Linux-Misc Digest #754, Volume #24 Thu, 8 Jun 00 20:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: make a msdos image on a linux file system? (Douglas Nichols)
booting 3 OS's on one machine win98-win2k-linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Open Source Windows Based X Server? (Richard Banks)
Re: Modem, Soundcard, and Zip Drive Problems (Paul Eisenberg)
Re: booting 3 OS's on one machine win98-win2k-linux (Rod Smith)
Re: CAUTION: I am under attack from an incompetent hacker probably in (Chris
Ahlstrom)
Re: Cycas: How to save homemade symbols (Brian Goodyear)
Re: Burning A CD IMAGE of LINUX - Assist (Mark)
Re: hda: Lost Interrupt
Re: Random lockups on RH 6.1 (Leonard Evens)
Re: hda: Lost Interrupt (Hal Burgiss)
Re: No answer from freewwweb (Was Re: connect LINUX to Free ISPs?) (alram83)
Re: hda: Lost Interrupt (Stewart Honsberger)
Re: How do I create a simple server to accept requests on a port? (Rob Weiss)
How can I install a zip drive in Redhat 6.1, and change lilo default boot? (usfisher)
Re: Freewwweb slow ? (alram83)
Re: Where did my disk space go?!?! (Carl Fink)
Can't "make" it! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: hda: Lost Interrupt (Dances With Crows)
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From: Douglas Nichols <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: make a msdos image on a linux file system?
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 00:37:13 +0000
Thanks!
Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
> Douglas Nichols <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : Could someone tell me or point me to a how-to to make and format a
> : dos(fat16) image file that I could later mount using linux of xdos.
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/foo bs=1024 count=10240
> losetup /dev/loop0 /tmp/foo
> mkdosfs /dev/loop0
> losetup -d /dev/loop0
>
> : Thanks very much.
>
> Peter
--
Cheers, dn
Douglas Nichols [EMAIL PROTECTED]
===============================================================
National Wilms Tumor Study Group 206.667.4283
Seattle, WA
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: booting 3 OS's on one machine win98-win2k-linux
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 22:13:03 GMT
Hello everyone,
This post has more or less 2 purposes, one to get some feedback
from you, also to vent some frustration that has been building through
several backups, reinstalls, etc.
Here's the situation:
the system is a dual celeron pc/abit bp6 board with a 10gig drive. I
first created a 5gig partition FAT32 for windows98, loaded it. this was
c: the primary partition. Next I went to install windows2000 using NTFS
(win2k creates an extended partition, and then fills that partition with
a logical NTFS partition, d:) using the remaining 5gigs of the drive.
This worked wonderfully for about 2 or 3 months, win2k allowed me
to take advantage of a dual processor system without the software
limitations of NT, yet SOME apps (mostly MAME and console emulators) are
constantly fussy and refuse to run on win2k so I was forced to use
win98 which was no big deal because I barely noticed any slowness since
the apps would run just as fast on 2 cpu's as they would on 1.
Then the time came where I needed to install linux because well...
for many reasons, first to learn for potential job opportunities, but
mostly because the whole concept behind microsoft goes against my very
core ethic system, let's just say I'm not your ideal capitalist. (some
of you may be wondering, then why bother with keeping win98se and win2k?
well I have chosen to make the transition gradually, my first computer
was a mac, then I started learning DOS, which I preferred over win3.1
for some odd reason, go figure)
So, now that I'm off that tangent, first I'm faced with the problem
of no free disk space for a linux partition, so theoretically I opt to
shrink the size of my primary (win98) partition and use the newly freed
space to create a linux partition. So I decide to use this handy tool
which came with the redhat distribution I was able to get my
hands on called FIPS, shrank my primary fat32 partition to 2gigs,
leaving 3gigs of free space, the problem is, since FIPS changed the MBR,
windows2000 freaked out, and didn't know where to find it's root
directory, so win98 boots up fine, but when I try to load win2k I get
the message "ntoskrnl.exe could not be found in the following directory
<windows2000root>\system32\ntoskrnl.exe please verify the file is not
missing or corrupt and replace" or something to that effect, so I
restore my MBR and everything functions as normal. The strange thing
about this is that the section of the boot.ini that loads windows2000
points to the correct partition.
