Linux-Misc Digest #206, Volume #24 Thu, 20 Apr 00 06:13:25 EDT
Contents:
Re: soundcard driver (Martijn Brouwer)
USB Video Camera Support on Linux? (Young4ert)
Re: Bell Sympatico HSE (Matt Friedman)
Re: password help (Leejay Wu)
Re: Debian ISO (YamYam)
Re: Problem with Red Hat 6.1 install booting... (Scott Bishop)
Update Agent fails because of Netscape (Wanne de Kler)
Dump/Restore problem: multiple dumps per Travan 5 tape (Adam Finkelstein)
Re: Best printer for linux box? (Rod Smith)
Re: single domain and multi-machines (Philip Brown)
Re: How to mount a cdfs CD? (Mark Bratcher)
Re: Help: VIA 686A sound chip!! (Rod Smith)
Re: Isn't there a browser which DOES work? (Mark Bratcher)
Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation (Mark Bratcher)
Re: Swapping MBs, do I need to do a reinstall? (Mark Bratcher)
SCSI emulator problem with 2.2.13 kernel (Jesse F. Hughes)
Re: Swapping MBs, do I need to do a reinstall? (Steffen Kluge)
Re: Modem Set Up (Krzys Majewski)
Re: How do I set the login shell? ("Hannu")
Re: open Xterm in MSWindow (Grant Edwards)
Re: EIDE CD-RW kernel panic can't mount root (Michael Kelly)
Re: File Size Limitations (Larry Irons)
Re: Bell Sympatico HSE (Robert J Carter)
Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation ("D'Arcy Smith")
Re: File Size Limitations (Larry Irons)
linux programs, tools and functionality for windows? ("SAP User")
Good database? (Kristine Rogers)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martijn Brouwer)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: soundcard driver
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 00 13:06:05 GMT
In article <8dcsme$bq7$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Big M" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>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.
Sure you have 'make' installed?
Succes,
Martijn
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From: Young4ert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: USB Video Camera Support on Linux?
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 08:59:54 -0400
Hi,
Can anyone please tell me where I can get info on the Linux support for
an USB video camera? I just bought a Kenshington VideoCAM USB for
PC/MAC and would like to know if such a camera is fully supported under
linux to do a video-mail/-conferencing.
TIA.
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
PS> Remove the "4" from e-mail address to respond.
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From: Matt Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Bell Sympatico HSE
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 09:11:16 -0400
[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.
Try the Sympatico HSE Linux Resource Page, maintained by Bruce Best at
http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~kal/hse/resource.html
MF
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From: Leejay Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: password help
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 09:20:16 -0400
Excerpts from netnews.comp.os.linux.misc: 19-Apr-100 password help by
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I have just installed LINUX REDHAT 5.2 APOLLO.
Interesting choice, in that it's fairly... dated.
> This is my first install and I am a newbie.
>
> When I installed I am sure I remembered my password 9 wrote it
> down in fact) but cannot remember being asked for a login name.
Almost certainly 'root'. ISTR that 5.x didn't prompt for creating a
user account besides root during installation, and it *does* ask for
a root password... root = administrator.
> Now when I run LINUX it asks for a login name and password. I
> cannot get in on the options I have tried. I know the password is
> correct bu unsure of log-in name.
> Any way around this without re-installing the damn thing???
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|--------------------------| he writes really bad haiku |
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From: YamYam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Debian ISO
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 13:30:03 GMT
Go to:
ftp://ftp.linux.tucows.com/pub/ISO/
They have a lot of linux dostros images -updated-.
-YamYam.
Viper wrote:
>
>
> I am trying to find a copy of the iso binary disc for debian (i386) does
> anyone know where i can find it? I have already tried using the pseudo image
> program but could not get it to work. Any help would be appriciated.
>
> Viper
>
>
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http://www.help.com/
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From: Scott Bishop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Problem with Red Hat 6.1 install booting...
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 08:52:32 -0500
Hey David,
"David .." wrote:
>
> I don't recall if you said or not so this may not be of concern. If you
> have downloaded the files from ftp you may want to go to ftp.redhat.com
> and verify that you have all the files needed. I had problems with
> missing files when I downloaded 6.1 as well as 6.2 but corrected it by
> getting them directly from redhat. Also found problems with the symbolic
> link files when downloading from windoz. GoZilla seemed to work the best
> for me when I downloaded 6.1
I'm actually using a Red Hat 6.1 CD I made using an ISO image I
downloaded from Red Hat's FTP site. I tried using the installation disk
images both from the CD and from the updates.redhat.com FTP site,
getting the same results on each. FYI, what precisely happens is that
the system boots the disk, gets to the boot: prompt... and when I hit
enter, this is what comes up:
Loading initrd.img................
