Linux-Misc Digest #341, Volume #25 Fri, 4 Aug 00 13:13:05 EDT
Contents:
mgetty: prevent answering ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: How to get system libraries versions ? (Prasanth A. Kumar)
Re: rsh and password ("Andrew N. McGuire ")
Re: I feel bad for RH/Mandrake users. ("Andrew N. McGuire ")
Re: Source profile in X terminals (Mary P)
Re: Why do I have to put "./" in front of "apachectl"? ("Chris Schachte")
Re: Why do I have to put "./" in front of "apachectl"? ("Chris Schachte")
Re: administrator privileges for user (Prasanth A. Kumar)
Re: Windows geek has some linux questions, please advise (Moritz Moeller-Herrmann)
DTC463e SCSI card driving me insane! (Gregory Propf)
Re: Netscape popups (JCA)
Re: Inicio de Linux (JCA)
Re: administrator privileges for user (J Bland)
Re: Why do I have to put "./" in front of "apachectl"? (brian moore)
Re: Netscape popups ("Jan Schaumann")
Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship. (brian moore)
Re: Inicio de Linux ("D. C. & M. V. Sessions")
Re: gzip / zip / compress : 2 gig limit? (Andreas Kahari)
Re: How to get system libraries versions ? (Andreas Kahari)
Re: mgetty: prevent answering (Wolfgang Fritz)
Re: Almost Lost New Hard Drive After Linux Install (Svend Olaf Mikkelsen)
Re: Redhat 6.0 & Win98 (Tony Lawrence)
Re: MySQL vs PostgreSQL.... which is newbie friendlier? (John David Bowden)
Re: 3D Hardware Acceleration Not Working for One User (Anton Deguet)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: mgetty: prevent answering
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 14:57:08 GMT
I'm using mgetty to answer and allow shell and ppp connections. It's
working fine, but I found out that another user on a different computer
needs their modem to answer that same line.
Is it possible to prevent mgetty from answering during certain times?
Someone had suggested creating a /etc/mgetty+sendfax/nologin.ttyS2 file,
but that didn't work. I tried creating /var/lock/LCK..ttyS2 by typing
`touch /var/lock/LCK..ttyS2` but mgetty answered anyway. The log file
showed:
08/04 10:46:35 yS2 compiled with ascii locks, found binary lock file
(length=0,
pid=1074816000)!
So I thought I should have something in the file maybe. I tried `echo 0
> /var/lock/LCK..ttyS2` but mgetty showed:
compiled with ascii locks, found binary lock file (length=2,
pid=1073744432)!
I just need it to not answer during certain times on certain days. Any
suggestions? TIA!
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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Subject: Re: How to get system libraries versions ?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Prasanth A. Kumar)
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 15:10:28 GMT
Michael Ivanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
<snip lines of gibbirish>
> How to khow version number for some library (for glibc, for instace) ?
<sniped lines of gibbirish>
ldconfig -vNX
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Prasanth Kumar
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From: "Andrew N. McGuire " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: rsh and password
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 10:08:27 -0500
On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, David Steuber quoth:
$$ "Andrew N. McGuire " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
$$
$$ ' Try using the RPM's, and see if your problem persists. I am using
$$ ' them on Mandrake 7.1 with no problems. I have not compiled openssh
$$ ' as of yet, so I can't tell you of what tweaks are available. I will
$$ ' play with it though and see what I can find out.
$$
$$ What steps did you follow to allow yourself to ssh onto machine x?
$$
Nothing, really. The system init scripts start up sshd, and I just
ssh'ed in after that. I did not do anything special. This is after
installing the RPM's that is. Normally I do not use RPM's but I
was being lazy when I set up openssh, so I can't speak for any
compilation issues there may be, yet.
anm
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From: "Andrew N. McGuire " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I feel bad for RH/Mandrake users.
