Linux-Misc Digest #404, Volume #24 Mon, 8 May 00 17:13:03 EDT
Contents:
Re: Using mount from general user account (J Bland)
Re: rpm --rebuild doesn't (Patrick O'Neil)
Re: looking for advice with making tape backups ("Art S. Kagel")
Problem printing from Win95 to Samba ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Mandrake kppp using MSN as an ISP? ("Ryan Felton")
Has anybody tried Gentus-Linux from Abit? ("Alex Lam.")
Re: Need to find my IP address (Mario Klebsch)
Re: Horrible colors in konsole, kvt and xterm!! (Steve)
Two Windows + One Linux (BuDMaN)
Re: Repartitioning an existing Linux Mandrake 6.1 system - Help needed!
(=?iso-8859-1?Q?Lars=2DG=F6ran?= Andersson)
Re: Using mount from general user account (Kari Pahula)
xcdRoast making CDs which are not readable by Windows. (Vivek Gupta)
Re: Newbie need help on configuring eth0 (Anthony F)
Re: Need to find my IP address ("Christos Karayiannis")
Re: Need to find my IP address ("Christos Karayiannis")
Re: Sendmail: Faster than a speeding bullet? (Floyd Davidson)
Re: Resizing FAT partitions killed my Linux! (Sam E. Trenholme)
PPPProblems (Ruud Mol)
Re: finding out what distribution you have (Sam E. Trenholme)
Re: Voicemail prog (Sam E. Trenholme)
Re: Video Card? (Sam E. Trenholme)
Re: LOCAL/WANTED: PA-Delaware County LUG (Jim Morrissey)
Re: What is the best source for working with core dumps? (Leonard Evens)
Re: SCSI Ultra2 support ("Alex Lam.")
Random number generator between 0 - 70 (Carl Waring - Pipex)
Re: Two Windows + One Linux (mst)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J Bland)
Subject: Re: Using mount from general user account
Date: 8 May 2000 19:24:28 GMT
On 8 May 2000 11:30:07 -0700, jason denton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm running Suse 6.3 and I have several devices marked as user mount in fstab;
>my floppy drive, zip drive, and cdrom. However, whenever I try to mount these
>devices as anything other than root I get a message saying that only root may
>use mount. All the docs seem to suggest that this is not the case, and that
>I should be able to mount those things appropriate marked in fstab. How can
>I fix this so that I can mount floppy/zip/cdroms without being root?
You're perhaps using the wrong options with mount. If the device has the
user setting in /etc/fstab then you can mount with (eg for the floppy device)
mount /floppy
ie only pass the mount point. mount will then mount the device associated
with that point (eg /dev/fd0 in this case).
If you do something like
mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy then mount ignores fstab (afaik) and just
tries to mount the device as you are asking it to and, obviously, only root
is allowed to do this.
The same goes for umount.
HTH,
PJF
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From: Patrick O'Neil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: rpm --rebuild doesn't
Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 13:26:18 -0600
"Sam E. Trenholme" wrote:
>
> >I have found that I am unable to build many rpms from
> >source rpms - I am able to build _some_.
>
> Does this still happen if you install foo.src.rpm with:
>
> rpm -i foo.src.srm
>
> Then go to /usr/src/(RPM|rpm|redhat)/SPECS and do this
>
> rpm -ba foo.spec
>
> See if the RPM is in /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/(i386|ppc|whatever)/
It does still not build the rpm... I reinstalled Mandrake 7.0 from
scratch and will try again with the offending src.rpms. At this point
I am assuming that somewhere in my upgrading something got toasted,
hence the reinstall (plus I discovered a few other problems).
I will try to build the rpms this evening and see if the problem
repeats.
patrick
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Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 15:28:21 -0400
From: "Art S. Kagel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: looking for advice with making tape backups
I use and like BRU. I think for multi-machine network backup you need their
Professional version rather than the Personal or normal versions, but
check it out.
Art S. Kagel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I would like to ask anyone who has the time to respond to tell me what
> he's using for tape backup scripts, etc.. I am trying to make backups
> over the lan to a machine with a DDS1 (2 GB native) tape drive, and need
> to be able to do multi-volume backups.
>
> So, I tried a line like this:
>
> tar SMzcvf - . --exclude='*.o' | buffer | ssh taper "buffer > /dev/tape"
>
> which I was hoping would write a compressed archive to the tape on the
> "taper" machine. Unfortunately however, I received this error:
>
> tar: Cannot use multi-volume compressed archives
> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
>
> Well, I can understand why tar can't do that. I imagine it's because
> it's sending the tar output to gzip and therefore no longer has any
> means of detecting that the end of the tape has been reached.
