Linux-Misc Digest #442, Volume #24 Thu, 11 May 00 23:13:02 EDT
Contents:
connect LINUX to Free ISPs??? (NetVAR)
rrlogind help, gettin unwanted messages (Robert Schweikert)
test (Terrence Coccoli)
test ("Terrence Coccoli")
Re: file splitting (John McKown)
Re: restricting access (John McKown)
Re: FreeBSD and Linux ("John S. Dyson")
Re: FreeBSD and Linux (Christopher Browne)
Re: can mkisofs include only some files from directories ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
I just had a crazy idea (Sam E. Trenholme)
Re: FreeBSD and Linux (Alexander Viro)
Re: Patches for ATA 66 support in 2.2 kernel! (Markus Kossmann)
Re: Linux Printers (Rod Smith)
Re: NTFS: Linux performance? (Rod Smith)
Re: WANTED: Champion (Sam E. Trenholme)
Re: Linux Login Logo (Federico Czerwinski)
clock ("leo.ladner")
Re: Printer does not work in Linux (George Bell)
Re: From Linux BACK to Win 98SE (Sam E. Trenholme)
Re: Linux operating system and Windows applications ("Bryce B. Ready")
Re: rrlogind help, gettin unwanted messages (Sam E. Trenholme)
Re: clock (Sam E. Trenholme)
Re: switching to FVWM from KDE (Ed Hurst)
Re: Full difference between ttyS* and cua* devices? (Paul Kimoto)
Re: bpBatch "setpartions" ("Bryce B. Ready")
Memory unrecognized (not the >64M problem!) (Sandhitsu R Das)
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From: NetVAR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: connect LINUX to Free ISPs???
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 00:37:24 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Does anyone know how to configure LINUX to connect to
Free ISPs like Netzero, Freei.net, etc???
i need the IP configuration settings and which LINUX is best?
Redhat? SUSE? TurboLinux? BSD? etc??
thanks in advance
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From: Robert Schweikert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: rrlogind help, gettin unwanted messages
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 20:55:01 -0400
Need some help with a service called rrlogind, I don't remember how I
got
this thing onto my system and how I got it started. Anyway, I just
upgrades
to RH 6.2 and am now getting the following message in /var/log/messages:
rrlogind[334]: Unable to connect to server: Connection refused
This message shows up every minute and thus would fill up the message
file. What I would like to do is to either set this up that I don't get
the message or get rid of this thing. Doing a find in /etc/rc.d I get
the
following.
find . -name '*rrlogin*' -print
/init.d/rrlogind
/rc0.d/K30rrlogind
/rc1.d/K30rrlogind
/rc2.d/S11rrlogind
/rc3.d/S11rrlogind
/rc4.d/S11rrlogind
/rc5.d/S11rrlogind
/rc6.d/K30rrlogind
So the question is can I just delete all the stuff that has anything
tot do with 'rrlogind' or should I use some set up program? I remember
ther used to be some script to set up the services which need to be
strated
when the system is booted, but I can't remember the command.
Thanks,
Robert
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Robert Schweikert
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From: Terrence Coccoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: test
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 00:58:39 GMT
nt
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From: "Terrence Coccoli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: test
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 00:59:35 GMT
nt
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John McKown)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: file splitting
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 19:33:46 -0500
On Thu, 11 May 2000 12:13:24 +0200, ChemSoft GmbH
]>Hi all,
]>
]>with the help of this ng i have splitted a big tar-file in several parts
]>with split and burned it onto cdrs.
]>now my problems is how to join the files to get the origin file?
]>
]>thanks in advance
]>
Suppose that the original tar file was on 3 separate CDs. I would:
mount /dev/cdrom
cat /mnt/cdrom/file1 >file.tar.gz
umount /dev/cdrom
#replace cd#1 with cd#2
mount /dev/cdrom
cat /mnt/cdrom/file2 >>file.tar.gz
umount /dev/cdrom
# replace cd#2 with cd#3
mount /dev/cdrom
cat /mnt/cdrom/file3 >>file.tar.gz
umount /dev/cdrom
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John McKown)
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.list,linux.redhat.list
Subject: Re: restricting access
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 19:57:40 -0500
On Thu, 11 May 2000 12:56:53 +0800, Hugo Bouckaert
>Hi
>
>Is there a way to restrict access to a particular machine based on the
>ethernet card addresses of machines trying to make the connection? The
>machine I want to limit access to runs linux RedHat 6.0.