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 10:13:03 -0500
On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Kenneth Harrington quoth:
$$ My $.02 here.
$$ I don't think you should have to apologize for your grammar. At least
$$ you can post in a language which is not your native one. Much better
$$ than I can do. :)
$$
Indeed one should not have to apologize for less than stellar
grammar if they are posting in thier a language not their native
tongue. For the rest of us who are mono-lingual[sp?], there is
babelfish[sp?]. :-)
anm
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mary P)
Subject: Re: Source profile in X terminals
Date: 4 Aug 2000 15:34:34 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 04 Aug 2000 12:06:50 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In Solaris I can do:
>DTSOURCEPROFILE=true; export DTSOURCEPROFILE
>to have my .profile sourced in every time I start a terminal in X.
>
>What's the equivalent in Linux? Running RH6.0.
I'm also using RH.
I don't have an environment variable DTSOURCEPROFILE.
For a list of all the env variables go "set"
To see some of the ones you have defined go "env" (or "printenv")
I don't have .profile, instead I have ~/.bash_profile
which contains user specific environment and startup
programs. This runs every time I start a terminal.
I can make systemwide changes by editing /etc/profile
which amounts to the same thing for me since I have no
other users on here.
I don't know how different this is from what you're used to
or whether it actually answers your question - hope it helps.
MP
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From: "Chris Schachte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Why do I have to put "./" in front of "apachectl"?
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 11:41:09 -0400
Kent Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> "Chris Schachte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >
> > According to the feedback, all seemed to go well and I could see the
files
> > in all the places I had been lead to expect them. However, if I typed
> > /usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl start, bash reported that there is no
such
> > file or directory. After being confused for a while, I figured that
> > apachectl was a script like configure and thus needed the ./ in front of
it.
>
> The only time you need to do this is when the command isn't in your path.
> when you need to type './' that means you don't have '.', or your current
> working directory, in your path (which is a GOOD thing).
Let me make sure I understand you. When you say the command isn't in my
path, you're saying the path is the directory that the shell will assume all
executables I type will be located unless I type a specific path in front of
the name of each executable?
And because /usr/local/apache/bin is not set in my path, simply typing
"apachectl start" at my prompt won't work, even if I am in the directory
where apachectl is located. I must instead preface it with "." to tell
linux that the executable is in the working directory, and then tell it to
execute /apachectl start. Right? I told you I really have no idea what I
doing!
Incidentally, why is it good not to have that working directory in my path?
I am guessing security reasons, but I don't really have any idea.
>
> I don't know why /usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl didn't work, but it
> should.
I figured this one out myself. It was because I left off the root / and
only typed usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl . Stupid mistake.
>
> Kent
Thanks for the help, Kent!
Chris
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From: "Chris Schachte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Why do I have to put "./" in front of "apachectl"?
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 11:47:21 -0400
Vilmos Soti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> "Chris Schachte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Sorry this is such a stupid question...
>
> The stupidest questions is the one you don't ask.
True, which is why I asked!
>
> > According to the feedback, all seemed to go well and I could see the
files
> > in all the places I had been lead to expect them. However, if I typed
> > /usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl start, bash reported that there is no
such
> > file or directory. After being confused for a while, I figured that
> > apachectl was a script like configure and thus needed the ./ in front of
it.
>
> Maybe you provided a wrong path.
Indeed, I finally realized that I was leaving off the initial "/", and that
was why it didn't work.
>
> > My question is, what is the meaning of the "./"? Is it simply an
indicator
>
> Usually the present directory is not on your path for security reasons.
> Therefore, if you want to execute a program in the present directory,
> and that dierctory is not on the path, you will get the aforementioned
> error. The ./ is a representation for the full path and at that time
> you give proper path to the shell to find the file you want to execute.
I think I see. I remember that "." signifies the working directory to
Linux, so typing:
# ./apachectl start
in the directory /usr/local/apache/bin is the same as typing
# /usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl start
anywhere.
Now it all makes sense, I think.
>
> > to unix that the filename that follows is a script? In the previous
install
>
> It has nthing to do with scripts. It has to do with executable programs,
> and since scripts are those, it also applies to them.
I see. I was thinking that the "./" was a way of telling Linux that I was
typing an executable, when it's actually just the proper syntax to tell
Linux where the executable is located.
