Linux-Misc Digest #166, Volume #25 Tue, 18 Jul 00 09:13:02 EDT
Contents:
modem/ppp (Tom Weyer)
Re: mpeg capture from video capture card (Steve Martin)
Defraging against LILO? (Unai Garro)
Re: Netscape & DVI, How to get it to work (Thomas Feuerstack)
New User: INSTAL ON WIN98 (FAT32) partition (Peter Lairo)
capture screen output during booting (mikey)
Re: limit bandwidth ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: capture screen output during booting (Rasputin)
Re: HELP with install... ("Jérôme Meyer")
Re: capture screen output during booting (MIHO)
Re: locked mail, cannot read it with elm ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Defraging against LILO? ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: New User: INSTAL ON WIN98 (FAT32) partition (Dances With Crows)
Re: Defraging against LILO? ("Adam")
Re: 1-2-1 cd copy (Dances With Crows)
Re: Defraging against LILO? (Unai Garro)
Re: Hard Linux Crash ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Defraging against LILO? (Unai Garro)
Re: Looking for web page update notification code ("Jeffrey S. Kline")
Re: Boot disk (-ljl-)
Re: Can't restart Win98 box in DOS after Linux install ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: X will not start with .xsession in $HOME dir (walt)
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From: Tom Weyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: modem/ppp
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 10:37:21 +0200
Hi !
I use Suse Linux 6.1, Netscape 4.6, wvdial and a 56k Acer modem. When
I'm surfing in the internet Netscape hangs up sometimes after 30
seconds and sometimes after 1 hour. Then the connection to the provider
is cancelled and wvdial redials. The relevant output un
/var/log/messages is (... stands for information like IP or passwords):
Jul 16 21:49:18 Ljung pppd[494]: pppd 2.3.5 started by tom, uid 500
Jul 16 21:49:18 Ljung pppd[494]: Using interface ppp0
Jul 16 21:49:18 Ljung pppd[494]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1
Jul 16 21:49:18 Ljung pppd[494]: Warning - secret file
/etc/ppp/pap-secrets has group access
Jul 16 21:49:18 Ljung pppd[494]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <magic ...>
<pcomp> <accomp>]
Jul 16 21:49:19 Ljung pppd[494]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0>
<auth chap 05> <magic ... > <pcomp> <accomp>]
Jul 16 21:49:19 Ljung pppd[494]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0>
<auth chap 05> <magic ... > <pcomp> <accomp>]
Jul 16 21:49:21 Ljung pppd[494]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <magic ... >
<pcomp> <accomp>]
Jul 16 21:49:21 Ljung pppd[494]: rcvd [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 <magic ... >
<pcomp> <accomp>]
Jul 16 21:49:21 Ljung pppd[494]: rcvd [CHAP Challenge id=0x2 < ... >,
name = "chap"]
Jul 16 21:49:21 Ljung pppd[494]: Warning - secret file
/etc/ppp/chap-secrets has group access
Jul 16 21:49:21 Ljung pppd[494]: sent [CHAP Response id=0x2 < ... >,
name = " ... "]
Jul 16 21:49:21 Ljung pppd[494]: rcvd [CHAP Success id=0x2 ""]
Jul 16 21:49:21 Ljung pppd[494]: sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x1 <addr
0.0.0.0> <compress VJ 0f 01>]
Jul 16 21:49:22 Ljung modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
ppp-compress-21
Jul 16 21:49:22 Ljung modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
ppp-compress-26
Jul 16 21:49:22 Ljung modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
ppp-compress-24
Jul 16 21:49:22 Ljung pppd[494]: rcvd [IPCP ConfReq id=0x3 <compress VJ
0f 01> <addr ... >]
Jul 16 21:49:22 Ljung pppd[494]: sent [IPCP ConfAck id=0x3 <compress VJ
0f 01> <addr ... >]
Jul 16 21:49:22 Ljung pppd[494]: rcvd [IPCP ConfNak id=0x1 <addr ... >]
Jul 16 21:49:22 Ljung pppd[494]: sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x2 <addr ... >
<compress VJ 0f 01>]
Jul 16 21:49:22 Ljung pppd[494]: rcvd [IPCP ConfAck id=0x2 <addr ... >
<compress VJ 0f 01>]
Jul 16 21:49:22 Ljung pppd[494]: local IP address ...
