Linux-Misc Digest #196, Volume #25 Fri, 21 Jul 00 12:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Re: Network Neighborhood for Linux (Rod Smith)
Re: Lilo broken??? (Gary Hallock)
Re: non-English letters in xterm (Nicolas LS)
Re: /etc/kppp.allow question (Manolo Sampedro)
Linux & free ISPs (mst)
Re: Please sign the "Grand Prix Legends" petition! (Richard Watson)
cu returns line busy! or /dev/ttyS0 --permission denied (truetech)
Installation nightmare (Madrake & Red Hat) (Dafydd Prichard)
ulimit -c doesn't work (Aldo Pignotti)
Linux dialing up to a NT server (Jimmy Navarro)
Terminal is not fully functional ??? (=?iso-8859-1?Q?S=E9bastien?= Cottalorda)
Re: Linux RamDisk - performance (Dances With Crows)
Re: /etc/kppp.allow question (Dave Brown)
Re: audio on cdrom? (Mary P)
Re: Filesystem always reported as 100% full (Dave Brown)
SuSe kernel [was Re: Use "force" with rpm?] ("Jan Schaumann")
Re: X.400 Client (JCA)
Non US (English) characters from a US keyboard (JCA)
Re: Linux dialing up to a NT server (Grant Edwards)
Can I pass sockets between processes ("Gast Primus")
ps -aux output question (simple) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Memory usage of StarOffice under Linux (Heinz Ruffieux)
isdn dialin server ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Problem with missing RAM (mircea)
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Network Neighborhood for Linux
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:19:54 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thaddeus L Olczyk) writes:
> Is there something like network neighborhood for linux that will allow
> me to access a remote ( samba ) partition without actually mounting
> it?
There are several GUI SMB/CIFS access tools for Linux. For instance,
Corel Linux includes one; there's LinNeighborhood
(http://www.bnro.de/~schmidjo/), Kruiser
(http://devel-home.kde.org/~kruiser/), and xSMBrowser
(http://www.public.iastate.edu/~chadspen/). All of these tools, however,
mount the remote filesystem, then browse to it. AFAIK, the only way to
access a remote SMB/CIFS filesystem WITHOUT mounting it is to use the
text-mode smbclient program, which comes with Samba. This tool has an
interface that's quite similar to that of the traditional text-mode ftp
client.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux networking & multi-OS configuration
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Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 09:35:13 -0400
From: Gary Hallock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: Lilo broken???
Ray Lopez wrote:
>
> This whole thread underscores how software is dependent on hardware (and
> vice versa). The big lie that Linux is "platform independent" is just that.
> Try running Linux on a Mac as easily as on Unix hardware. Linux is made for
> Unix machines (mainframes), or, rather, it was ported to a PC with a
> mainframe in mind (not an ideal solution).
>
Is this a contest to see who can got the most things wrong in one small
paragraph? If, so, I guess you win. Linux DOES run on a Mac. The
traditional Unix machine was not a mainframe but rather a minicomputer. Unix
only came to mainframes much later. Linux was not ported to the PC with a
mainframe in mind. It was originally written for the PC and later ported to
other platforms. Mainframe Linux is one off the more recent additions. I
have Linux running on my Thinkpad and my Aptiva. I installed Linux on a
12-way S/390 G6. And the guy down the hall from me has it running on an
RS/6000. All work very nicely and I can move programs between them with only
a recompile needed. If that is not "platform independence" them I don't know
what is.
Gary
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nicolas LS)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject: Re: non-English letters in xterm
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:39:32 GMT
Le 21 Jul 2000 10:58:36 +0200, Stefano Ghirlanda a ecrit :
>It does not work... I still get alt+d = � and, for example, alt+k = � instead
>of kill-line-to-end...