Loading vmlinuz..........
Uncompressing Linux ...
crc error
-- System halted.
Also, I've since determined that the bootdisk is NOT the problem; I just
tried the bootdisk on a 5x86 processor machine, and it booted into the
RH installation routine fine. So, it's something with this particular
system, which only serves to make my life more difficult. Oh, well...
--
--Scott Bishop
WALKER BOLT Manufacturing Co.
(Notice: The opinions stated in this message are not necessarily those
of my employer, nor of any other sane individual for that matter.)
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From: Wanne de Kler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Update Agent fails because of Netscape
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 13:52:28 GMT
I just tried to run the Update Agent and I've encountered the following
problem:
After I've selected the packages I wish to install and I press the
button to proceed, Netscape offers to save a CGI file to disk. After
this, Netscape closes and the update agent remains waiting for its
data. Does anyone knows how I can fix this ?
thanks,
Wanne.
PS its the freeware RedHat 6.2 distribution, I've only changed the ftp
source site in the agent to make it work.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam Finkelstein)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Dump/Restore problem: multiple dumps per Travan 5 tape
Date: 19 Apr 2000 10:05:39 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello.
I have an ide Colorado TR5 tape that I can happily back up one partition
and restore it using:
/sbin/dump 0af /dev/ht0 /dev/hda1
On sun boxes I use a dump script to dump multiple partitions to 4mm tape
using a shell script. I have to define block size density and length for
the dump to be restorable.
I wrote the following (commented lines) and cannot restore a specific
partition using:
/sbin/restore -s 2 -if /dev/ht0
#!/bin/bash
#
mt -f /dev/ht0 rewind
#/sbin/dump 0af /dev/nht0 /dev/hda1
#/sbin/dump 0af /dev/nht0 /dev/hda2
#/sbin/dump 0af /dev/nht0 /dev/hda3
/sbin/dump 0absf 64 2300 /dev/nht0 /dev/hda1
/sbin/dump 0absf 64 2300 /dev/nht0 /dev/hda2
/sbin/dump 0absf 64 2300 /dev/nht0 /dev/hda3
mt -f /dev/ht0 rewind
mt -f /dev/ht0 offline
I thought maybe I'd need to provide (like the 4mm tape on sun boxes here)
block size (64) but I cannot figure out the density and length of TR5
Travan tape. Does anyone know what they are, and if provided as arguments
to the above /sbin/dump in the above script, will they allow multiple dumps
per tape and then restore specific partitions using the -s argument in
restore.
Thanks in advance, and upcoming too.
Adam
--
Adam Finkelstein
SOTAS, Inc.
301-258-8873 ext. 265 301-258-0059 (fax)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Best printer for linux box?
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.periphs.printers
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 14:10:57 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Graham Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "Larry Ebbitt " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Fiddle-dee-dee. Lexmark has a number of OS/2 drivers.
>
> Which considering that what is now Lexmark used to be IBM, is no
> surprise.
"Used to be" is critically important. In fact, for some time Lexmark had
no OS/2 drivers for their inkjets; it's only in the last two years or so
-- well AFTER the split from IBM -- that these drivers have emerged.
Besides which, anybody who's used OS/2 and watched as IBM has shot itself
in the foot with squabbles between divisions knows that IBM is completely
incapable of helping itself when it comes to cross-division cooperation.
For instance, it's almost impossible to find an IBM computer with OS/2
pre-installed.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux networking & multi-OS configuration
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Philip Brown)
Crossposted-To: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Re: single domain and multi-machines
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 19 Apr 2000 14:13:37 GMT
On Tue, 18 Apr 2000 17:44:15 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Hi,
>We have about 5 linux server to store user's mail,
>and the usernames is uniq....
wow. crosspsoted to two OS-type newsgropus,and you should have posted to
the sendmail newsgroup instead, probably.
But anyway, pick *A* mailserver, and require users to get their email from
that mailserver. There are multiple ways to do this.
* log in
* NFS-mount
* IMAP
* POP
* ...??
>Can I use [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>and let user on any server can get their
>mail correctly?
>I know I can use MX to transfer mail send to
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] to
>[EMAIL PROTECTED],
>but I don't know if many hosts exist.
>Please tell me how to do.
>Thanks.
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The word of the day is mispergitude
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From: Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to mount a cdfs CD?
