Linux-Misc Digest #131, Volume #25 Fri, 14 Jul 00 10:13:01 EDT
Contents:
Kernel Error Message (Christian =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=FCck=2DLichtenfeld?=)
Re: Application required - Word Processor ("Florian X")
Re: RPM misery... Help please. (Rasputin)
Re: wine-starcraft cluster f*** (Rasputin)
Re: Changing Prompt Color (Karsten Priegnitz)
Re: X protocol vs. XDMCP ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Emacs.. line truncation ("mcparland")
New Kernel Boot Problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: create_module & init_module ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: HOW DO I... (Darren Christie)
Re: NEWBIE: Stupid kernel compile quest: (Quad)
Lotus Notes (Eric Zillmann)
Re: Still can't run GCC ... ("Micromans")
Standard out ("paul miller")
Re: A question about a hard drive and RAM upgrade. ("Alan Pettigrew")
Re: Standard out (Koos Pol)
Squid failure on "getgrnam" with "nogroup" ("Micromans")
Re: Standard out (Derek Jolly)
Re: Making Linux smaller (Grant Taylor)
Re: Running a dos program under linux ("Micromans")
Re: Easiest to install? ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Making Linux smaller (Andrew Purugganan)
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From: Christian =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=FCck=2DLichtenfeld?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Kernel Error Message
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 12:58:27 +0200
Hi all,
one of our 6 Intel Dual-PIII/600 machines with 1GB SDRAM stopped working
during
the last night (no reaction; mouse and keyboard: dead; no ping response
from the ethernet
card) and had to be rebooted by the reset button. We don't know the
exact time of the
system halt, but we find in /var/log/warn the following:
Jul 13 17:14:18 GOOFY1 kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at
virtual address 808c02e8
Jul 13 17:14:18 GOOFY1 kernel: current->tss.cr3 = 00101000, %cr3 =
00101000
Jul 13 17:14:18 GOOFY1 kernel: *pde = 00000000
Jul 13 17:14:18 GOOFY1 kernel: Oops: 0002
Jul 13 17:14:18 GOOFY1 kernel: CPU: 0
Jul 13 17:14:18 GOOFY1 kernel: EIP: 0010:[avl_remove+29/188]
Jul 13 17:14:18 GOOFY1 kernel: EFLAGS: 00010282
Jul 13 17:14:18 GOOFY1 kernel: eax: 808c02c8 ebx: c08bd8c0 ecx:
c08bd8c0 edx: fbbaa27c
Jul 13 17:14:18 GOOFY1 kernel: esi: 00000ef9 edi: 00000030 ebp:
00000e00 esp: fbfdff5c
Jul 13 17:14:18 GOOFY1 kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Jul 13 17:14:18 GOOFY1 kernel: Process kswapd (pid: 5, process nr: 6,
stackpage=fbfdf000)
Jul 13 17:14:18 GOOFY1 kernel: Stack: fbfdff9c c01204d2 c08bd8c0
c021298e 00000030 00000e00 0000000e 00000006
Jul 13 17:14:19 GOOFY1 kernel: 0021298e 00000000 00000e00
00000000 00000000 c0125681 00000006 00000030
Jul 13 17:14:19 GOOFY1 kernel: fbfdffcc 00000286 fbfde000
c021298e fbfde2b9 fbfde2b9 00000e00 00000300
Jul 13 17:14:19 GOOFY1 kernel: Call Trace: [find_vma_prev+114/212]
[read_tape+222/916] [kmem_cache_free+333/396] [read_tape+222/916]
[kmalloc+162/412] [kmalloc+139/412] [show_regs+191/212]
Jul 13 17:14:19 GOOFY1 kernel: [show_regs+200/212]
Jul 13 17:14:19 GOOFY1 kernel: Code: 89 50 20 8b 51 20 8b 41 10 89 02 c7
41 20 00 00 00 00 ff 0d
The virtual address seems to be too high; however, I do not know whether
this message
is the reason for the system crash. Could any expert please tell me what
I make out of the
warnings and what might be a way to find the reason for the crash ?
Thanks in advance,
Christian Mueck-Lichtenfeld
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Dr. Christian Mueck-Lichtenfeld
Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet
Organisch-Chemisches Institut
Corrensstrasse 40
D-48149 Muenster, Germany
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Tel +49 251 83 33301
| Fax +49 251 83 36515
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From: "Florian X" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: Application required - Word Processor
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 13:27:55 +0200
There is a very good and modern DOS Text word processor:
Newdeal Office!!
Link at www.opus.co.tt/dave/index.htm
so long, florian
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rasputin)
Subject: Re: RPM misery... Help please.
