Linux-Misc Digest #109, Volume #25 Tue, 11 Jul 00 19:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: the "i hate it when that happens" dept. (Steve)
Re: Help - Is there a 3D Text Rendering Program for Linux (e.g. Web Page Titles)?
(Steve)
can't load system recovery (Reed)
WordPerfect 8 for Linux won't install under SuSE 6.4 (Stewart Honsberger)
Re: dd (Homer Jay)
problems with pppd in console (asage)
Re: dd (Andrew Purugganan)
Re: ANSI Colors in a C program under Linux... ("Kelsey Bjarnason")
BIG IDE-Drive with Kernel 2.0.19 (Detlef Bosau)
Re: eth0-eth1 switched?? (Kurt Stremerch)
Re: Window Manager With X (Valentin Guillen)
xwindows with EGA (Damir Jurica)
Re: No Carrier - 3Com ISDN TA (JoeB)
Re: Student learning Java (Myriam Abramson)
SuperLaugh IBM Websphere/TopPage Linux, lamers (Juergen Sauer)
MD or LVM for software RAID... And Sybase ? (Robert Herzog)
Re: Window Manager With X (Nicholas Murison)
Re: Web Browser ("Michael Westerman")
Re: Really large hard drive ("Michael Westerman")
Config network cards ("Marc Nesheim")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: the "i hate it when that happens" dept.
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 11 Jul 2000 21:57:02 +0100
I had two LanCD servers (MS-DOS) serving over 300 CDs, the customers
ran applications on two NT boxes which in turn accessed the LanCD
servers. The two NT machines would crash regularly, about once every
two weeks, one was at a remote site and would holup hundreds of clients
untill I could go over there and reboot and investigate. In the year
that I worked there the DOS machines never fell over but the NT servers
were constantly unreliable.
--
Cheers
Steve email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
%HAV-A-NICEDAY Error not enough coffee 0 pps.
web http://www.zeropps.uklinux.net/
or http://start.at/zero-pps
8:48pm up 12 days, 20:29, 2 users, load average: 1.02, 1.02, 1.00
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: Help - Is there a 3D Text Rendering Program for Linux (e.g. Web Page
Titles)?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 11 Jul 2000 21:57:03 +0100
I use POV-Ray for everything, check the page titles on my website.
If you want the source code for the page titles just drop me an email.
--
Cheers
Steve email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
%HAV-A-NICEDAY Error not enough coffee 0 pps.
web http://www.zeropps.uklinux.net/
or http://start.at/zero-pps
8:48pm up 12 days, 20:29, 2 users, load average: 1.02, 1.02, 1.00
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From: Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: can't load system recovery
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 21:30:03 GMT
How can I get my system recovery cd to load after making a goof and
deleting the program
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http://www.help.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stewart Honsberger)
Subject: WordPerfect 8 for Linux won't install under SuSE 6.4
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 21:41:15 GMT
I've got WordPerfect 8 for Linux sitting here, downloaded from LinuxBerg,
and it refuses to install. I've installed it without a hitch on SuSE 6.2
and SuSE 6.0, but with SuSE 6.4 it just refuses to install.
I've tried it with the stock SuSE kernel, a newly compiled kernel.org
2.2.14, and now with 2.4.0-test2, and none of it works. I've updated most
of my libraries, even including the fact that SuSE 6.4 now uses GlibC2.1
while the older versions used GlibC2.0. Could this be the cause?
I've examined the "Runme" script, but most of the Bash scripting language
is still Greek to me, so I was almost completely lost.
Has anyone out there installed WordPerfect 8 on a SuSE 6.4 system? If so,
do you have any suggestions? Thanks in advance!
--
Stewart Honsberger (AKA Blackdeath) @ http://sprk.com/blackdeath/
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Remove 'thirteen' to reply privately)
Humming along under SuSE 6.4, Linux 2.4.0-test2
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Homer Jay)
Subject: Re: dd
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 15:19:26 -0600
On Tue, 11 Jul 2000 19:06, Kieran Tyrrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Does anyone know where I can get hold of the 'dd' util compiled for DOS?
>
>(I need to raw write a linux partition from a windows machine...) or if
>anyone
>can suggest a good alternative to dd?
>
>Kieran.