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 10:15:08 -0400
knud wrote:
>
> All CDs use the iso9660 filesystem. Here's what you do:
>
Well, that's almost 100% true :-). It _is_ true that off the shelf
applications, etc, use iso9660. However, I write my own CDs using ext2
file system under Linux and they are ext2, not iso9660.
--
Mark Bratcher
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Escape from Microsoft's proprietary tentacles. Use Linux!
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Help: VIA 686A sound chip!!
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 14:17:16 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <8dk7v1$u4$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Kenny Zhu Qili <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I recently bought a PC with a ATX VA5 motherboard. It has an on-board VIA
> VT82C686A southbridge. When I first installed linux on this machine, I used the
> default via82cxx.o that comes with my slakware distribution. I could load the
> module with no error but I got no sound. I checked on device dsp, audio, mixer.
> Everything seems OK, just no sound. Then I recompiled kernel and installed ALSA
> driver written by you. The module could be loaded, too. But I can't find device
> /dev/dsp or audio or mixer. The situation looks even worse. Could you guys tell me
>what went wrong? Your early response is much appreciated.
Your problems with the ALSA drivers sound like you're trying to use
OSS-style tools without OSS emulation running. Try this:
modprobe snd-pcm-oss
modprobe snd-mixer-oss
Then try again. Alternatively, use the ALSA sound utilities, like aplay,
instead of OSS sound utilities. Also, note that ALSA mutes all channels by
default, so you'll need to unmute them with the amixer before you can do
anything. One of my systems has the following in its startup script:
/sbin/modprobe snd-card-via686a
/sbin/modprobe snd-pcm-oss
/sbin/modprobe snd-mixer-oss
/usr/bin/amixer set Synth 90% unmute
/usr/bin/amixer set 'DSP Input' 90% unmute
/usr/bin/amixer set PCM 90% unmute
/usr/bin/amixer set Aux 90% unmute
/usr/bin/amixer set Master 90% unmute
This works quite well for me.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux networking & multi-OS configuration
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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: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 10:16:31 -0400
Krzys Majewski wrote:
>
> Older versions of netscape required a workaround to prevent
> crashes.
It appears that newer versions of netscape need a workaround as well. At
least I'd like to see one... :-/
--
Mark Bratcher
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
=========================================================
Escape from Microsoft's proprietary tentacles. Use Linux!
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From: Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 10:20:05 -0400
Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
>
> Andrew Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > btolder wrote:
> > >
> > > > "(...) any random surface pattern of relatively light and dark areas
> > > > separated by edges (...)" is the relevant part of the sentence. As far
> > > > as I can see this means a surface that is not of uniform colour and
> > > > texture, on which the "new" Microsoft optical mouse wouldn't work
> > > > either.
> > >
> > > The microsoft mouse works on a sheet of perfectly clean glass or a
> mirror
> > > without problem. I use it on a glass tabletop with my laptop without
> issue.
> >
> > So how do you think the Microsoft mouse works out where it is, if not by
> > boundary detection?
>
> Clearly it doesn't work with edges, which implies a line. Since a glass
> surface has no lines in it.
PMFJI, but Andrew's correct. There must be some discernable optical
differences as the mouse passes over the surface or it would be
physically impossible to detect the motion, unless the mouse also
employs a gyroscope. I agree with Andrew that they are detecting
microscopic irregularities in the surface. I don't mean to downgrade the
innovation, it certainly is a cool trick.
--
Mark Bratcher
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
=========================================================
Escape from Microsoft's proprietary tentacles. Use Linux!
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From: Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Swapping MBs, do I need to do a reinstall?
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 10:21:51 -0400
Eric McGlohon wrote:
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> I did a brain-transplant of a RedHat 6.1 hard drive into a different
> system, the differences are:
>
> New Old
> 233MMX k6-II 400
> 40MB Ram 128MB Ram
> No Sound card Sound Card
>
> So far everything works pretty well, but I can't seem to get rid
> of the sound card references, where should I look?
Check /etc/conf.modules for a reference to the sound module there.
Delete it if it's there.
--
Mark Bratcher
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
=========================================================
Escape from Microsoft's proprietary tentacles. Use Linux!
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: SCSI emulator problem with 2.2.13 kernel
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jesse F. Hughes)
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 14:30:41 GMT
Hey ho.
I'm trying to use the ide-scsi module so that I can use my CD writer.
