Linux-Misc Digest #408, Volume #25 Thu, 10 Aug 00 18:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Manually configuring routing (was: How to restore IP table on startup?) (Dances With
Crows)
Re: samba + win98 problems (Alvaro Palma Aste)
Re: Linux on AMD (GW)
Re: How to copy a diskette? (Dances With Crows)
Re: How to restore IP table on startup? (Robert Heller)
Re: How to copy a diskette? (Robert Heller)
tar - unrecoverable error on RH 6.1 ("Chris")
Re: new kernel, blank LCD (Shahriar Mokhtari-Sharghi)
Re: NEC versa 4080H + linux ? (Dances With Crows)
Re: sblive-0.2b.tar.gz or? ("Russ")
Re: large archives (Greg Roelofs)
Re: new kernel, blank LCD ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: /usr/local/bin/perl5 (Rick Goyette)
Re: RealPlayer for RH 6.2 ("kc")
Re: Off topic question about colors ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: How to copy a diskette? ("kc")
Re: How to copy a diskette? (Carl Benson)
starting ftpd during bootup (Peter Bismuti)
Re: How to copy a diskette? (Alvaro Palma Aste)
Problem with dosemu (Martin Herrmann)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Manually configuring routing (was: How to restore IP table on startup?)
Date: 10 Aug 2000 20:53:53 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 10 Aug 2000 19:52:05 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm running RedHat 6.1, and want to restore the kernel IP table on
>startup. Manually I used 'route add' to set up the table, and had to do the
>same again after my workstation got rebooted (cause unknown) over the weekend.
>I believe it would have to execute after
>/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ipcfg-etho and ipcfg-lo or there wouldn't be a
>reachable network (correct me if I'm mistaken). What kind of script can I use
>(i.e., shell script or something like the network-scripts?), and what
>directory should it be in? Is there a good howto available on this?
Create a file called /etc/sysconfig/static-routes that goes like so:
IFACE TYPE DEST NETMASK MASK GW GATEWAY <--don't include this line
eth0 ??? ??? ??? ??? ?? ????
Not all parameters are necessary; if you wanted to add a route to a
default gateway at 111.222.333.444, the file would contain:
eth0 net default gw 111.222.333.444
This file will be sourced when the network startup script is run. Once
you've created the file, /etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart should get
things running happily--no need to reboot.
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Tyranny is always better organized
http://www.brainbench.com / than freedom.
=============================/ ==Charles Peguy
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From: Alvaro Palma Aste <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: samba + win98 problems
Date: 10 Aug 2000 20:42:34 GMT
Are you sure that samba daemon is running?
It looks like NMB doesn't...
Try /etc/rc.d.../smb status or restart
vanepelw escribio:
>I am trying to network a linux machine (suse 6.4) with a windows
>98 machine.
>windows machine = Win98
>Linux machine hostname = Linuxbox
>i have (or am pretty sure i have) the settings in smb.conf
>correct. i am running a checklist i found at the samba.org page,
>and when i get to the test to ping my samba server, i have
>problems.
>at the dos prompt i type:
>ping Linuxbox
>the ping gets a reply from my Win98 machine's ip address. the
>travel time is 0ms. i can ping the samba machine using its ip,
>and it works fine.
>somewhere in my win98 machine, some settings are incorrect. can
>anyone direct me where to look??
>thanks
>-----------------------------------------------------------
>Got questions? Get answers over the phone at Keen.com.
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Atte.
�lvaro Palma Aste
Grupo de Ing Biom�dica - U. de Chile
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (GW)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Linux on AMD
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 20:56:52 GMT
On Wed, 09 Aug 2000 01:29:59 GMT, shook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am thinking of setting up Linux on an AMD machine. Did you have any
>problem with the install or after the install?
>
>Shook
>
When I first tried to setup Mandrake 7.0 on my K6 233, it froze at the
checking 'hlt' instruction . . . . . . .
point. Solved it by typing "linux no-hlt".
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: How to copy a diskette?
Date: 10 Aug 2000 21:05:42 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 10 Aug 2000 12:50:10 -0700, Carl Benson wrote:
>Okay, I'm officially frustrated. I've searched Linux Documentation
>Project, O'Reilly books "Running Linux" and "Linux Network Admini-
>strator's Guide", and this newsgroup.