Jul 16 21:49:22 Ljung pppd[494]: remote IP address ...
Jul 16 21:51:48 Ljung pppd[494]: Terminating on signal 15.
Jul 16 21:51:48 Ljung pppd[494]: sent [LCP TermReq id=0x2 "User
request"]
Jul 16 21:51:48 Ljung pppd[494]: rcvd [LCP TermAck id=0x2]
Jul 16 21:51:48 Ljung pppd[494]: Connection terminated.
Jul 16 21:51:48 Ljung pppd[494]: Hangup (SIGHUP)
Jul 16 21:51:48 Ljung pppd[494]: Exit.
Thanks !
Tom.
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From: Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: mpeg capture from video capture card
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 05:17:44 -0400
blowfish wrote:
> Yes, broadcast 2000 is really neat.
>
> Try it with multi SMP clusters. You'll love it.
*Sigh*
Actually, BC2000 is the reason I'm saving up for an SMP mobo.
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From: Unai Garro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Defraging against LILO?
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 10:26:08 +0100
Hi all,
I wonder if someone might know what the solution for my problem could
be. I know some other people that had the same problem, but no one knew
how to solve it.
I had installed both Linux Mandrake 7.0 and the Win98 on the same hard
disk, when I decided to defragment the disk under Windoze. I thought
that this should not be a problem, because Windows was not able to 'see'
the Linux partitions. It has however destroyed the LILO, so it is not
possible to boot up neither Linux nor Windoze.
Someone told me that it might be possible to recover the system by
reinstalling the linux as an upgrade, and that it would recover the
LILO, but it was not possible to reinstall it, because it seems that it
has also destroyed the partition system of Linux.
Does anyone know if it is possible to recover the system after this
problem, or any idea how to defrag the hard disk without destroying the
Linux?
Cheers,
Unai
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From: Thomas Feuerstack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netscape & DVI, How to get it to work
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 11:39:14 +0200
Robert Love wrote:
>
> I'm running netscape 4.72 on RH 6.2 Intel. Kinda works. What is
> killing me is trying to view teTeX documentation. I browse the
> toplevel index.html file just fine. When I click on a link to a
> dvi file I get an error. I have the application preference set
> to:
> /usr/bin/xdvi %s
>
> for the entry "TeX DVI data". The error that pops up is:
>
> xdvi.bin: Could not create temporary directory. Exiting.
>
> I'm not sure where it is attempting to create a temp directory.
> Certainly it can work in /tmp. The documents are located in
> /usr/share/texmf/doc. I've tried to set the permissions there
> so a directory can be created. Is it trying in my $HOME area?
usually xdvi tries this in /var/tmp , so make sure that this directory
has all sufficient rights.
sincerely - ThF
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From: Peter Lairo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: New User: INSTAL ON WIN98 (FAT32) partition
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 11:54:33 +0200
Hi,
i want to move from M$ to Corel Linux (but also KEEP Win98 for now) and
have a few questions:
1. i want to install paralell onto a win98 drive (C:\windows\ +
C:\Linux\ - all Fat32). will this ruin my win98 installation?
2. if i decide to later install Linux onto its own partition with its
own file system, how do i delete linux from my fat32 C: drive without
disturbing my win98 installation?
3. are there any benefits to the linux file system?
4. could you give me some examples of these benefits?
5. if linux is on my C: drive (fat32) with windows, can linux
wordperfect red my win wordperfect documents, and vica-versa?
6. if linux is on its own partition with its own file system, can linux
WP then still read my win WP documents on my C: drive (fat32)?
7. any suggestions on how to best share files between the two system
during my (long) transition period between linux and windows 98?
--
Thanks,
Peter Lairo
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From: mikey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: capture screen output during booting
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 09:57:14 GMT
Hi,
Is there a way to capture screen output from the kernel during
booting ??
Regards,
Mike
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: limit bandwidth
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 10:03:49 GMT
Assuming a perfect connection from them to you a 56K (kilobits/second)
means they get 7K (kiloBytes/second). Of course the realities of the
line with squash that at bit, probably right to your 5K limit.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Marcos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> hi,
>
> i want to limit the bandwidth internet conection of our customers.
> (e.g. customers with modem 56 limit to 5Kb's...). is there any
> freeware to do that?