The next thing I tried was wiping out the win2k partition and start
over, I shrank the c: partition down to 2gigs, and reinstalled win2k on
a 5gig NTFS partition within the extended partition like before. So now
I install Linux with LILO located at the first sector of the linux
partition, again, windows2000 doesn't like this and it gives me the same
error message.
My next venture was this, I wiped everything out again, starting
with a 2gig primary c: partition, installed linux on a 3 gig partition
over that, with LILO on the MBR, and then I installed win2k on top of
all that, now the NTLDR rewrote the MBR so LILO will no longer start up
linux(it automatically goes to NTLDR instead), however I can still get
linux to boot from a floppy, so I need to know how to reinstall LILO on
the first sector of the linux partition and edit the NTLDR in
windows2000 and add an entry to it that points to the linux boot sector
(phew). Problem is... I'm kind of a linux newbie and I don't know the
root commands (redhat starts with bash shell as default I believe) to
get to the bootsector and copy it to the NTLDR, I believe I may also
need to reinstall LILO since it was configured to
load in the MBR originally, but now since the MBR is owned by the NT
loader, it needs to be installed on the first sector of the linux
partition. If anyone can walk me through how to do this I would be
eternally grateful, thanks in advance.
-smizz(curt)
"breeze, it's your high school" --US Maple
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Banks)
Subject: Re: Open Source Windows Based X Server?
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 22:30:55 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robie Basak) produced the following pearl of
wisdom:
>
>I did see a site. WeirdX (search http://freshmeat.net) is a Java OSS X
>Windows client, though I never got it to work.
>
I've seen that one, and got it to work (after a bit of fiddling) but
it's quite slow - VNC is probably better (as long as your in the Win32
environment) - if you were on a MAC or something similar WierdX is
probably the way to go.
- Richard
[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Eisenberg)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Modem, Soundcard, and Zip Drive Problems
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 22:37:24 GMT
>
>ZIP: Well, they all work, but you failed to mention how the drive's
>attached. Is it a parallel-port drive, a USB drive, a SCSI drive, or an
>internal IDE drive? I'll go with the internal IDE drive as those are the
>most common:
>
>At boot, there should be a number of messages displayed on screen, one of
>which should say something like
> hdd: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive
>These scroll by kind of fast, but they're logged in /var/log/boot.msg in
>most cases. If so, put an MS-DOS formatted ZIP disk into the drive, become
>root, and enter the following commands--
> mkdir /mnt/zip
> mount -t vfat /dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip
>Replace "hdd" with whatever your ZIP drive was detected as. Corel/Debian
>should include the ide-floppy driver as a module in their base distro.
Thanks for the help, the message did say
hdd: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive
as Linux booted up, then I typed in the two commands you said as
mkdir /mnt/zip
mount -t vfat /dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip
Is it suppose to work everytime it boots up now? Because I still
can't acess the Zip drive at this point. Thanks! Take Care. Paul
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: booting 3 OS's on one machine win98-win2k-linux
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 22:43:49 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <8hp5p1$m6b$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> My next venture was this, I wiped everything out again, starting
> with a 2gig primary c: partition, installed linux on a 3 gig partition
> over that, with LILO on the MBR, and then I installed win2k on top of
> all that, now the NTLDR rewrote the MBR so LILO will no longer start up
> linux(it automatically goes to NTLDR instead), however I can still get
> linux to boot from a floppy, so I need to know how to reinstall LILO on
> the first sector of the linux partition and edit the NTLDR in
> windows2000 and add an entry to it that points to the linux boot sector
> (phew).