Doesn't ``rawrite.exe'' do this? (It's been a while since I used it.)
I know that you can get rawrite via the Minix archive.
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From: asage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: problems with pppd in console
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 17:49:18 -0400
Probably I am missing something , although I've read everything I could
find on connecting. Here's the problem:
I initially used kppp to configure my internet connection, quite awhile
ago, and it's worked fine, in X. I just can't get connected to the 'net
in console mode. The various configuration files in /etc appear to be
okay.
I've been trying to use pppd from the command line. The stream of odd
characters (the handshake?) printed out on the monitor about 5 times,
and then the prompt reappeared, with no further action. Thinking that I
was now supposed to run an app, like lynx, I entered that command, but
was not connected to the url that I requested, because I had not
actually been connected to the 'net.
Thanks in advance for any help.
M. A. Sage
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Purugganan)
Subject: Re: dd
Date: 11 Jul 2000 21:47:47 GMT
Kieran Tyrrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
[ Hi,
[ Does anyone know where I can get hold of the 'dd' util compiled for DOS?
[ (I need to raw write a linux partition from a windows machine...) or if
[ anyone
[ can suggest a good alternative to dd?
Just grab one of the Linux CDs, they're usually in a dosutils folder in
RH or Mandrake, even on an old version
--
jazz
Registered linux user no. 164098
Doesn't it bother you, that we have to search for intelligent life
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From: "Kelsey Bjarnason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: ANSI Colors in a C program under Linux...
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 21:58:37 GMT
[snips]
"Richard Bos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> "Ricky Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Richard Bos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > FWIW, my computer (an MS-DOS box) will not display ANSI escapes as
> > > intended, even though I compile ANSI C all the time.
> >
> > Not by default, but it will if you load the ansi.sys driver in your
> > config.sys.
>
> *sigh* Yes, I *know*. I have RTFM, you know. Have you? Ansi.sys is _not_
> ISO (or ANSI!) C. I have not, and will not, have ansi.sys loaded; the
> ISO C standard does not require me to.
It doesn't require that you have a keyboard or monitor, either; does this
mean you're going to remove those, too?
Not that ANSI.SYS is either topical or particularly wonderful... but that
was a spectacularly silly argument. :)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Detlef Bosau)
Crossposted-To: de.comp.os.unix.linux.newusers,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: BIG IDE-Drive with Kernel 2.0.19
Date: 12 Jul 2000 00:06:00 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Due to a harddrive crash, I had to remove my old linux installation
running kernel version 2.0.19 to my newly installed IDE 21 GB hard disk.
Now, I'm running into trouble, when booting linux, because the 3rd
partition on the hard disk is not properly detected. There are some
error messages that I would try to read beyond the hard drives
capacity or something like that.
There's no problem with my 2.2.x kernel, but before going to upgrade
my old linux installation from a 2.0.x kernel to a 2.2.x kernel,
I would like to have the old installation runnig as is. There's
hardly a bigger mistake one can make, than "upstoring" an installation,
i.e. upgrade and restore in one task.
(And there's quite a lot to do with the old installation, I'm afraid,
as there are changes in insmod and which binaries else...)
O.k.
I guess, it is a problem with the CHS/LBA conversion with hard disks
bigger than 8 GB. At least, in a revision history of my actual kernel,
there was a hint concerning that. Thus, I suppose, some older
kernels (precisely: older ide drivers) ran into trouble when encountering
hard disks with a capacity bigger than 8 GB. Is this correct?
If so, is there a more actual ide driver patch working with kernel 2.0.19?
Or is there any other solution to my problem?
(Unfortunately I can't remove my old installation to my old disk,
because this would have a similar effect as if I would remove it
to /dev/null. But perhaps the disk media can be reborn in a new
life, serving as halos for saints in the church of emacs :-))
Any help/comment/suggestion will be greatly appreciated!
Please reply to my mail address [EMAIL PROTECTED], as I don't
read all of this groups frequently.
Kind regards
Detlef Bosau
## CrossPoint v3.12d R ##
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From: Kurt Stremerch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: eth0-eth1 switched??
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 22:10:16 GMT
Once a netcard is compiled into the kernel it becomes eth0.. So I made the
3com module and everything was solved..