I have an azerty keyboard but, I don't use alt+k but ctrl+k and alt+d
but ctrl+d . (Even if alt d works)
--
- Nicolas LS -
- http://nlsn.free.fr -
- Logiciels, liens, astuces, ... -
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From: Manolo Sampedro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: /etc/kppp.allow question
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:59:18 GMT
On Sat, 15 Jul 2000, Jimmy Navarro wrote:
>Valentin Guillen wrote:
>
>> Jimmy,
>>
>> > $ kppp
>> > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
>> >
>> > Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
>> >
>> > kppp: cannot connect to X server :0
>> > $
>>
>> This error message means that the client software, in this case (kppp)
>> is not authorized to connect to the X-server. This has NOTHING to do
>> with:
>>
>> '/etc/kppp.allow'
>>
>> I'm fairly certain that what's happening here is that you want to run
>> the kppp program so that you can dial out, but you're not in X windows
>> when you try do do that, right?
>>
>> kppp IS an x program, so that you can only run it while you already have
>> X running. The other possiblility is that you are attempting to use it
>> remotely, or by telnet, or similar.
>>
>> So, my friend, this has nothing todo with adding your username to the
>> file. I think that you're thinking that this "allow" file is similar to
>> a ppp allow file, which is different.
>>
>> Why don't you write back and describe a bit more detail regarding
>> exactly what the main problem is you're having and maybe Icould help.
>
>Amigo, you're absolutely right, but I wasn't though doing as telnet. My
>main problem is, when I click 'kppp', it doesn't get me to kppp dialog
>unless I am a 'root'. While as a non root user I launch a Terminal Emulator
>and 'su -' then 'kppp &' to get me to kppp dialog and dial out. I have
>this problem with Red Hat 6.2, Mandrake 7.1 and now Gentus ABIT 3.0 Linux
>Release. The only distro I don't have this problem is Turbo Linux
>workstation 6.0.2.
>
>After creating '/etc/kppp.allow' still can't dial out unless I am a root.
Hi Jimmy,
think I understood the issue. In fact, there are two different ones:
1.- You cannot use kppp as a regular user, just as root
kppp must be setuid as root because it has to run pppd which has to be run with
root permisions. Anyway is strange that the kppp default setup doesn't work
properly
2.- You use "su" command or login in Xwindow as root and try to run kppp.
It's really fucking strange the Xserver message you receive, normally this kind
of messages appear when you connect (for instance) to your localhost with
telnet and tries to run a program without enable the remote X connections (with
xhost +).
I suggest to try this (as I have no extra ideas about the problem):
1- Login as root and start X
2- Enable remote X connections (xhost +)
3- From an xterm or whatever other terminal, try to run any X client in display
0 ( xman -display 0.0 &). With this approach you can determine if your session
is running in display 0, screen 0. Otherwise you have to determine which
display and screen are using, but anothe posibility is force X to start up in a
given display (startx -- 0.0)
4- If you have success, then try to start kppp
Hope this help. Good luck Jimmy
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From: mst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux & free ISPs
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 09:57:19 -0400
Hi-
I've been using freewwweb for quite a while now - but as of this
morning, they're officially dead. Bought off by Juno. The announcement
at http://home.freewwweb.com says that you have to use a juno account
from now on, however, Juno uses windows-only dialup software a la
netzero, with an ads bar you're supposed to "interact" with, and they
specifically mention NOT supporting Linux.
So, I was wondering, what other free ISPs compatible with Linux are
there? I know Worldspy was also bought by Juno. I'm specifically
interested in having a local dial-up number in the NYC area. TIA,
MST
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From: Richard Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: Please sign the "Grand Prix Legends" petition!
Date: 21 Jul 2000 14:55:47 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> In comp.os.linux.misc Richard Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore) writes:
> >> Yawn.
> >>
> >> 6:27pm up 445 day(s), 18:47, 1 user, load average: 0.24, 0.20, 0.18
>
> > Well that's just posing ;-)
>
> It is overdoing it a bit...
> 2 days should be enough to impress the average windoze user...
> :)
Days?
--
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==================== Reg. Linux User #183315 =============
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Subject: cu returns line busy! or /dev/ttyS0 --permission denied
From: truetech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 06:59:34 -0700
I am trying to use cu to access my router on serial port 1 (ie
ttyS0).