>
> Is there any other arrangement of the utilities that will make this
> work? I suppose I need the data to be compressed *before* it's sent to
> the archiving program (tar, cpio, whatever)?
>
> In case it matters, this is on a Debian potato system.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Problem printing from Win95 to Samba
Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 19:22:18 GMT
I have Samba 2.0.6 running on Mandrake Linux 6.1 connected via the
paralle port to an HP 932C DeskJet printer. The problem I'm having is
every time I print, the first page that comes out has a line of garbage
printed on it and then it prints the document on a second page. I was
having the same problem with an Oki OL400 printer as well. I have no
problems printing from any of my Linux boxes. I'm using the default
configuration for printers, so it shares all printers in the printcap.
Any help would be apriciated
Thanks,
Harvey
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From: "Ryan Felton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mandrake kppp using MSN as an ISP?
Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 00:44:43 -0500
I know it's kind of against the point, but I was wondering if anyone had any
insights on how to set up the KPP of Mandrake Linux 7.0 using MSN as an
internet service provider. I've gotten it to work under Corel Linux by
commenting out an auth under the file: /etc/kpp/options .........
However, Mandrake only has the specifications for a lock file under
/etc/kpp/options ... I've tried placing noauth into that file, but
no luck. Basically what happens when I connect is that after about 30
seconds (from the inital start of the modem) is when the connection process
is completed and then a about 2 seconds later a window pops up saying that
kppd died unexpected... I've tried using the debugger window, but that
didn't provide any help.... Any ideas?
Ryan Felton
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From: "Alex Lam." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Has anybody tried Gentus-Linux from Abit?
Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 13:18:00 -0700
Has anybody tried Gentus-Linux from Abit?
It's free from Abit motherboard. Said to have been optimized
for Linux in SMP mode, ATA66 supports, etc.
for the Abit BP6 SMP mobo.
http://www.gentus.com/about_gentus.html
Please cc to mydotcom7AT zdnetoneboxDOTcom if reply. My news
server sucks.
Thanks.
Alex Lam.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mario Klebsch)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Need to find my IP address
Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 20:06:16 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kaz Kylheku) writes:
>You don't seem to understand that having the source code is far better than
>having documentation. In the proprietary world, you need documentation simply
>because the source is not available, so people cling to the myth that
>documentation is essential. Documentation isn't for dummies, it's for people
>without source code.
I cannot agree on this. A simple proof of your point being wrong is
the fact, that UNIX already had man pages, when every UNIX system also
had source code.
73, Mario
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: Horrible colors in konsole, kvt and xterm!!
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 8 May 2000 21:08:28 GMT
On Mon, 08 May 2000 08:40:20 -0400, Dave Rolfe wrote:
>I have been using mandrake 7 for awhile and noticed that the konsole
>colors were horrible but was living with it. Now I tried to do a compile
>and the error messages are coming out unreadable. (turquoise on white
>!!! the person who picked that is clearly not from this planet) And all
>the schemes are very bad. I want a 2 color scheme. So I said, I will use
>kvt ... same problem! So I went back to xterm .... same Problem!!! So
>... How do I turn these colors off! I just want to be able to read the
>text ... you know black on white.
man xterm
I have all different coloured xterms set up behind icons with appropriate
names like "The Hulk" for the following (on one line):
xterm -bg 'black' -fg 'green' -sp -vb -n 'Incredible Hulk'
-rw -cu -cr 'light salmon'
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From: BuDMaN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Two Windows + One Linux
Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 19:57:03 GMT
Hello all,
I've already in my system:
2 GB for Windows 95 on /dev/hda1
200 MB for Linux on /dev/hda3 (/) and /dev/hda5 (swap)
I'm using Linux mostly for boot manager. I've the full Linux installed
in another machine.
But now, I need to install another copy of Windows 95 on the same
machine, and on the same HD. So I created 1 GB partition on /dev/hda2,
primary. I want both partitions bootable, so that way I can choose what
copy of Win 95 to run.
Well, I edited lilo.conf with:
other=/dev/hda1
label=win1
table=/dev/hda
other=/dev/hda2
label=win2
table=/dev/hda
loader=/boot/chain.b
That's not all I've in lilo.conf, of course. I have another lines for
the linux partition as well.
