Linux-Misc Digest #825, Volume #24 Thu, 15 Jun 00 16:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Ghostscript/printing question (Chuck Lidderdale)
Re: Read Linux partition from Win95 ? (Rod Smith)
Re: Install RH on 2nd HD or new partition? (Pako)
write and echo do not work but wall does work (john)
Re: linux (TomG)
shell scripts (TomG)
Resizing Linux Partition (Eric Rountree)
LSF for Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
trying to record line-in input from soundcard (Darrel Davis)
Re: X won;t start --Anyone!! (ray)
Re: Mandrake 7.1 ISO too big! (Rod Smith)
Re: Fdisk and dos ("D F")
Re: spontaneous read-only mailbox folders (Michael Mueller)
Re: Resizing Linux Partition (Rod Smith)
Re: DELL's Linux price is HIGHER than Win98 (Brian Moore)
Equivalent of \mathindent in amsmath? ("D. D. Brierton")
Re: Resizing Linux Partition ("David ..")
how to surf net on red hat linux (bitu)
vmware + novell client ("Gerald Pollack")
[PLEASE IGNORE THIS THREAD] Re: Equivalent of \mathindent in amsmath? ("D. D.
Brierton")
Re: fdisk, uh oh... (Dave Brown)
Re: how to surf net on red hat linux (Patricia)
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From: Chuck Lidderdale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Ghostscript/printing question
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 18:20:41 GMT
How to I tell lpr/ghostscript to do Duplex printing?
Thanks
Chuck
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Read Linux partition from Win95 ?
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 18:22:36 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Andrew E. Schulman writes:
>> But who needs to bother with that, when you can boot Windows,...
>
> First you'll have to install it.
Not necessarily. Symantec and Iomega have jointly released a utility
for installing Windows on a Zip disk, and using a floppy to kickstart
the boot process. I believe it's called Norton Zip Rescue (NZR) or some
such. Assuming a would-be miscreant knew enough about the target
hardware, and assuming the target hardware had a boot floppy, etc.,
etc., it wouldn't be difficult to create an NZR disk that would boot
into Windows on any given target computer. This stuff even works on
parallel-based Zip drives, so if somebody wanted to break into a Linux
computer in this way, they could. Of course, it'd be easier in such
situations to use a Linux emergency floppy.
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Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux networking & multi-OS configuration
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From: Pako <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Install RH on 2nd HD or new partition?
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 18:31:11 GMT
Chris Stump wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>
> I just had my computer die on me, the short story is that my
> hardrive became corrupt and took my Red Hat Linux 6.1 and Windows 98
> OS's (which were on the same HD) out with it. The drive is shot and is
> soon to be replaced by a new one (luckily I had everything backed-up and
> my puter is still under warrenty!).
> The first sign of HD corruption occured when Windows tampered with
> LILO and thus prevented LILO from working properly. Basically, after
> this happened I could only boot Linux off of a rescue disk--Windows was
> inaccesible (except through linux). I tried to do a 'fdisk /mbr' off of
> a windows start-up disk to replace the Master Boot Record, but it didn't
> work (thus, 1st sign of HD corruption)...the rest was downhill from
> there.
> Anyways, this computer really belongs to my sister, and although
> everything will be fine soon, I'm wary about repartitioning the new
> drive, reinstalling linux, and having a dual-boot system run by LILO.
> This is only because I will be moving away from this computer soon and
> if something like this happens again to the HD (if LILO gets corrupted)
> then my sister will have a huge mess on her hands and won't have a clue
> as to how she should fix it...and the last thing she would want to do is
> trouble-shoot it over the phone with me. However, I need my linux, and I
> would like to be able to access the computer remotely when I move away.
> So, basically I'd rather not use LILO anymore--its great and all, but
> when it gets corrupted, it royally screws things up. My question is
> which method of installation would be safer for me? To buy a second
> hardrive, install linux on that, and then boot it off of a floppy? Or
> repartition the HD to how it was before and just boot off of a floppy
> instead of using LILO? Is one method necessarily safer than the other?
> Why? Finally, during my Red Hat 6.1 Gnome workstation install I don't
> remember having the option of whether or not I wanted LILO to be
> installed...it just did it. Also, I was not given the option to make a
> boot disk. Should the installation give me these options? Any advice
> is greatly appreciated...