>
>How the heck do I make a copy of a diskette using Linux?
>
>I don't want to mount it as a filesystem. I can imagine popping
>the diskette into the drive, doing some command to read it and
>create a disk image file, then swapping diskettes & copying the
>disk image out to diskette. If I had a disk image, I suppose dd
>would be the command to copy it out to the diskette.
>
>But I have no idea what command(s) to use to read in a diskette
>as a disk image. Can anyone help me, please?
dd if=/dev/fd0 of=diskimage bs=18k (exact copy of disk to HD)
dd if=diskimage of=/dev/fd0 bs=18k (exact copy of image to disk)
The man page for dd is a tad confusing, but dd is generally used to make
exact copies of floppy disks, transform a data CD-ROM into an ISO image,
or alter things like the MBR, which can't be reached via the filesystem.
The bs= option there is for speed; 1.4M floppies have 18K/track. Using
the default bs of 512 bytes takes almost 2.5 times longer. If it helps,
think of dd as doing what they call a "sector copy" in DOS.
>You'd think no one used diskettes anymore!
<RANT>
The 3.5", 1.4M diskette will be around for a long time, if only because
every PC/Mac/Sparc/Alpha can be fitted with one for cheap and many of
those systems can boot from said floppy. It's backwards combatible to
stuff produced 12 years ago--how many other hardware bits have fallen by
the wayside in that time? It's obsolete, slow, and small, but unlike
fast networks/ZIP drives/CD-Rs, it's *UBIQUITOUS*. Jobs was smoking
some wicked crack the day he decided to leave floppies out of the new
Macs... every iMac/G[34] user I know bought a floppy drive first thing
and bitched about the lack of said drive....
</RANT>
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Tyranny is always better organized
http://www.brainbench.com / than freedom.
=============================/ ==Charles Peguy
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From: Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to restore IP table on startup?
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 21:06:47 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED],
In a message on 10 Aug 2000 19:52:05 GMT, wrote :
j> I'm running RedHat 6.1, and want to restore the kernel IP table on
j> startup. Manually I used 'route add' to set up the table, and had to do the
j> same again after my workstation got rebooted (cause unknown) over the weekend.
j> I believe it would have to execute after
j> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ipcfg-etho and ipcfg-lo or there wouldn't be a
j> reachable network (correct me if I'm mistaken). What kind of script can I use
j> (i.e., shell script or something like the network-scripts?), and what
j> directory should it be in? Is there a good howto available on this?
/etc/sysconfig/static-routes is the file.
each line is:
device args
where:
/sbin/route add -$args $device
makes sense (since that is what /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-routes
does).
j>
j>
j> John Meshkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
j> remove "nospam." to reply
j> http://www.sivakalpa.org/johnpipe/
j> "I do not know that I know the self fully,
j> neither do I know that I know him not"
j> ...from the Upanishads
j>
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Robert Heller ||InterNet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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http://www.deepsoft.com /\FidoNet: 1:321/153
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From: Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to copy a diskette?
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 21:06:39 GMT
Carl Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
In a message on Thu, 10 Aug 2000 12:50:10 -0700, wrote :
CB> Okay, I'm officially frustrated. I've searched Linux Documentation
CB> Project, O'Reilly books "Running Linux" and "Linux Network Admini-
CB> strator's Guide", and this newsgroup.
CB>
CB> How the heck do I make a copy of a diskette using Linux?
CB>
CB> I don't want to mount it as a filesystem. I can imagine popping
CB> the diskette into the drive, doing some command to read it and
CB> create a disk image file, then swapping diskettes & copying the
CB> disk image out to diskette. If I had a disk image, I suppose dd
CB> would be the command to copy it out to the diskette.
You just answered your own question! dd works *both ways*:
Insert original floppy:
dd if=/dev/fd0 of=disk.img bs=9216
Insert new floppy:
(optionally: fdformat /dev/fd0H1440)
dd of=/dev/fd0 if=disk.img bs=9216
(9216 = 18*512 -- the number of bytes in a track of a DSHD disk with 18
sectors of 512 bytes each).