Ok.. I can format the new partition I created without problem. I also
installed Win 95 on /dev/hda2. But when I reboot the machine, whenever
I choose 'win2' on Lilo, it says /dev/hda2 isn't a bootable partition.
What am I missing to do? Can I boot the another primary partition?
Sorry for my english, I'm not very good at it. I'd appreciate any help!
Thanks.
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Lars=2DG=F6ran?= Andersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Repartitioning an existing Linux Mandrake 6.1 system - Help needed!
Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 20:25:42 GMT
"Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
> Lars-Goran Andersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : When trying to upgrade a Mdk 6.1 to mdk 7.02 system I got an error
> : message something like this:
> : 'Package needs 30 mb on /mnt'
>
> : Now I need to increase the space on the '/' partition and
> : all space on disk are already allocated so I think it would
> : be best to move some space from the /var-partition.
>
> : How shall I proceed?
>
> rmdir /mnt
> mkdir /var/mnt
> ln -s /var/mnt /mnt
>
> Peter
Thank you very much for your tip.
But apparently I didn't recognize the real problem b'cause the
installation program still claims that it needs 30 MB for /mnt. It now
has over 1GB!
As I mentioned earlier this is an upgrade from Mdk 6.1 to Mdk 7.02 and I
selects expert and all packages b'cause I want to have them all as I did
when I installed the Mdk 6.1 the first time.
Does any one have a clue to solve this?
thank you all for your help!
regards
Lars-G�ran Andersson
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From: Kari Pahula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Using mount from general user account
Date: 8 May 2000 20:20:54 GMT
jason denton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm running Suse 6.3 and I have several devices marked as user mount in fstab;
>my floppy drive, zip drive, and cdrom. However, whenever I try to mount these
>devices as anything other than root I get a message saying that only root may
>use mount. All the docs seem to suggest that this is not the case, and that
>I should be able to mount those things appropriate marked in fstab. How can
>I fix this so that I can mount floppy/zip/cdroms without being root?
Users may use mount to mount devices only to their designated mount
points, mount doesn't allow an user to define any other mount point.
For example, to mount floppy, you can use either of these:
$ mount /dev/fd0
$ mount /floppy (or whatever Suse has)
but never:
$ mount /dev/fd0 /floppy
Mount command seems to be a bit stupid and only look for the presence
of a second argument, not what it says. Also, you can't use -t to
specify the file system type (not even for floppies... :-( ).
Also, the user must have a permission to read (and maybe write) the
devices. The sanest way of doing this is with:
# adduser luser floppy
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From: Vivek Gupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: xcdRoast making CDs which are not readable by Windows.
Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 13:12:32 -0700
Hi,
I have Redhat 6.2 on AMD Athlon machine, HP 8250i CD-RW 4x4x24 IDE
drive.
I am using xcdroast to create DataCD. The CDs which are written by
X-CD-Roast are read by only X-CD-Roast. My WIndows machine cannot read
the CD. Even my Linux machine says wrong FS when I try to mount this CD.
I am not sure what's going wrong. I have tried RockRidge extensions,
RockRidge+Joilet. I have used X-CDRoast 0.98alpha5 and X-CDRoast 0.96e.
Both gave me this problem.
Any help will be good,
Thanks in advance,
Vivek
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From: Anthony F <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Newbie need help on configuring eth0
Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 20:22:49 GMT
Sounds like your network card is never getting initialized during Linux
bootup.
Damon wrote:
> Hi and thanks in advance. I am trying to ping to another PC and i got
> this error
>
> connect: Network is unreachable
Evidenec it's not initialized.
>
> When i ping that PC's IP address (e.g. 123.123.123.1), i got return
> packets, everything OK.
> So i tried "ifconfig" and i only get
>
> lo Link encap: Local Loopback
> :
> :
>
If when you say "that PC's IP address" you mean the local machine, you will
get return packets, even if there is no real network connection.
> but i cannot see the eth0 configurations, is my network driver wrong?
> Should i try another driver?
> When i tried to "ifconfig eth0 up", i got this message
>
> SIOCSIFFLAGS: Resource temporarily unavailable
>
> My PC configurations is as follows:
>
> 1) Abit BP6 mobo with dual 433 celerons
> 2) Gentus Linux distrib.
> 3) Compex RE100TX 10/100 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter
I had similar problems trying to get a 3com 3c900TPO to work. 3 Com
offered Linux drivers to download at their website (kudos to 3Com for
actually offering this, as opposed to other companies). I realized that I
could manually insmod the driver, and it would work, until I went into
linuxconf, netconf, or any of the variants. Once I modified my startup
scripts to insmod for me, no other problems.