>
> thanks in advance,
>
> marcos
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rasputin)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: capture screen output during booting
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 10:49:33 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mikey> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Is there a way to capture screen output from the kernel during
>booting ??
dmesg may do what you need (but that's after you've booted)
--
Rasputin.
Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns.
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From: "Jérôme Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: HELP with install...
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 12:49:56 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Now, all is properly up and running...
Thanks a lot for your help!
JM
Krzys Majewski wrote:
>
> Unless you have two hard drives, you will probably need to partition
> your hard drive first. If your drive is already partitioned, then you're
> set -- put windows on one of the partitions, and linux on another.
> You can probably do this in whichever order though I've only tried the
> order {Windows, Linux}. If your drive isn't partitioned, you'll need
> to use something like fips or partition magic to shrink the existing partition
> (assuming you have something interesting on it) so that your linux install
> can create a new one in the resulting empty space.
>
> Short answer: I've tried windows first, then linux, and that worked fine.
>
> Lilo is a program that writes some stuff to the part of your disk which
> normally loads the operating system. So when you boot up your machine
> it says "do you want linux or windows?" and you say, of course, "linux".
>
> -chris
>
> J. Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I will install on my PC both Linux(Suse6.4) and Windows98 with
> > the size ~10GB for Windows and ~15GB for Linux.
> > I've just few question about the installation:
> > - What I should install first Windows or Linux (easy way)?
> > - I cannot understand how we can choose (on starting) Windows or Linux.
> > Because Linux
> > use the LILO boot system and not windows. How could I configure this
> > features?
>
> > Thanks a lot for your help,
>
> > Regards,
> > JM
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From: MIHO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: capture screen output during booting
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 13:10:12 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mikey wrote:
>
> Is there a way to capture screen output from the kernel during
> booting ??
There is no need to crosspost this much. This is a standard operation
that every half decent linux user can answer, you don't need to ask
everyone all over the world.
f'up to comp.os.linux.misc.
And btw, do a dmesg | more.
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: locked mail, cannot read it with elm
Date: 18 Jul 2000 11:40:41 GMT
Volodja Koczki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I upgraded to slackware 7.1, and now I cannot read the email using elm.
: I get the message
: Waiting to read mailbox while mail is being received: attempt #0
This is typical of not having permissions to rw in the mail directory
(it often happens to people who have an nfs-mounted spool).
Though I don't personally approve of this configuration, do
chmod a+rwt /var/spool/mail
(as root, or course).
: Do you have any idea what I can do to fix it?
Is it because it says mailbox rather than spool dir? Run the utility
under strace and you'll see what's up.
Peter
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Defraging against LILO?
Date: 18 Jul 2000 11:42:24 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc Unai Garro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I wonder if someone might know what the solution for my problem could
: be. I know some other people that had the same problem, but no one knew
: how to solve it.
Take aspirin.
: I had installed both Linux Mandrake 7.0 and the Win98 on the same hard
: disk, when I decided to defragment the disk under Windoze. I thought
: that this should not be a problem, because Windows was not able to 'see'
: the Linux partitions. It has however destroyed the LILO, so it is not
: possible to boot up neither Linux nor Windoze.
Well, so what? Put it back. Get out your rescue diskette or
installation cd and boot from that, and put lilo back on the MBR
once booted.
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: New User: INSTAL ON WIN98 (FAT32) partition
Date: 18 Jul 2000 12:01:45 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 18 Jul 2000 11:54:33 +0200, Peter Lairo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>i want to move from M$ to Corel Linux (but also KEEP Win98 for now) and
>have a few questions:
>1. i want to install paralell onto a win98 drive (C:\windows\ +
>C:\Linux\ - all Fat32). will this ruin my win98 installation?
Probably not, but doing a partitionless loopback install has its own
problems. Linux will run much more slowly since it has to go from the
raw disk through the FAT filesystem driver through a loopback interface
through the ext2 driver, instead of directly from the raw disk to the
ext2 driver. If you have a reasonable amount of free space on the disk
(at least 1.5G) then partition the disk and do a real Linux install.
>2. if i decide to later install Linux onto its own partition with its
>own file system, how do i delete linux from my fat32 C: drive without
>disturbing my win98 installation?
Just delete the (very large) file the partitionless install creates on
your disk.
