Linux-Misc Digest #416, Volume #24 Tue, 9 May 00 17:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Re: Minimum Hard Ware Requirement for Windows NT,95,Dos & linex, (Gerald Willmann)
Re: Two Windows + One Linux ("Joseph")
Re: netscape 4.72 crash on redhat 6.2 ("Jeff Susanj")
Re: Problems with installing KDE on Solaris. ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: computer viruses on LINUX ("Michael Bernardo")
Keep a program running after logging out (Romain BAILLY)
Re: Repartitioning an existing Linux Mandrake 6.1 system - Help needed! ("Peter T.
Breuer")
Re: Keep a program running after logging out (Bob Tennent)
lost /var/log after system crash (Mike)
Re: Keep a program running after logging out (Harlan Grove)
Re: Keep a program running after logging out (Steve Harvey)
Re: ftp monitoring help (Steve Harvey)
Re: LILO 1024 cyl thing (Robert Heller)
Re: LILO 1024 cyl thing (Bill Unruh)
Can't run Netscape?? (Rick Hoffman)
Re: Minimum Hard Ware Requirement for Windows NT,95,Dos & linex, (DeAnn Iwan)
Re: Where is the kernel source? (Paul Kimoto)
Re: LILO 1024 cyl thing (Neil Koozer)
Re: LILO 1024 cyl thing (Rick Hoffman)
Re: LPT1 not recognized (Dances With Crows)
Re: PPPProblems (Ulrich Brachvogel)
Re: which fiie is my sound blaster ? (Dances With Crows)
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From: Gerald Willmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Minimum Hard Ware Requirement for Windows NT,95,Dos & linex,
Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 12:09:38 -0700
On Tue, 9 May 2000, mst wrote:
> X runs fine here, with KDE, Netscape, Real Player (a tad choppy, I
> agree), on a 486-DX2/50.
same here, on a P75 with 64 megs (enough RAM is important), and even with
two concurrent users (one remotely, of course).
Gerald
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From: "Joseph" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Two Windows + One Linux
Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 15:07:37 -0400
go into linux : ( the command line)
use fdisk and set the partition you installed win2 into as "bootable"
I forget the codes for it but fdisk is self explanatory...
The second partition will not boot because the partition has not been marked
as bootable. It is a primary partition allright.
But, what are you doing about the drive issue ?
the first primary will be labeled "C" by dos,
the second primary will be labeled "d" by dos.
Idea: Hide the old win partition. install win into the new primary
partition.
Use lilo to hide the win partition whichever is *ot* being booted. That
way each installation is blissfully unaware of teh existence of the other,
so they can't corrupt each other.
good luck.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message <8f9ge7$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>>> 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
>
> This is not true! Try using a program called System Commander (not
free,
>but very good!) It'll even let you boot DOS from the 2nd partition, by
playing
>a little game of copying files around.
>
> -John
>
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From: "Jeff Susanj" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: netscape 4.72 crash on redhat 6.2
Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 19:05:28 GMT
Is it my imagination or is Netscape for Linux an afterthought on the part of
Netscape? It never seems to work quite right. It either has bugs or it
works in some odd way.
Jeff S.
Konstantin L Kouptsov wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>
>rpm -e ... ; rpm -i ...
>Netscape is buggy. I found this as the fastest way.
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Re: Problems with installing KDE on Solaris.
Date: 9 May 2000 19:01:57 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc Madhusudan Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Thanks for your response. I guess it is quite dumb of me, but I just found
: that the OS on the machine I wish to install KDE (in my own user
: directory, incidently) runs Sun OS 5.6 and not Solaris.
SunOS 5.6 is solaris.
Peter
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Reply-To: "Michael Bernardo" <m i c h a e l @ a s y l u m . t o>
From: "Michael Bernardo" <m i c h a e l @ a s y l u m . t o>
Subject: Re: computer viruses on LINUX
Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 15:18:38 -0400
If this were to occur on an NT box, 3 things must be true:
(1) the user has administrator rights on the machine;
(2) the virus is run on the NT box locally;
(3) affected files (jpg, mp3, etc.) are writable by the Everyone group or
the group that the user belongs to.
