Linux-Misc Digest #167, Volume #24 Sun, 16 Apr 00 14:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: Path on stdin... file on stdout? (Kenny McCormack)
Re: acrobat for linux (ps -> pdf) (Frank M. Siegert)
Re: Forgot my ROOT PASSWORD... ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Samba printing problems (Frank Hahn)
Re: PPP Newbie Problem (Bill Unruh)
Re: promise ata66 control card (Michael Kelly)
Re: Q: migrate OS/2 to Linux ? (Michael Kelly)
how to buildup a pop3 server?? (irado furioso com tudo)
Re: Can't tar (Bastian)
Re: unrecognized password (Robie Basak)
Mounting Amiga FFS hard drive under Linux (mark harman)
Re: Forgot my ROOT PASSWORD... (Robie Basak)
Re: Forgot my ROOT PASSWORD... (Robert Heininger)
Re: Just wondering... (Robie Basak)
Re: Creating a umsdos partition ("Douglas Moyes")
Re: Mounting Amiga FFS hard drive under Linux (Trizt)
Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation ("pwnichols")
Aureal soundcard driver setup ("Big M")
soundcard driver ("Big M")
how to disable console boot messages (Master Penguin)
Can I securely disable password screen (xdm)? (Master Penguin)
Re: Deleting Linux partition... (Michael Powe)
Re: FTP Upgrade Craps Out (Michael Powe)
problem in reading ReWritable CD (Daniel Ng)
Re: boot messages!!! (asage)
Re: problem in reading ReWritable CD (brian moore)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenny McCormack)
Subject: Re: Path on stdin... file on stdout?
Date: 16 Apr 2000 11:05:30 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Peter T. Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Dowe Keller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>: On Mon, 24 Jan 2000 23:04:57 -0000, Miranda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>: >This is an embarrassingly easy question I'm sure but;
>: >
>: >I need a command that takes the path to a file on stdin and then copies that
>: >file to stdout.
>
>man cat
>
>Peter
No - what he is looking for is:
xargs cat
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank M. Siegert)
Crossposted-To: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: acrobat for linux (ps -> pdf)
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 16:19:14 GMT
On Sat, 15 Apr 2000 09:50:21 -0400, Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>[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:
Also let me plug my PStill converter - usually 'dvips -> [PS] ->
pstill -> [PDF]' works quite well. PStill/Linux is free for private
and edu/adcademic use. As with other converters be sure to use T1
fonts for PS creation for best results.
http://www.this.net/~frank/pstill.html
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,nf.comp.linux,redhat.general
Subject: Re: Forgot my ROOT PASSWORD...
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 09:20:23 -0700
In article <8dcjna$vbj$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Regarding this problem, I have a corrupt file that no longer recognizes my
> password. I have used the same procedure you recomment, but vi tells me the
> file is 'read only', so that when I try to change it I only get the message
> 'you don't exist - go away'. How do I get over this hurdle?
. . . I'm stuck in single user mode, and when I attempt to use passwd I
get the message:
[PAM-pwdb[34]]: user (root/0) update failed: pwdb: another process has
locked resource. I'm obviously completely mired in a read-only system. But
what's PAM all about? I can't find a man . . .
GDB
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Hahn)
Subject: Re: Samba printing problems
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 16:10:02 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 15 Apr 2000 09:32:33 -0400, Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>When I've set up samba printers I've never set user name and passwords.
>
Would you mind giving a brief description on how you set this up?
I guess a did not realize that you could set up the printers to
not require a password but the other shares would. Thanks.
--
Frank Hahn
Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny--
Did you ever try buying them without money?
-- Ogden Nash
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.dial-up,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: PPP Newbie Problem
Date: 16 Apr 2000 16:22:00 GMT
In <8dcnnv$m7q$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Baget" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Hi.
>I am tring to connect to the Internet in linux.
>I installed RH 6.1 on my laptop, i am tring to connect with 56.5K PCMCIA
>Modem.
>when I try to connect to the internet I get connection (I have ppp
>connction, I can ping, web and etc...), but after a 1-2 min the TCP/IP
>connection halt, the modem is still connected but I can't even ping my
>remove IP or DNS servers.
a) Your modems have disconnected due to line noise or whatever.
b) One of the modems in the chain has xon-xoff set as flow control, and
you have sent it an xoff without escaping it.
Put
asyncmap x0000
into /etc/ppp/options. Also check the modem init string to make sure you
are setting up the modem for crtscts flow control.
