Linux-Misc Digest #253, Volume #24 Tue, 25 Apr 00 11:13:25 EDT
Contents:
Linux VGA Card (Shushmul)
Re: Multiple operating systems (Vasiliy Smirnov)
LILO Woes with Redhat 6.2 (2.2.14 Kernel) (BrentBoz)
Re: Another shell script question (David Bell)
Re: what's up with .tar, .gz., .sh??? ("David Waffen")
Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation (Richard Steiner)
Re: what's up with .tar, .gz., .sh??? (David Waffen)
Re: HOT HD (Charlie Brown)
FS: toshiba 430CDT and ZipDrive $480 and FDC settlement of $100! (Chris T)
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From: Shushmul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux VGA Card
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 04:30:04 GMT
I have a Celeraon 466 Mhz m/c. I also have sis6326 vga card. Whenever I
try to configure the X windows beyond 480X640 resolution . It gives an
error. I have installed Linux 6.1. Can anyone please help.
Shushmul
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From: Vasiliy Smirnov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt,comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: Multiple operating systems
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 04:30:10 GMT
Rod Smith wrote:
> I once read about
> using NT's OS Loader to boot other OSs, for instance, but I don't have a
> URL handy).
Probably this one can be useful. I've made a search and found it at the
microsoft web site:
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q217/2/10.ASP
Vasiliy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (BrentBoz)
Subject: LILO Woes with Redhat 6.2 (2.2.14 Kernel)
Date: 24 Apr 2000 04:32:29 GMT
Hi-
I'm a professional driver tester, and at work we put 4 OS'es on our machines (4
partitions on 8 gig hard drives). Our usual procedure is to place Linux (Red
Hat) on partition 4 (because it's usually out past the 1023-cylinder boot
limit, and we can boot it with a LILO floppy).
SCO UnixWare 7.1.1 is usually on the first partition (this will be important
later on in the problem description), with SCO 2.x.x on partition 2, and
Solaris X86 on partition 3. All these will boot just fine by fdisking (in the
OS of your choice) and making that partition active.
Red Hat 6.1 (2.2.12-20 kernel) never seemed to have a problem, we just made a
LILO floppy to boot the Linux partition.
I did a fresh install of Red Hat 6.2 (2.2.14 kernel), and all of a sudden,
linux panics on boot! The kernel unpacks OK, and everything appears to be
going normal, until it searches out partitions. Now, instead of having hda1,
hda2, hda3, and <hda 5 hda 6> (hda 5 is root linux partition, hda 6 is swap
space),
it appears that whatever the partition finder mechanism is is now smart enough
to sniff out the UnixWare file system subpartitions in the UnixWare 7.1.1
partition, and you end up with <hda 2 hda 3 hda 4 hda 5 hda 6 hda 7> hda 8 hda
9 <hda 11 hda 12>, and subesquently, you get a kernel panic because LILO can't
find the Linux partition. I do install LILO in the linux partition (not on the
MBR, because this causes problems for both Solaris and UnixWare, both of which
will stage an MBR holy war if left to their own devices ;^). I have tried
changing the boot partition in lilo.conf (on the boot floppy) from hda 5 to hda
11, and the same thing still happens.
Help! I've gotta get these partitions bootable again...
Thanks!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Bell)
Subject: Re: Another shell script question
Date: 24 Apr 2000 04:33:47 GMT
>On the Alpha I'm using now, it should be "/sbin/ifconfig eth0". How to
>handle the case where the device is either "eth0" or "ppp0"?
OK! That takes one step off.
>You can always try "hostname -i". Not sure if it works for PPP connections.
That appears to display my internal IP.
>> /sbin/ifconfig ppp0 | grep 'inet addr' | awk '{print $2}' | cut -f2 -d:
>
>Why use two hammers -- gawk and cut? Why not just cut?
hehe... I just copied most of it off a howto.
>/sbin/ifconfig ppp0 | grep 'inet addr' | cut -f 2 -d : | cut -f 1 -d ' '
>
>
>
>Also consider tr to delete chars.
>
>/sbin/ifconfig ppp0 | grep 'inet addr' | tr -d "[:alpha:]|[:]" | cut -f 1 -d
>' '
>
>
>
>Could also use the shell for parsing into words.
>
>set -- `/sbin/ifconfig ppp0 | grep 'inet addr' | tr -d "[:alpha:]|[:]"`
>echo $1
>
>
>
>Or perhaps use gawk for everything.
OK! Now I just need to find some good documentation on this subject... Know
any good urls for a non-programmer? :) Thanks for your help!
=========================
David Bell - Otherwise known as DB7654321
Remember to remove nospam, notrash or anything odd looking from my email
address. :)
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From: "David Waffen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: what's up with .tar, .gz., .sh???
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 04:36:06 GMT
.tar --- archive utility
.gz --- gzip'ed compress utility, you'll find many tar files are compressed
for download
.sh --- bourne shell
EX> quake.tar
Extract by: cd to the directory you want to install and tar -xvf quake.tar
You should see a README file inside the directory created
EX> quake.tar.gz
Uncompress and untar by: cd to the directory you want to install and gunzp
quake.tar.gz ; tar -xvf quake.tar
EX> <file.sh>
Shell script, make executable with chmod +x file.sh and run with
.(dot)/file.sh
--David
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I am a newbie to Linux/UNIX
> the files I downloaded from the net: staroffice, QuakeIII Arena etc. end
> with .tar, .gz. or .sh.
