Linux-Misc Digest #203, Volume #24 Thu, 20 Apr 00 06:13:25 EDT
Contents:
Re: File Size Limitations (Christopher Browne)
Axent Defender + PPP (Christopher Browne)
Re: File Size Limitations (Christopher Browne)
Re: here's a good one for you, man's broke (Francois Labreque)
Re: Bell Sympatico HSE (Francois Labreque)
PUBLIC_HTML with Redhat and Apache (Michael D)
Winlinux question (Sathish SivaKumar)
Re: System.map ? (Tom)
Storm Linux Boot Floppy ( p e a r c e)
how do I email local user on system? (Chip Rose.)
Re: Caldera Open Linux 2.3 Installation (Patrick Goupell)
problems doing network install of redhat ("wokness")
Re: How to boot to single user mode? (Mark Bratcher)
Re: GNOBE not working (Mark Bratcher)
Re: Windows98 and Samba solution. (Mark Bratcher)
Re: redhat boot question (knud)
Re: How to tell if kernel is running multiple cpus? ("Brian P. Duncan")
Re: How to mount a cdfs CD? (Mark Bratcher)
Re: Can't boot Linux from hard disk (Mark Bratcher)
Re: Isn't there a browser which DOES work? (Mark Bratcher)
Re: Mandrake 7 Installation problem (knud)
Re: Winlinux Guidance (knud)
Re: here's a good one for you, man's broke (Duncan Milburn)
Re: writing to Dos partition (knud)
Re: mpeg player for linux (knud)
Re: How to mount a cdfs CD? (knud)
Re: multifile editor (Charles Esson)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: File Size Limitations
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 02:07:33 GMT
Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when Dances With Crows would say:
>On Tue, 18 Apr 2000 13:58:57 -0600, Larry Irons
><<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>>Does Anyone know if there are any file size limitations in the 2.2.x
>>kernel? I am loading a variable block file from a scsi tape drive. It
>>loads approximately 2.0 GB and then stops but the file on the tape is
>
>On a 32-bit architecture, Linux presently has a file size limit of 2G.
>Alpha and Sparc-64 do not have this problem; when the successor to ext2
>comes out, 32-bit machines will not have this problem either.
False. ext2 is designed with a file size limit of 2TB. It enforces a
2GB limit on 32 bit platforms in that the APIs don't happily support
more than 2GB.
And VFS (I suspect Alexander Viro can speak to this more
authoritatively) has only been providing a 32 bit interface on IA-32.
_THAT_ is a vastly more critical limit.
Further, the API that GLIBC has been exporting to applications has a
file size limit of 2GB.
Thus, the [relatively minor] patch to ext2 that is needed to "fix" the
2GB problem does _nothing_ to help the average application.
Similarly, would-be successors, such as XFS or ReiserFS, do
_absolutely nothing_ to help support larger file sizes so long as
bottlenecks in the GLIBC and VFS layers remain.
A. Viro has been doing rather a lot of work on VFS; hopefully he can
say something more coherent about support for Large Files in VFS.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Axent Defender + PPP
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 02:07:30 GMT
Recently got an "Axent Defender" to help make PPP access more secure.
It looks like a pocket calculator; I enter a PIN# to get access to it,
and then enter a "challenge" that comes from the dialup server, which
produces a "response" that I send back.
This basically kills off the old "chat" script that I used to use; I
now need to run something that interacts with the remote host which
will report _to me_ the "challenge," and prompt me to enter the
"response."
I'd think Expect to be the Tool de Jour for this purpose; has anybody
scripted this sort of thing?
I'm uncertain of how precisely to proceed; it would be fairly nice to
still use CHAT, although I suppose that I might be able to set things
up via running Minicom to manage the initial connection, then dropping
out and invoking pppd directly from the command line.
Does a cleaner method come to mind?