You can set inetd to use the tcpwrappers and use /etc/hosts.allow and
/etc/hosts.deny to disallow all IP addresses other than those you want.
However, if it were me, I'd try to use ipchains as a "firewall". Suppose
you only want to allow access to a.b.c.d, a.b.c.e, and q.r.s.t (those are
stand-ins for the actual IP addresses).
ipchains -F input
ipchains -P input DENY
ipchains -A input -s a.b.c.d -j ACCEPT
ipchains -A input -s a.b.c.e -j ACCEPT
ipchains -A input -s q.r.s.t -j ACCEPT
The plus of using ipchains is that the applications running on your system
do not need to be "tcp_wrappers" aware. The ones you mentioned are, but
perhaps you will have one some day which isn't.
John
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From: "John S. Dyson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Linux
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 20:04:05 -0500
Christopher Browne wrote:
>
>
> <http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-project-9911/msg00042.html>
> has a discussion thread entitled "Stop Debian/FreeBSD," so evidently
> some people aren't thrilled with the idea...
That is kind of interesting, because it would be good to have a Linux-style
OS with a freely redistributable (in the sense of developer free),
non-redistribution
encumbered kernel.
--
John | Never try to teach a pig to sing,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | it makes one look stupid
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | and it irritates the pig.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Linux
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 01:23:45 GMT
Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when John S. Dyson would say:
>Christopher Browne wrote:
>> <http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-project-9911/msg00042.html>
>> has a discussion thread entitled "Stop Debian/FreeBSD," so evidently
>> some people aren't thrilled with the idea...
>
>That is kind of interesting, because it would be good to have a Linux-style
>OS with a freely redistributable (in the sense of developer free),
>non-redistribution
>encumbered kernel.
I'm sure that's the _exact_ objection in the thread; doubtless the Debian
developers have, as the most important thing in their minds to ensure that
there couldn't _possibly_ be a "non-redistribution encumbered kernel."
--
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: can mkisofs include only some files from directories
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 01:17:12 GMT
In article <8eurpg$5dh$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
James Pearson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In article <8eta1v$f3g$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > All,
> > I need to create a CD image of only certain files from several
> > different sub-directories (ie modified in last 30 days). I can
> > generate a list of the files, but how can I use this list as input
> > into mkisofs (if at all)?
> >
> > Is this possible without copying the original files? I also need
> > to make sure the directory structure remains intact.
> >
>
> Use "find" to create a list of file names that were not modified in
the
> last 30 days. Use this list as the argument to the '-exclude-list'
> option. Make sure you have a recent version of mkisofs (v1.12.1), part
> of cdrecord v1.8.1 available via:
>
> ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/cdrecord/
>
> James Pearson
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
>
Thanks for the information, but I get the following error:
"bash: /usr/sbin/mkisofs: Argument list too long"
I guess excluding 15000+ (and growing) files is too many ... :)
Why the heck did they deprecate the -i !!! ARRRGGGHHHH!!
Next thing you know the mkisofs people will be rewriting 'cp' to use
the following syntax:
$ cp -exclude-list `find . -name ! source.file` dest.file
WHAT A JOKE! Can't even do a decent selective backup to CD. mkisofs
is DEFINITELY missing functionality IMO.
Martin
PS. Thanks for the help anyway, James.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sam E. Trenholme)
Subject: I just had a crazy idea
Date: 11 May 2000 18:30:30 -0700
Now that there are more Linux distributions than Linux users (see
http://bbspot.com/News/2000/4/linux_distros.html), I have an idea for yet
another Linux distribution. Have someone (besides myself, of course,
since this is Usenet) purchase this compiler:
http://www.pgroup.com/prodworkpgcc.htm
And compile everything with it. The code could very well run faster than
gcc code, resulting in a faster distribution than one compiled with gcc.
Is this a plan or what?
- Sam
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alexander Viro)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Linux
Date: 11 May 2000 21:29:32 -0400
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Christopher Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip]
>--
>((LAMBDA (X) (X X)) (LAMBDA (X) (X X)))
If you didn't do it by hands I'm very impressed - sigmonster picking
the perfect Subject: for this thread...
--
"You're one of those condescending Unix computer users!"
"Here's a nickel, kid. Get yourself a better computer" - Dilbert.