However, when I issue the command cu -s 9600 -l /dev/ttyS0 it
returns to say
permission denied and line is in use.
I 've tried checking what process could be holding the port by
using
ps -aux, but all I see is processes with a ? under the tty
column.
I am logged in as root and the device (ttyS0) is owned by root
with
permissions crw---------
I tried lsmod and can't see any serial device module.
Unfortunately, I don't
know what the module is, so that I can load it manually.
However, using lsof /dev/ttyS* shows that there are no serial
ports open.
HELP please!
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Subject: Installation nightmare (Madrake & Red Hat)
From: Dafydd Prichard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.os.linux.madrake,ahn.tech.linux
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 14:02:22 GMT
I'm having major problems installing X on my PC (PIII 650, 4 Gig Linux
partition, 64M Ram, ATI Rage 128 Video Card, Winmodem, USB port, 17"
Monitor).
During installation I clicked the relevant info (monitor, vid-card,
resolution, etc) but when Mandrake tests the system, if fails to work and
delivers this message...
Couldn't Load
XKB Keymap, falling back to pre-XKB Keymap
_FontTranSocket Unix Connect: Can't connect error + 111
Failed to set default font
path 'unix/:-1'
Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'
try changing some parameters
I've tried changing the parameters offered (moitor, vid card, etc) but I
don't seem to be getting anywhere, each time it just throws up the same kind
of fatal messages.
Prior to Mandrake, I tried Red Hat which basically reacted in the same way,
refusing to launch X windows.
If anybody can help or point me in the right direction, I would be very
grateful
regards
Daf
pls mail me if poss (remove the deletethisbit to mail):
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Aldo Pignotti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ulimit -c doesn't work
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 14:05:06 GMT
On RedHat 6.1 & 6.2 machines, I can't get ulimit -c xxxxxxx
to work. It works for root but a user gets a message that
any number exceeds the limit. I tried setting ulimit -c 1000000
in /etc/rc.d/rc.local and that worked for one log in but not
later. Anyone else see this? Any ideas? Thanks.
--
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to be glad you're alive - the boss
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From: Jimmy Navarro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Linux dialing up to a NT server
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 07:08:26 -0700
I was trying to connect at my work's NT server based modem pool, I get
this persistent error 'PPP-logfile':
//--
Jul 21 06:53:39 localhost pppd[860]: pppd 2.3.11 started by root, uid 0
Jul 21 06:53:39 localhost pppd[860]: Using interface ppp0
Jul 21 06:53:39 localhost pppd[860]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS0
Jul 21 06:53:43 localhost pppd[860]: Remote message: E=691
Jul 21 06:53:43 localhost pppd[860]: PAP authentication failed
Jul 21 06:53:44 localhost pppd[860]: Connection terminated.
Jul 21 06:53:44 localhost pppd[860]: Exit.
//--
Any idea?
--
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=E9bastien?= Cottalorda
Subject: Terminal is not fully functional ???
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 16:14:36 +0200
The message writen above is the message I get each time I try to see a
man page or when i try to "vi" a file :
--> WARNING Terminal is not fully functional
When I "vi" a file, I cannot do it.
but concerning the man pages, after pressing <RETURN>, I manage to see
something.
Any help will be greatly apreciate.
S�bastien
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Linux RamDisk - performance
Date: 21 Jul 2000 14:18:26 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 21 Jul 2000 12:30:03 GMT, Alberto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I am running a set of numerical simulations on a RH6.1 Linux machine with
>256MB of ram (soon to be upgraded to 1GB).
>I create a lot of temporary files and r/w hard disk operations are
>extensive. All these files are deleted after they are used and do not need
>to be saved. At each timestep I create ~50MB of files.
>
>Is there a way I could created a ramdrive and use it as a temporary (fast)
>storage? I am looking for performance since the r/w operations do slow down
>my simulation quite a bit!
modprobe rd rd_size=65536 (creates a 64M ramdisk, if possible)
mke2fs /dev/ram (make a filesystem)
mount /dev/ram /mnt/somewhere (mount it)
[...] run simulation(s), using /mnt/somehwere for the scratch space
umount /dev/ram
rmmod rd (reclaim the memory when done)
This should work if you have the RAM, and it seems that you do.