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From: Michael Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: promise ata66 control card
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 12:22:04 -0400
On Sat, 15 Apr 2000 16:57:53 -0400, can orhan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I have a WD27.2 ata66 drive and win2k and redhat 6.1 is installed on it
>but my motherboard does not support ata66 for that reason i bought a
>promise controller card but i could not run it using the controller card
>when i connect the card it says drive not found error even i tried to
>install 6.2 on it
>
>can you pls help me
>
>Thanks
>Can
If you follow the info at Wayne Rattz's site you should be able to
install. Then the easiest way to get full ata66 support(providing
you have the interface ribbon cable) is to compile and install a
newer kernel with pd* drivers enabled(the Promise drivers.)
I've used 2.3.4 kernel for a few weeks with no problems. Newer
kernels may work too but this is the only one I can speak about
from direct experience. After enabling the Promise drivers with
make xconfig and compiling the 2.3.4 kernel I got 16 MB/sec
buffered reads reported by hdparm and about 21 MB/sec
benchmark in bonnie(as opposed to about 6.7 MB/sec in
bonnie just using PIO to access the same drive.)
It's fun when you get it working because you can tell there's
a disconnect between the CPU and the hard drive. Once
you get the UDMA to kick in you can tell the difference
doing things like the find command.
Enjoy. :)
Mike
--
"I don't want to belong to any club that would have me as a member."
-- Groucho Marx
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From: Michael Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Q: migrate OS/2 to Linux ?
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 12:29:44 -0400
On 16 Apr 2000 12:44:32 GMT, jansens_at_ibm_dot_net (Karel Jansens)
wrote:
>I'm sure you are. There have been people searching desperately, even
>threatening IBM-employess to death, for such a thing. Alas, it is not,
>and from what I hear the differences under the hood between OS/2 and
>Linux are just to big to make a simple port work.
Yeah, the Workplace Shell used SOM, I believe, and with CORBA
and COM/DCOM having displaced it, I believe IBM has cast the
SOM/DSOM adrift. Last time I looked at their web site they were
giving away the SOM/DSOM tools with no support.
Mike
--
"I don't want to belong to any club that would have me as a member."
-- Groucho Marx
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From: irado furioso com tudo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: how to buildup a pop3 server??
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 16:42:18 GMT
how to buildup a pop3 server??
for our internal lan - ip-chains et all that stuff. Sendmail is
working nice puting our mail directly to the net, but I need a pop3
server enabled to directly receive e-mal. We have a direct link, fixed
IP address (real one, not faked) and (think so) it is enough to get
all those spam people wants to sendus. <bg> directly.
Any direction, hint, tip, tutorials, url's, will be of great value.
Tia.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bastian)
Subject: Re: Can't tar
Date: 16 Apr 2000 16:45:15 GMT
On 16 Apr 2000 15:45:49 GMT, Carl Fink wrote:
>On 16 Apr 2000 10:48:45 GMT Bastian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>On Sat, 15 Apr 2000 22:44:59 -0700, Pisces wrote:
>>>Excuse me, I have a apsfilter.tar I wanted to extract the archive
>>>file. how do I do it?
>>
>>man tar
>
>That was cruel. (GNU) Tar's man page is ludicrously inadequate, and
>even contains an actual comment admitting this.
>
>You might say "info tar" but the info tool is also ludicrously
>inadequate . . . .
>
>The only real answer is "Get a good Linux or UNIX book, or find a
>guru to educate you."
>--
>Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum
><http://dm.net>
Hmm, I'd prefer spending ten minutes on reading an inadequate manpage to
buying a *good* Linux book (which certainly takes a huge time to read and
a huge amount of money). Anyways, the "inadequate" manpage is sufficient to
squeeze some minimal info out of it: the original question was how to untar a
simple archive, which is covered by the document. BTW, some people call it
"inadequacy", other's call it "reduced to the basic, ie. frequently needed and
useful options", and it's RTFM and not FTRM (f*** the ridicolous manual) :-)
Bastian
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robie Basak)
Subject: Re: unrecognized password
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 16 Apr 2000 16:53:10 GMT
On Sun, 16 Apr 2000 15:12:58 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>Like some others in this forum, it is not that I don't remember my
>password, but that there is obviously a corrupted root password entry
>in my OS (Linux-Mandrake 7.0). Logging in as "Linux single" is no
>problem, but editing the "shadow file" to remove the passsword is, as
>this is a "read only" file, something that the responses to "lost
>passwords" haven't taken into account. How do I (or we) change vi to
>read/write at the linux single level in order to repair the password
>file?