I recommend you do the following:
1) Boot Linux
2) Log in as root
3) Edit /etc/lilo.conf using whatever editor you like
4) Make sure that /etc/lilo.conf contains the line:
boot=/dev/sda
5) Find out what partition your C: drive is. You can do this by typing
"fdisk -l /dev/hda". You'll see a listing of partitions and their
identifiers. One of them should be identified as FAT-32, as in:
/dev/hda1 1 143 1148616 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
The information you want is the device file in the first column
(/dev/hda1 in this example).
6) Add the following entry to /etc/lilo.conf:
other = /dev/hda1
label = windows
table = /dev/hda
You may need to change the partition label ("/dev/hda1") in the
"other" line. This should be the partition identifier you got in step
#5.
7) Save your /etc/lilo.conf file and exit from the editor.
8) Type "lilo".
When you reboot, you should see a LILO prompt. If you type "windows",
you'll get the Windows boot loader, from which you can select Win98 or
Win2K. If you type "linux" (or whatever it's configured to use by
default), you'll get Linux.
Alternatively, you can get a third-party boot loader, like System
Commander. These can help a lot in multi-boot configurations like yours.
Incidentally, you might be interested in my book, _The Multi-Boot
Configuration Handbook_, which covers these sorts of topics in detail.
Check http://www.rodsbooks.com/multiboot/ for more information.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux networking & multi-OS configuration
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From: Chris Ahlstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: CAUTION: I am under attack from an incompetent hacker probably in
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 22:44:21 GMT
Roger Blake wrote:
>
> Frankly if I didn't need it as a technical resource for work I wouldn't
> bother with the Net at all at this point. Here's to the days when every
> Net user knew what "send it to /dev/null" means...
>
Well, at least this "site" isn't infested with Win-boy trolls.
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Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 18:52:07 -0400
From: Brian Goodyear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cycas: How to save homemade symbols
Koos Pol wrote:
>
> I have a questions concerning Cycas 2.0:
>
> How can I save a home made symbol? In the Symbol menu, pressing the Save
> button does not give me a file dialog to store the symbol on disk.
>
After you press save you'll notice that the menu changes to the SELECT
menu which means you have to select those elements you want to save as a
symbol. As you select them they turn white (default). When you are
finished selecting click on OK (towards the bottom on the right). Now
the SAVE file dialog comes up for you to name the Symbol and save it.
Brian
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark)
Subject: Re: Burning A CD IMAGE of LINUX - Assist
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 22:55:48 GMT
On Wed, 07 Jun 2000 18:24:44 GMT, "cd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi Guys,
> I was wanting to try the latest Turbo Linux Server package. I located an
>archive that offers the disk images in CD image format , and downloaded
>them.
>
> These file names are :
>TLS-6.0.4.en.INSTALL.iso 478,160,955 bytes
>TLS-6.0.4.en.INSTALL.iso.md5sum 59 bytes
>
>I was hoping to use Adaptec Easy CD Deluxe 4 to burn these to a CDR , ....
>not having dealt with this type of image before, I'm unab;e to get the task
>completed. I was hoping that I would be able to tell CD Creator to burn the
>CDR from an image. However, CD Creator is wanting a *.cid format as an
>image. This would be a great solution for an evaluation compared to buying
>off the shelf.
>
>Has anybody been here before that can advise on the best method of creating
>an installable package ?
>
>
>TIA,
>
>cd in Kansas City
>
>
You should be able to right click on the *.iso and select "Record to
CD." Alternately, you should be able to select file->create cd from
cd-rom image, then select file of type: *.iso from the drop-down menu.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: hda: Lost Interrupt
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 23:07:59 GMT
In addendum to this;
We've tried disabling DMA on the drives via the BIOS, and via
'hdparm -d0 /dev/hda'; the former didn't seem to have any effect, and the
latter locked the system tight.
We're now using kernel 2.4.0-test1, and instead of reporting "hda: lost
interrupt", it implodes.
The symptoms appear earliest when running the dnetc client (crunching RC5
blocks), using XFree86 v3.3.6, XMMS 1.0.1 playing an MP3, and doing anything
else (using Netscape, etc..).