Other than that, the virus will be present in the directories, waiting for
someone with local administrative rights to run the virus by accident. The
virus may mass mail, but it will not infect files that it does not have
permissions to write to or execute.
--
M i c h a e l B e r n a r d o
m i c h a e l @ a s y l u m . t o
"Stewart Honsberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Mon, 08 May 2000 02:57:43 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >> The traditional "boot-sector virus" is probably close to impossible to
> >> implement for Linux, but trojan horses are still possible.
> >
> >But unlikely to do any damage outside the users own home directory (and
> >maybe /temp).
>
> /tmp, y'mean? :>
>
> Recently, I believe it was on SlashDot, there was a thread about the
release
> of the ILOVEYOU worm. Somebody mentioned, naturally, Linux. They mentioned
> that the only harm it could do is to the (l)user's home directory. The
counter
> point was that the home directory contained the 'important' data/files,
which
> would be more difficult to restore than system files.
>
> A thought just occurred to me. The school network I administer has over
600
> students and ~100 teachers. Each and every one of them has their very own
> home directory. Now, if that were a *NIX system and one of those users
were
> to execute a malicious worm of sorts, that single (l)user's files would be
> corrupted. The report cards, tests, assignments, essays, documents,
pictures,
> etc.. of all other teachers and students would be left alone.
>
> Unfortunately, it's an NT system, therefore there's really no guarantee as
> to what could (would) happen were a trojan of the right elk hit it.
>
> Needless to say, I've got a floppy disk I carry with me for my important
> files.
>
> --
> 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: Romain BAILLY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Keep a program running after logging out
Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 12:22:37 -0700
Hi all,
Here's a simple question : how to avoid a program from being killed on
logging out ? I know there's a command to achieve this, but it just
can't remember its name.
Thanks in advance
--
Romain BAILLY
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Repartitioning an existing Linux Mandrake 6.1 system - Help needed!
Date: 9 May 2000 19:25:44 GMT
Lars-Goran Andersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: "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
: 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!
Then complain to the author. If it's a mandrake bug, bug them.
: Does any one have a clue to solve this?
As above. (you can also mount a new partition temprarily on /mnt).
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Tennent)
Subject: Re: Keep a program running after logging out
Date: 9 May 2000 19:41:58 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 09 May 2000 12:22:37 -0700, Romain BAILLY wrote:
>
>Here's a simple question : how to avoid a program from being killed on
>logging out ? I know there's a command to achieve this, but it just
>can't remember its name.
>
>From the command-line, invoke it with a & after the call. Or do CTRL Z
to stop it when it's running, and then do bg to put it into the background.
Bob T.
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Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 14:15:47 -0500
From: Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: lost /var/log after system crash
My computer running Redhat 6.0 lost power unexpectedly. After it was
rebooted, the system complained about the unmounted file systems,
checked the file systems for inconsistencies, then appeared to recover.
A few minutes later, I noticed the /var/log directory was missing, which
contained the messages, maillog, and other system log files. I checked
lost+found and found nothing. Is the directory and it's contents really
lost? Is there hope of recovering the lost data? I tried to manually
create /var/log and the log files using a backup computer as a guide.
This didn't work. Why? Could I have lost more than /var/log? I checked
the system and this appears to the only thing missing. Any help would
be appreciated.
Mike
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From: Harlan Grove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Keep a program running after logging out
Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 12:46:13 -0700
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Romain BAILLY
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
..
>Here's a simple question : how to avoid a program from
>being killed on logging out ? I know there's a command to
>achieve this, but it just can't remember its name.
You mean nohup?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Harvey)
Subject: Re: Keep a program running after logging out
Date: 9 May 2000 20:01:15 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Romain BAILLY wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Here's a simple question : how to avoid a program from being killed on
>logging out ? I know there's a command to achieve this, but it just
>can't remember its name.
nohup.