> what's does that mean and
> how do I open/install these programs??
>
> thanks
>
> --
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Steiner)
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 23:16:53 -0500
Here in comp.os.linux.misc, Kevin Huber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
spake unto us, saying:
>Harold> With the Evil Empire, it's a pattern, not the exception
>Harold> to the rule, and millions of people around the world are fed
>Harold> up with it.
>Harold> For the record, if it's not absolutely clear, I'm one of them.
>
>Intel, Sun, IBM, Oracle, Cisco. These companies are as "evil" as
>Microsoft. They just don't get the same press.
Actually, I think Microsoft has managed to eliminate more competitors
(and more high-quality alternative products) than all of the above
have, which is one of the reasons many people are so pissed off.
It's hard for a user to see a "better" alternative product either die
completely or become unusable because the company producing the product
was purchased by Microsoft, or because Microsoft had enough leverage to
squeeze it out of the mainstream market.
>Who financed the Microsoft empire? There have always been
>alternatives. I ran OS/2 before I switched to Linux at home.
The alternatives for hobbyists (who generally have better connections
to obscure software sources and a higher pain threshold) are not the
same as the alternatives realistically available to mainstream business
or home users, and the two latter groups of users represent the vast
majority of the marketplace.
--
-Rich Steiner >>>---> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>---> Bloomington, MN
OS/2 + BeOS + Linux + Solaris + Win95 + WinNT4 + FreeBSD + DOS
+ VMWare + Fusion + vMac + Executor = PC Hobbyist Heaven! :-)
Vectrex! The best darn arcade system ever made! :-)
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From: David Waffen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: what's up with .tar, .gz., .sh???
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 04:52:20 GMT
that is "gunzip"
David Waffen wrote:
> .tar --- archive utility
> .gz --- gzip'ed compress utility, you'll find many tar files are compressed
> for download
> .sh --- bourne shell
>
> EX> quake.tar
> Extract by: cd to the directory you want to install and tar -xvf quake.tar
> You should see a README file inside the directory created
> EX> quake.tar.gz
> Uncompress and untar by: cd to the directory you want to install and gunzp
> quake.tar.gz ; tar -xvf quake.tar
> EX> <file.sh>
> Shell script, make executable with chmod +x file.sh and run with
> .(dot)/file.sh
>
> --David
>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > I am a newbie to Linux/UNIX
> > the files I downloaded from the net: staroffice, QuakeIII Arena etc. end
> > with .tar, .gz. or .sh.
> > what's does that mean and
> > how do I open/install these programs??
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > --
> > Posted via CNET Help.com
> > http://www.help.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Charlie Brown)
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Subject: Re: HOT HD
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 04:50:42 GMT
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000 03:01:27 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stewart
Honsberger) shocked the world by writing:
>On Sun, 23 Apr 2000 16:59:31 GMT, Charlie Brown wrote:
>>>Any HDD over 6GiB is reccomended to sit in a 5 1/4" bay with a HDD cooling
>>>unit. HDD coolers are relatively inexpensive, and could save you lots of
>>>trouble and expense somewhere down the road.
>>
>>Who, exactly, is this recommended by?
>>Not the drive makers.
>
>Anybody who's ever touched the bottom of an over-heated drive, or had drive
>componants fuse together?
Does that mean, as you said above, that all >6 gig drives do that?
I don't think so.
>
>I believe I've even seen some provisos in drive warranties that mandate the
>use of sufficient cooling mechanisms. Your case just might have good enough
>airflow, and your operating environment is likely cool enough.
I have no problem with *some* drives needing extra cooling.
It's the "Any HDD over 6GiB is reccomended to sit in a 5 1/4" bay with
a HDD cooling unit" statement that I'm questioning.
>
>Or, you could just have cool-running drives.
>
>--
>Stewart Honsberger (AKA Blackdeath) @ http://sprk.com/blackdeath/
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Remove 'thirteen' to reply privately)
>Humming along under SuSE 6.4, Linux 2.2.14
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From: Chris T <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.sys.laptops,misc.forsale.computers.pc-specific.portables
Subject: FS: toshiba 430CDT and ZipDrive $480 and FDC settlement of $100!
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 01:01:52 -0700
I have my Toshiba Satellite Pro 430CDT with an active matrix LCD for
sale. The CPU is a Pentium running at 120mhz, it has the CD-ROM
attachment and the Floppy Disk attachment. The condition is fair because
of a small crack near one of the hinges (I think this a common problem)
and there are a couple of stickers on the case (a CRYSTAL METHOD and a
SWITCH BLADE SYMPHONY). I still have the original manuals as I'm the
original owner. Also included is a PC-Card FaxModem rated at 56k Flex.
I will not erase the HD which has MS OFFICE 97 PRO, running MS Windows
98, MS MONEY 99 and more! You will be responsible to delete those Apps.
I will include a very nice laptop bag which the Satellite Pro fits very
well in and an external mouse (when you don't want to use the trackpoint)
NEW PRICE $480 (need the cash for taxes). Also as a recent addition I
will include my Zip Drive as well because I realized that I won't need it
after the sale. Also after going to Toshiba's web site to update the
drivers I notice a settlement from the FDC that entitles Toshiba laptops
owners towards $100 free on Toshiba products this is the web site for
more details:
http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/support/notices/fdcsettlement.jsp
E-mail me for more info (one the laptop NOT the legal settlement I am not
a lawyer) or if you wish to buy the laptop at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
or I prefer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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