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From: Markus Kossmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Patches for ATA 66 support in 2.2 kernel!
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 20:37:35 +0200
Orange wrote:
>
> I have once found a web site with patches for 2.2.10 or above kernel to
> have ATA 66 support but I have forgotten about it. Can anyone tell me
> about it?
It's now on http://www.linux-ide.org/
--
Markus Kossmann
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Linux Printers
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 01:52:48 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
George Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Does anyone know which brands offer a real postscript printer? Are
> there any brands that work especially well in Linux?
>
> For the reason I cannot use my printer with Linux, please see my earlier
> post.
Check http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/printer_list.cgi for information
on printer compatibility with Ghostscript, and hence with Linux.
As to PostScript specifically, it's rare in inkjets, but Lexmark has a
couple of models. One, the Optra Color 40, is discontinued but may still
be available in closeout bins here and there. The Optra Color 45 is more
expensive but still available. HP used to have some PostScript inkjets,
but I don't know if they're still available. Most other alleged PostScript
inkjets use PostScript implemented in software on the host computer, which
buys you nothing in Linux, since the software just does what Ghostscript
does, and usually doesn't run in Linux.
PostScript is more common on laser printers. It's usually restricted to
mid-range and high-end models. Count on spending at least $500 for a
PostScript laser printer, although you may be able to find a bargain
model for a bit less. Some models don't come with it standard but do
offer a PostScript upgrade. As with inkjets, some models claim to offer
PostScript, but it's really just a host-based PostScript like
Ghostscript.
Some "PostScript" printers use PostScript clones, others use "genuine"
PostScript licensed from Adobe. Most modern PostScript clones are quite
good, but some older ones are not so good.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux networking & multi-OS configuration
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: NTFS: Linux performance?
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 01:55:12 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows) writes:
>
> can't say too much for NTFS, but performance suffers a bit on FAT. Like
> so:
> time dd if=/dev/urandom of=/win/crud bs=1024 count=4096
> real 0m25.689s
> user 0m0.010s
> sys 0m23.480s
> time dd if=/dev/urandom of=~/crud bs=1024 count=4096
> real 0m24.581s
> user 0m0.010s
> sys 0m23.170s
Last time I checked (a year or more ago), FAT filesystem access suffered
more for reads than for writes, oddly enough. Your test checks write
speed, not read speed.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux networking & multi-OS configuration
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sam E. Trenholme)
Subject: Re: WANTED: Champion
Date: 11 May 2000 19:30:16 -0700
Some more links:
http://fltk.easysw.com/
http://www.wxwindows.org/
http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Programming/GUI/Libraries/
http://freshmeat.net/appindex/development/widget%20sets.html
I know there is a really nice library that doesn't use X that can be
programmed in the style of either a X11 app or a windoze app.
Unfortunatly, I can't seem to find it.
- Sam
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From: Federico Czerwinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux Login Logo
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 02:30:10 GMT
hi there!!!!!1, thanx for replaying!, well, i've edited the issue file, it
has a lot of simbols and i dont know what!, well, the point is that i could
change it succefuly, with colors and more......but when i rebooted,
everything became as it was!!!, i mean, the default massage!, What do i do?
I spent almost 2 hs figuring out what symbols i had to change! =0), well,
how do i keep it?, thanx a lot!!!!!
Federico
Stewart Honsberger wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, 06 May 2000 23:30:10 GMT, Federico Czerwinski wrote:
> >Hi there!, well, this one is short. I just wanna know where i can get
more
> >"Linux_Logo", for the login, you know, that ASCII penguin. Or how can i
> >make them? can i put anything else in the login? Thanx!
> >Thanx a lot.
>
> The linux_logo program simply creates an ANSI (or ASCII, depending on the
> command line option used), which is typically re-directed to your
> /etc/issue (local logins) and/or /etc/issue.net (remote logins). I'm sure
> you could use a standard ANSI editor to create an ANSI login message, or
> just edit the issue* file(s) by hand to create a unique ASCII login
message.
>
> The issue files can come in handy for disclaimers and warnings about all
the
> nasty things you'll do to people if they break into your system. :>
>
> --
> 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: "leo.ladner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: clock
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 02:38:48 GMT
How do I put a clock on the taskbar in xwindow with Kde ?
I had one there but it left after reboot.