Thanks for the input, Vilmos!
Chris
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Subject: Re: administrator privileges for user
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Prasanth A. Kumar)
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 15:49:28 GMT
Guy-Armand Kamendje <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The Redhat 6.2 distribution has a preconfigured user called "operator"
> Eventhough I have granted this user all possible root-privileges, my
> Redhat box wont allow this user to start up programs like linuxconf,
> start up scripts in /etc/rc.d/ or any other stuff like that. How can I
> get this user performing administrative task such as creating new users,
> changing run level or similar?
> thanks
IIRC, you have to enable the 'suid' bit of the linuxconf binary to
make this work.
--
Prasanth Kumar
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Moritz Moeller-Herrmann)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Windows geek has some linux questions, please advise
Date: 4 Aug 2000 15:50:19 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 03 Aug 2000 02:32:25 -0500, gLiTcH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>a graphical version is caitoo although last time i used it it crashed a lot, it is
>similar to getright
That's right, I forgot it, but it is also not text based (see initial post).
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From: Gregory Propf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: DTC463e SCSI card driving me insane!
Date: 4 Aug 2000 11:48:19 -0400
I bought a scanner (UMAX Astra 1220S) about two years ago and it has
never worked right under Linux (Windows is not an option as I purged the
last copy of it a while ago). It comes with a cheap Taiwanese SCSI
card, a DTC436e. I recently found that by changing a jumper on the card
I can convert it into a true isa PNP card from its former brain dead
memory mapped state (the Linux driver module 'dtc' doesn't seem to work
memory mapped). The system now recognizes the card at boot time.
isapnp also seems to see the card and makes a log entry about it in
/var/log/messages - at least when it runs at boot time. This is the log
entry:
Aug 4 11:21:39 photon isapnp: Board 2 has Identity 7f ff ff ff ff 6e 43
83 12: DTC436e Serial No -1 [checksum 7f]
The sound card has a similar entry. Problem is I still can't load the
driver! I have been using the dtc driver that comes with the kernel.
This is using RedHat 6.2 and kernel 2.2.14-5.0. Pnpprobe and pnpdump
are no help. They tell me about the sound card but are silent about the
SCSI card. Are there any other better isapnp tools out there?
sndconfig was very helpful in creating an isapnp.conf file for the sound
card. Is there a similar utility for generic PNP cards? Anyone have
any other ideas? Please CC my email address if you can. Thanks - Greg
--
Moon is following me, must...run...faster...
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From: JCA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Netscape popups
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 08:38:42 -0700
Jan Schaumann wrote:
> On Thu, 03 Aug 2000 15:39:34 -0700, JCA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > This is not strictly Linux, but maybe somebody here knows
> > the answer.
> >
> > How does one get rid of popup windows in Netscape? It
> > annoys me big time when visiting (or leaving) a site I get an obnoxious,
> > unsolicited popup window.
> >
> > Is there a way to configure the navigator (or something else)
> > so that popup windows don't appear at all?
> >
>
> disable JavaScript.
>
Without disabling JavaScript.
>
> -Jan
>
> --
> Jan Schaumann <http://www.netmeister.org>
>
> Win98 is called Win98 because 98% of the code is untested
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From: JCA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Inicio de Linux
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 08:42:44 -0700
Jos� Luis Domingo L�pez wrote:
> Remember that this is a linux newsgroup where english is the "official"
> language, and we should write in that language (although sometimes this
> doesn't happen).
Says who? The net police?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J Bland)
Subject: Re: administrator privileges for user
Date: 4 Aug 2000 15:51:50 GMT
On Fri, 04 Aug 2000 15:49:28 GMT, Prasanth A. Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Guy-Armand Kamendje <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> The Redhat 6.2 distribution has a preconfigured user called "operator"
>> Eventhough I have granted this user all possible root-privileges, my
>> Redhat box wont allow this user to start up programs like linuxconf,
>> start up scripts in /etc/rc.d/ or any other stuff like that. How can I
>> get this user performing administrative task such as creating new users,
>> changing run level or similar?