>
> Thanks in advance to all those who reply.
the rescue disk is the only boot disk you need, it boots to linux. gnome
should have asked to install lilo. if lilo gets taken out, just boot to
linux w/ the rescue disk, and type "lilo" at the prompt. it runs lilo,
and updates any changes you configured w/ lilo, and puts it back in the
mbr. if you are gonna start over w/ the new hd, which apparently you have
too, what you might want to do, is just to get two harddrives, boot to
linux w/ a floppy and take the second hard drive w/ you when you go. then
it won't affect her at all. as to safety, they are teh same, unless you
are worried about a hd puking, in which case, you would only lose one OS
in the puke. (hopefully the Win OS :-) fdsiking the mbr won't restore
lilo, it would just reset it to the normal just boot windows mode. (not
100% certain on that tho) anyway, that should help out a bit. you can
email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you want to ask me anything else.
cya!
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From: john <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: write and echo do not work but wall does work
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 18:31:33 GMT
Help,
I have a program that runs a script as root. The program correctly works
on Red Hat (all verions) and SUSE 6.1. On SUSe 6.4 the script no longer
works. I want to just echo "A message" or cat message.txt | write root.
Neither command works. However, if I put in wall "hello" in the script it
will work with SUSE 6.4. Is there a setting I am forgetting. Also, on
SUSE 6.4 if I create a script that calls cat message.txt | write root. I
will recieve "warning - you aren't really logged in..." but the message
will apear on the screen. Is there a setting or something that I am not
doing.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
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From: TomG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 18:31:49 GMT
aps265 wrote:
>
> how do you upgrade linux to win95
>
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Are you having a laugh???????
Linux works, win95 don't
Why would you _ever_ want win95????????????????
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From: TomG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: shell scripts
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 18:31:49 GMT
Is there a practical way to write a shell script which reboots the system,
passing parameters etc to LILO? I have found a few silly ways of doing
this including a script which replaced the LILO.conf file. As you may
imagine, this is awkward.
thanks in advance
Tom
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From: Eric Rountree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Resizing Linux Partition
Date: 15 Jun 2000 14:47:46 -0400
Hello to all.
I'm running RedHat Linux 6.2 on an IBM Intellistation.
I have the following partition setup on my hard disk:
1) Small DOS partition
2) NTFS partition
3) Extended partition containing:
a) Linux Boot partition
b) Linux Swap partition
c) Linux Root partition
Using PartitionMagic, I've successfully reduced the size of my NTFS
partition and enlarged the Extended partition. Now I would like to
shove the three Linux partitions to the head of the Extended partition
and enlarge the Linux Root partition.
However, RedHat Linux doesn't seem to like me moving stuff around like
that. I tried moving the Linux Boot partition to the head of the
extended partition, and Linux wouldn't boot after that. Fortunately,
using PartitionMagic to move the Linux Boot partition back remedied
the situation.
Is there a way to move Linux partitions around like I've
described. Without breaking anything?
Thanks.
Eric
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Department of Computing & Information Science
Goodwin Hall, Room 551
Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario
Canada K7L 3N6
(613)533-6784
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: LSF for Linux
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 18:42:02 GMT
Hi all,
Is anyone aware of software providing load share facilities (LSF) for
Linux, and possibly HP-UX, etc.
Thanks.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Darrel Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: trying to record line-in input from soundcard
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 14:17:25 -0400
I am trying to record sound on the line-in port
on my soundcard. Have tried wavrec, krecord
as well as a few other things.
Can't seem to find a device that matches for the
soundcard line-in. Anyone had any luck?
Suse 6.4, Soundblaster AWE64.
Soundcard works fine under Linux for play.
Any help appreciated.
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Darrel Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
AudioSonix, Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: X won;t start --Anyone!!
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 19:00:35 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm running RH6.1. My X was working fine but ever since I rebooted my
> machine I cannot get into X.
> I'm getting this error message when I try to start X.
>
> -fontTransSocketUnixConnect: Can't connect: errno=111
>
> failed to set default path 'unix/:-1'
> fatal server error
> could not open default font 'fixed'
>
> mach64ProgramMac64CT: Warning: Q<10.66667
> X Connection to 0:0. broken (explicit kill or server shtdown)
>
> It's very frusrateing!!!