Note: this assumes that there are no bad blocks on either disk and that
both disk have the same low-level formatting (i.e. both are DSHD
1.44meg).
Note: this will work for copying DSDD (720K) floppies -- you just
change 9216 to 4608 and fd0H1440 to fd0D720. Similar for 5.25", etc.
You can even dup Zip carts this way (you just need the space disk space
on your hard drive), *even MacOS* Zip carts (you don't even need to
have the hfs.o module or hfsutils installed!).
CB>
CB> But I have no idea what command(s) to use to read in a diskette
CB> as a disk image. Can anyone help me, please?
CB>
CB> You'd think no one used diskettes anymore!
CB>
CB> --CarlB
CB>
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Robert Heller ||InterNet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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http://www.deepsoft.com /\FidoNet: 1:321/153
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From: "Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: tar - unrecoverable error on RH 6.1
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 17:00:57 -0400
I was having trouble getting tar to backup my RH 6.1 system, so I upgraded
tar to version tar-1.13.17-3.i386.rpm
Since doing that the command I was using before which was failing after
backing up most of the disk, now fails almost instantly with 'tar: /dev/st0:
Cannot write: Input/Output error'.
I'm running 'tar -cvf /dev/st0 /*'
So it appears to me that the device /dev/st0 is now no good to the new tar
program. Is this my problem? I tried uninstalling the tar but couldn't find
the original tar rpm anywhere so now I am stuck. Anyone have any ideas? Is
there a better device file to use?
Take off the nospam to email a reply.
Chris
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From: Shahriar Mokhtari-Sharghi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: new kernel, blank LCD
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 17:11:57 -0400
"Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
> Shahriar Mohktari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : I have recently compile the kernel 2.3.99-pre and tried to run my laptop
> : (VAIO-f480) with it.
> : The problem is that after kernel is started to load LCD goes blank and I do
> : not see anything. I tried a copule of thing but they did not help. Any clue?
>
> Did you enable console support in the kernel?
>
> : By the way do I have to copy the new System.map file to /boot where the
> : kernel lies?
>
> No. It's for debugging.
>
> Peter
Here what I have in .config file
# Console drivers
#
CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y
#
================
and in the Makefile
# export SVGA_MODE = -DSVGA_MODE=NORMAL_VGA
I did also try the above line but uncommented in the Makefile, it did not
help
==========================
Here is /etc/lilo.conf
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
vga=791
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
linear
default=dos
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0
label=linux
read-only
root=/dev/hda5
image=/boot/new_vmlinuz
label=linux_2.3.99
read-only
root=/dev/hda5
other=/dev/hda1
label=dos
====================================================
Things work great when I booting linux (old kernel in lilo). But I still get a
blank LCD when I lilo loads
new_vmlinuz.
Any idea what is going wrong?
Thanks in advance
Shahriar
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: NEC versa 4080H + linux ?
Date: 10 Aug 2000 21:14:47 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 10 Aug 2000 19:00:05 GMT, shawn wrote:
>im looking into buying a laptop (yay!) and the best deal i could find
>(refurbished) was for this one called (name in subject). 120mhz cpu, 1
>gig hdd, 40 meg ram, 11.3 tft display and a swappable 8x cdrom and
>floppy drive. this setup is selling for $595.... first and foremost - is
>this a good deal im getting? ive havent bought hardware in a while so im
>quite out of the loop... also id like to know if anyone has any info
>pertaining to running linux on this particular machine.. i know that
>laptop drivers and such are seemingly rare, so...
$595? OUCH. There are better deals out there. 5 months ago, I bought
a refurbished Thinkpad 380D (P-150, 32M, 12" TFT, 2G, 8xCD and floppy
built-in) for $700. Everything was supported, though getting sound
working was slightly painful. ("sndconfig" is your friend if you're
using RedHat/Mandrake.) I'm pretty sure you can get something similar
for approx. $650 now.
http://pricewatch.com/ in the Notebooks->Refurbished section is a pretty
decent place to look. Similar specs to the machine mentioned above
exist around pages 8-10. Also check
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ for info on whether
your specific model is going to work well or not. HTH, good luck.