>> thanks
>
>IIRC, you have to enable the 'suid' bit of the linuxconf binary to
>make this work.
Should work with sudo too, which is probably safer and user specific.
man sudo
Frinky.
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Email: j.bland at liv.ac.uk Liverpool University
"And it can suck a monkey through 30ft of garden hose!!"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Subject: Re: Why do I have to put "./" in front of "apachectl"?
Date: 4 Aug 2000 16:11:01 GMT
On Fri, 4 Aug 2000 11:41:09 -0400,
Chris Schachte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Let me make sure I understand you. When you say the command isn't in my
> path, you're saying the path is the directory that the shell will assume all
> executables I type will be located unless I type a specific path in front of
> the name of each executable?
That's correct. But remember that './' is a path of sorts. You don't
need to specify the full path.
> And because /usr/local/apache/bin is not set in my path, simply typing
> "apachectl start" at my prompt won't work, even if I am in the directory
> where apachectl is located. I must instead preface it with "." to tell
> linux that the executable is in the working directory, and then tell it to
> execute /apachectl start. Right? I told you I really have no idea what I
> doing!
Yep.
> Incidentally, why is it good not to have that working directory in my path?
> I am guessing security reasons, but I don't really have any idea.
Suppose someone is bad and copies this to /tmp and names it 'ls':
| #!/bin/sh
| rm -rf $HOME &
| ls
The first person with '.' in their path to type 'ls' in /tmp will trash
their home directory.
It's not even safe to put '.' last in your path: they would just need to
name their program after a common typo instead of a command.
--
Brian Moore | Of course vi is God's editor.
Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | If He used Emacs, He'd still be waiting
Usenet Vandal | for it to load on the seventh day.
Netscum, Bane of Elves.
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From: "Jan Schaumann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netscape popups
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 12:14:54 -0400
On Fri, 04 Aug 2000 08:38:42 -0700, JCA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Jan Schaumann wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 03 Aug 2000 15:39:34 -0700, JCA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > This is not strictly Linux, but maybe somebody here knows
>> > the answer.
>> >
>> > How does one get rid of popup windows in Netscape? It
>> > annoys me big time when visiting (or leaving) a site I get an
>> > obnoxious, unsolicited popup window.
>> >
>> > Is there a way to configure the navigator (or something else)
>> > so that popup windows don't appear at all?
>> >
>>
>> disable JavaScript.
>>
>
> Without disabling JavaScript.
You can't.
-Jan
--
Jan Schaumann <http://www.netmeister.org>
"People get annoyed when you try to debug them."
-- Larry Wall (Open Sources, 1999 O'Reilly and Associates)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship.
Date: 4 Aug 2000 16:17:28 GMT
On Fri, 04 Aug 2000 12:20:05 GMT,
Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> the copyright is justified in the first place as being an incentive to
> creativity. the retroactive feature implies that perhaps all is not
> over despite death. immagine, if you will, disinterring the remains
> of william shakespear, re-animating the corpse and allowing the
> zombie-shakespear to write more plays!
Didn't they do that?
I mean where -did- Neil Simon come from?
(And, yes, I think Shakespeare was the Neil Simon of the Renaissance...
deal with it. :))
--
Brian Moore | Of course vi is God's editor.
Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | If He used Emacs, He'd still be waiting
Usenet Vandal | for it to load on the seventh day.
Netscum, Bane of Elves.
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From: "D. C. & M. V. Sessions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Inicio de Linux
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 09:17:47 -0700
Jos=E9 Luis Domingo L=F3pez wrote:
> Remember that this is a linux newsgroup where english is the "official"=
> language, and we should write in that language (although sometimes this=
> doesn't happen). If we are unconfortable writing in english, we can go =
to
> the spanish-speaking linux newsgroups, es.comp.os.linux.*.
Room for everybody. Sure, there's some small advantage to having
as many people as possible be able to learn from the replies, and
yes, that probably means English.