I'm not familiar with Gentus. You might want to check for hardware support
updates from your distribution or see if the NIC manufacturer web site
offers specific driver support instead of something generic.
>
> I'm currently using a generic linux network driver. Thank you and really
> appreciate any advice.
>
> Regards
> Damon
>
> P.S. - remove capitals in address to correspond
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From: "Christos Karayiannis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Need to find my IP address
Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 23:14:18 +0300
> I used getsockname() as:
> > > if (getsockname(sock, (struct sockaddr *) &host, &addrlen) < 0 ) {
> > > perror("getsockname");
> > > exit(1);
> > > }
> > >
> > > printf("My port is %d\n", ntohs(host.sin_port));
> > > printf("My address is %s\n", inet_ntoa(host.sin_addr.s_addr));
> > >
> > >
> > > where host was of type struct sockaddr_in and
> > > addrlen of type int.
> > >
> > > Christos Karayiannis
Doug Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have a sockets program an need to find the IP address of the machine
> the program is being run from so I can bind the socket to the correct
> address/port. I have tried using gethostname coupled with gethostbyname
> and I can only get 127.0.0.1 (localhost address). I want to find the
> actual IP address of the machine. Is there a way of doing this. Any
> help would be great.
>
> FYI this is a UDP app.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Doug
>
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From: "Christos Karayiannis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Need to find my IP address
Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 23:15:36 +0300
> I used getsockname() as:
> > > if (getsockname(sock, (struct sockaddr *) &host, &addrlen) < 0 ) {
> > > perror("getsockname");
> > > exit(1);
> > > }
> > >
> > > printf("My port is %d\n", ntohs(host.sin_port));
> > > printf("My address is %s\n", inet_ntoa(host.sin_addr.s_addr));
> > >
> > >
> > > where host was of type struct sockaddr_in and
> > > addrlen of type int.
> > >
> > > Christos Karayiannis
Doug Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have a sockets program an need to find the IP address of the machine
> the program is being run from so I can bind the socket to the correct
> address/port. I have tried using gethostname coupled with gethostbyname
> and I can only get 127.0.0.1 (localhost address). I want to find the
> actual IP address of the machine. Is there a way of doing this. Any
> help would be great.
>
> FYI this is a UDP app.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Doug
>
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From: Floyd Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sendmail: Faster than a speeding bullet?
Date: 08 May 2000 11:40:44 -0800
Neil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On 08 May 2000 03:37:34 -0800, Floyd Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>>You failed to mention the speed of you internet link.
>>
>>He also failed to explain why anyone would want help him spam
>>100,000 email accounts every morning.
>
>perhaps these emails are requested and paid for !
Then a sufficient explanation would be in order. As is, it
has all the markings of a spam operation.
Floyd
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sam E. Trenholme)
Subject: Re: Resizing FAT partitions killed my Linux!
Date: 8 May 2000 13:31:36 -0700
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly
> Freeing unused kernal memory: 60k freed
> Warning: Unable to open initial console.
> Kernal panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernal
>
>What should I do to get my Linux back? Thank you in advance.
Resizing the FAT partitions hozed the Linux partition. What program did
you use to resize the FAT partitions, so people know to avoid using it on
Linux systems.
You can resinstall Linux, which RedHat and others have gone to great
effort to make easy and painless.
- Sam
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From: Ruud Mol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PPPProblems
Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 22:30:29 +0200
Hey there...
Got this small problem - well actually "problem" is a big word but it
just annoys me...
I'm using Slackware 7.0 with KDE 1.1.2 and my self-compiled kernel
2.2.13. somehow at boot time i get
an annoying message saying that my PPP modules have not been loaded,
right after the message saying "PPP line registered". This is not really
annoying; the most annoying bit is that kppp tells me that there are no
ppp modules loaded and when i try to connect all goes well. And that
warning annoys me because I have to click something :)
Does anyone know what I've screwed up this time?
Tnx!
Ruud
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sam E. Trenholme)
Subject: Re: finding out what distribution you have
Date: 8 May 2000 13:35:19 -0700
>I am a user on two mail servers running under Linux at our
>college. How can I tell the distribution from which Linux was
>installed?
Each distribution has a signature. Slackware's signature is the fact that
the command 'setup' opens up a text-based graphical install program.
