Linux-Misc Digest #157, Volume #24 Sat, 15 Apr 00 12:13:03 EDT
Contents:
Re: acrobat for linux (ps -> pdf) (Mark Bratcher)
Re: AIC7XXX hangs on PATCHED 2.2.10 / 2.3.23 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: lilo NTFS ("Erik Sanchez")
Re: Linux newsgroup -bad experience ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: kernelupgrade on suse6.0 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: 6 OS's, will lilo be sufficient? (Lincoln Yeoh)
Re: Linux newsgroup -bad experience (Karel Jansens)
Re: Copying NTFS, ext2 partitions
Re: Wrote audio CD -- Only Windows can play it it (Dances With Crows)
Re: system time has changed with no reason (Diego Berge)
Re: Wrote audio CD -- Only Windows can play it it (Lam Dang)
Re: Equivalent to DOS RAM Drive? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Hard Disk Upgrade Mini How-To: New Version (Kenny McCormack)
Re: Equivalent to DOS RAM Drive? (Harold Stevens ** PLEASE SEE SIG **)
Re: Getting Linux to appear in Windows NWNeighbourhood ("Brian D. Smith")
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From: Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: acrobat for linux (ps -> pdf)
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 09:50:21 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I want a good utility for converting dvi or postscript files
> (generated from latex documents) to pdf files. There is free software
> (dvipdfm), but the TeX faq claims that Acrobat's distill utility is
> better and inexpensive (at least for academics). I have two questions:
>
> 1. Does Adobe have Acrobat for Linux?
> 2. Is it worth the money?
>
> Appreciate any help.
>
> Atul
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
Have you tried ps2pdf that comes with GhostScript? Works well for me
most of
the time.
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Mark Bratcher
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: AIC7XXX hangs on PATCHED 2.2.10 / 2.3.23
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 13:54:52 GMT
I have a DUAL PII motherboard with 2 AIC 7895 cards, scsi0 and scsi1.
I am running debian 2.2.10 (patched from 2.2.1) and have tried 2.3.23.
When I build patched version of these kernels (even having patched the
drivers/scsi path with aic7xxx patch files), I get this message:
(scsi0) < Adaptec AIC 7895 Ultra SCSI host adapter> found at PCI 12/0
(scsi0) Wide Channel A, SCSI ID=7, 32/255 SCBs
(scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 404 instructions downloaded
(scsi1) < Adaptec AIC 7895 Ultra SCSI host adapter> found at PCI 12/1
(scsi1) Wide Channel A, SCSI ID=7, 32/255 SCBs
(scsi1) Downloading sequencer code... 404 instructions downloaded
scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.1.20/3.2.4
< Adaptec AIC 7895 Ultra SCSI host adapter>
scsi1 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.1.20/3.2.4
< Adaptec AIC 7895 Ultra SCSI host adapter>
scsi : 2 host.
scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid0, scsi0, channel 0, id 0,
lun 0, Test Unit Ready 00 00 00 00 00
I am sure that the motherboard and scsi channels actually work as I
have downloaded the boot disk images from debian.org for slink
(2.0.36). These do actually detect and mount the drive on the scsi B
card mentioned above.
Please can you inform me of what the problem is?
Best Regards
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From: "Erik Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: lilo NTFS
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 10:18:12 -0500
I have a similar problem where I wanted lilo to be installed on the linux
partition but it (somehow) ended up on the MBR of an NT4.0 NTFS partition.
According to the Microsoft knowledgebase, NT4.0 keeps a copy of a valid boot
sector as the last sector of the NTFS partition. You can use Norton
DiskEdit to copy this sector onto the first sector of the NTFS partition.
Seems to work OK.
I consulted the MS knowledgebase and searched for "corrupt NTFS boot sector"
for the detailed instructions.
Hope this helps.
Erik
"Anthony" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >OK, here it goes.