(i.e. "nohup progname &")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Harvey)
Subject: Re: ftp monitoring help
Date: 9 May 2000 20:08:33 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <8f8saj$8qg$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tom Steinberg wrote:
>This one is really very thick indeed. I need to know how to monitor my ftp
>server. I am a bit of a newbie, and I can't figure out what tools I need to
>use to see who is on my ftp site ( RedHat out of the box ) what they are
>doing, how fast connects are and so on.
I don't know of any GUI tools to do this, but you can browse the ftp
logs by hand in /var/log/xferlog. That'll tell you who did what when
-- not the best for gathering statistics, but it's proved useful to me
for tracking down problems.
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From: Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO 1024 cyl thing
Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 20:22:01 GMT
Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
In a message on Tue, 09 May 2000 17:52:04 GMT, wrote :
T> Ok, here's my game plan. Install Win '95. Install Linux using a boot
T> diskette. After Linux is installed, download the new LILO and install it
T> (somehow). Does that sound good? My prob is a bit different than that at
T> the start of this thread. I have not installed Linux yet, but I wish to,
T> but beyond the 1024 limit. Will a boot disk allow me to do that? What is
T> on the boot disk?
Usually lilo + kernel. RH install disks use 'SYSLINUX', which seems to
be some sort of LOADLIN-like, MS-DOS, program.
The 1024 cylinder thing relates to BIOS HD I/O calls. Older BIOSes,
using the original BIOS HD 'read sectors' call barfed if asked to read
past cylinder 1024. This is a '640k should be enough for anyone'. When
the BIOS interface was originally designed -- in the days when hard disks
were maxing out at 30meg or so, 1024 cylinders was thought to be 'more
than enough'. Now that disks are in gigabytes, often 18, 36, or even
50gig, the 1024 cylinder count has become really too small.
There is really no need to have a dual boot box with *either* boot
partition beyond 1024! Here is an idea:
/dev/hda1 1-2gig - FAT16 Win C: drive (base system + base applications)
/dev/hda2 64meg - Ext2 linux root: /
/dev/hda3 up to 1/2 way point - FAT32 Win D: drive (put your docs, MP3s, MOVs,
AVIs, etc. here)
/dev/hda4 <extended -- the second 1/2 of the disk>
/dev/hda5 128meg -- swap
/dev/hda6 1.5gig -- Ext2 /usr
/dev/hda7 64meg -- Ext2 /var
/dev/hda8 rest of disk -- Ext2 /home
This sort of partitioning should allow all of /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda2 to
be completely below cylinder 1024. The stock lilo will be happy,
Windows will be happy. Everything should work just fine.
T>
T> Also, I am trying desperately to get a CD created from an ISO image. I
T> have Sony CD-Write and Nero at my disposal, but they seem to just copy
T> the file to the disk. I want the .ISO file "expanded" so it has all
T> files and directories on it. How would I go about doing that?
T> Step-by-step would be nice, but I'll take anything I can get. Thanks.
T>
I don't know what these silly MS-Windows CDR programs do (sounds like
they are really dumb programs). Maybe you should find a 'friend' with
a Linux box + CDR (cdrecord redhat.iso -o /dev/cdr ...). Or splurge
the US$1.89+S&H and buy a real CD from LinuxMall
(http://www.linuxmall.com) or cheapbytes (http://www.cheapbytes.com).
--
\/
Robert Heller ||InterNet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/~heller || [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.deepsoft.com /\FidoNet: 1:321/153
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: LILO 1024 cyl thing
Date: 9 May 2000 20:28:55 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
]Ok, here's my game plan. Install Win '95. Install Linux using a boot
]diskette. After Linux is installed, download the new LILO and install it
](somehow). Does that sound good? My prob is a bit different than that at
]the start of this thread. I have not installed Linux yet, but I wish to,
]but beyond the 1024 limit. Will a boot disk allow me to do that? What is
]on the boot disk?
If you have not yet installed Win, then why don't you partition your
drive so that there is a 5MB partition below the 1024 limit onto which
you will put
/boot
That way you do not have to worry!