Kurt Stremerch wrote:
> Helllo.
>
> When I use kernel 2.2.14 everything works and my netconfig is eth0
> (ne2000 with DHCP) and eth1 (3com vortex with static ip).. I compiled a
> new kernel, the 2.2.16. Everything except the networkcards works.. When
> I boot the new kernel, it sends a DHCP request as soon as the modules
> are loaded.. The strange thing here is that with the new kernel eth0
> and eth1 are switched.. But linux still knows that it was the ne2000 who
> needed the DHCP-request. But when the boot goes on, the interface lo
> gets up, interface eth0 does not get a DHCP request!, and eth1 gets up..
>
> Eth0 has become the 3com-card!! My netconf says it is eth0 who needs a
> DHCP request and that is a ne2000-card.. But during the boot it is
> different!!!! How is this possible?? How can I switch them back? Not by
> changing the netconf because it's correct.. Why does the kernel switch
> them? Thanks in advance! K
>
> Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
> FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
> 3c59x.c:v0.99H 27May00 Donald Becker http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/....
> eth0: 3Com 3c900 Boomerang 10baseT at 0x6200, 00:10:4b:aa:56:7a, IRQ 10
>
> 8K word-wide RAM 3:5 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/10baseT interface.
> Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.
> ne2k-pci.c:vpre-1.00e 5/27/99 D. Becker/P. Gortmaker http://....
> ne2k-pci.c: PCI NE2000 clone 'RealTek RTL-8029' at I/O 0x6100, IRQ 11.
> eth1: RealTek RTL-8029 found at 0x6100, IRQ 11, 00:50:BA:B5:89:9C.
> Sending DHCP requests .. OK
> IP-Config: Got DHCP answer from 195.130.132.18
> IP-Config: Complete:
> device=eth1, addr=213.224.98.148, mask=255.255.255.0, gw=213.224.98.1,
> host=213.224.98.148, domain=pandora.be, nis-domain=(none),
> bootserver=195.130.132.18, rootserver=195.130.132.18, rootpath=
> Partition check:
> hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 >
> NTFS version 990411
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
>
> --
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Kurt Stremerch Department Technology
> Student at NaRaFi Option Electronics
>
> I'm artist enough to draw freely on my imagination
> imagination is more important that knowlegde
> knowlegde is limited
> imagination encircles the world..
> A. Einstein
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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Kurt Stremerch Department Technology
Student at NaRaFi Option Electronics
I'm artist enough to draw freely on my imagination
imagination is more important that knowlegde
knowlegde is limited
imagination encircles the world..
A. Einstein
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From: Valentin Guillen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Window Manager With X
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 16:12:21 -0600
Bill wrote:
>
> How do I make X run without a Window Manager in RedHat 6.2?
Wanna ride 'er bareback, eh? At a command prompt, X
It's not exciting. It's a bare X session, consisting of an X mouse
cursor on the familiar black&white pattern. Don't forget that you can
kill any X session, even this one, with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace.
Regards,
Valentin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Damir Jurica)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: xwindows with EGA
Date: 11 Jul 2000 22:05:03 GMT
anyone knows any way to install xwin on ega?
tnx
Damir
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From: JoeB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: No Carrier - 3Com ISDN TA
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 23:29:01 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Still no joy. Can anyone help?
JoeB wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I am using 3COM ISDN Terminal Adaptor (TA), with RH 6.2. I can
> communicate with the TA but for some reason I am unable to dial out. I
> get an error in /var/log/messages saying "No Carrier". What could
> possible be wrong? I can receive calls on the TA and in Windoze I can
> make calls. Am I missing something? Any help or pointers will be
> appreciated.
>
> Many Thanks.
>
> Joe B.
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From: Myriam Abramson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject: Re: Student learning Java
Date: 11 Jul 2000 17:51:48 -0400
If you use emacs as your editor, try http://sunsite.auc.dk/jde/
> 2Funky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribbled furiously:
> Hi folks, appreciate any help given.
>
> I'm using Linux and would appreciate if anyone can recommend some Java
> IDE tools for this platform. I am trying to develop a Java application
> for my course. I really can't afford to a few thousand dollars for some
> of these tools. I have been working with Sun's compiler and am getting
> real sick.....i don't mind paying a hundred bucks or so for a simple IDE
> that can debug (that show more debug details please), step through the
> codes and support my beans/servlets.