RedHat has many signatures. The most obvious is the file
/etc/redhat-release, a file which Mandrake also uses.
I am sure some Debian users can tell you what some of Debian's signatures
are.
- Sam
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sam E. Trenholme)
Subject: Re: Voicemail prog
Date: 8 May 2000 13:37:26 -0700
> Can anyone suggest a good vm program?
SPK.
http://linux.samiam.org/spk/
- Sam
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sam E. Trenholme)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Video Card?
Date: 8 May 2000 13:42:02 -0700
>My question is, are these two supported in XFree 3.3.6? I'm using
>Mandrake7.0 GNU/Linux.
http://www.xfree86.org/cardlist.html
- Sam
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From: Jim Morrissey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LOCAL/WANTED: PA-Delaware County LUG
Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 20:50:52 GMT
"Mark A. Gilbert" wrote:
>
Hi Mark!
I just posted a message to the same effect this past weekend. I live in
Cherry Hill, NJ and am also interested in setting up a UG for the
Philadelphia, DE, S. Jersey area. Have you had (m)any replies yet?
-Jim
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> interested!
> Thanks,
> Mark
>
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What is the best source for working with core dumps?
Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 15:30:36 -0500
Harlan Grove wrote:
>
> There doesn't seem to be a HOWTO specifically targetted
> toward figuring out what happened from a core file. I've
> tried using strings core | more, but that's not very
> useful. I suppose I should be loading it into a debugger,
> but are there any texts that provide guidance on what to
> look for?
>
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Is this for core dumps created by a program you wrote?
If so, learn how to use gdb.
You can try gdb on the core dump---see the man page or use
info. But if you are reduced to having to do it with
assembly language debugging, it is not too likely you will
get very far.
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Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: "Alex Lam." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: SCSI Ultra2 support
Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 14:14:00 -0700
"Sam E. Trenholme" wrote:
>
> >I haven't been able to get UltraWide disks to work on Ultra2 adapters
> >(adaptec). I get .5MB/sec write speeds, 6-7MB/sec read speed. The
> >cable is 2 feet long blue twisted with a LVD/SE terminator.
>
> Adaptec support for Linux is not the best because Adaptec, for the longest
> time, was anti-Linux and refused to give the needed information to Linux
> driver developers. They finally changed their mind, but not before the
> Buslogic/Mylex adapters had a chance to have much better Linux support.
>
> Also, Adaptec changes the card's interface in subtle ways with each new
> card, or even with different revisions of the same card, making drivers
> work poorly.
>
> >I am able to get Ultra2 disks working on the Ultra2 adpaters.
>
> Huh? I thought you just said you didn't.
>
> - Sam
>
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From: Carl Waring - Pipex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Random number generator between 0 - 70
Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 22:07:14 +0100
Hi
I'm wanting to write a simple script which can be started from a cron
which creates a random number between 0 and say 70. The script should
write some constant/variable text fields then output a series of random
numbers. The format of the file should be such:
08/05/2000|time|1|7|20|22|38|69|....... and so on - up to 70 numeric
fields.
I've used the pipe "|" symbol as a delimeter.
Those of you who are into such things may figure out that I want to
upload this into a database for testing. Any Ideas on this would be
appreciated.
tia
cw
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From: mst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Two Windows + One Linux
Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 17:09:24 -0400
BuDMaN wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I've already in my system:
>
> 2 GB for Windows 95 on /dev/hda1
> 200 MB for Linux on /dev/hda3 (/) and /dev/hda5 (swap)
>
> I'm using Linux mostly for boot manager. I've the full Linux installed
> in another machine.
> But now, I need to install another copy of Windows 95 on the same
> machine, and on the same HD. So I created 1 GB partition on /dev/hda2,
> primary. I want both partitions bootable, so that way I can choose what
> copy of Win 95 to run.
> Well, I edited lilo.conf with:
>
> other=/dev/hda1
> label=win1
> table=/dev/hda
> other=/dev/hda2
> label=win2
> table=/dev/hda
> loader=/boot/chain.b
>
> That's not all I've in lilo.conf, of course. I have another lines for
> the linux partition as well.
> Ok.. I can format the new partition I created without problem. I also
> installed Win 95 on /dev/hda2. But when I reboot the machine, whenever
> I choose 'win2' on Lilo, it says /dev/hda2 isn't a bootable partition.
> What am I missing to do? Can I boot the another primary partition?
>
In short, no. Windows won't recognize, let alone boot from, anything
else than the first primary partition of a HD.
MST
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