]Also, I am trying desperately to get a CD created from an ISO image. I
]have Sony CD-Write and Nero at my disposal, but they seem to just copy
]the file to the disk. I want the .ISO file "expanded" so it has all
]files and directories on it. How would I go about doing that?
]Step-by-step would be nice, but I'll take anything I can get. Thanks.
Under what? Under Linux do
cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=3,0 /local/cdrom-image/image.raw
where /local/cdrom-image/image.raw is the iso image.
(chage the speed and device numbers to suit your system)
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From: Rick Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Can't run Netscape??
Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 16:25:24 -0400
When logged in as a normal user, Netscape is not locating any servers.
It is as if I am off-line but I know I am connected to my ISP. Even if
I su root Netscape does not respond. The only way I am being able to
use Netscape is to log in as root. Has anyone ever had this problem or
have any ideas as to what I need to do? I am finding Linux
documentation a little weak as far as helping out a newbie weening
himself off root and into getting around as a normal user.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
hoffy
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From: DeAnn Iwan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Minimum Hard Ware Requirement for Windows NT,95,Dos & linex,
Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 16:28:58 -0400
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uzman ali wrote:
>
> My Name is Uzman,I want to ask the minimum(complete)hardware requirement
> for WindowsNT,95,98,Dos,Linex.
>
> --
> Posted via CNET Help.com
> http://www.help.com/
It's rather hard to get an "exact" answer because there are
various versions of the OS mentioned, and various applications and
performance minimums that are tolerable in different situations.
In general, DOS will run on 8088, 8086s and 80x86s. Most versions
of DOS (free dos, dr dos, msdos3.3, msdos6.22, etc.) will fit entirely
on 1-3 floppies (a few more if you include lots of extra utilities),
will run / boot /boot-and-run from floppy, and will take up 1-20 MB on
hard disk (depending on whether you include source code, how many
utilities, etc.). They will execute happily in 1 MB RAM, but most apps
want as much of the 640KB of "low memory" that they can get.
Win95 will definitely run in 4 MB RAM, and might run in 2 MB or
less (it is primarily DOS anyway)...but many apps benefit from 8 MB
RAM. It came out in the era of 80386s, and I THINK it needs an 80386
(but am not sure). I am not sure of the hard disk space used, but I
think it is around 100 MB. It is slowish on a 486, though.
Win98 wants more RAM (I think it calls for 32 MB), not sure about
80x86s. I think it occupies more like 200 MB disk space. It is more
sluggish on a 486 than win95.
WinNT I have only used briefly. Win NT crawls on a 486, and
probably requires 32BM+ RAM. I'd estimate 200 MB on hard disk.
Linux requires an 80386 (or other processor to which it has been
ported). Most major distributions require ~100 MB. But, again, you can
install a very basic linux on a floppy and run without a hard drive.
You cannot DO much with it though without applications that require
considerably more room. You want at least an 486 to do much in X (I am
happy with X on a 486....many find it too slow....and of course that
depends somewhat on the apps you are using). A "full" distribution with
X windows and many of the basic unix utilities people EXPECT (like less)
runs at least 200 MB...up to 600 to 700 with common basic apps (like an
office suite and a web server aboard, but not one of every program that
is available for the unix world). The typical kernel uses 5 MB, and
running with less takes a specialty distribution. I'd say most users
want 8MB to run console mode, and 16 or so for X (more if you have
memory hungry apps).
My recommendations (based on machine capability, not OS
wonderfulness) would be:
8088-80286 DR DOS or Free DOS variant. (or Minix)
80386 console Linux or above DOS
80486, 8+MB RAM console-(16MB+RAM) X Linux or (4+MB RAM) Win95 or DR
DOS
80586+, 32 MB+ RAM any listed OS.
Hope that helps.
80586+
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: Where is the kernel source?
Date: 9 May 2000 16:32:46 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <8f9lg1$dr6$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ken Yasuda wrote:
> I guess this should be a fairly easy one:
>
> I am trying to do a "make" and (various gui modifications) on my kernel in
> /usr/src/linux. I keep getting the error that there is no target for config,
> menuconfig, xconfig, etc...