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 11:34:06 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <David ..> wrote:
>Chumkil wrote:
> rpm -e ssh
>or rpm -e --nodeps ssh
Will probably *still* give 'package not installed'
The fix that *does* work wasa couple of posts back:
rpm -i --force package, then
rpm -e package
will work correctly.
--
Rasputin.
Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rasputin)
Subject: Re: wine-starcraft cluster f***
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 11:40:10 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <Tron> wrote:
>hello all,
>
> im attempting to get starcraft running using wine, and i got past a
>few of the minor bugs but then i hit my current predicament:
>
>err:module:BUILTIN32_dlopen failed to load libversion.so: liblz32.so:
>cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory
>err:module:BUILTIN32_dlopen failed to load libversion.so: liblz32.so:
>cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory
>err:module:fixup_imports module (file) VERSION.dll needed by
>d:/install.exe not found
>
> i know that a lot of software has the specifications "must be
>compatible with lib something something bla blabla" or something like
>that, so im assuming that ive got corrupted something or other. im
>definately feeling the affects of starcraft withdrawal so if someone
>would be kind enough
>to help me out, that'd be great.
Don't run wine or Starcraft , but you're missing a file by the look
of it, called libversion.so.
liblz32.so (whatever that is) is bitching about it.
I think.
--
Rasputin.
Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns.
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From: Karsten Priegnitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Changing Prompt Color
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 13:47:28 +0200
Kevin Brown wrote:
> How do I change the color of the prompt when using bash or tcsh? Also,
> how do I get it to display the full path instead of just the current
> directory?
>
> Thanks,
> Kevin
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
to Display the full path, try one of these:
export PS1='\u@\h-$PWD > ' to display the full path (e.g.
/home/kevin/programming/perl)
export PS1='\u@\h-\w > ' to display the full path from your
home dir (e.g. ~/programming/perl)
btw: \u means user, \h is the host and \w is the working directory
$PWD is an environment variable that always holds the actual
directory
put one of these lines into your ~/.bashrc file and it will stay for ever
:)
Karsten
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: X protocol vs. XDMCP
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 11:50:47 GMT
In article <8kkmh6$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Hsinko Yu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello all,
> I know that XDMCP is used to communicate with the X Display Manager
(XDM)
> running on a host machine. But after we login successfully and start
some
> applications (x clients), what is the protocol between remote 'x
clients'
> and local 'x server' ?
> X protocol or XDMCP?
> If it is XDMCP, then an XDM is not only a graphical login interface
but also
> an interpreter.
> Please correct me if my concept is wrong.
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> Thanks,
> Hsinko
>
>
X is the basic,
xdm is just one possibility to use it.
so, you can have Xserver without xdm,
but xdm without Xserver ( or Terminal ) won't display anything.
xdm interpretes some ascii files,
most of them in the something/xdm folder,
like which users to allow,
which hosts to allow,
which login-window,
which sessionmanager to use .
after that, its X handling the transfer again.
--
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'there's too much confusion, i cant get no relief...
so let us not talk falsely now, the hour's getting late'
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From: "mcparland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Emacs.. line truncation
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 23:02:20 -0400
M-x auto-fill
sets up the mode so that this is done as you type. M-q is necessary on a
paragraph once the damage is done (or after you tamper with an already
formated paragraph with some inserting, etc.).
Stephen Cornell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Alex Fitterling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Is there any command in emacs, which could perform line/word
> > wrapping and line truncation on a written text... Well ,I know
> > there's usally text-mode... but what I would need is just a command
> > which converts text in one buffer to truncate text.. to have if I
> > would had performed those comand - truncated text.. (oh it gets
> > literal) :)
>
> M-q wraps the current paragraph.
>
> --
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+44-1223-336644
> University of Cambridge, Zoology Department, Downing Street, CAMBRIDGE CB2
3EJ
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: New Kernel Boot Problem
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 12:33:51 GMT
Hi everyone,
I just installed Mandrake 7.1 and everything was great until I
recompiled the kernel. I needed firewall support and IPmasqerading
support. I figured while I was at it, I would upgrade the kernel to
2.2.16. Here is what I did:
make xconfig # I went through all the sections and selected what I need
make depend
make clean
make bzdisk # I wanted to boot off floppy to test the kernel first.
Now, when I boot off floppy, I get an endless loop of:
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k binfmt-464c, errno=8
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k binfmt-464c, errno=8
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k binfmt-464c, errno=8
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k binfmt-464c, errno=8
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k binfmt-464c, errno=8
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k binfmt-464c, errno=8
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Jon Hayden
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: create_module & init_module
Date: 14 Jul 2000 12:43:43 GMT
Benjamin Morin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: int create_module(char *module_name, unsigned long size);
: How do I compute "size"? I've had a look at insmod source code, but it
: seems that it has its own function to do this. Isn't there a simple way
: to insert a module (int insmod(char* filename) :)), except
: exec("/sbin/insmod", "module.o", NULL) ??