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Tyranny is always better organized
http://www.brainbench.com / than freedom.
=============================/ ==Charles Peguy
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Reply-To: "Russ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Russ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: sblive-0.2b.tar.gz or?
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 16:07:38 -0500
Take a look at www.opensource.creative.com
HTH
"Howard Kainz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I installed the Corel Deluxe Office Suite for Linux last week, and have
> been looking around for a Sound Blaster Live driver. I'm not sure
> whether the one above is the right driver, or if there is an emu10k1
> driver for Linux. Even if I find it I don't know how to install it,
> unless directions come with it. But for right now, I would like to know
> if there is a workable driver.
> Howard Kainz
>
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Crossposted-To: comp.compression
From: Greg Roelofs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: large archives
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 21:22:43 GMT
Marc van Leeuwen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>And don't forget Win9X's (v)fat cannot support files bigger than 2Gb (not
>>quite sure about out-of-the box Linux distro with ext2fs or WinNT) !
Phil Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Plain old ext2 supports files of up to 4G in size.
Perhaps the file system itself does, but utilities that use the traditional
C library functions don't. A moderately recent tarball stopped dead at
2147483647 bytes. Whether that's because of ext2 or the use of fseek()
or whatever, I don't know, but I was under the impression it was the file
system's fault. (This was on a Slackware 7.0 system, so fairly up-to-date.)
Of course, reiserfs is coming right along and, together with glibc's
*64() functions, eliminates that restriction altogether. I haven't had
time to try it, though.
I guess this has strayed; followups redirected to comp.os.linux.misc.
--
Greg Roelofs n_e_w_t_(at)_p_o_b_o_x_(period)_c_o_m
Newtware, PNG Group, Info-ZIP, Philips Research, ...
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: new kernel, blank LCD
Date: 10 Aug 2000 21:23:23 GMT
Shahriar Mokhtari-Sharghi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: "Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
:> Shahriar Mohktari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:> : I have recently compile the kernel 2.3.99-pre and tried to run my laptop
:> : (VAIO-f480) with it.
:> : The problem is that after kernel is started to load LCD goes blank and I do
:> : not see anything. I tried a copule of thing but they did not help. Any clue?
:> Did you enable console support in the kernel?
: Here what I have in .config file
: # Console drivers
: #
: CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y
: CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y
Yes, that's the standard VGA console support. Be specific about the
mode at startup using "vga=ask" as a boot param. That will help you
experiment.
You could probably do with frame-buffer support as well (config_fb=y, etc.).
But what you probably are lacking is config_vt=y, config_vt_console=y,
etc.
: vga=791
Why?
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rick Goyette)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: /usr/local/bin/perl5
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 16:29:10 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rick Goyette) wrote:
> what is the difference between /usr/bin/perl and /usr/local/bin/perl5, and
> where do I get /usr/local/bin/perl5?
I am trying to get apache-ssl running. I tried a sym link to
/usr/bin/perl, but that does not work. I was going to modify the spurce
code for the rpm, but both /usr/bin/perl and /usr/local/bin/perl5 are
listed in the files required for apache-ssl.
--
R. J. Goyette
Argonne National Laboratory
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "kc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RealPlayer for RH 6.2
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 21:43:32 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ramin Sina
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I installed rvplayer 5.0 ( ELF version) on my RH 6.2 and I get segmentation
> file. Does anyone know if there is a more recent version that works with linux
> or any other application/plugins I can use to browse sound and video?
>
> Thanks, Ramin Sina
>
>
>
you can get newer versions from real for linux:
http://scopes.real.com/real/player/player.html?src=000807realhome_1,000807rpchoice_h1&dc=81181089
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Off topic question about colors
Date: 10 Aug 2000 21:30:51 GMT
John Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: ': 'he was offended, so apologies .. I had this vision of ucdavis (which is
: ': 'a good place) being fooled by falsified SAT scores ...
: ': ': (The perfect combination for getting a job where you can use the immortal
: ': ': line "Do you want fries with that?")
: ': 'Hmmm ... no work available in cake shops? I believe you need minimum
: ': 'SAT scores in all areas anyway.