>
> I've been told that it may be because my kernel source is not in the
> /usr/src/linux directory. What exactly do I look for in order to determine this,
> and how do you actually go about finding the kernel?
>
>
> An ls -l in /usr/src/linux gives:
>
> drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4096 Jan 28 21:32 include
Well, on my system "ls -F" in /usr/src/linux gives the output
COPYING Makefile System.map include/ lib/ scripts/
CREDITS README arch/ init/ mm/
Documentation/ REPORTING-BUGS drivers/ ipc/ modules/
MAINTAINERS Rules.make fs/ kernel/ net/
Your distributor (and which is it?) probably has kernel source code in a
package for your use, or you can get the authoritative, Torvalds source
code from <ftp://ftp.de.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel>. (Replace ".de" with
your appropriate country code as necessary.)
You might also like to read the Kernel HOWTO at
<http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO.html>.
--
Paul Kimoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: Neil Koozer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: LILO 1024 cyl thing
Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 12:39:48 -0700
Tom wrote:
>
> Ok, here's my game plan. Install Win '95. Install Linux using a boot
> diskette. After Linux is installed, download the new LILO and install it
> (somehow). Does that sound good? My prob is a bit different than that at
> the start of this thread. I have not installed Linux yet, but I wish to,
> but beyond the 1024 limit. Will a boot disk allow me to do that? What is
> on the boot disk?
Sounds good to me. There are more than one kind of boot floppy:
(1) A "simple" or "vmlinuz" boot floppy contains nothing but a
compressed image of the kernel. The first few sectors (not compressed)
contain a boot loader.
(2) A "lilo" boot floppy can be made with or without the kernel image on
the floppy. The routine that you encounter during installation will
make the kind with the kernel on the floppy so you can use it to boot
linux from above 1024.
A lilo boot disk contains a file system while a simple boot disk does
not. Both types will suit your purpose. If you need to enter
parameters at boot-time, you will need the lilo boot disk.
Also note that the new lilo will work its magic (above 1023) only if
your computer has the bios extensions. For older machines nuni-0.08
will do the job.
> Also, I am trying desperately to get a CD created from an ISO image. I
> have Sony CD-Write and Nero at my disposal, but they seem to just copy
> the file to the disk. I want the .ISO file "expanded" so it has all
> files and directories on it. How would I go about doing that?
> Step-by-step would be nice, but I'll take anything I can get. Thanks.
Don't know.
Neil.
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From: Rick Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO 1024 cyl thing
Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 16:35:35 -0400
>
> /dev/hda1 1-2gig - FAT16 Win C: drive (base system + base applications)
> /dev/hda2 64meg - Ext2 linux root: /
> /dev/hda3 up to 1/2 way point - FAT32 Win D: drive (put your docs, MP3s, MOVs,
> AVIs, etc. here)
> /dev/hda4 <extended -- the second 1/2 of the disk>
> /dev/hda5 128meg -- swap
> /dev/hda6 1.5gig -- Ext2 /usr
> /dev/hda7 64meg -- Ext2 /var
> /dev/hda8 rest of disk -- Ext2 /home
>
> This sort of partitioning should allow all of /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda2 to
> be completely below cylinder 1024. The stock lilo will be happy,
> Windows will be happy. Everything should work just fine.
>
Robert, who, what and how decides which directories go onto which partitions?
What directories go into / or /usr or /var. How do you get them there? You know
what I am asking? Partitioning I am finding as now the easy part. But how do I
get the data to the partitions and have a working file system afterwards?
hoffy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: LPT1 not recognized
Date: 09 May 2000 16:45:13 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 09 May 2000 10:13:02 -0600, Thomas Schonborg
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>A couple more points before I get started. One, I know the port works
>because I dual boot with NT and can print fine from NT. Two, this worked
>fine in Linux before I reloaded the system.