--
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Life is a hallucination, Death an illusion. Taxes, however, are
Objective Reality.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Brown)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: /etc/kppp.allow question
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 21 Jul 2000 10:01:59 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Manolo Sampedro wrote:
>think I understood the issue. In fact, there are two different ones:
>
>1.- You cannot use kppp as a regular user, just as root
>
>kppp must be setuid as root because it has to run pppd which has to be run
>with root permisions. Anyway is strange that the kppp default setup doesn't
>work properly
>
>2.- You use "su" command or login in Xwindow as root and try to run kppp.
>
>It's really fucking strange the Xserver message you receive, normally this
>kind of messages appear when you connect (for instance) to your localhost
>with telnet and tries to run a program without enable the remote X connections
>(with xhost +).
Not that strange! When you start an Xserver as root, then do another "login"
with the su command, the second process does not know anything about an Xserver
running. after the su, you have to "export DISPLAY=:0". If you're using
Xwrapper, it doesn't like that. So you have to go a step further. Say your
machine is named "dilbert". After root has started the Xserver, root needs to
"xhost +dilbert", which allows any connection from the host "dilbert" to the
Xserver. Then, after you su, "export DISPLAY=dilbert:0". Now you can launch
xterm or any other appl in that window, and make the connection.
--
Dave Brown Austin, TX
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mary P)
Subject: Re: audio on cdrom?
Date: 21 Jul 2000 15:05:57 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
from spike:
>> since nobody else has offered any suggestions,
>What ARE you on? There're 8 articles in this thread offering suggestions!
Sorry. The news server here operates in its own little universe and only
shows 4 articles so far, which is better than usual.
Thanks to Alex C. for explaining xmixer.
MP
- - - - -
_
. .
V
// \\
// \\
(W W)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Brown)
Subject: Re: Filesystem always reported as 100% full
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 21 Jul 2000 10:07:03 -0500
In article <9mXd5.1929$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jeffrey S. Kline wrote:
>I think I agree here too... It sounds like he's got a goofy inode to file
>count issue thats causing him to run out of space...
>...
You can find out what the inode-used status is by:
df -i
--
Dave Brown Austin, TX
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From: "Jan Schaumann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SuSe kernel [was Re: Use "force" with rpm?]
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 11:08:18 -0500
On Thursday, July 20, 2000 6:48 PM, Mike Fontenot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Jan Schaumann wrote:
>>
>> This may not be a direct answer to your questions, but why not download
>> the kernel from ftp://ftp.kernel.org (I believe) and compile it
>> yourself? Sooner or later you will have tolearn hwo to compile the
>> kernel yourself, so why not now? You certainly should read carefully
>> through the appropriate HOWTO's from http://www.linuxdoc.org
>>
>> While recompiling the kernel for the first time might seem scary, it's
>> not that difficult if you're careful.
>>
>
> SuSE won't provide any support if you compile your own kernel; if you
> want their support, you have to use one of their pre-compiled versions.
>
Is that so? Wow. Anyway, so you can not optimize your system the way you
want it if you want to keep their support? Doesn't that kinda blow?
-Jan
--
Jan Schaumann <http://www.netmeister.org>
He may have come up with the recipe, but I came up with the idea of
charging $6.95 for it. -- Moe Syzlak
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From: JCA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: X.400 Client
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 08:13:22 -0700
Did you try to get in touch with the guys from Atos
(http://www.atos.com) They used to have everything
X.400.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need an X.400 Client for my Linux Box. Isearched Freshmeat
> and Tucows but didn't find anything. Anyone if an X.400
> Client exists?
>
> Ciao, Timo
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
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From: JCA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Non US (English) characters from a US keyboard
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 08:16:48 -0700
I wonder how one can, in a simple way, type characters like
accented vowels and others peculiar to non-English languages
under different X applications (in particular, xterm and netscape)
from a US keyboard?