: ': As I told you, out of the public eye, that I was not as proficent in
: ': computer as you. Since you have chosen to belittle me not once, but three
: ': times, I will only say one thing. Your parents named you well. You are
: 'Goodness gracious me! What makes you think you are being belittled! As
: 'far as I know, I respect you to the normal degree. I have nothing but
: 'What precisely is it you think is being belittled (or, conversely, being
: 'aggrandized)? I'm somewhat puzzled. Can you elaborate? It's all very
: Read the smug statements above about SAT scores. Not TOO condesending?
What's smug about them? As far as I know SAT is used as an entrance tet
for all US students. I was pointing out that even Philosophy and Arts
students need minimal scores in math in SAT so there wouldn't be P&A
students only capable of getting a job serving fries (and I joked that
fries aren't served in cake shops .. where I've met most P&A students
making ends meet by serving table). I made no reference to you at all.
: Your "goodness gracious me" response brings to mind an old retort about
: arguing with a ( and this is where it think it is relevant) woman.
: The line is; " Arguing with a woman is like eating soup with a fork "
: This thread has become tiresome.
Oh, I'm not tired, or offended. Feel free to go on, perhaps explaining
just where this french-fry on your shoulder has come from, and why
you think the world is talking about you and deliberately trying to
offend you ...
: John Roberts
: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Didn't you post from ucdavies.edu before :-)?
Peter
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From: "kc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to copy a diskette?
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 21:49:49 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Carl Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Okay, I'm officially frustrated. I've searched Linux Documentation Project,
> O'Reilly books "Running Linux" and "Linux Network Admini- strator's Guide",
> and this newsgroup.
>
> How the heck do I make a copy of a diskette using Linux?
>
> I don't want to mount it as a filesystem. I can imagine popping the diskette
> into the drive, doing some command to read it and create a disk image file,
> then swapping diskettes & copying the disk image out to diskette. If I had a
> disk image, I suppose dd would be the command to copy it out to the diskette.
>
> But I have no idea what command(s) to use to read in a diskette as a disk
> image. Can anyone help me, please?
>
> You'd think no one used diskettes anymore!
>
> --CarlB
well you were on the right track with dd. You can use it to go from disk to
image as well, just switch the input and output around.
Something like:
dd if=/dev/fd0 of=disk.img bs=1440k
to go from floppy->image
then:
dd if=disk.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k
to go from image->disk
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From: Carl Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to copy a diskette?
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 14:58:16 -0700
Thanks to both you & Robert Heller. I knew it had to be something
simple. Beats begging someone with a WinXX system to copy it for
me!
--CarlB
Dances With Crows wrote:
>
> On Thu, 10 Aug 2000 12:50:10 -0700, Carl Benson wrote:
> >Okay, I'm officially frustrated. I've searched Linux Documentation
> >Project, O'Reilly books "Running Linux" and "Linux Network Admini-
> >strator's Guide", and this newsgroup.
> >
> >How the heck do I make a copy of a diskette using Linux?
> >
> >I don't want to mount it as a filesystem. I can imagine popping
> >the diskette into the drive, doing some command to read it and
> >create a disk image file, then swapping diskettes & copying the
> >disk image out to diskette. If I had a disk image, I suppose dd
> >would be the command to copy it out to the diskette.
> >
> >But I have no idea what command(s) to use to read in a diskette
> >as a disk image. Can anyone help me, please?
>
> dd if=/dev/fd0 of=diskimage bs=18k (exact copy of disk to HD)
> dd if=diskimage of=/dev/fd0 bs=18k (exact copy of image to disk)
>
> The man page for dd is a tad confusing, but dd is generally used to make
> exact copies of floppy disks, transform a data CD-ROM into an ISO image,
> or alter things like the MBR, which can't be reached via the filesystem.
> The bs= option there is for speed; 1.4M floppies have 18K/track. Using
> the default bs of 512 bytes takes almost 2.5 times longer. If it helps,
> think of dd as doing what they call a "sector copy" in DOS.
>
> >You'd think no one used diskettes anymore!