>
> Some of my friends recommended open source IDE tools like NetBeans, is
> it good? Its site mentioned that it has no stable version!?
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> Regards
> Nicholas
>
>
>
--
myriam
Go Proverb:
Don't make compact groups of stones.
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From: Juergen Sauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SuperLaugh IBM Websphere/TopPage Linux, lamers
Date: 11 Jul 2000 17:29:23 GMT
Hey,
if you want to have a nice Laugh, take a Look at IBM's ridicolous
try to offer software for Linux.
Websphere shows up DOS like C: D: E: Drive in Linux ?
What lame suckkers !
Those developers really should take some lessons in programming
and operation system theory.
ROTFL !
mfG
Jojo
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From: Robert Herzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MD or LVM for software RAID... And Sybase ?
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 22:39:11 GMT
I am looking into improved performance from a couple of SCSI discs, but
cannot go for hardware RAID.
What is presently the better way to have two discs to be accessed
simultaneously, in order to reach better i/o ?
I used MD some time ago in another contexte and am told that LVM gives
similar possibilities.
By the way, my plan is to have Sybase database files on this volume. I
don't want to use the "raw" device possibility of Sybase, only writing
files to defined "devices" (logical files) from the RDBMS.
Advices ?
Robert
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From: Nicholas Murison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Window Manager With X
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 00:48:33 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bill wrote:
>
> How do I make X run without a Window Manager in RedHat 6.2?
Run the command X. This will give you nothing but the basic X server
with a dot-matrix background. To exit, press Ctrl-Alt-Backspace.
--
Nicholas John Murison
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Don't mess with penguins
Registered Linux User #153895 http://counter.li.org
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From: "Michael Westerman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Web Browser
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 08:55:49 +1000
Wine + Ie5 any one ?
i havn't tryed it , don't intend to but ....
eliot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Ok..this is my opinion - so nobody take it to extremes -
>
> Does enayone know where I can get a GOOD web browser for Linux?
> As much as I dislike Windows, Internet Explorer was the best web browser
> around.. I don't like Netscape. I've tried several others, and I've had
no
> success in getting Mosaic to run at all..
> If anyone has any links to GOOD web browsers for Linux I'd appreciate
them.
> fyi - I'm running Redhat 6.2 (2.2.14 kernel) and X, KDE
> -ej
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From: "Michael Westerman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Really large hard drive
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 08:59:27 +1000
Is it on the second ide channel?
if so some kenals have to be compiled to support and then told theres more
than 2 HDD.
if it is SCSI is the interface recignised?
also you might need ontrack /or mabey thats the problem.....
Todd Lasman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:aW9a5.83$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I'm trying to install Redhat 6.2 on my new 38 gig Maxtor hard drive. I've
> partitioned the disk into suitably smaller partitions, but the
installation
> program refuses even to recognize that I have a disk at all! Please don't
> refer me to the Large Drive Mini Howto -- I've looked at it, and it's
quite
> unhelpful.
>
> Any practical advice?
>
> Todd
>
>
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From: "Marc Nesheim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Config network cards
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 18:02:43 -0500
I have an old 486 running redhat 6.2. I would like to get two intel
etherexpress cards (isa) working in there. No matter how I have the two
cards arranged in the system only eth0 will come up. When I type in: ifup
eth1 the following error message is generated:
SIOCSIFADDR: No buffer space available
SIOCSIFNETMASK: Cannot assign requested address
SIOCSIFBRDADDR: Cannot assign requested address
SIOCADDRT: No such device
Then I do an ifconfig and that out pu looks like:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:AA:00:55:36:C0
inet addr:172.16.0.2 Bcast:172.16.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:246 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:362 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
Interrupt:3 Base address:0x310
eth1 Link encap:AMPR NET/ROM HWaddr
UP RUNNING MTU:0 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
Interrupt:5 Base address:0x300
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
My /etc/conf.modules looks like:
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
alias eth0 eexpress
alias eth1 eexpress
options eexpress io=0X310,0X300 irq=3,5
Does anyone know how to fix this problem? If so please contact me.
Thanks,
Marc
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