--
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242" will open a lot more eyes than "The reloader doesn't load files
with intermixed spaces, asterisks, and <'s in their names that are
bigger than 64K". You can always say the latter in a later paragraph.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Subject: Re: File Size Limitations
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 02:07:32 GMT
Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when Larry Irons would say:
>Does Anyone know if there are any file size limitations in the 2.2.x
>kernel? I am loading a variable block file from a scsi tape drive. It
>loads approximately 2.0 GB and then stops but the file on the tape is
>much larger than that. Smaller file sizes are read just fine. Does
>anyone have any ideas or explanations for this behavior?
>
>BTW - I am using "mt" to setup the block sizes and "dd" to read the file
>from tape.
There is a 2.0GB limitation in the 32 bit API normally used in GLIBC,
and thus used by utilities like "dd," "tar," "cp," and such.
If you want larger files, your choices are twofold:
a) Move to a 64 bit platform such as Alpha or UltraSPARC,
b) Compile your kernel with the [fabled patch that breaks the 32 bit
barrier], and recompile all applications that you plan to have use
Big Files to use the LFS API.
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Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 22:19:54 -0400
From: Francois Labreque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: here's a good one for you, man's broke
Hugh Lawson wrote:
>
> On Tue, 18 Apr 2000 07:34:12 +0100,
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >here's a good one for you all, I've just tried to pull up a man page for
> >something and this is what I got: -
> >
> >charlesb@local-gateway:~ > man new
> >man: can't chdir to /u/charlesb: Permission denied
> >No manual entry for new
> >
> >t used to work and nothing AFAIK has changed.
> >
> >Any ideas????
Could it be that someone put another executable called "man" somewhere
in your $PATH statement that is supposed to read/execute some files un
/u/charlesb ?
>
> Just a wild guess: the directories man is to search for man pages may be
> set either by the environmental variable $MANPATH or by the configuration
> file (on my system) /etc/man.config. Is it possible that something has
> gone wrong with one of those?
>
> --
> Hugh Lawson
> Greensboro, North Carolina
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 22:22:09 -0400
From: Francois Labreque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Bell Sympatico HSE
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I'm getting the Bell Sympatico High Speed Edition (1Meg modem) soon and
> I've heard it's a nightmare setting this up on Linux. I'm going to be
> setting it up on Windows 98 first, to get on the 'Net, but I'd really
> appreciate it if someone pointed me to a website that deals with this
> and can help me set it up.
>
> GR Gaudreau
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
^
|
|
A coworker of mine recently set it up using information found here!
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From: Michael D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PUBLIC_HTML with Redhat and Apache
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 02:28:04 GMT
I am trying to make users able to setup user web pages using apache.
The apache that is installed is the stock apache that comes with Red
Hat 6.0. The web server works fine directly to the IP, but when I try
to view a users page it does not work.
http://IPADDRESS.COM/~username
that is what I want to be able to do.....so all my users (just my
family) can have their own simple web site up.
Any ideas? Thanks!
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From: Sathish SivaKumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Winlinux question
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 02:30:06 GMT
I have installed winlinux on a fat16 dos partition. Now I want to convert
to fat32. Do I have to reinstall my winlinux if i do it? Or is the umsdos
partition unaffected?
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From: Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: System.map ?
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 03:00:09 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> There should be no need to use an initial ram disk if you compile the
> drivers for the SCSI controller and SCSI disk support into the kernel
> directly, rather than as modules. initrd is used mainly for
installation
> purposes, not on production systems, or so I've been told....
Hmm. Okay. So what I really should be doing is compiling my SCSI driver
and perhaps my ethernet card drivers into the kernel....
By the way....great sig!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( p e a r c e )
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Storm Linux Boot Floppy
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 03:12:44 GMT
I have just installed Storm Linux (debian-based distro) onto the
second harddrive of a two harddrive box. / is on hdb2 and I choose to
have LILO installed there rather than in the MBR as I wanted to
maintain my Windows NT bootloader. What I would like to do now is
boot into Storm Linux so that I can strip the boot sector from hdb2
and paste it into c:\ so that I can then boot Linux via the NT
bootloader. My problem is that there was never an option during the
install to allow me to create a linux-bootable floppy. When I have
installed Slackware Linux and Mandrake Linux I always had this option
to create a bootable floppy.