For months, I had no problems (using Slackware 4.0 and a 2.2.10
kernel). Some time ago I upgraded to Slackware 7.0, but continued to
use my old kernel -- too lazy to compile the new one. Finally, I
decided to compile the new one and install it.
First, I plumb forgot to compile a couple of modules needed for SCSI
emulation. The result was that I didn't have any emulation at all --
my drive was hdd as far as my machine was concerned. Everything
worked, except (of course) I couldn't burn a CD.
So, then I recompiled, following the directions found in the
CD-Writing-HOWTO. However, now when my machine boots into the new
kernel, it hangs and must be rebooted with a hard reboot. Right after
this message appears on the screen:
Apr 19 09:59:52 phiwumbda kernel: parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP,PS2,EPP]
Apr 19 09:59:52 phiwumbda kernel: lp0: using parport0 (polling).
I see something about 1 SCSI host found and then it just stops (sorry,
that message does not appear in my log file since I have to reboot
before the disk is written).
Here's my append line from lilo.conf:
append = "hdd=ide-scsi ether=10,0x800,eth1"
I've tried removing the reference to hdd=ide-scsi altogether, but it
makes no difference in the outcome.
Any ideas how to fix this? Where do I begin looking for clues?
Thanks for any help.
--
Jesse Hughes
"You see 300 of something, anything, and you go `[Man], that's a lot of
stuff.'" -- Jim Bigler, quoted in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steffen Kluge)
Subject: Re: Swapping MBs, do I need to do a reinstall?
Date: 19 Apr 2000 14:15:37 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <CDdL4.1454$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Eric McGlohon <eric@dekard.=deathtospammers=.com> wrote:
>New Old
>233MMX k6-II 400
>40MB Ram 128MB Ram
>No Sound card Sound Card
>
>So far everything works pretty well, but I can't seem to get rid
>of the sound card references, where should I look?
If the sound drivers were built as modules then stop trying to
load them in the sysinit scripts or stop them from being loaded
automatically by deleting (or commenting out) all sound
references from /etc/conf.modules. You may also delete the sound
modules from your /lib/modules/<kernel-version>/misc directory
and run 'depmod -a' afterwards.
If sound support was built into the kernel, well, build a new
kernel without sound support.
>Should I re-size my swap? That's a real PITA, right? I remember
>reading that if you have too much (256MB /swap currently) it will
>slow down your system.
Hmm, where did you read that? The amount of swap space doesn't
have any impact on the system performance up to the point where
you run out virtual memory (not enough swap space). The only
trade-off when it comes to swap space is virtual memory versus
(potentially) wasted disk space.
>X-Windows is slow, but I'm not sure if
>that's just because I downgraded my processor...
It's probably more due to the much smaller amount of RAM you've
got now. I wouldn't expect the two systems to be all that much
different in terms of pure CPU grunt, unless the 233MHz CPU is a
Cyrix...
Cheers
Steffen.
--
Steffen Kluge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Fujitsu Australia Ltd
Keywords: photography, Mozart, UNIX, Islay Malt, dark skies
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From: Krzys Majewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Modem Set Up
Date: 19 Apr 2000 07:36:12 -0700
man setserial
-chris
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From: "Hannu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How do I set the login shell?
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 10:38:21 -0700
Try this:
usermod -s username /bin/tcsh
New shell comes to effect when username logs in next time.
Hannu
"Andreas Kahari" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8dfnq8$aoa$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bastian) wrote:
> > On Mon, 17 Apr 2000 12:51:20 -0700, Clay Blankenship wrote:
> > >Hi,
> > > I've got SuSE Linux set up on my PC at home and the default login
> shell is
> > >bash. I tried to change it to tcsh by 1) changing /etc/passwd, and
> 2) using
> > >the user manager (I forget the exact name). Both of these change the
> > >variable $SHELL to 'tcsh' but they still run bash. What else do I
> have to
> > >do?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> >
> > I recommended to change the /etc/passwd file, but some told me that
> you
> > ought to use 'csh' instead.
> >
> > Bastian
> >
> >
>
> s/csh/chsh/
>
> You mean 'chsh' as in "change shell".
>
> By the way, I wonder how the OP knows he's running 'bash'? If '$SHELL'
> is 'tcsh', then why would he think he's running 'bash'?
>
> /A
>
> --
> # Andreas K�h�ri, <URL:http://hello.to/andkaha/>.
> # All junk email is reported to the appropriate authorities.
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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From: grant@nowhere. (Grant Edwards)
Subject: Re: open Xterm in MSWindow
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 14:46:16 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Eddy wrote:
>Is there any tools I can use to open Xterm in Windows Platform ?