Well, the latter idea will do fine. Use request_module("module"); instead
though!
Peter
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From: Darren Christie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HOW DO I...
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 08:42:25 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
John-Paul Stewart wrote:
> Darren Christie wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for all the help that people gave to my prevois posting on kudzu,
> > pcmcia and sound.
> >
> > I have a website I maintain for my local church, for which I want to put
> > a copy of the church magazine on. I wish to put the magazine up as a
> > pdf, however the original documents are in Word97 format. How do I
> > convert (using a script if possible to automate the task) into a pdf
> > under Linux? The magazine is normally held as several Word docs by the
> > people that produce the church magazine. They are non-techie users, so
> > getting them to change is not really an option as it may confuse them.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Darren
>
> Have you considered posting it as HTML instead? Word 97 (I beleive) can
> automatically create HTML with "Save As" on the "File" menu. Seems simpler to
> me, and people could read the magazine online without needing a PDF viewer.
I have tried this, but the results are less than great. Word seems to miss out
the word art that the people use when creating the magazine, when saving as HTML.
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From: Quad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: NEWBIE: Stupid kernel compile quest:
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 12:58:23 GMT
Thanks for the feedback, I love getting information, so if you have any
more, feel free to post.
IM ALL EARS :)
Thanks again
Quad
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Krzys Majewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Quad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > 1) If I do a make modules and make modules install and all seems
to go
> > fine without any errors, why would it be that when I go to load a
> > module, or at startup it says that it cant find the modules after a
> > compile?
>
> Hmm, for comparison this is what I do:
>
> make xconfig && make dep && make clean && make zImage && make modules
&& \
> make modules_install && mount /dosc && cp arch/i386/boot/zImage \
> /dosc/linux/boot/vmlinuz && lilo -t && lilo && umount /dosc
>
> (the part with /dosc is a bit weird but you can safely ignore it I
> think.) After this you can look in /lib/modules/2.2.9 or whatever
> your kernel version is to see if your modules are there. You might
> also need a symbolic link called "current", as in:
> cd /lib/modules/
> ln -s 2.2.9 current
>
> The next thing to check is whether you have the modutils package
> (Debian has this, I'm assuming other dists have something similar but
> I could be wrong) which automates some of the module configuration
> stuff. If you don't, what are the errors you're getting?
>
> > 2) When you recompile, all the settings that you currently have are
> > set by default when answering the questions? (Am I totally wrong on
> > this, my guess is that I am). I ask because last night I
recompiled,
> > all seemed to go great but both my NICs didnt start up. All that I
> > changed was I took out etherexpress as I dotn have the intel NIC.
My
> > guess is I have to explicitly add the ones I have? I thought the
> > kernel might load them up off conf.modules or something by itself.
>
> When you recompile, the default values should be the ones you set the
> last time you compiled. If you didn't ever compile before I think
> the values there are probably not necessarily related to the hardware
> you have. -chris
>
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From: Eric Zillmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Lotus Notes
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 17:19:28 +0200
HI.
Can somebody tell me how to install Lotus Notes 5.03 on Linux?
I have to type some parameters and I have no idea what they must look
like.
TNX
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From: "Micromans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Still can't run GCC ...
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 06:23:31 -0700
That did it ... I installed the glibc rpm and I can now make squid.
Mark M.
"Markus Kossmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Micromans wrote:
> [...]
> > Once the Hello.C program was entered I did a "gcc hello.c" and get this
> > error:
> >
> > /usr/sbin/ld: cannot open crt1.0: No such file or directory
> > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> >
> > I don't know the C language. All I want to do is run "./configure" so I
can
> > then make squid. Any ideas what I'm missing?
> >
> You didn't install the glibc-devel rpm .
> --
> Markus Kossmann
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "paul miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Standard out
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 14:33:47 +0100
Is it possible to run a program on the console and have input and output
displayed on the screen, whilst redirecting it to a file? How?
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From: "Alan Pettigrew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: A question about a hard drive and RAM upgrade.
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 11:44:14 +0100
You may have problems with >64M of memory. If the BIOS reports the true
amount of memory, but Linux only sees 64M, look for the 'ACPI Aware O/S'
setting in the BIOS, and set it to 'No'.
I have a K7M board and AMI BIOS from 1999. Other BIOSs may call the setting
something different.
Good luck,
Alan
"Madhusudan Singh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi
> I have a Dell Optiplex GX1 system (P-450)with 64 MB RAM and 4.3 GB hard
> disk.
>
> As was inevitable, I am feeling the need to increase both.
> Now, comes the hard part : I have two partitions on my hard disk - one
> for Windows 98 (for kid stuff) and one for Linux (for serious work). The
> hard disk is split roughly even between the two.