> >I'm a DTS at Lucent and we have a user that installed RH6.1 on his NT4
> >box. Now I know that lilo will take over the MBR and screw up the NT
> >boot loader (which is just what happened :-) ). So my question to all of
> >you.. Is there a way to remove lilo or would I have to (MicroCraps best
> >phrase) REINSTALL NT4 and then put lilo on the boot sector?
> >
> >Any and all help would be great.
>
> If the user did the right thing of putting Lilo on the boot
> sector of the ext2 partition instead of MBR of the 1st harddisk,
> NT bootloader can boot the linux partition without problem.
>
> Otherwise, Lilo cannot boot NT because they use a strange chain-boot
> method that make it diffcult for anyone to install O/S that is
> not from MS.
>
> Fdisk /mbr might work until NT, but it might not recreate the NT
> MBR that run the bootloader. If you format a floppy under NT,
> it will boot and run the NT bootloader. However, if you copy
> the floppy boot sector and write it back to the hard disk - it
> wont work.
>
> The best chance is to use the emergency recover floppy to fix it,
> if the fix program does not crash (it crashed on me couple of times).
>
> There are a few other bootloader can boot NT and all other OS
> without the NT bootloader, I recommend GNU GRUB. You can try System
> Commander, though it is easy to install but hard to config.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Linux newsgroup -bad experience
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 14:11:10 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc Art Boulatov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The real thing I've noticed -
>
> The easily answered questions like "How to change the background of xdm"
> are answered amasingly fast and seems like many people wish to help.
>
> But when it comes to more serious stuff you can wait forever hoping to see
> at list one "Re:".
Because more difficult questions require more advanced knowledge, and many
of us might be very good in one area, and incredibly crap in another.
The more esoteric the question, the fewer people you'll get able to
confidently answer it.
What WAS the question anyway?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: kernelupgrade on suse6.0
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 14:11:11 GMT
peter pilsl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did eloquently scribble:
> I just ran into a suse6.0-machine and its running 2.0.36 kernel. due I
> need to use ipchains I'll have to perform a kernelupgrade to 2.2.14.
> which other packages do I have to upgrade to leave the system running
> stable ? (beside ipchains of course ;)
Quite a lot needs to be updated for the 2.2 series kernels.
Your best bet would be to visit the SuSE web site and see what they have to
say. It'll definately be less hastle upgrading to the later versions.
6.4 is out now, (or soon?) and is faaar more up to date in all areas.
I imagine SuSE 7.0 will be out within a month or three, depending when
kernel version 2.4 finally sees the light of day...
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|GCv3.12 GCS>$ d-(dpu) s+/- a C++ US++ P L/L+ E-- W+ N++ o+ K PS+ w-- M+/++ |
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lincoln Yeoh)
Subject: Re: 6 OS's, will lilo be sufficient?
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 14:25:43 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 10 Apr 2000 19:15:07 GMT, Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Dear linux users:
>I have these OS's that I would like to use on the same pc and same
>harddrive:Redhat,w95,w2000,FreeBSD,Solaris and BeOS.
>Will lilo be sufficient to manage the booting of these operating
>systems? If so, could you brief me on how?
Actually if you have a bit of money, you could buy two or so cheap and
small IDE harddrives, and swap between them.
Then you should be able to get those removable IDE HDD trays. So you can
swap the HDDs in and out (with power off ;) ).
Cheaper than having multiple PCs, and cleaner than trying to get a lot of
stuff to work together without killing each other or yourself...
Cheerio,
Link.
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From: jansens_at_ibm_dot_net (Karel Jansens)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Linux newsgroup -bad experience
Date: 15 Apr 2000 15:49:19 GMT
Rafael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have very bad experiance with Linux NewsGroup. It is very dificulkt to
> get answer for problems. Why I always get answer in Microsoft Windows
> News, are Linux people not so friendly like they should be?
> I am realy disapointed.
> What's your opinion?
> Maybe somebody can give advise where to write when you have problems
> with Linux?
>
What was your question?