The main thing, though, is to have the person posting the question
get the answer they need. If that means that I (who do not read
Italian) have to miss out on an Italian response, so be it. And
if it means that I have to dust off some very rusty German to help
someone out, that's GREAT!
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| e-mail address. Of course, there isn't REALLY a lumber cartel. |
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Subject: Re: gzip / zip / compress : 2 gig limit?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Kahari)
Date: 4 Aug 2000 09:35:19 +0100
In article <8mcdu7$6cp$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I have a Linux fileserver for my company of ~60 people. I have about
>40 gig of data uncompressed. I back up to tape, but I'd also like to
>be able to tar it (with compression, like tar -cvzf), or zip it, or
>something. Unfortunately all methods die at the 2 gig limit mark. I
>assume this is a limitation of the compression program rather than the
>ext2 filesystem isn't it?
>
>I read about somebody compiling gzip to support larger files, but don't
>have a clue where to start. Can anybody help me create compressed
>files greater than 2 gig?
>
>Aaron
>
>
>Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>Before you buy.
The ext2 file system supports disks up to 4 terabyte, but individual
files can only be 2 gigabytes.
I think ext2 in GNU/Linux 2.2 supports larger files (1 terabyte).
For more info, search for "large file support" at
<URL:http://www.google.com/linux>.
/A
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Subject: Re: How to get system libraries versions ?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Kahari)
Date: 4 Aug 2000 09:44:49 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Michael Ivanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>-=-=-=-=-=-
>
>How to khow version number for some library (for glibc, for instace) ?
>
>
>
>-=-=-=-=-=-
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>-=-=-=-=-=-
If you installed the library yourself, you ought to know it.
If a system administrator installed the libray, ask her.
The package tool 'dselect' in Debian GNU/Linux shows the version
number for all packages, including libraries (other package tools
should do the same, I hope). The documentation installed on your
system for the libraries in question ought to state what version of
the library you are using (look in "/usr/doc/" or in
"/usr/share/doc/").
/A
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From: Wolfgang Fritz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mgetty: prevent answering
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 17:44:08 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I'm using mgetty to answer and allow shell and ppp connections. It's
> working fine, but I found out that another user on a different computer
> needs their modem to answer that same line.
>
> Is it possible to prevent mgetty from answering during certain times?
>
> Someone had suggested creating a /etc/mgetty+sendfax/nologin.ttyS2 file,
Hi,
according to my docs that is not correct. It must be /etc/nologin.ttyS2.
I generate / remove the file via a cronjob and it works as expected.
Wolfgang
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Svend Olaf Mikkelsen)
Subject: Re: Almost Lost New Hard Drive After Linux Install
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 16:33:27 GMT
mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
> the problem may be due to the basic hardware and bios
>configuration, but it happened after an install of Mandrake 7.0
> I just installed a 20 gb hard drive in my old pentium 166 system,
>80 mb memory. The bios only recognized about 8 gb so I
>assumed that I could put Windows on the 8 gb and then
>proceed to install different versions of Linux on the rest of
>the drive. I installed Win95 and then Mandrake 7.0. The
>installation went without hitches. When rebooted the
>system, I got "LI" and lots of zeros.
> During the install of Mandrake, I made a seperate /boot
>partition of 7 mb below the 1024 cylinders. It was very close
>as it complained with 8 mb. Win95 would not boot either.
>I removed the "linear" switch in lilo.conf and Mandrake booted.
>Win95 still wouldn't boot.
> I figured that I would regenerate the MBR via fdisk /mbr.
>What happened was very disturbing. My Win95 boot floppy
>would not boot, but the Linux boot floppy would boot.
>I tried to regenerate the MBR by doing Lilo - u , which I believe
>is supposed to do it, but it didn't.
> The next step that I thought of was to make the new drive
>a slave and put my old 6.4 gb Win95 drive as master. I figured
>that I could somehow repair the drive with a bootable Win95
>system. My old drive wouldn't boot either.