Quite often /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow are readonly for safety; when
saving in vi, type :w! to override.
This all assumes that the root partition is mounted read-write, if
not, type:
mount -o rw,remount /
to fix (make sure you unmount it afterwards).
Robie
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From: mark harman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.suse,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Mounting Amiga FFS hard drive under Linux
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 17:54:40 +0100
Hi, I've obtained an Amiga hard disk which I'm trying to read on my PC. I
have Suse Linux which I've recompiled to include Amiga FFS support, but
I'm having trouble reading it. I have the disk attached as slave and
tried:
mount /dev/hdb -t affs /mnt/amiga
and got the message: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on
/dev/hdb, or too many mounted filesystems
If I try /dev/hdb1 I get the same message, followed by: (aren't you trying
to mount an extended partition, instead of some logical partition inside?)
Are these commands right? Should I be using something other than affs? If
I run fdisk, it shows the drive as not having any partitions - is this
normal? I don't know whether the partition table is stored the same or not
on different platforms?
It could be that the disk is actually unreadable, but I just want to make
sure I'm doing the right thing before giving up.
Thanks,
Mark
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robie Basak)
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,redhat.general,linux.redhat.misc,aus.computers.linux,alt.linux
Subject: Re: Forgot my ROOT PASSWORD...
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 16 Apr 2000 16:54:41 GMT
On Sun, 16 Apr 2000 14:13:00 GMT, Robin said:
>On Sun, 16 Apr 2000 10:53:07 GMT, "Johnno"
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>"Don Sacramento" <[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
>>
>>> I hope this would solve your problem...At the linux LILO prompt
>>> keyin 'linux single'. This will start your linux on a single user mode,
>>> you will now get a root shell access. Through this access you can
>>> gain access to the file /etc/shadow. Edit the file /etc/shadow using
>>> vi editor. Delete from the second field of the root id (those set of
>>> characters stands for your encyrpted password).. The field is
>>> similar to the one below.
>>>
>>> root:Ai745$djf:11062:0:999999:7
>>>
>>> 1)Delete all the set of characters from the second field ( next to the
>>> 'root:'). Save then exit the shadow file.
>>> 2) then type the command 'password' from the bash..
>>> 3) you will be now asked for a new password.
>>> 4) key in your password
>>> 5) you now have the new password for your linux....
>>
>>Once he has booted into single-user mode, all he needs to do is run "passwd"
>>(not "password") and type a new root password when prompted.
>>
>You don't need the old password ?
Not if you're root, which you are in single user mode.
Robie.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Heininger)
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,redhat.general,linux.redhat.misc,aus.computers.linux,alt.linux
Subject: Re: Forgot my ROOT PASSWORD...
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 16:59:19 GMT
On Sun, 16 Apr 2000 14:13:00 GMT,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> `Robin' wrote:
>On Sun, 16 Apr 2000 10:53:07 GMT, "Johnno"
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>"Don Sacramento" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> > Do I have to reinstall Linux if I forgot my root password, or is
>>> > there some way to get back into the system without doing this
>>
>>> I hope this would solve your problem...At the linux LILO prompt
>>> keyin 'linux single'. This will start your linux on a single user mode,
>>> you will now get a root shell access. Through this access you can
>>> gain access to the file /etc/shadow. Edit the file /etc/shadow using
>>> vi editor. Delete from the second field of the root id (those set of
>>> characters stands for your encyrpted password).. The field is
>>> similar to the one below.
>>>
>>> root:Ai745$djf:11062:0:999999:7
>>>
>>> 1)Delete all the set of characters from the second field ( next to the
>>> 'root:'). Save then exit the shadow file.
>>> 2) then type the command 'password' from the bash..
>>> 3) you will be now asked for a new password.
>>> 4) key in your password
>>> 5) you now have the new password for your linux....
>>
>>Once he has booted into single-user mode, all he needs to do is run "passwd"
>>(not "password") and type a new root password when prompted.
>>
>You don't need the old password ?
>
>robin
No, you do not need the old password. Also, don't mess around with /etc/shadow
file, because it is _absolutely_not_necessary_ to do so.
--
Robert Heininger [ Powered by: Linux 2.2.5-15 ]
"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight -
it's the size of the fight in the dog." -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robie Basak)
Subject: Re: Just wondering...