Anyone know how I can create a linux-bootable floppy that will boot
into Storm Linux?
Thanks in Advance!
p e a r c e
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chip Rose.)
Subject: how do I email local user on system?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 03:19:20 GMT
How do I setup Pine or other email clients to be able to email local users on
the same system without using internet email? I tried setting Pine to
"localhost.localdomain", and other variations, but it didn't work.
Thanks,
Chip.
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From: Patrick Goupell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Caldera Open Linux 2.3 Installation
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 23:07:16 -0400
Off hand, I don't know the answer to your question, but there is an
"alt.os.linux.caldera" newsgroup which could also be of help to you.
Scooter wrote:
> Does anyone know how to start the install for COL2.3 in text-only mode?
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From: "wokness" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: problems doing network install of redhat
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 03:27:57 GMT
I have a Sun SPARC 2 that has not CD-ROM drive on it that I am trying to
install Red Hat 6.1 on. I tried networking it and my PC togeather (through
ethernet) and starting a FTP program on my box that has a CD-ROM drive (its
a Window 98 box). I get stuck where it asks me what the SPARC sould be
identified as. Is there something special that I need to set it as, or can I
just randomally make up numbers and stick them in there. What I mean
identify is it wants to set a IP etc... to it. When I tried just putting in
numbers it would not connect. If it somehow did connect, it said something
about not finding Red Hat base. I know it got the all the files beacuse I
got the actual CD in my box. Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks,
Wokness
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From: Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to boot to single user mode?
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 23:27:29 -0400
Antony Mak wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> My SuSE Linux box was configured without floppy and CDRom. How can I boot to
> "single user mode" at "boot:" prompt?
A number of ways to do this. I use "linux single" at the boot prompt.
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From: Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: GNOBE not working
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 23:28:38 -0400
kobus wrote:
>
> You should first try to learn to read!
> succes
>
> KP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef in artikel
> <8dc13a$pmh$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> > I have Redhat 6.2 and I have been using the KKE or whatever it is called
> > and I switched to the GNOBE desktop and I can move the mouse around and
> > click on stuff, but nothing happens. I tried switching back to KKE at
> the
> > command prompt and also the icon, but it won't work. Does anyone know
> what I
> > should do to fix this?
> >
> > KP
> >
> >
> >
Maybe he just has a head cold?
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From: Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Windows98 and Samba solution.
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 23:30:20 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> From the SuSE support database:
>
> Symptom:
> Samba doesn't work with Windows98
>
> Cause:
> Windows98 uses only encoded passwords.
>
> Solution:
> Use regedit to enter the following new values into the registry :
> Enter a new DWORD "EnablePlainTextPassword" at
> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\VxD\VNETSUP] and
> set this value to 1.
>
> Hope this helps someone. Certainly helped me!
That's more security risk than just configuring Samba to encrypt
passwords.
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From: knud <knudATmyselfDOTcom>
Subject: Re: redhat boot question
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 23:27:11 -0400
Edit /etc/inittab as root. The file *should* be well commented. On my
OpenLinux 2.3 system inittab looks something like this (note that lines
starting with # are comments and do not effect the operating system):
# The runlevels used by COL are:
# 0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
# 1 - Single user mode (including initialisation of network interfaces,
# if you do have networking)
# 2 - Multiuser, (without NFS-Server und some such)
# (basically the same as 3, if you do not have networking)
# 3 - Full multiuser mode
# 4 - unused
# (should be equal to 3, for now)
# 5 - X11
# 6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
#
# Default runlevel.
id:5:initdefault:
As you can see, my system is set to boot into X11 by default (KDE or GNOME). I
could set it to boot into the multisuer console mode (no GUI, just the text
prompt) by setting it like this: id:3:initdefault:
For more information type in the following command and hit ENTER. (hitting q
will quit):
man inittab
I hope this helps!
knudATmyselfDOTcom
On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, wokness wrote:
>When I boot Red Hat6.1 it start's X and sends me to this GUI letting me
>decide if I want to go into KDE or GNOME. The thing is that I don't want to
>go to eather one, I want to go into a console. I don't want X running. How
>do I set it up so it just boots directally into console without
>re-installing the OS.