>3. are there any benefits to the linux file system?
>4. could you give me some examples of these benefits?
Security and access control through UID/GIDs, plus no need to run
DEFRAG.EXE every few weeks. Also Linux can read/write to ext2 more
quickly than it can read/write to FAT.
>5. if linux is on my C: drive (fat32) with windows, can linux
>wordperfect red my win wordperfect documents, and vica-versa?
>6. if linux is on its own partition with its own file system, can linux
>WP then still read my win WP documents on my C: drive (fat32)?
Yes.
>7. any suggestions on how to best share files between the two system
>during my (long) transition period between linux and windows 98?
Linux can read and write FAT32 without problems. Lose9x can read and
write ext2 filesystems using the explore2fs utility--it's not really
transparent, but it works. For maximum ease of use, keep as much of
your data as possible on the FAT32 partition.
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
If the chances are a million to one against something happening, the
odds are 50/50 that it will. Especially if that something is a bad
thing.
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From: "Adam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Defraging against LILO?
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 08:25:53 -0400
One option is if you made a boot floppy during your install. If you did,
then this is easy: Just put it in and boot the system. Your system will come
up into Linux and you will not have any problems running lilo and putting
lilo in your master boot record.
there is another solution, if the above boot floppy was never made:
under dos, do:
fdisk /MBR
to get rid of whatever crap is in your master boot record
Get tom's root/boot linux (http://www.toms.net)
put it on floppy (it's made for a floppy)
stick it in your floppy drive and boot the computer
once booted, use it to mount all your partitions both linux & FAT16/32 (NOT
your swap partition)
locate the file called "lilo.conf" on your linux partition (if you mounted
linux under a directory called "linux", then it will pro'lly be in
/linux/etc/lilo.conf).
then do:
/sbin/lilo -C /linux/etc/lilo.conf
read the man pages for lilo to understand
Now you should have your system setup with lilo again
--
Adam
http://www.chainsawlinux.com
http://guidetocomputers.org
"Unai Garro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> Hi all,
>
> I wonder if someone might know what the solution for my problem could
> be. I know some other people that had the same problem, but no one knew
> how to solve it.
>
> I had installed both Linux Mandrake 7.0 and the Win98 on the same hard
> disk, when I decided to defragment the disk under Windoze. I thought
> that this should not be a problem, because Windows was not able to 'see'
> the Linux partitions. It has however destroyed the LILO, so it is not
> possible to boot up neither Linux nor Windoze.
>
> Someone told me that it might be possible to recover the system by
> reinstalling the linux as an upgrade, and that it would recover the
> LILO, but it was not possible to reinstall it, because it seems that it
> has also destroyed the partition system of Linux.
>
> Does anyone know if it is possible to recover the system after this
> problem, or any idea how to defrag the hard disk without destroying the
> Linux?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Unai
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: 1-2-1 cd copy
Date: 18 Jul 2000 12:10:18 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 18 Jul 2000 10:08:59 +0200, Simon [Working with T. Cooper]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Can anyone tell me how to make an _identical_ backup of
>a cd-rom?
>Is something along the lines of
>#dd if=/dev/scd1 of=/tmp/cdimage.raw bs=1024k count=1
>#cdrecord -speed=4 dev=0,0,0 /tmp/cdimage.raw
Nope. The block size is wrong there, and the "count" is severely wrong.
You'll get I/O errors out the wazoo. The "readcd" utility that comes
with recent cdrecord releases is supposed to do the right thing, but I
never got it to work. I've done it like so:
mount /cdrom
df
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hdc 476504 476504 0 100% /cdrom
Now divide that "476504" number by 2, giving 238252. Then just
dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/tmp/cdimage.raw bs=2k count=238252
The bs=2k is there because data sectors on a CD-ROM are supposed to be
2048 bytes in size. You can actually leave the "count=" off, but you'll
get I/O errors when dd tries to read past the end of the CD, and you may
have to manually Ctrl-C to stop dd. Either way, when dd is finished,
just do the cdrecord command with a blank CD-R(W) in the drive.
This will not work with audio CDs, naturally--use cdparanoia for that...
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
If the chances are a million to one against something happening, the
odds are 50/50 that it will. Especially if that something is a bad
thing.
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From: Unai Garro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Defraging against LILO?
