conclusion:
>
> Apr 14 20:57:07 bear syslog: klogd shutdown succeeded
> Apr 14 20:57:07 bear exiting on signal 15
> Apr 14 19:57:58 bear syslogd 1.3-3: restart.
> Apr 14 19:57:58 bear syslog: syslogd startup succeeded
>
> Ideas? Is it RH 6.1, or my hardware, or some other odd problem? It
> had been working fine until this last week, but then i've had this
> computer less then a year...
>
> Andy
>
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From: Craig Cobert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 04:30:03 GMT
I wanted to install two operating systems, Linux and Windows. I messed
up, Linux starts up and there is not enough space to do what I wanted in
Windows. Anyway I want to start over by reformating the entire hard drive.
I'm not sure how to do this over Linux. I can format only that section that
is not part of Linux. What do I use to do this?
Thanks
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: creating bootable disk
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 04:30:19 GMT
hi
i don't know how to use mkbootdisk command
pls help me
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From: Neal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux and C C++
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 04:39:26 GMT
I understand that much of Linux is written in C; is there much being
done recently on the new features of the operating system, kernel
upgrades in C++?
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From: "Pencil Necked Geek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 23:43:56 -0500
Reply-To: "Pencil Necked Geek" <.>
use fdisk: delete partitions, format drive.
Craig Cobert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I wanted to install two operating systems, Linux and Windows. I
messed
> up, Linux starts up and there is not enough space to do what I wanted in
> Windows. Anyway I want to start over by reformating the entire hard drive.
> I'm not sure how to do this over Linux. I can format only that section
that
> is not part of Linux. What do I use to do this?
> Thanks
>
>
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