>
>
>Thanks,
>Wokness
>
>PS- The box is a Sparc 2 that had Red Hat 6.1 pre-installed.
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From: "Brian P. Duncan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: How to tell if kernel is running multiple cpus?
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 03:36:02 GMT
Roger Blake wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Apr 2000 16:30:34 GMT, Andreas Kahari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Rebuilding the kernel doesn't take longer than 30 minutes on a slow
> >computer. ...
>
> It takes all day (or overnight) on my 486DX2/66 system.
>
> --
> Roger Blake
> (remove second "g" and second "m" from address for email)
I think he meant slow as in Dual Pentium Pro 200mhz slow or some other
Non-superduper XeonPIII Coppermine dual machine...
bpd
BTW, if your compiling a kernal (or any other large object XF86 4.0 is a good
example) use:
> make MAKE="make -j N" World &
where N is 2 or 3 if you have plenty of RAM... will speed up compile times
tremendously...
but if you have a smp machine you probably know that already
bpd
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From: Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to mount a cdfs CD?
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 23:35:31 -0400
Andrew Purugganan wrote:
>
> I used EasyCD creator to put together some files I've d/loaded while at
> work. You know, Q3 point release, some mp3's, real serious
> mission-critical Mars landing stuff ;-) The problem is, well, I'm not
> done yet, I plan to add some more. My Win95 reads that CD just fine.
>
> How should I mount the CD to read it in Linux (or even play the mp3s)?
> 'Properties' indicates CDFS, not fat32, & i have no idea what type that is
It's iso9660 that you're looking for. You need a line in your /etc/fstab
that looks something like this:
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 user,exec,dev,suid,ro,noauto 0
0
Where /dev/cdrom is your CD-ROM device. (There's a good chance that
whatever you're CD-ROM device is, it's symbolically linked to
/dev/cdrom.) Be sure that /mnt/cdrom exists as a directory.
Then, you just mount /mnt/cdrom.
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From: Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't boot Linux from hard disk
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 23:38:55 -0400
Ken Corbin wrote:
>
> Still trying to get this old 486 to run Redhat 6.0. Got the LILO problems
> all straitened out. But whenever it tries to run the standard linux kernal
> image it gets an error while trying to uncompress it. Error varies from
> "crc error" to "invalid compressed format". The odd thing is that it will
> boot just fine from a rescue disk with what presumably is a copy of the
> same kernal image. Tried copying the vmlinuz-2.2.5-15 to the hard disk and
> setting up lilo to boot from the new copy. Changes the error I get, but
> still fails while trying to uncompress the kernel.
>
> I stumped. For now the system is usable as long as I keep the rescue disk
> in the floppy drive. But it is annoying and I would sure like to figure out
> what is going wrong with the hard drive boot. Anything else I can try???
Are you sure your hard disk doesn't have a low-level error in the /boot
area? You might want to error check the disk from your BIOS if the BIOS
supports it.
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From: Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Isn't there a browser which DOES work?
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 23:43:20 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> A few things that may help with netscape...
>
> 1. UPGRADE
> I don't know about other distros, but redhat 6.1 still ships something
> like netscape 4.5. You can get RPMs for at least netscape 4.7, and can
> get tarballs of netscape 4.72 with 128 bit encryption from the netscape
> site. This should help your stability a lot.