Any hints will be much appreciated.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Edwards)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Linux dialing up to a NT server
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 15:19:25 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jimmy Navarro wrote:
>I was trying to connect at my work's NT server based modem pool, I get
>this persistent error 'PPP-logfile':
>Jul 21 06:53:43 localhost pppd[860]: Remote message: E=691
>Jul 21 06:53:43 localhost pppd[860]: PAP authentication failed
>Any idea?
I think I usually use CHAP rather than PAP for logging into NT
systems.
--
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at I see NEGATIVITY and
visi.com ASPHALT...
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From: "Gast Primus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Can I pass sockets between processes
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 15:32:57 +0100
Hi
This is my problem I hope you can help.
I have 3 processes A B and C running on a single processor. A writes to B
via a socket, B reads the info and passes it on to C via a socket. Is it
possible for B to pass A's socket to C so they can read and write directly
returning the socket to B when communication is over.
References to books, man pages etc would be appreciated.
Thanks
Iain
NB I am running Red hat 5.1 but will upgrade if this helps
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: ps -aux output question (simple)
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 15:15:46 GMT
When I do a:
ps -aux | grep inetd
The output comes back as showing it with brackets around the daemon
name. Why is that?
ex: <fields>................. Jul20 0:00 [inetd]
Doesnt that mean it stopped respoding? I kicked it with a -HUP and the
brackets went away.... What did they mean though?
--Dave
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From: Heinz Ruffieux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Memory usage of StarOffice under Linux
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 15:30:11 GMT
Hi,
When I start StarOffice on my RH6.1 Box and check the running SO processes,
I get one staroffice process, one child process and 5 child-of-child
processes.
Any of those process shows a consumption of residend memory of 43MB!!!
Is there somebody who can give an explanation on this. Is StarOffice really
using that much of memory?
Thanks a lot
Heinz
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: isdn dialin server
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 15:47:27 GMT
Hi. I'm configuring a dial in server with isdn. I just have
one client and one server, both have isdn cards.
I find it hard to find information about dialin.
Anyway I'm doing my best and after many hours I managed to get
client call server. I see the client receiving the call, but
in the logs I see:
local number 123232(the local number) , remote number : ,
So the server isn't able to see the remote number.
I have almost succedeed but I'm stuck.
Here are some logs from the client:
Jul 19 19:12:37 dinorex kernel: isdn_tx_timeout dev ippp0 dialstate 0
Jul 19 19:12:37 dinorex kernel: isdn_tx_timeout dev
ippp0 dialstate 0 Jul 19 19:12:37 dinorex kernel: ippp0: dialing 1
931234567...
Jul 19 19:12:37 dinorex kernel: ippp0: dialing 1 931234567...
Jul 19 19:12:44 dinorex kernel: isdn_net: local hangup ippp0
Jul 19 19:12:44 dinorex kernel: isdn_net: local hangup ippp0
Jul 19 19:12:44 dinorex kernel: ippp0: Chargesum is 0
Jul 19 19:12:44 dinorex kernel: ippp0: Chargesum is 0
Any hints ?
Another question ?
The user I put in the pap-secrets is a passwd user of the server ?
I'd also appreciate if there is a doc or howto I can read.
I had one but it really small.
Thank you for your time .
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From: mircea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem with missing RAM
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 12:02:08 -0400
Frank James Wilson wrote:
>
> I've just installed SlackWare 2.2.16 on my brand new DualPIII i800Mhz
> machine.
> I also installed a nice 396mb of ram, however on 64mb show up?
> I heard someone mention something about Lilo having something to do with
> this, and
> that I should look at the lilo config, but so far I havn't been able to make
> sense of this..
>
> So, suggestions on how to remove my missing memory is great appreciated!!
>
> best regards,
>
> Frank James Wilson
Try to append a line: "mem=396M" in the general section of
/etc/lilo.conf, then rerun lilo. A 2.2.x kernel shouldn't need this, but
there are some motherboards with buggy BIOS where you have to do it.
MST
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