>
> sm
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
Make sure xfs is running before you startx
--
Ray R. Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
HTTP://gordo.penguinpowered.com
Ray's Linux gordo.penguinpowered.com 2.3.99-pre9
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Mandrake 7.1 ISO too big!
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 19:02:30 GMT
In article <71825.1778$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Eric Potter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In article <MPG.13b21e54fecb0a0b98968c@news-server>, Broccoli Puffs
>>
>> Oh, I like the additional apps just fine. What I'm complaining about is
>> too much stuff jammed into the installation iso which is actually 667M
>> and definitely too large for Nero 5 to write to a single garden-variety
>> CDR.
>
> cdrecord was able to write it to a 650M cdr.
Two things to keep in mind:
1) MB vs. MB. Technically, 1MB = 1,048,576 bytes, and this is the
figure that's applied to CD-R capacity. Many people, however, look
at a file's size and divide by 1,000,000 to get MB, but that's more
properly called "millions of bytes." Looked at this way, a 650MB
CD-R can hold 681 million bytes. If the "667MB" figure is really
667,000,000 bytes, then that's well within the capacity of a 650MB
CD-R.
2) Many "650MB" CD-Rs actually have slightly higher capacities than
this. Details differ from one brand to another, but a "650MB" CD-R
that can actually hold 667MB isn't terribly uncommon. There's also a
"lead-out" area on all CD-Rs that can sometimes be used to store
additional data, although it really shouldn't be. Some programs,
though, assume that all CD-Rs have a capacity of precisely 650MB, and
just plain refuse to even try to burn a CD-R that's even a byte
larger than this. This sort of behavior is safe in the sense that you
won't accidentally try to burn something that's too big, but it can
be annoying if you've got an image that WILL fit on your media.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux networking & multi-OS configuration
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From: "D F" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Fdisk and dos
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 15:03:15 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip]
>AFAIK, dos's fdisk will not *make* a second primary
bootable partition. but
>having them does not cause any problems .
>
>I once had :
>hda1 primary ( visible )
>hda2 pri bootable
>hda3 pir boot hidden ( NTFS )
>
>hda4 (dos Extended )
> hda5 ext f32
>
>
>here's what happened after win98 finally booted:
>
>C : hda2
>D: hda5
>E: hda1
>F: CDROM
>
>
>Would appreciate some enlightenment.
Yes, you're absolutely right, although there are a lot of
people who won't believe you. I had a running exchange with
someone on here a couple of months ago who kept reciting the
one primary/one extended mantra over and over again, in
spite of evidence to the contrary. (BTW, he also refused to
admit that an extended partition (not a logical partition
but an extended partition) is a primary partition of type
extended!) I posted my current partition table that works
great in Windows and he accused me of being "an MSCE or
something." That's when I gave up. There's no arguing with
some people!
In fact, if you scour the MicroCrap website, you'll find
that the ability to recognise and use multiple primary
partitions has been an 'undocumented feature' of Windows for
quite a while -- I gave up trying to find out if Win3.1
would support it but, certainly, all versions and releases
of 95 and 98 do. In NT, it's been recognised as possible
since the beginning. I'm not sure whether pure DOS
recognises multiple primary partitions but Windows certainly
does. Just hold your nose for a half hour and go to the M$
website and search the knowledgebase for the term "primary
partition". It's really that simple...
Now, it's true that DOS fdisk won't allow you to do it but
that's not to say it can't be done. I build my partition
tables with Linux fdisk and, as you rightly assert, Windows
has no difficulty seeing and using them.
My current setup has 4 primary partitions on the first IDE
primary master and Windows uses the two FAT32 primaries
without difficulty (the other two primaries, one of type 85
Linux extended containing 4 logicals, are reserved for Linux
and invisible to Windows). On the slave, I have 3 FAT32
primaries (and a Linux extended (type 85) containing four
ext2 logicals) and, again, this configuration poses no
problems whatever in Windows.
There is one serious problem with building a table like that
for Windows, though, and it's the real reason why we get
those people posting in here in droves about how they can't
reclaim their partition space when they try to (DOS) fdisk
after getting rid of Linux. DOS fdisk sees the table with
more than one entry and assumes that, what isn't in the
primary is in an extended. Then, when people try to delete
that 'extended' partition, DOS fdisk tells them it contains
logicals and can't be deleted. Of course, DOS fdisk is then,
promptly, incapable of finding the logicals it assumes must
be there. When the poor soul grabs a copy of Linux fdisk, he
can rewrite that table no troubles...