I also made the problem appear by running dnetc while trying to compile
a kernel.
Since this is starting to almost look like a processor issue (in some way
or another), the processor is an AMD K62-500 3D. dnetc utilizes 100% of the
processor, of course, and this seems to be the case when this problem
occurs.
Is something outrunning something else?
The 2.2.14 kernel was optimized for either a 586 or a 686, and the 2.4
kernel is optimized for the K62.
On a similar, and possibly related note;
When attempting to install Microsoft Windows 98 SE to a VMware drive,
at some point the VMWare session bombs with a fatal error (immediately
before it would ordinarily start "Copying Files To Your Computer").
This is becomming a real problem here, especially considering the fact that
the nature of the problem changed so signifigantly when upgrading the kernel,
and that we don't have any solid logs to use.
The only logging we got was a kernel back-trace once, several boots ago,
but with no GPM loaded and no functional TTYs in the first place, we
couldn't copy it. The main thing I recall was the fact that everything
from hitting enter to Ctrl-Alt-Del would cause a new backtrace to appear
and the TTY to cycle as if it had just been logged out.
If anybody out there has experienced, or is experiencing similar problems;
PLEASE, PLEASE post them! Any input provided could, at the very least, lead
us to the source of this problem; be it hardware, kernel, software, or
whatever else.
Thanks in advance!!!!
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Stewart Honsberger wrote:
>I recently got a new computer with an ALI chipset, and I'm running SuSE as my
>only OS; I have been able to resolve all hardware support issues with the
>machine except for one, and it's a biggy;
>
>During periods of high CPU activity and uncached disk access, a message will
>appear on the tty to the effect of:
>
>hda: lost interrupt
>
>at this stage, the machine is locked up tight - I have to use the reset switch
>to reboot it.
>
>I am using kernel 2.2.14, with and without DMA support, and with and without
>DMA set in the BIOS; there is a 6.4GB Fujitsu (UDMA 66) on the primary IDE
>controller as master, and an ATAPI CD-ROM as secondary master. This chipset is
>an ALI ALADDIN M1543C/1542 on a 100MHz bus.
>
>As I mentioned, the lockup occurs during heavy activity, or alternatively, at
>a random interval of about every 17 - 20 hours. It's quite imperative that I
>find a solution to this problem quickly, any assistance would be greatly
>appreciated.
>
>--
>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: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Random lockups on RH 6.1
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 18:04:57 -0500
Ron wrote:
>
> I installed RH 6.1 on a Pentium II machine, but am experiencing random
> lockups which require a hard reset to get out of. It required several
> attempts just to get linux installed on the machine, and it won't run for a
> full hour before locking up. The hardware itself should be ok, as the same
> machine has been running Windows 95 for the past two years with only the
> typical occasional (and bothersome) Windows crashes!
>
> The system consists of an Asus P2L97 motherboard, Award BIOS, Intel Pentium
> II/233 MHz, 64 MB RAM, Trident Super VGA card, and 3Com 3C905 network card.
> I do not have a sound card, and I experience the same problems in runlevel 3
> (i.e. not running X windows). This is a clean installation of RH 6.1 & all
> current updates on a linux-only machine.
>
> Could this be some type of BIOS setting or motherboard problem? Has anyone
> else had similar problems?
>
> Thanks in advance!
> Ron
I don't know what your problem is, but it has been suggested
before that Linux places greater demands on the hardware than
Windows does. And you are even comparing and up do date
version of Linux with an old version of Windows. So it
is possible that a hardware problem is cropping up under
Linux that you didn't see under Windows. So don't eliminate
the possibility of a hardware problem.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: hda: Lost Interrupt
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 23:17:22 GMT
On Thu, 08 Jun 2000 23:07:59 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In addendum to this;
>
>We've tried disabling DMA on the drives via the BIOS, and via
>'hdparm -d0 /dev/hda'; the former didn't seem to have any effect, and the
>latter locked the system tight.