> If I go ahead and attach a 10 GB hard disk in addition to my 4.3 GB
> hard
> disk, how would I make use of it ? I mean what I want is to shift the
> entire Windows OS to a portion of that hard disk, partition it, and claim
> the rest of the space for Linux as well as the space vacated on the
> original hard disk.
> If this is possible (sounds possible to me), how do I do it ?
> I expect the RAM addition - 128 MB (in addition to 64 MB I already
> posess) to be relatively uncomplicated. Tell me if there are some issues
> involved here.
>
> What is the typical bill for these additions ?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Madhusudan Singh.
>
> PS : I would appreciate an email copy of your response.
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Koos Pol)
Subject: Re: Standard out
Date: 14 Jul 2000 13:44:17 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 14 Jul 2000 14:33:47 +0100, paul miller
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| Is it possible to run a program on the console and have input and output
| displayed on the screen, whilst redirecting it to a file? How?
man tail
Koos Pol
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From: "Micromans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Squid failure on "getgrnam" with "nogroup"
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 06:54:19 -0700
I downloaded squid 2.x and have run the make successfully. Now I go to
create the swap directories with "./squid -z". However, I get the following
messages:
FATAL: getgrnam failed to find groupid for effective group 'nogroup'
Squid Cache (Version 2.3.STABLE3): Terminated abnormally.
Micromans
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Derek Jolly)
Subject: Re: Standard out
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 13:54:36 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (paul miller), in message
<8kn4om$36d$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote
>Is it possible to run a program on the console and have input and output
>displayed on the screen, whilst redirecting it to a file? How?
Yep. Use tee ("man tee" for info).
For example to list a directory to the screen and to the file ls.lst,
you could use
"ls|tee ls.lst"
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From: Grant Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Making Linux smaller
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 13:56:11 GMT
"Martin Duspiva" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have a friend, who has an old 386 computer and we'd like to make
> it a Linux workstation :-) But the new distributions are very large
> - I was thinking about recompiling glibc to make it smaller. We also
> don't need any security there, no PAM no shadow passwords etc. How
> can I get rid of it?
Well, how small is small? Most distributions can be installed in "no
applications" mode, which takes up around 20-50MB. After that you
just install only the things you need.
I know Debian does this just fine, and last I knew Red Hat did too.
It's probably easier to manage in Debian.
--
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From: "Micromans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Running a dos program under linux
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 06:58:07 -0700
I am a Linux newbie so I have never run DOS from Linux, but in a book I have
they say that you can run DOS applications from Linux using the DOSEmu
environment. In RedHat there is an RPM for DOSEmu. However I've never tried
it.
Micromans
"Erik Bas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8kmhil$9rh$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hello,
>
> i have a DOS executable that i want to run under linux called B.EXE.
>
> How can i achieve this?
>
> When i run 'dos -L B.EXE'
> it says: DEXE file not found or not executable.
>
> i hope someone can help.
>
> Kind regards,
>
>
> Erik Bas
>
>
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Easiest to install?
Date: 14 Jul 2000 13:49:19 GMT
Jonathan Brimsfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Which flavor of linux (RedHat, Debian, Mandrake, SUSE,
: Slackware, etc...) is the easiest to install? I am
Slackware. Your opinion next ...
(without a clue as to your hardware and your savvy or thick-fingeredness,
one would be taking pot luck with any guess ...)
: looking for a standard installation that would have
: clients and servers for telnet, ftp and other networking tools
: plus a complete C and C++ compiler set.
That comes on every distro. Which one do you know of that lacks this?
: Is there a flavor of Linux where one does not have to go hunting for
: rpms or whatever after installation?
One doesn't have to do anything if one doesn't want to. Most distros
come with between about 1G and 2G of compressed binaries ready for
install.
: I just want to be able to stick a CD in the drive and choose the options
Why would you prefer to do that instead of just getting it from the
net? Just out of curiousity ... I have never used a cdrom myself and
my only experiences with them have been that they are useless things.
: I want and get all of it installed in an automated format and just
: start using it afterwards. I do not want to find incomplete
: installs requiring software searches.
?? What do you mean?
: Is such a distribution available for linux?
All of them are like that.
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Purugganan)
Subject: Re: Making Linux smaller
Date: 14 Jul 2000 13:57:35 GMT
Martin Duspiva ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
[ I have a friend, who has an old 386 computer and we'd like to make it a
[ Linux workstation :-)
[ But the new distributions are very large - I was thinking about recompiling
[ glibc to make it smaller. We also don't need any security there, no PAM no
[ shadow passwords etc.
[ How can I get rid of it?
Get one of the linux-on-a-disk tro
Coyote? isone that comes to mind, but check out freshmeat.net for others
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