Thanks
Leo
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From: George Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Printer does not work in Linux
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 22:34:09 -0400
It seems that no matter which distribution you get, in linux you have to
pretend that you are a network administrator, and read a mountain of
documentation. That's linux...
John Alam wrote:
>
> Me too. me too. me too.
>
> I have been experimenting with various distros of Linux. I am able to
> follow some of the commands, and have been able to accomplish a number of
> things. For instance, I have a DSL connection that I am sharing with at
> least 5 other computers using a router running off a floppy disk (Thanks
> Coyote.)
>
> I have yet to be able to figure out how to print using either of my
> printers, I have an IBM 4019, and an HP LaserJet series II.
>
> Would someone please offer some simple advice as to how I could print to
> one of the printers? I have read a couple of Hot-Tos, but it seems I am a
> little too dense to follow those.
>
> Thanks,
>
> John Alam
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sam E. Trenholme)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: From Linux BACK to Win 98SE
Date: 11 May 2000 19:43:25 -0700
[Follow-ups redirected]
>I currently have Corel Linux OS on my laptop and I just don't like the way
>it works, I've had monitor problems, and a whole mess of things. I want to
>take it off completely and reinstall Win 98SE.
I remember when all the Windoze users would be like, "you know, Linux is
like, so hard to install". Well, I guess those days are over, since
Windows users have a much easier time installing Linux than they do
reinstalling Windows.
Microsoft has this goal of making reinstalling Windows impossible. You
know that CDROM you get with your Windows machine that lets you reinstall
Windows, should you pooch your install, have a hard disk die, or when the
inevitable registry corruption happens? Microsoft wants to get rid of
that CD, since they worry so much that people are using those CDs to
pirate Windows.
The end result of this idiotcy by Microsoft is that people will install
and use Linux when their Windoze installs get hozed. A computer is not
reusable unless the OS the computer runs on is on CD in a convenient
place.
- Sam
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From: "Bryce B. Ready" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux operating system and Windows applications
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 19:37:37 -0700
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> Thomas Polgar wrote:
> >
> > I am presently running Windows98se and numerous Windows applications.
> > Autocad, Corel WordPerfect suite 2000, many photo application softwares,
> > If I choose to install Linus o/s, can I run my other applications on
> > Linux??
> > advise
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > --
> > Posted via CNET Help.com
> > http://www.help.com/
>
There is no way to run windows programs directly under linux.
However, take a look at www.trelos.com . They have a propriatary ($50.00)
product called win4lin that will let you do just that, and should be better
for you than either WINE or VMware. I haven't tried it, but it's supposed to
be pretty good.
--
Bryce Ready
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<blockquote TYPE=CITE>Thomas Polgar wrote:
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<br>> I am presently running Windows98se and numerous Windows applications.
<br>> Autocad, Corel WordPerfect suite 2000, many photo application softwares,
<br>> If I choose to install Linus o/s, can I run my other applications
on
<br>> Linux??
<br>> advise
<br>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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There is no way to run windows programs directly under linux.
<p>However, take a look at <a href="http://www.trelos.com">www.trelos.com</a>
. They have a propriatary ($50.00) product called win4lin that
will let you do just that, and should be better for you than either WINE
or VMware. I haven't tried it, but it's supposed to be pretty good.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sam E. Trenholme)
Subject: Re: rrlogind help, gettin unwanted messages
Date: 11 May 2000 19:49:39 -0700
>Need some help with a service called rrlogind, I don't remember how I
>got
>this thing onto my system and how I got it started.
What does this command tell you:
rpm -qf /etc/rc.d/init.d/rrlogind
This will tell you where you got this package. You can then use RPM to
get rid of the package:
rpm -e $( rpm -qf /etc/rc.d/init.d/rrlogind )
(Get rid of the package the rpm -qf file gives you)
Should RPM swear that this program is not part of a RPM package, you can
safely delete the files you listed by hand.
- Sam
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sam E. Trenholme)
Subject: Re: clock
Date: 11 May 2000 19:58:08 -0700
>How do I put a clock on the taskbar in xwindow with Kde ?
>I had one there but it left after reboot.
Look for the big "K" with the gears in the lower left corner. If you
don't see the "K" thing, look for something in one of the corners that
looks like a tall, grey button. Push this button to make Kpanel visible
again. This thing, BTW, is not a taskbar, but a task launcher and a
desktop switcher.