Karel Jansens
jansens_at_attglobal_dot_net
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Crossposted-To: nz.comp,comp.os.ms-windows.nt,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc
Subject: Re: Copying NTFS, ext2 partitions
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 14:56:22 GMT
On Fri, 14 Apr 2000 06:38:57 GMT, Donald Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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?
Not sure about this one: from a newer Linux, I think that you should be able
to create an NTFS file system on the new disk and use "tar" to duplicate the
files from one mounted partition to the other, kind of like this:
tar cf - -C /oldNTpartition . | tar xpf - -C /newNTpartition .
>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?
No. Bad, bad idea: cp does not properly copy block devices, symbolic links,
or file ownership.
This reminds me: I am still looking for an NT tool capable of writing a disk
image, preferably a *compressed* disk image, directly to a hard drive (for
writing an arbitrary image on an installed disk for use elsewhere). Has anyone
got anything?
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Nico Kadel-Garcia
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Wrote audio CD -- Only Windows can play it it
Date: 15 Apr 2000 11:01:21 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 15 Apr 2000 17:02:36 +1000, Linux User 162950
<<8d93us$bpq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>> Installed a TEAC CD-W54E CD-RW, got data read/write working just fine.
>> So I got cocky and tried to make an audio CD. Ripped a couple tracks
>> from a CD with cdparanoia (release 9.7). The .wav files play from the
>> hard drive OK. Wrote the tracks out with cdrecord (1.8a24) using the
>> command 'cdrecord -v dev=0,0 speed=4 -audio *.wav'. cdrecord goes
>> through all the right motions, no errors noted. Trouble is, the CD is
>> not recognized by a CD player, or by the CD player in Linux (Mandrake
>> 6.1). And, to rub salt in the wounds, the CD *does* play under win95.
>So if CD speed is measured in increments starting at 1 and an audio CD is
>1x... can you see anything wrong with your command to write the CD? duh..
Do tell about how it's impossible to write an audio CD at 4x. I've done
it many times, no problems. (However, if you're using the X,Y,Z method
of telling cdrecord which device to use, you probably should specify X,
Y, and Z instead of just X and Y...)
The original poster's claim is a bit more troubling. I presume the device
setting for your CD-player is correct? IDE-SCSI emulation puts the CD-ROM
on /dev/scd0 or /dev/sr0, and if you haven't updated the /dev/cdrom
symlink, it could be trying to read from /dev/hdc, which won't work. Can
you read a track back off this burned CD using cdparanoia? Have you
checked the cdrecord home page for info? I recall there being some
problems with TEAC drives but ICBW.
FWIW, I had the same problem with one audio CD I burned, except it would
not play in any computer's CD-ROM but would play in any standard audio CD
player.
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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] (Diego Berge)
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.,comp.security.unix,comp.os.linux.security,com.security.misc
Subject: Re: system time has changed with no reason
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 17:58:12 GMT
[ followups out of the security NG's ]
On 13 Apr 2000 16:52:13 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh) wrote:
>In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Yongfeng Luo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>>My linux rh6.1's system time changed with no reason. Do you have any
>>clue to investigate it why? Which log file could i review?
>
>You do not tell us how it changed and what you were doing. IF it changed
>in the past week or two, it is probably a change to daylight savings
>time (or not). If it is different from a hour it is something else.
Clock shifts are a frequent issue with RedHat --
man hwclock
man 5 adjtime (assuming it exists)
Regards,
Diego Berge.
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From: Lam Dang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Wrote audio CD -- Only Windows can play it it
Date: 15 Apr 2000 11:02:53 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Installed a TEAC CD-W54E CD-RW, got data read/write working just fine.
> So I got cocky and tried to make an audio CD. Ripped a couple tracks
> from a CD with cdparanoia (release 9.7). The .wav files play from the
> hard drive OK. Wrote the tracks out with cdrecord (1.8a24) using the
> command 'cdrecord -v dev=0,0 speed=4 -audio *.wav'. cdrecord goes
> through all the right motions, no errors noted. Trouble is, the CD is
> not recognized by a CD player, or by the CD player in Linux (Mandrake
> 6.1). And, to rub salt in the wounds, the CD *does* play under win95.