> I decided that the only possibility would be to try to fix the
>hard drive through Mandrake. I did fdisk -o, which put a
>DOS partition on the hard drive. After I did it, I was able
>to boot my Win95 floppy. I did fdisk / mbr and it did not
>regenerate the C: drive. I used Partition Magic and deleted
>the existing Win95 partitions and then used fdisk again.
> I then tried to transfer the Windows DOS with sys c:
>and it said system transferred, but it wouldn't boot. Then
>I did format c:/s and I got a message "not enough memory
>to load system." Then I did just plain format c: and it formatted
>the c: drive without the system. Again, I did sys c: and the message
>was "system transferred", but again it didn't boot and said "
>missing operating system".
> Finally I did format c:/s again and it said "system transferred"
>and it actually worked.
> This was the most frustrating time I ever had with a computer.
> I can't understand why a change on the MBR of a hard drive
>would prevent a DOS boot floppy from booting. I thought
>that if the bios was set for A,C booting that the floppy would
>take priority independently from the hard drive, whether it
>was bootable or not or not even there, but it seems that what
>probably happened was that the boot process somehow still
>needs some sort of confirmation from the hard drive. I
>wish I had a handle on what happened because I never want
>it to happen again.
> Does anyone know why it happened and how I can setup
>my present hardware to do what I origionally wanted it to do?
>
> Thanks
> Mike
The problem was that the Linux installation made cyclic partition
tables. DOS cannot boot in that situation. Since no suitable
partitioning tools exist for Linux, you cannot expect to be able to
install Linux or expect data to be safe, if other operation systems
are in the system.
--
Svend Olaf
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From: Tony Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Redhat 6.0 & Win98
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 12:37:15 -0400
bruce mcdougald wrote:
>
> Can you run Windows 98 under Linux? If so, how?
Vmware, as others have mentioned, and also Win4lin:
http://pcunix.com/Reviews/win4lin.html
Win4lin lacks some of the features of vmware but is less
expensive.
--
Tony Lawrence ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
SCO/Linux articles, help, book reviews, tests,
job listings and more : http://www.pcunix.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John David Bowden)
Subject: Re: MySQL vs PostgreSQL.... which is newbie friendlier?
Date: 4 Aug 2000 16:39:41 GMT
blowfish ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: >
: > Any input will be appreciated.
: Both are about the same.
...unless you're doing a lot of hooks with web-based apps.
MySQL (IMO) has a much better permissions infrastructure. It is much
easier to define which users have access to which databases (or fields!)
from which hosts.
MySQL lacks transactions and triggers (AFAIK), which Postgres does not.
J.
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John Bowden
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Scouting: www.scouts.ca
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From: Anton Deguet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.sys.sgi.graphics
Subject: Re: 3D Hardware Acceleration Not Working for One User
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 16:40:55 GMT
Kevin Brown wrote:
>
> I am using Linux Mandrake 7.1 with an NVidia GeForce 256 DDR with
> XFree86 4.0 using the 0.92 NVidia kernel. I am running a 3D visualizer
> that uses SGI Performer 2.3.1 as the 3D engine. Up until a few days
> ago, everything worked fine with every user, but then the username i use
> most often stopped running OpenGL acceleration with both my app that
> uses performer and perfly, the SGI OpenFlight model viewer. They now
> run using Mesa Software accel, and look like crap. Every other user on
> the system, plus root, all work fine with both perfly and my app, they
> look awesome. Performer spits out something about using OpenGL 1.2.0
> when its workin right, but it says something like OpenGL Mesa 1.2.0 when
> the acceleration doesn't work right.
>
> I don't have any programs that run native OpenGL without performer, so
> I'm not quite sure if its performer or the NVidia drivers that are
> broken.
>
> Does anyone know why acceleration would stop all the sudden for just one
> user, and keep workin for everyone else?
>
> Thanks,
> Kevin Brown
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have the same application running with either Mesa (soft) or Nvidia
OpenGL (hard), depending on some environnement variables (without any
recompilation). In particular, I can set LD_LIBRARY_PATH so that Mesa
is loaded by my application (usefull to compare some "features").
Anton
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