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 16 Apr 2000 17:01:11 GMT
On 16 Apr 2000 14:08:39 GMT, Bastian said:
>On 16 Apr 2000 13:04:35 GMT, Robie Basak wrote:
>>On 15 Apr 2000 18:35:27 GMT, Bastian said:
>>>... if there's a fetchmail-like program that queries several e-Mail accounts
>>>at the same time. Fetchmail does it sequentially, I'd like it to be done
>>>simultaneously, because I have several servers to query, which is very slow
>>>with fetchmail.
>>
>>Just a thought; wouldn't it be possible to set up a separate
>>.fetchmailrc file (not all called that, obviously) and call fetchmail
>>with a command line parameter to tell it to use a different
>>configuration file, and run them all at once?
>>
>>Robie.
>>--
>
>Tried it, but didn't work ("another fetchmail job is running in foreground")
>or something similar. I tried bg'ing them, but didn't work either.
Hmm. The man page refers to ~/.fetchmail.pid as the lock file; try
removing this before running fetchmail for a new server. Just make sure
that you don't try to access the same server twice, and I think you
should be alright.
Robie.
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From: "Douglas Moyes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Creating a umsdos partition
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 17:01:50 GMT
There are installation disks to install linux on a umsdos partition. Also,
zipslack is ment to be decompressed on a DOS drive. I've never done this
before.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I know how to do this through linux. But is there a DOS version of
> umssync or some similar tool???
> (I have a friend that wants to try out linux without having to
> repartition her hard drive first)
>
> if not, then how do i generate a --linux-- file???
>
> thanx
> ali
>
>
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From: Trizt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.suse
Subject: Re: Mounting Amiga FFS hard drive under Linux
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:11:50 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mark harman wrote:
> and got the message: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on
> /dev/hdb, or too many mounted filesystems
If I don't remeber ti wrong, you have to recompile the kernal so that affs
support is added.
> Are these commands right? Should I be using something other than affs? If
> I run fdisk, it shows the drive as not having any partitions - is this
> normal? I don't know whether the partition table is stored the same or not
> on different platforms?
fdisk only knows "windows" file systems and therefore thing the harddrive is
empty.
//Trizt
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From: "pwnichols" <[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: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 17:11:52 GMT
What a dumb argument. The first mouse type pointing device was developed by
Zerox!
Eric Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:HxrJ4.2775$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >JTK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >
>
> [SNIP]
>
> >
> > > All we want
> > > is a single example of a Microsoft invention.
> > >
> >
> > 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.
>
> > Squiggly-underline spellchecking.
> > Squiggly-underline grammar checking.
>
> So a squiggly line is innovative?
> Spell and grammar checkers existed long before MS adopted them.
>
> You are as rabidly pro Microsoft as you accuse others of being anti
> Microsoft.
>
> --
> Eric F. Peterson
> Politically Incorrect and Proud!
>
>
>
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From: "Big M" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Aureal soundcard driver setup
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 18:11:03 +0100
Reply-To: "Big M" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I'm having a prob setting up the driver for my Aureal Vortex s/c...
I've got the tarball onto my drive and expanded it, entered the directory it
setup and become root. According to the readme file, the next step is the
command: make install20 but.... it's not having any - it says no such
command, or similar, so it appears that I'm stuck.
As I'm a novice, I was wondering if some kind soul had any solutions?
I'm running Mandrake 7.0 from a coverdisk.
One other thing.... sorry, but as I'm a bit unsure of myself, could you
spell it out - if poss. It would be greatly appreciated by a humble newbie
looking for help and encouragement.
Thanks in advance,
Cheers!
M
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From: "Big M" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: soundcard driver
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 18:16:33 +0100
Reply-To: "Big M" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I'm having a prob setting up the driver for my Aureal Vortex s/c...
I've got the tarball onto my drive and expanded it, entered the directory it
setup and become root. According to the readme file, the next step is the
command: make install20 but.... it's not having any - it says no such
command, or similar, so it appears that I'm stuck.
As I'm a novice, I was wondering if some kind soul had any solutions?
I'm running Mandrake 7.0 from a coverdisk.
One other thing.... sorry, but as I'm a bit unsure of myself, could you
spell it out - if poss. It would be greatly appreciated by a humble newbie
looking for help and encouragement.
Thanks in advance,
Cheers!
M
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From: Master Penguin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,redhat.x.general
Subject: how to disable console boot messages
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 17:16:47 GMT
How can I make sure that after booting LILO the screen
stays blank until X is up? I do not want the typical
boot messages to appear, which in this case give away
information on how to break into my system.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Master Penguin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,redhat.x.general
Subject: Can I securely disable password screen (xdm)?