The clock is always part of Konsole, and you really have to go out of your
way to not have it show a clock. Make sure the clock is correctly
configured with:
K -> Panel -> Configure -> Options
- Sam
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From: Ed Hurst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: switching to FVWM from KDE
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 22:04:24 -0500
Peter Bismuti wrote:
> HI, I've installed RH6.2 as a KDE workstation. I've noticed that
> my netscape keep hanging, apparently because of a bug in the JavaVM
> (applets cause it to hang).
>
> IN ANY CASE:
>
> I'd like to try running FVWM instead, is there any way I can easily
> switch over to using FVWM without major reconfiguration? Perhaps
> I can set it up so I can start up either of the two?
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thx!
Sure, the simplest route is to enable the option for graphical login.
When xdm, kdm, or gdm comes up on the screen, you can choose KDE, or
AnotherLevel, among other things. If you have not installed the package
AnotherLevel, you should get FVWM2. It's a good deal more challenging
to configure your preferences, but it may be worth your time. Myself,
I'm currently experimenting with AnotherLevelUp, an improvement over
RedHat's AnotherLevel package, which adds some eye candy to FVWM and, on
most machines, speeds things up some.
Ed
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Full difference between ttyS* and cua* devices?
Date: 11 May 2000 23:04:43 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <8ffg22$gdv$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, bpb wrote:
> What are the full differences between using the ttyS* and cua*
> devices? I understand the ttyS devices can supply "canonical" I/O
> and that they are used primarily for modem, but that's about it.
> Where can I find more detailed information
> about this (the Serial and Serial-Programming HOWTOs don't
> go into full detail on the differences).
Ted Ts'o wrote a message to the linux-kernel mailing list:
http://kernelnotes.org/lnxlists/linux-kernel/lk_9803_02/0814.html
Is it useful to you?
--
Paul Kimoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: "Bryce B. Ready" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: bpBatch "setpartions"
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 20:04:56 -0700
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm using bpBatch to install linux to multiple boxes.
> I get an error saying "partitions are too big" if I try and set a 8Gb
> "/" partition
> any ideas?
I had a similar problem installing RedHat 6.2 recently. This is my
understanding (I may be wrong):
Most BIOSes cannot handle a boot partition which contain more than 1024
cylinders. Modern disk controllers use the LBA format, which helps to
alieviate this problem by faking the drive geometry. In other words,
LBA allows the bios to pretend that you have, say, only 1024 "cylinders"
when you may actually have many more, by pretending that you have, say,
a thousand heads on your drive. However, modern drives are getting so
big, that even playing this number game, the number of "cylinders" is
getting larger than 1024.
In other words, I think there is a hardware reason why you cannot have a
boot partition larger than 8GB. You'll probably have to break your
drive into several partitions and mount them at different points, or
else leave dead space on your drive. Sorry :-)
If there IS a way around this that anyone knows, I would be interested
to hear it.
--
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<blockquote TYPE=CITE>I'm using bpBatch to install linux to multiple boxes.
<br>I get an error saying "partitions are too big" if I try and set a 8Gb
<br>"/" partition
<br>any ideas?</blockquote>
I had a similar problem installing RedHat 6.2 recently. This is my
understanding (I may be wrong):
<p>Most BIOSes cannot handle a boot partition which contain more than 1024
cylinders. Modern disk controllers use the LBA format, which helps
to alieviate this problem by faking the drive geometry. In other
words, LBA allows the bios to pretend that you have, say, only 1024 "cylinders"
when you may actually have many more, by pretending that you have, say,
a thousand heads on your drive. However, modern drives are getting
so big, that even playing this number game, the number of "cylinders" is
getting larger than 1024.
<p>In other words, I think there is a hardware reason why you cannot have
a boot partition larger than 8GB. You'll probably have to break your
drive into several partitions and mount them at different points, or else
leave dead space on your drive. Sorry :-)
<p>If there IS a way around this that anyone knows, I would be interested
to hear it.
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From: Sandhitsu R Das <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux
Subject: Memory unrecognized (not the >64M problem!)
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 23:07:54 -0400
I have an old Packard Bell Legend 220CD machine with 486DX2 running at
66MHz. I have two RAM slots in which I currently put two 12M modules. It
seems the second slot module is always recognized as max. 4MB. Do I have
to tweak anuything to have its full amount recognized (even the BIOS
recognizes 4MB only).
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