Just a suggestion, to also post this on comp.os.linux.hardware.
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: No answer from freewwweb (Was Re: connect LINUX to Free ISPs?)
From: alram83 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 16:24:52 -0700
I connect to freewwweb using pppsetup. Simplifies building the
actual scripts by prompting you for the info, and the generated
scripts can be modified in any text editor. I inserted the DNS
addresses manually in /etc/pap-secrets. My version came with
Peanut Linux from metalab.unc.edu/peanut.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Not my real name! :))
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stewart Honsberger)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: hda: Lost Interrupt
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 23:28:28 GMT
Sorry 'bout this messy chain of follow-ups, but it was suggested to me
that I post this to comp.os.linux.hardware as well, so here I am.
I just want, nay, need this problem solved ASAP, if not sooner.
On Thu, 08 Jun 2000 23:07:59 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In addendum to this;
We've tried disabling DMA on the drives via the BIOS, and via
'hdparm -d0 /dev/hda'; the former didn't seem to have any effect, and the
latter locked the system tight.
We're now using kernel 2.4.0-test1, and instead of reporting "hda: lost
interrupt", it implodes.
The symptoms appear earliest when running the dnetc client (crunching RC5
blocks), using XFree86 v3.3.6, XMMS 1.0.1 playing an MP3, and doing anything
else (using Netscape, etc..).
I also made the problem appear by running dnetc while trying to compile
a kernel.
Since this is starting to almost look like a processor issue (in some way
or another), the processor is an AMD K62-500 3D. dnetc utilizes 100% of the
processor, of course, and this seems to be the case when this problem
occurs.
Is something outrunning something else?
The 2.2.14 kernel was optimized for either a 586 or a 686, and the 2.4
kernel is optimized for the K62.
On a similar, and possibly related note;
When attempting to install Microsoft Windows 98 SE to a VMware drive,
at some point the VMWare session bombs with a fatal error (immediately
before it would ordinarily start "Copying Files To Your Computer").
This is becomming a real problem here, especially considering the fact that
the nature of the problem changed so signifigantly when upgrading the kernel,
and that we don't have any solid logs to use.
The only logging we got was a kernel back-trace once, several boots ago,
but with no GPM loaded and no functional TTYs in the first place, we
couldn't copy it. The main thing I recall was the fact that everything
from hitting enter to Ctrl-Alt-Del would cause a new backtrace to appear
and the TTY to cycle as if it had just been logged out.
If anybody out there has experienced, or is experiencing similar problems;
PLEASE, PLEASE post them! Any input provided could, at the very least, lead
us to the source of this problem; be it hardware, kernel, software, or
whatever else.
Thanks in advance!!!!
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Stewart Honsberger wrote:
>>I recently got a new computer with an ALI chipset, and I'm running SuSE as my
>>only OS; I have been able to resolve all hardware support issues with the
>>machine except for one, and it's a biggy;
>>
>>During periods of high CPU activity and uncached disk access, a message will
>>appear on the tty to the effect of:
>>
>>hda: lost interrupt
>>
>>at this stage, the machine is locked up tight - I have to use the reset switch
>>to reboot it.
>>
>>I am using kernel 2.2.14, with and without DMA support, and with and without
>>DMA set in the BIOS; there is a 6.4GB Fujitsu (UDMA 66) on the primary IDE
>>controller as master, and an ATAPI CD-ROM as secondary master. This chipset is
>>an ALI ALADDIN M1543C/1542 on a 100MHz bus.
>>
>>As I mentioned, the lockup occurs during heavy activity, or alternatively, at
>>a random interval of about every 17 - 20 hours. It's quite imperative that I
>>find a solution to this problem quickly, any assistance would be greatly
>>appreciated.
>>
>>--
>>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
--
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: Rob Weiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How do I create a simple server to accept requests on a port?
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 23:30:11 GMT
Rock on!! Thanks for the input...no pun.