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 17:21:23 GMT
Is it safe to set up a personal workstation (which only one person is
permitted to use, but stands in
a place where others could physically access it) so that the boot
scripts automatically log the user
in, starts an X session for them and then xlocks the screen until they
actually arrive? At which
point they would just have to type the password and immediately have a
working system, as
opposed to having to wait for xdm to waste many seconds. In other
words, can I safely disable the
password prompt for logging in, since xlock will ask for that password
anyway?
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Deleting Linux partition...
Date: 16 Apr 2000 09:21:49 -0700
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>>>>> "Ham" == Ham Selv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Ham> I'm having a problem with my linux partition, and need to get
Ham> it erased. The big problem is that for the moment I can't
Ham> run anything on this partition - don't know why.
Ham> So I have to delete it from M$-win98. How do I get Fdisk to
Ham> recognize this partition, and how do I delete it???
It's a non-DOS partition, use that option to delete it. However, if
you created the partition with a version of fdisk other than the DOS
version, you probably will not be able to delete it with the DOS
fdisk. In that case, you need to boot a linux floppy with
the linux fdisk on it, delete the partition, then boot a DOS floppy
and create a new partition.
mp
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From: Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: FTP Upgrade Craps Out
Date: 16 Apr 2000 09:46:40 -0700
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>>>>> "Steve" == NOriprockSPAM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Steve> Greetings, I tried an FTP upgrade from a very fast server
Steve> at my university, but all goes well up until when the
Steve> installation process comes to the part when it tries to
Steve> find packages to upgrade, then it just craps out.
Steve> This is the error message I get: installed exited
Steve> abnormally -- received signal 11 Sending termination
Steve> signals -- done Sending kill signals -- done disabling
Steve> swap... /tmp/swap/hdb4 unmounting
Steve> filesystems.../mnt/sysimage/home /mnt/sysimage/proc
Steve> /mnt/sysimage/usrs /mnt/sysimage /mnt/runtime /mnt/runtime
Steve> /dev/pts /proc You may reboot your system
Sig11 is usually hardware-related. See http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11
for details.
mp
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From: Daniel Ng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: problem in reading ReWritable CD
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 10:38:20 -0700
I back up some document at work on a Maxell rewritable CD. I am able to
read there at work. But I cannot mount it on my linux box at home. It
complains that
"no medium is found"
I have tried both Juliet and iso9660 filesystem.
Then I back up the document on a recordable CD (also Maxell), I have no
problem.
Does anyone know why I can mount a recordable CD but not a rewritable
CD?
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From: asage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: boot messages!!!
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 13:38:21 -0400
Thank you, I'll give it a looksee :)
Paul Kimoto wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, asage wrote:
> > I have compiled 2.3.99-pre3 without messages.
> >
> > But when it boots, the following messages appear:
> >
> > Checking
> > filesystems
> > OK
> > Mounting local filesystems mount: fs type devpts not supported by
> > kernel FAILED
>
> Something wants CONFIG_DEVPTS_FS set in your kernel .config. See
> Documentation/Configure.help to see what that's about.
>
> > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_always_defrag is missing -- cannot control IP
> > defragmentation
>
> It appears that this /proc (pseudo)file is no longer in 2.3.99-*. You
> may need to update something to be ready for 2.3.*.
>
> --
> Paul Kimoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: problem in reading ReWritable CD
Date: 16 Apr 2000 17:49:37 GMT
On Sun, 16 Apr 2000 10:38:20 -0700,
Daniel Ng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I back up some document at work on a Maxell rewritable CD. I am able to
> read there at work. But I cannot mount it on my linux box at home. It
> complains that
> "no medium is found"
> I have tried both Juliet and iso9660 filesystem.
>
>
> Then I back up the document on a recordable CD (also Maxell), I have no
> problem.
>
>
> Does anyone know why I can mount a recordable CD but not a rewritable
> CD?
Because some CD drives don't like RW media?
>From the CDR FAQ at http://www.fadden.com/cdrfaq/:
These discs [CDRW] are not writable by standard CD-R drives, nor
readable by most older CD readers (the reflectivity of CD-RW is
far below CD and CD-R, so an Automatic Gain Control circuit is
needed to compensate). Most new CD-ROM drives do support CD-RW
media, but not all them will read CD-RW discs at full speed.
In short, it's most likely the fault of the drive you're trying to read
on. Replace it with a newer drive is probably your best bet.
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