Dave Fluri
North Bay, Ontario Canada
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From: Michael Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: spontaneous read-only mailbox folders
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 20:40:33 +0200
Hi Adam,
you wrote:
> This morning I was informed that one of my users' inboxes had become read only
> and she could not delete any of the mail in her box. I subsequently found
> that all of the users had the same problem, even root. I looked at the
> permissions of /var/log/spool/mail, and they all look right, though I'm not
> sure what the higher-up folders permissions should be. Any insight would be
> appreciated. I run RH 5.0 on a P166.
Sounds like your POP3/IMAP daemon died and left a lock file preventing
itself from writing to a mailbox file while reading from. You should
then also check the RedHat site for updates fixing security problems
imposed by the daemon(s).
Malware
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Resizing Linux Partition
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 19:10:05 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Eric Rountree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Using PartitionMagic, I've successfully reduced the size of my NTFS
> partition and enlarged the Extended partition. Now I would like to
> shove the three Linux partitions to the head of the Extended partition
> and enlarge the Linux Root partition.
>
> However, RedHat Linux doesn't seem to like me moving stuff around like
> that. I tried moving the Linux Boot partition to the head of the
> extended partition, and Linux wouldn't boot after that. Fortunately,
> using PartitionMagic to move the Linux Boot partition back remedied
> the situation.
>
> Is there a way to move Linux partitions around like I've
> described. Without breaking anything?
No, but recovery is pretty simple if you're prepared:
1) Create a DOS boot floppy. (You can use FreeDOS,
http://www.freedos.org, if necessary.)
2) Put LOADLIN.EXE and a copy of your Linux kernel on the DOS boot
floppy. (LOADLIN.EXE should be on your Linux installation CD; the
Linux kernel should be in the /boot directory, probably called
vmlinuz, zImage, bzImage, or something similar.)
3) Take note of what partition holds your root (/) partition (probably
/dev/hda7, given your partition layout).
4) Resize and move your partitions as desired.
5) Boot the DOS boot floppy.
6) Type "LOADLIN VMLINUZ root=/dev/hda7 ro" (I THINK that's the syntax;
check the documentation to be sure). You may need to adjust some
details, like the kernel name, the root partition, etc.
7) When the system boots, log in as root and type "lilo".
Thereafter the system should boot as it did before.
Note that if you add or delete partitions, which would change the
partition labels (/dev/hda7, etc.), you may need to adjust the
/etc/fstab file before shutting down between steps 3 and 4. You'll need
to know what the new partition numbers will be. Alternatively, you can
use an emergency Linux boot floppy to edit the /etc/fstab file after the
fact.
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Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux networking & multi-OS configuration
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Moore)
Subject: Re: DELL's Linux price is HIGHER than Win98
Date: 15 Jun 2000 15:05:06 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>' Because Dell figures that people will pay more for Linux. Evidently Dell's
>' marketing people have determined that their customers are prepared to pay a
>' premium for not having Windows.
>
>That sounds like the IBM cost schedule back in the days when they were
>the king. IBM charged for performance, not for the cost of
>manufacture + profit.
>
>--
>David Steuber | Hi! My name is David Steuber, and I am
>NRA Member | a hoploholic.
>
>All bits are significant. Some bits are more significant than others.
> -- Charles Babbage Orwell
You're paying for the work that Dell (presumably) did to make sure the
hardware they are selling you works for Linux. Since this requires a
non-trivial effort, I don't think it is unreasonable to charge what
the traffic will bear.
You can always buy one of their Windows-configured machines and elect not to
get Windows with it and I believe they do give you a discount.
--
Brian G. Moore, School of Science, Penn State Erie--The Behrend College
[EMAIL PROTECTED] , (814)-898-6334
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From: "D. D. Brierton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Equivalent of \mathindent in amsmath?
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 20:20:14 +0000
I use some macros for typesetting examples. They are numbered in the same
way as equations. This works best with the options fleqn and leqno. In
order for uniform alignment between examples and equations the macros set
\exampleindent to \mathindent. I would like to use amsmath, but as amsmath
does not use \mathindent. I have tried reading the source of amsmath.sty,
but it is way over my head. Does anyone know how I can achieve the effect
I am after with amsmath?