I just tried it on my setup and I got
different results. For burning I used
cdparanoia III release 9.6
cdrecord 1.8.1a05
HP 7500 (max write speed is 2X)
I ripped two tracks from an original
audio CD and wrote one track at a time,
at speed 2, to an inexpensive CD-R (the
type that comes in 50 on a spindle), but
I didn't fix the CD-R.
Then I played the CD-R on the same box,
which ran RedHat 6.1. It worked as
expected.
This same CD-R wouldn't work on Windows
98 (2nd Ed), Windows NT (SP4), RedHat
6.0, or my audio rig. They all thought
it's a data CD!
After I fixed the CD-R with cdrecord,
also at speed 2, it played on all of the
above.
My gratitude to all the people who have
made it possible for me. It's very nice
to be able to check tracks out before
fixing.
--
Lam Dang
dangit AT ix DOT netcom DOT com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Equivalent to DOS RAM Drive?
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 10:14:53 -0500
On 15 Apr 2000, Dances With Crows wrote:
> Sorry to followup on my own post, but if you want a really big ramdisk,
> you're going to have to insmod the ramdisk driver kind of like so:
>
> #insmod rd rd_size=131072 (131072K==128M)
>
> The default size for the ramdisk is 4M, which I didn't realize until I
> played with rd.o a bit. Anyway, HTH.
I find a RAM drive to be absolutely essential when I'm in DOS. A couple
of years ago I remember setting up a RAM drive in linux so I could get all
the same wonderful benefits. Though the details escape me, I don't recall
it being any complicated process. Anyway, that was when I discovered your
main point. In linux a RAM drive is just not needed because linux makes
efficient use of all free memory. Setting aside memory for any specific
use is probably going to make your system less efficient.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenny McCormack)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Hard Disk Upgrade Mini How-To: New Version
Date: 15 Apr 2000 10:34:50 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Yves Bellefeuille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>Hash: SHA1
>
>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.
...
>Principal changes in this version: Use of "tar" to copy hard disks no
>longer recommended due to a bug.
Just out of curiosity, which bug is this? I'm curious because I don't use
tar b/c of a bug that I am aware of - and want to know if yours is the same
as mine.
Also, why no mention of cpio? cpio has always seemed to me the safest,
easiest, most reliable way to do "XCOPY" under Unix. I learned it 15 years
ago and it still works...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Harold Stevens ** PLEASE SEE SIG **)
Subject: Re: Equivalent to DOS RAM Drive?
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 15:46:33 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. shmartonak:
[Snip...]
|> Setting aside memory for any specific
|> use is probably going to make your system less efficient.
Unless like me you're setting yourself a goal of building a minimally useful
roadkit on an "obsolete" laptop which won't hurt so much if it walks off the
airport security check line. A bootfloppy like tomsrtbt is ideal for this in
that (at least version 1.7.185) it boots up with a 4MB ramdrive on /tmp that
I use to load auxiliary codes (like SVGA viewers). In this respect, even the
DOS ramdrive concept offers a customization and flexibility aspect which has
long ago departed Winblows. Just another reason I really dig Linux. :)
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From: "Brian D. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Getting Linux to appear in Windows NWNeighbourhood
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 15:54:28 GMT
I'm using samba to share directories and printers from my linux server
to a couple of windows boxes (windows98 and windowsNT). I'm delighted
with how well it works.
Rather than try to reproduce in a few sentences what already been
written, I'll point you to a couple of links:
http://www.samba.org
This is the main samba web page. They also list a number of books on
the web page that are helpful. I have the one from O'Reilly and I've
found useful. Follow the books link for the full page.
http://www.linux.org/help/ldp/howto/SMB-HOWTO.html
This is the how-to page for setting up samba on a linux server.
Brian D. Smith
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