>
Upgrading has never helped reduce netscape crashes for me. So, this idea
probably varies depending upon system and use. The other ideas you have
work good, though. :-)
> 2. Turn off JAVA and JAVA script (edit:preferences:advanced)
> This has let me see some sites that locked things up otherwise. Of
> course, you'll lose some functuionality at these sites...
>
> 3. Planned restarts
> I found that earlier versions had a memeory leak or something a
> gradually consumed all of the system resources if it was up for several
> days. That and the mail client would stall retrieving large messages.
> I haven't noticed this problem since I upgraded, but watch the memory
> used by netscape. If it gets out of hand, it can pay to restart it when
> you don't have anything critical going on.
>
> Still not rock solid, but netscape now stays up for at least several
> days at a time for me now. Better then netscape or ie under windows by
> far!
> Eric
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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From: knud <knudATmyselfDOTcom>
Subject: Re: Mandrake 7 Installation problem
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 23:46:05 -0400
LILO needs to be on a partition that completely lives below the 1024th cylinder
of your hard drive. I remember reading about ways around this but thats a bit
over my head. Try doing a search for "LILO 1024" at http://www.linuxdoc.org
I hope this helps!
knudATmyselfDOTcom
On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, mugu wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I tried installing mandrake 7 on my p450/win98 pc and i came
>across the following problems:
>
>1. I tried installing it on the 5th partition of a 10gb hard
>drive and the installation was raising an error about something
>being over 1024.
>2. LILO won't install, with an error about something being over
>1024.
>3. Xconfig froze the system during the install
>
>any help please !!!!!
>
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From: knud <knudATmyselfDOTcom>
Subject: Re: Winlinux Guidance
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 23:53:40 -0400
On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Sathish SivaKumar wrote:
>I would be glad and pleased to get answers to any of my following
>problems. NOTE-I am a newbie user of WINLINUX 2000.
WINlinux, yuck ;-)
>Cd recording programs need cdparanoia,mkisofs,cdrecord. Where can I get
>these. Or the path if they are already integrated in winlinux 2000 as I
>could not find them with find utility.
do a search at http://freshmeat.net
>I need a program to play mpeg video files. I downloaded many and most of
>them work in console mode with commands, but I need a graphics player.
>Any reccomendation of what program to download.
do a search for zzplayer at http://freshmeat.net
>My AddRemove programs or Kpackager always unpacks to the /folder. What
>should I do to make it unpack in diff directory by default. And what does
>all the path options in kpackager mean. After installing the programs;
>where are the files usually located with which I can run it.
kpackager is the rpm utility. you seem to be refering in part to the Archiver
(ark) utility. as for kpackager, the "File List" tab shows you where and what
is to be installed. The part of the program that you actually run is usually
stuck in /usr/bin/ (actually, i think its often a simlink that gets stuck in
/usr/bin/ but we'll save that for another day...). As for ark, hitting Ctrl E
will let you pick which folder to extract (uncompress) to.
>I tried to install QT 2.02 version after which the X server does not start
>and does not recognize any password to enter even as root. My
>installation did not show any error. Am I not to use it?
What version of KDE are you using? Any error messages or logs you can post to
here?
I hope this helps!
knudATmyselfDOTcom
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From: Duncan Milburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: freenetname.linux,uk.comp.os.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: here's a good one for you, man's broke
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 21:41:12 +0100
On Tue, 18 Apr 2000 07:34:12 +0100 Charles Blackburn wrote:
> here's a good one for you all, I've just tried to pull up a man page for
> something and this is what I got: -
>
> charlesb@local-gateway:~ > man new
> man: can't chdir to /u/charlesb: Permission denied
> No manual entry for new
>
> t used to work and nothing AFAIK has changed.
>
> Any ideas????
>
File permission problem? Directory non-existent?
They're the only obvious ones I can think of...