Thanks in advance,
Darren
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Resizing Linux Partition
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 14:12:32 -0500
Eric Rountree wrote:
>
> Hello to all.
>
> I'm running RedHat Linux 6.2 on an IBM Intellistation.
>
> I have the following partition setup on my hard disk:
>
> 1) Small DOS partition
> 2) NTFS partition
> 3) Extended partition containing:
> a) Linux Boot partition
> b) Linux Swap partition
> c) Linux Root partition
>
> Using PartitionMagic, I've successfully reduced the size of my NTFS
> partition and enlarged the Extended partition. Now I would like to
> shove the three Linux partitions to the head of the Extended partition
> and enlarge the Linux Root partition.
>
> However, RedHat Linux doesn't seem to like me moving stuff around like
> that. I tried moving the Linux Boot partition to the head of the
> extended partition, and Linux wouldn't boot after that. Fortunately,
> using PartitionMagic to move the Linux Boot partition back remedied
> the situation.
>
> Is there a way to move Linux partitions around like I've
> described. Without breaking anything?
>
ftp://ftp.falsehope.com/pub/parted/
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From: bitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: how to surf net on red hat linux
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 19:30:09 GMT
hi!
i am a total novice at using linux.i have it on a partoined hard drive.
redhat that is. i can just about use Gimp or the organizer in it.
my sole incentive for installing linux was 'browsing the net will be a
totally new experience in terms of speed'
where do i get the reqd. software for it and what details do i need from
my ISP?
sumbody help me :(
bitu
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From: "Gerald Pollack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: vmware + novell client
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 19:35:14 GMT
Let me begin by confessing my ignorance of networking. I have Win98
installed as a guest OS (linux host) under vmware 2.0, with host-only
networking and ip masquerading set up and working. The sysop here,
(who has little unix experience), is attempting to get a Novell client,
installed on the Win98 guest, to see servers on the University's main
network. I have ipx running under linux
(doing 'slist' shows the servers), and a folder named 'NetWare Servers'
is visible under Win98 in Network Neighborhood/Entire Network, but there's
nothing in it. I don't know enough about netware to know what
else to report here; but the sysop has installed it successfully dozens of
times on native windows machines, so I assume that it's been set up
properly. Are then any special considerations for getting it to work
from within a guest OS?
Thanks, and sorry for the vagueness.
G. Pollack, Dept. of Biology, McGill Univ.
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From: "D. D. Brierton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [PLEASE IGNORE THIS THREAD] Re: Equivalent of \mathindent in amsmath?
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 20:31:23 +0000
Apologies: this was mistakenly posted to the wrong group.
In article <8iba95$26t2$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "D. D. Brierton"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [snip]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Brown)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: fdisk, uh oh...
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 15 Jun 2000 14:36:15 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Thomas Hommel wrote:
>Darren Welson wrote:
>> How about DiskDruid, where is that thing?
>???
DiskDruid is a RedHat thing, but built-in to their installer. Once
you've installed, it's not accessible.
--
Dave Brown Austin, TX
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From: Patricia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how to surf net on red hat linux
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 21:53:58 +0200
On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, bitu wrote:
>hi!
>i am a total novice at using linux.i have it on a partoined hard drive.
>redhat that is. i can just about use Gimp or the organizer in it.
>my sole incentive for installing linux was 'browsing the net will be a
>totally new experience in terms of speed'
>where do i get the reqd. software for it and what details do i need from
>my ISP?
>sumbody help me :(
>bitu
>
>
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Bitu
first take a look at
http://www.idir.net/~gromitkc/19991212a.html
to see if your modem is supported by linux.
(not a winmodem)
if the modem is internal, big chance it is a winmodem.
take a look at
http://www.crosswinds.net/~beginnerslinux/
to connect using KPPP in redhat
and some other basics to.
--
Good Luck
Patricia
ICQ 69588792
http://www.crosswinds.net/~beginnerslinux
http://beginnerslinux.org
Red Hat Linux release 6.0 (Hedwig)
Kernel 2.2.5-15
9:57pm up 1:39, 1 user, load average: 1.04, 1.25, 1.32
Thu Jun 15 21:57:09 CEST 2000
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