Robie Basak wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 08 Jun 2000 15:30:09 GMT, Rob Weiss said:
> >If it's Linux it's possible.....
> >
> >
> >I want to set up a service, foo, to accept requests on port 999 using
tcp.
> >I want that service to kick off a Perl script, foo.pl, to append a new
> >piece of data to a file, foo.conf...
> >
> >I can setup the /etc/services and /etc/inetd.conf
> >
> >inetd.conf:
> >foo stream tcp nowait foo /usr/lib/scripts foo.pl
> >
> >services:
> >foo 999/tcp foo #my foo script
> >
> >What do I need to do to the perl script to extract the data I need to
add
> >to the file? The data can be any length and all the data should fit
into
> >one tcp packet. Also, there is only one argument, "foo-data".
> >
> >Is there a standard script to extract the data portion? Or something
> >simple to use or call?
>
> Your perl script will receive any input from the TCP connection on its
> standard input and any feed to its standard output will go back
> through the TCP connection.
>
> Therefore, just treat/test the script by typing what should go in, and
> it'll print what comes out. Then put it into /etc/inet.conf and it's
> all done!
>
> Socket programming is _so_ much easier than in Windows :-)
>
> Robie.
> --
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From: usfisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How can I install a zip drive in Redhat 6.1, and change lilo default boot?
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 23:30:08 GMT
I have a NEC Zip drive, which is supported win95/98/NT. my linux system
detect it, it might be installed as well. But I don't known how to operate
it in the terminal. What should the directry of zip drive be? Please help
me? and how can I change lilo's default boot from linux to window 98?
Thank you very much!!!!
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Subject: Re: Freewwweb slow ?
From: alram83 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 16:36:39 -0700
Works fine here in Jersey...originally signed through Windows,
but transferred the DNS info to Linux on the same PC through
pppsetup and manually configuring /etc/pap-secrets. I even play Q
III in Linux on this connection! :)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl Fink)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Where did my disk space go?!?!
Date: 8 Jun 2000 22:51:42 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 8 Jun 2000 12:18:32 -0500 Larry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Answering your question about temp files -- the directory /tmp
contains temporary files, analogously to /windows/temp in Win32
systems. You might be able to delete some of that.
I've been known to use this command:
find / -size +1000k -exec ls -l {} \;
as root. It means "list all the files over 1 megabyte in size".
(Technically it's not one megabyte, but so what?) As others have
said, du -k is also really useful.
FWIW, 850 megs just isn't that big. You can getan 8 gig drive for
under $100 these days.
--
Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Can't "make" it!
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 23:26:35 GMT
Hi!
Can someone tell me why do I get "bash: wrong command" or something
like that when I'm trying "make" or "make install" for a new
module I want to install?
I'm using newly installed Mandrake 7.0.
The "perl Makefile.PL" phase went just fine.
Thanks,
Alexander
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: hda: Lost Interrupt
Date: 08 Jun 2000 19:49:17 EDT
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On Thu, 08 Jun 2000 23:28:28 GMT, Stewart Honsberger
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
shouted forth into the ether:
>We've tried disabling DMA on the drives via the BIOS, and via
>'hdparm -d0 /dev/hda'; the former didn't seem to have any effect, and the
>latter locked the system tight.
[snip long tale of woe with disk]
This sounds like a hardware problem to me, to tell you the truth. What is
the make and model number of this motherboard? I ask because the ALi 154x
seems like the chipset of choice for cheap nasty boards, and I had a
MicroStar 5185-something with that chipset... similar errors would always
occur when I stressed the system hard (under both Linux and Lose98) , or
sometimes for no reason at all. Tore my hair out trying to solve the
problem with kernel upgrades, utility upgrades, better power supplies, a
new hard drive... and finally replaced the motherboard, at which point the
problem disappeared.
I know that's not what you wanted to hear, but it just might help out.
--
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 \#| Beer is a vegetable. WinNT
(Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| is the study of cool. --MegaHAL
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