Duncan
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From: knud <knudATmyselfDOTcom>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: writing to Dos partition
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 00:08:02 -0400
Edit the DOS partition's fstab entry and at the users option:
man fstab
I hope this helps!
knudATmyselfDOTcom
On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Tyler Cottenie wrote:
>I have a Windows Fat32 partition on my computer along with Linux
>Mandrake 7.0. I am only able to write to this partition as root. Since I
>am not usually working as root, I cannot delete add or modify any files
>to this partition without issuing super-user command. I have tried doing
>'chmod g+x DOS_hda1' because my normal user is part of the group 'root'
>which /mnt/DOS_hda1 belongs to. It says the permission was successfully
>changed but when I do 'ls -l' it is still "drwxr-xr-x" instead of
>"drwxrwxr-x". I have tried chmod with 775 or whatever it is and it also
>says it has changed successfully when it hasn't. I have tried with the
>partition mounted and with it not mounted with the same results. 'chown'
>does not work either; it says something about cannot perform operation
>Help!
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From: knud <knudATmyselfDOTcom>
Subject: Re: mpeg player for linux
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 00:09:48 -0400
Do a search for zzplayer at http://freshmeat.net
On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Michael Lancaster wrote:
>hi,
>
>does anyone know of a media player for linux with a jukebox-like
>interface. ie similar to winamp, but for mpeg video? it doesn't have to
>be pretty like winamp, just need similar functionality.
>
>thanks,
>
>michael
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From: knud <knudATmyselfDOTcom>
Subject: Re: How to mount a cdfs CD?
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 00:10:56 -0400
All CDs use the iso9660 filesystem. Here's what you do:
1. Make a folder that will "stand in" for your CD-ROM drive when you eventually
mount it (you only have to do this step once):
mkdir /cdrom
2. Now simply mount the CD-ROM into that folder specifying the type of
filesystem:
mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /cdrom
This assumes that your CD-ROM is listed as "/dev/hdc". To make things easier,
you can add a line to /etc/fstab that looks something like this:
/dev/hdc /cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide
In this example "/dev/hdc" is your CD-ROM, "/cdrom" is your "folder stand-in",
"iso9660" is the filesystem type, "ro" means read-only, "user" lets anyone
logged in use the CD-ROM, noauto means it does mount at boot time, and i forget
what "unhide" does... phew. If you add all of that to fstab (making sure the
"/dev/hdc" is correct), mounting the CD-ROM becomes as easy as:
mount /cdrom
or
mount /dev/hdc
In any case, once youre done using the CD, type "umount /cdrom" before you
eject it. Note that the command is "umount" and NOT "uNmount". For more
information do these commands (hitting q will quit):
man mount
man fstab
I hope this helps!
knudATmyselfDOTcom
On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Andrew Purugganan wrote:
>I used EasyCD creator to put together some files I've d/loaded while at
>work. You know, Q3 point release, some mp3's, real serious
>mission-critical Mars landing stuff ;-) The problem is, well, I'm not
>done yet, I plan to add some more. My Win95 reads that CD just fine.
>
>How should I mount the CD to read it in Linux (or even play the mp3s)?
>'Properties' indicates CDFS, not fat32, & i have no idea what type that is
>
>--
>jazz annandy AT dc DOT seflin DOT org
>Registered linux user no. 164098
>Doesn't it bother you, that we have to search for intelligent life
>--- OUT THERE??
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Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 19:34:07 +1000
From: Charles Esson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: multifile editor
"Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
> Charles Esson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> : I know I should be using "vi" "find" and "grep".
>
> : I would however like an editor that.
>
> : 1) displays the line number.
> : 2) allows me to search all file in the directory and sub directory with
> : a couple of clicks and a sting entry.
> : 3) allow me to have multiple windows open.
>
> : Can anyone suggest a nice simple to use option for a ex Visual C++
> : editor user.
>
> vi does the above (at least in its vim incarnation). So does [x]emacs.
> Why do you think it doesn't?
Perhaps ignorance on my part.
>
>
> Curious.
>
> The standard answer to "give me my VC++ editor", is "use nedit".
>
> Peter
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