>
> <RANT>
> The 3.5", 1.4M diskette will be around for a long time, if only because
> every PC/Mac/Sparc/Alpha can be fitted with one for cheap and many of
> those systems can boot from said floppy. It's backwards combatible to
> stuff produced 12 years ago--how many other hardware bits have fallen by
> the wayside in that time? It's obsolete, slow, and small, but unlike
> fast networks/ZIP drives/CD-Rs, it's *UBIQUITOUS*. Jobs was smoking
> some wicked crack the day he decided to leave floppies out of the new
> Macs... every iMac/G[34] user I know bought a floppy drive first thing
> and bitched about the lack of said drive....
> </RANT>
>
> --
> Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
> Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Tyranny is always better organized
> http://www.brainbench.com / than freedom.
> -----------------------------/ --Charles Peguy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Bismuti)
Subject: starting ftpd during bootup
Date: 10 Aug 2000 21:59:59 GMT
I can't FTP into my machine:
[myname@mymachine myname]$ ftp 127.0.0.1
Connected to 127.0.0.1.
421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection
ftp>
I don't see ftpd running:
myname@mymachine myname ]$ ps axuw | grep ftp
peterb 9045 0.0 0.2 1360 516 pts/9 S 14:50 0:00 grep ftp
In the /etc/inetd.conf (I'm using RedHat 6.2) file it seems as if it should
be set to start running when booting:
# These are standard services.
#
ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.ftpd -l -a
telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.telnetd
What file do I need to modify in order to fire up ftpd automatically??
Thanks
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From: Alvaro Palma Aste <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to copy a diskette?
Date: 10 Aug 2000 20:58:28 GMT
Carl Benson escribio:
>Okay, I'm officially frustrated. I've searched Linux Documentation
>Project, O'Reilly books "Running Linux" and "Linux Network Admini-
>strator's Guide", and this newsgroup.
>How the heck do I make a copy of a diskette using Linux?
>I don't want to mount it as a filesystem. I can imagine popping
And then, how do you want to do the job?
If you want to do it simple:
1.- mount -t msdos /dev/floppy /mnt/floppy
2.- cp /mnt/floppy/* /tmp/floppy
3.- Switch floppies
4.- cp /tmp/floppy/* /mnt/floppy/
If this doesn't work, ask again
>the diskette into the drive, doing some command to read it and
>create a disk image file, then swapping diskettes & copying the
>disk image out to diskette. If I had a disk image, I suppose dd
>would be the command to copy it out to the diskette.
>But I have no idea what command(s) to use to read in a diskette
>as a disk image. Can anyone help me, please?
>You'd think no one used diskettes anymore!
>--CarlB
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Atte.
�lvaro Palma Aste
Grupo de Ing Biom�dica - U. de Chile
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From: Martin Herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problem with dosemu
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 00:03:06 +0200
Hello!
I've got the following problem with dosemu:
When running setup-bootdir, I get the following output:
mh:/var/lib/dosemu # setup-bootdir
checking your partitions, wait...
...done
** There seem not to be any bootable DOS partitions
Do you want to continue any way using a bootable floppy as input?
If yes then enter the device (e.g. /dev/fd0) else type ENTER
/dev/fd0
Please insert a bootable DOS floppy for /dev/fd0 and type ENTER
/dev/fd0
/var/lib/dosemu/dexe/extract-dos: line 30: 880 Segmentation fault
$mcommand $params
/var/lib/dosemu/dexe/extract-dos: line 30: 888 Segmentation fault
$mcommand $params
A normal MSDOS system has command.com as shell.
If you have a different one, please enter the name,
else just type ENTER
/var/lib/dosemu/dexe/extract-dos: line 30: 914 Segmentation fault
$mcommand $params
/var/lib/dosemu/dexe/extract-dos: line 30: 922 Segmentation fault
$mcommand $params
mdir: File "w:/windows/command.com" not found
System type is WIN95. sysfiles: io.sys, msdos.sys, windows/command.com
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
mcopy: File "w:/windows/command.com" not found
I cannot boot the generated directory.
My computer: Athlon 600/192 MB
SuSE 6.4
dosemu 1.0.1 (I think so, it is the lates stable release)
Does anyone know the problem, can anyone help me?
tia,
--
Martin "mdefender" Herrmann
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http://martin.herrmann.home.pages.de
ICQ: 15480366
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