Sure. Install an X server like Hummingbird Exceed, and then
run xterm.
--
Grant Edwards grante Yow! Yow! And then we
at could sit on the hoods of
visi.com cars at stop lights!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Kelly)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,com.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: EIDE CD-RW kernel panic can't mount root
Date: 19 Apr 2000 14:46:47 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jan Schaumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> John Gluck wrote:
>>
>> Jan Schaumann wrote:
>> >
[snip]
>
> Too bad only that my kernel is so big.
> I used to always have a big kernel and was not too experienced in
> re-compiling it, so I left it the way it was. Now with the scsi-thing, I
> figured I might as well try to only compile all the necessary things
> into the kernel and make it smaller. Didn't work out... :-(
>
> I'll try again when I have more time...
The trick is to figure what you must have in the kernel itself(e.g. stuff
to access the hd for example) and what you can dynamically load with kerneld,
such as sound, mixers, support for file systems you only mount occasionally,
such as vfat, msdos etc..
Compile support for those only as modules, and you should be able to keep your
kernel under 600K. I don't know what the limit is, but I got one about 720K
and it would'nt decompress, probably because of a conflict with vga video ram
which on the PC that starts at the 640K line(but that's conjecture on my part.) :)
--
Mike
--
"I don't want to belong to any club that would have *me* as a member!"
-- Groucho Marx
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From: Larry Irons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: File Size Limitations
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 09:01:18 -0600
Christopher Browne wrote:
> 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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> y
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/linuxkernel.html>
Everybody has given good information on the background to the problem. Now we
hear of a patch. What and where is this patch? Also some say the patch won't
work because you have to recompile all of the applications to utilize it.
Larry
--
Larry Irons
Senior Geophysicist
Tricon Geophysics Inc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert J Carter)
Subject: Re: Bell Sympatico HSE
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 15:06:06 GMT
In article <8divk0$uu4$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> 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
>
I've had the HSE for about 2 1/2 years now. Unless they've changed
something radically, connecting the HSE is identical to connecting to
just another computer locally - fixed IP, set it and run.
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From: "D'Arcy Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 15:06:09 GMT
<btolder> wrote in message news:uiQhmzbq$GA.351@cpmsnbbsa04...
> > "(...) any random surface pattern of relatively light and dark areas
> > separated by edges (...)" is the relevant part of the sentence. As far
> > as I can see this means a surface that is not of uniform colour and
> > texture, on which the "new" Microsoft optical mouse wouldn't work
> > either.
> The microsoft mouse works on a sheet of perfectly clean glass or a mirror
> without problem. I use it on a glass tabletop with my laptop without
issue.
Why doesn't it work on my monitor?
(I just picked it up put it on the monitor and moved it around...
eventually I got it to move a few pixels).
..darcy
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From: Larry Irons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: File Size Limitations
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 09:09:24 -0600
Dances With Crows wrote:
> 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.
>
> Is this just one fscking monolithic huge chunk of data, or can you split
> it up into 2G chunks and work with it that way?
>
> --
> 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.
The data is sort of monolithic. It is stacked seismic data in SEGY format. This is
the first time we have run into a 2 GB file limitation for stacked data. The file
format is consisting of a 3200 byte EBCDIC header and a 400 byte binary header.
Then the data starts on the third block consisting of a number of traces, each of
a 240-byte binary header and then a set number of data values in IBM Float 32. The
number of data values is constant for a particular dataset, but is variable from
dataset to dataset. The 400-byte binary header indicates the length of each data
trace in samples. To break up the data requires rewriting the headers for each new
dataset.
The whole purpose was to have a Linux server act as a file server to both Unix
workstations and to NT workstations. Unfortunately the Linux server is the weak
link in all of this. The Sun workstations and the NT workstations can handle file
sizes greater than 2 GB.
Larry
--
Larry Irons
Senior Geophysicist
Tricon Geophysics Inc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "SAP User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: linux programs, tools and functionality for windows?
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 17:02:36 +0200
Hi there,
due to a job change I have to work with windows instead of linux :-(((
Are there any sites of information about programs for windows which provide
some of the functionality of a nice linux system?
For example:
* bash
* emacs
* Hacks for the desktop to provide an extended functionality like in most of
the linux window managers
* copy and paste like in X (without Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V)
* ....
Thank you
Arne
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From: Kristine Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Good database?
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 08:10:33 -0700
Can anyone recommend a good open-source database to keep track of
things like software, manuals, and asset-tags for a company?
K-R.
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