>1. I disabled plug and play in the BIOS
>2. I added the following lines to /etc/conf.modules
>
> alias /dev/printers lp
> alias /dev/lp* lp
> alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
The $64*1024 question here is, "Is the lp.o module available, and can you
do a 'modprobe lp' without getting evil errors?" Printing requires that
the parport, parport_pc, and lp modules get loaded, in that
order... modprobe will take care of all that if the modules are there and
depmod -a has been run recently (like at boot time). Also, the alias line
I have in /etc/conf.modules is like so:
alias char-major-6 lp
>Now, as I had mentioned before this was working before I wiped the
>system and reinstalled. As I recall a friend of mine did "something??"
>to update and thus activate lp0. She is quite a *nix pro and sometimes
>she does things so fast I don't know what she did(case in point?)
Drop her an E-mail asking "Whazzup with how you fixed my printing?" Many
gurus don't mind imparting Clues if they're not called upon to do it every
5 minutes...
>avail. I would greatly appreciate yourLPT help on this. I would also be
>interested in finding out where I can find information regarding many of
>the "built-in" devices i.e. parrallel ports, serial ports, floppy disks.
There's a Serial-HOWTO and a Serial-Programming-HOWTO, and the
Printing-HOWTO covers a bit about the lowlevel workings of the parallel
port. Don't know exactly where floppies are documented, except in
/usr/src/linux/drivers/block/floppy.c , but they always use IRQ 6 and DMA
2, the stock driver handles everything from 360K 5.25" disks to the 2.88M
barium-ferrite 3.5" disks, and the commands for working with them are like
so:
mount -t auto /dev/fd0d360 /floppy # mount 360K floppy (5.25)
mount -t auto /dev/fd0h720 /floppy # mount 720K floppy
mount -t auto /dev/fd0h1200 /floppy # mount 1.2M floppy (5.25)
mount -t auto /dev/fd0h1440 /floppy # mount 1.4M floppy
mount -t auto /dev/fd0u1722 /floppy # mount 1.7M floppy
To format one of those floppies MS-DOS style:
fdformat /dev/fd0XXXX && mkdosfs /dev/fd0XXXX
To work with MS-DOS floppies without mounting them, use the mtools suite.
mcopy myfile.txt A:
will do the obvious thing. mdel, mdir, mrename, and a few other commands
are available. HTH,
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows \###| You have me mixed up with more
There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| creative ways of being stupid,
But only Light too dim for us to see \#| as I have to run nothing but a
(Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| burp in the butt. --MegaHAL
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Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 22:46:21 +0200
From: Ulrich Brachvogel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PPPProblems
You wrote: ...
> --
> COGITO ERGO CONFUSIO
> I think therefor I am confused
AFAIK that is a kppp problem since kernel 2.2.12 or so. kppp makes
"illegal" use
of a kernel-function no more tolerated by the newer kernels. There is a
patch for kppp but alas
I forgot where I have found it - maybe you can find it in dejanews. The KDE
1.1.2 delivered with SuSe 6.3
comes without this kppp bug.
// <( )
// \______//
// \____/ Ulrich Brachvogel
// / \ "Save The Curlew!"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: which fiie is my sound blaster ?
Date: 09 May 2000 16:52:28 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 09 May 2000 17:39:51 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<<8f9ih4$j34$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>I have a soundblaster installed in redhat6.1. it works fine and can play
>music. But I need to know which file in /dev/ it is connected to.
>Specifically, I need to specify it in my vmware virtual machine.
>Can anyone give me some hints?
More than likely the interface is on /dev/dsp. If you "cat file.au >
/dev/dsp" then you should hear sounds, or at least nasty static. The
"wavplay" and "play" programs do a bit of massaging of the audio data
before sending it to /dev/dsp/ so you don't get awful static and blow
your speakers.
>thnx a loooot.
Sure, loot in return for services rendered is accepted :-)
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows \###| You have me mixed up with more
There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| creative ways of being stupid,
But only Light too dim for us to see \#| as I have to run nothing but a
(Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| burp in the butt. --MegaHAL
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