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 13:20:10 +0100
Thanks a lot. I hope this solves my problem
Adam wrote:
>
> One option is if you made a boot floppy during your install. If you did,
> then this is easy: Just put it in and boot the system. Your system will come
> up into Linux and you will not have any problems running lilo and putting
> lilo in your master boot record.
>
> there is another solution, if the above boot floppy was never made:
>
> under dos, do:
> fdisk /MBR
> to get rid of whatever crap is in your master boot record
> Get tom's root/boot linux (http://www.toms.net)
> put it on floppy (it's made for a floppy)
> stick it in your floppy drive and boot the computer
> once booted, use it to mount all your partitions both linux & FAT16/32 (NOT
> your swap partition)
> locate the file called "lilo.conf" on your linux partition (if you mounted
> linux under a directory called "linux", then it will pro'lly be in
> /linux/etc/lilo.conf).
> then do:
> /sbin/lilo -C /linux/etc/lilo.conf
> read the man pages for lilo to understand
> Now you should have your system setup with lilo again
> --
>
> Adam
> http://www.chainsawlinux.com
> http://guidetocomputers.org
>
> "Unai Garro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I wonder if someone might know what the solution for my problem could
> > be. I know some other people that had the same problem, but no one knew
> > how to solve it.
> >
> > I had installed both Linux Mandrake 7.0 and the Win98 on the same hard
> > disk, when I decided to defragment the disk under Windoze. I thought
> > that this should not be a problem, because Windows was not able to 'see'
> > the Linux partitions. It has however destroyed the LILO, so it is not
> > possible to boot up neither Linux nor Windoze.
> >
> > Someone told me that it might be possible to recover the system by
> > reinstalling the linux as an upgrade, and that it would recover the
> > LILO, but it was not possible to reinstall it, because it seems that it
> > has also destroyed the partition system of Linux.
> >
> > Does anyone know if it is possible to recover the system after this
> > problem, or any idea how to defrag the hard disk without destroying the
> > Linux?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Unai
> >
--
Unai Garro
Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering
The University of Edinburgh
King's Buildings
Mayfield Rd
Edinburgh EH9 3JL
University Tphone:(+44) 131 650 5655
Home Tphone:(+44) 131 4478532
E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
WWW: http://www.ee.ed.ac.uk/~uga
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hard Linux Crash
Date: 18 Jul 2000 12:02:39 GMT
Stewart Honsberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: On Mon, 17 Jul 2000 16:19:25 -0700, John Smith wrote:
: Netiquette states that you should trim your quotes, put your response after
: the quote (the English language is read left to right, top to bottom), and
: give an informative answer. Your response was derrogatory, curt, and likely
Well, I thought his response was amusing, on the money, and witty to
boot.
: has helped to turn this person away from Linux.
I doubt it. Statistics suggest he has a sense of humour, which you seem
to lack.
:>> last night, when the power flickered and my computer rebooted. When it came
:>> back on, Linux would not complete the boot process. The last message shown
:>Get a UPS and reinstall Linux
: While I may not know the answer, I highly doubt that is it. A more
Oooh, it's good enough. Anything else would require a visit from an
expert to discover exactly how much and what part of his FS or hardware
was munged.
: appropriate answer could have gone something along the lines of;
: Do you have an alternate kernel you could try booting from?
Sure, fine. We know he does.
: Do you have a rescue disk? I know that the (bootable) SuSE CDROMs come
Also fine.
: with a rescue system boot option, which can be used to e2fsck your
Didn't get that far, as far as I can tell. But then I'm 56 days from
last boot and not going to reboot now just to check the bootup messgage
sequence. Looks like the power out blew some hardware or exactly
blooied his kernel image. Not very likely, that last!
: Next time you feel the urge to open your yap and help somebody, try to
: suppress it, hunh?
Go eat some seaweed. I personally think he should try kicking the box
and rebooting while holding down the F5 key ;-).
Peter
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From: Unai Garro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Defraging against LILO?
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 13:32:01 +0100
But it does not seem to be only that. The partition table seems to be
damaged too. Should that recover it also?
"Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
>
> In comp.os.linux.misc Unai Garro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> : I wonder if someone might know what the solution for my problem could
> : be. I know some other people that had the same problem, but no one knew
> : how to solve it.
>
> Take aspirin.
>
> : I had installed both Linux Mandrake 7.0 and the Win98 on the same hard
> : disk, when I decided to defragment the disk under Windoze. I thought
> : that this should not be a problem, because Windows was not able to 'see'
> : the Linux partitions. It has however destroyed the LILO, so it is not
> : possible to boot up neither Linux nor Windoze.
>
> Well, so what? Put it back. Get out your rescue diskette or
> installation cd and boot from that, and put lilo back on the MBR
> once booted.
>
> Peter
--
Unai Garro
Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering
The University of Edinburgh
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Mayfield Rd
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From: "Jeffrey S. Kline" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Looking for web page update notification code
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 07:48:40 -0500
Sounds like you just need to set up a "listserv" and enter a cron job to go
and check/compare file date/time stamps on files in the usual places, then
any changes can be looked up and appropreately mailed a notice on the
listserv. Simplistic but sometimes, simple is better.
Les Hazelton wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>In my organization we are moving most of our process documentation to
>web based access on an Apache server. We have been asked to make some
>type of subscription service available so people are notified when
>documents of interest have been updated.
>
>I know this technology exists but have never had a need to install it
>until now. I would appreciate pointers to packages that are able to
>support this type of service. My manager would appreciate some that are
>free open source packages :-)
>
>I am assuming I need a list processor to distribute a specific notice to
>a list of subscribers, some form of page/site scanner to identify
>updated pages and a cgi form to run from a link on each document subject
>to subscription. I definitely don't want to develop all that from
>scratch.
>
>Thanks in advance for any help you may be able to provide.
>
>Les Hazelton
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From: -ljl- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Boot disk
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 12:39:00 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
WSU Student <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am installing new kernel( for nistnet) through a floopy disk (
> using bzdisk ) but gives error while booting - "Failed initializing
> eth0" , my ethernet is not working . may me i am somewhere wrong with
> my configuration. I wanted to know that is it possible to set up
> ethernet with your kernel loaded on a floppy. is it any security issue
> involved here.
I'm using an ethernet connection and can boot from a kernel image
copied to a floppy. The module for my NIC, eth0, is locate on the
hard-disk; so it is possible. Maybe you aren't loading the correct
module version for you NIC.
--
Louis-ljl-{ Louis J. LaBash, Jr. }
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Can't restart Win98 box in DOS after Linux install
Date: 18 Jul 2000 08:59:14 -0400
ldog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> We have a Win98 machine and installed Redhat a few days ago. Since the
> install we can't restart our computer in DOS. When you try (via 'Start' -
> 'Shut Down' - 'Restart computer in DOS'), the computer shuts down, but when
> it comes back up, it goes nowhere. A blue box appears near the middle of
> the screen, and you can carraige return, but it never actually loads DOS (or
> anything for that matter).
Well, if Win98 starts, then DOS does. Win98 runs DOS first (autoexec.bat,
config.sys, etc. and you can use this to clean up things before windows
touches them - used by install routines to access files that windows has
in use - the old "you must restart your computer to finish this
installation"). Did you check:
1: When Windows booting, pressing F8 (I guess) should give you a menu
Can you start DOS clean here (is the problem only "restarting" in DOS
or "starting" DOS)?
2: Have you checked config.sys, autoexec.bat (for starting) and config.win
dosstart.bat (for restarting)?
3: Is there a copy of command.com in the root directory?
To get by for now, you should be able to start DOS with a boot floppy
(will have to set path, etc. and include config.sys CD drivers, etc.).
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From: walt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: X will not start with .xsession in $HOME dir
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 06:05:16 -0700
mikey wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a Red Hat 6.2 with XFree86 3.3.6 installed on my machine. I have
> noticed that if I have .xsession (I have .xinitrc and .Xclients symlinked to
> .xsession) present in my $HOME dir (it doesn't matter if root or just any
> user) I cannot start X. In XDM it will just restart X many times until it
> gives up and console login comes up...
Just a guess--been a long time since I worked with RedHat--I'd look at
/etc/X11 and its subdirectories for symlinks that point back and forth
at each other.
Usually there are system default versions of Xsession and Xinitrc that
test for a ~/.xsession and branch accordingly. Look at the branches
that execute if ~/.xsession is found. You'll probably find an infinite
loop somewhere.
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