Linux-Misc Digest #770, Volume #25 Fri, 15 Sep 00 14:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Re: Modem Has Locked Itself and Thrown Away The Key. ("Lonni J. Friedman")
Re: Hardware compatability (I R A Darth Aggie)
latex2html under linux, no equations (Craig Jones)
Re: Linux -- What's it all about? (Kenneth Brody)
Re: isp assigned ip ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: ICQ for Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: X-windows newbie question (zoot)
Recording using a SoundBlaster Live - can YOU do it? ("Barry Samuels")
Re: Sound recording (or rather lack of it). ("Barry Samuels")
Re: PLIP Errors (Toffer)
Re: Windows: Missing in Action (zoot)
Re: mpeg player for linux? (zoot)
Re: what is the ORB? (zoot)
Re: X-windows newbie question (Alan Shutko)
managing analog modem pools
Re: colors in login console (Bill Unruh)
Re: End-User Alternative to Windows (zoot)
Re: what rpm includes rman (Mandrake 7) (zoot)
Re: sony vaio laptop?? (zoot)
Re: netscape stalled ... again with java (zoot)
Re: Hex editors? (Garry Knight)
Re: netscape stalled ... again with java (The Darkener)
Re: ATI ALL IN WONDER (RogerB)
Re: End-User Alternative to Windows (RogerB)
Re: Uninstalling Linux (The Darkener)
Re: SWAP Partition size? (The Darkener)
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From: "Lonni J. Friedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Modem Has Locked Itself and Thrown Away The Key.
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 11:45:46 -0400
look in /var/lock
QNA wrote:
>
> i am running Mandrake Linux 7.0 and when i launched a terminal and entered
> the correct command for it to detect my modem on Com Port 3 everything
> went fine. Well for some dumb reason i went back and did it again or
> something and now when i try to connect to the internet it says "Sorry
> Modem is Locked" ok well that isnt good. So how do i unlock my modem?
> Thanks.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (I R A Darth Aggie)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Hardware compatability
Date: 15 Sep 2000 16:34:52 GMT
Reply-To: no-courtesy-copies-please
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000 16:44:48 -0700,
Rafael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, in
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
+ Will it work fine with RedHat Linux 6.2 and XWindows
+ Epox EP-3VCA Socket 370 ATX
Dunno, are there MoBo's that don't like linux?
+ Intel Celeron 600 MHz, socket 370, 128 kB cache
This, at least, is agnostic with respect to the OS. :)
+ Memmory 133Mhz
That shouldn't be a problem, either.
+ IBM Deskstar 40GV - 20,5 GB IDE Ultra ATA-66/100 5400 RPM
IDE is IDE. I would go with a 7200 RPM drive, tho. Depending on the
type of work, you may want to think about SCSI here.
+ Riva TNT-2 M64 32 Mb AGP
Definite thumbs-up! I'm running XFree86 4.0 + nvidia 0.94 drivers on
this very card. It also works in XFree 3.3.6 and 4.0.1.
James
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From: Craig Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: latex2html under linux, no equations
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 16:50:13 GMT
Under Redhat Linux 6.2, I am in the midst of trying to convert a simple
latex2e document with equations into html using latex2html.
It is having a tough time converting a the file. I have a math symbol
in it. I keep getting:
----------------------------------------
*** processing 1 images ***
Generating postscript images using dvips ...
working directory is /home/craig/work/PhD/SRCNEW/doc/code/
images will be generated in /tmp/l2h4646/
This is dvips(k) 5.86 Copyright 1999 Radical Eye Software
(www.radicaleye.com)
' TeX output 2000.09.14:1002' -> /tmp/l2h4646/image
(-> /tmp/l2h4646/image001) <texc.pro><special.pro><color.pro>[1]
pstoimg:
Fatal Error: This version of pstoimg does not support PNG format.
Error while converting image: No such file or directory
Doing section links ..................
Copying navigation icons ...
etc
----------------------------------------------------------
The fatal error for pstoimg seems the trouble, but I am not sure why it
is happening. I looked through the Troubleshooting in the latex2html
manual, but did not see this problem.
There is a pstoimg, I have ppmtogif and pnmtopng. I am using
latex2html 99.1 release.
Any ideas? What versions of ppmtogif and pnmtopng work? I have no
idea why nothing is coming out...
Any pointers would be very appreciated!
Thanks,
Craig.
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From: Kenneth Brody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: Linux -- What's it all about?
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 17:01:05 GMT
Marshall Price wrote:
>
> If it were true that automobiles didn't do much besides driving
> grandmothers to church on Sundays, people who needed to commute to work
> would need something else.
I was just trying to say that the comment "Linux doesn't do much besides
running Internet servers on PC's" was far from the truth.
> Similarly, if Linux does nothing of any use to me, I've already wasted a
> lot of time on it
Well, "is it of any use to me" is a totally different question. What do
you want to use it for?
> -- and I haven't even figured out how to switch from one
> disk drive to another.
That's because you don't.
MS-DOS keeps each drive's directory tree totally apart from the others.
To go to a specific directory on a specific drive, you have to set the
"current drive" as well as the "current directory". Under Linux (and
all Unix systems) all drives simply appear as part of a single directory
tree, and you have control as to where in the tree each drive appears.
(Except for the primary, which always starts at "/".) If that makes you
uncomfortable (coming from a DOS background) you can always call the
"mount points" for the other drives "/D:", "/E:" and so on.
> This is no troll. I'm using MS-DOS, and except for the fact that I have
> a few DOS apps I like (and have spent years getting to the point where I
> can use them fairly well), I'd just as soon get away from commercial
> products.
> You might say I have a bad attitude towards commerce in information, or
> a good attitude towards the arts.
[...]
Well, back to your question "is it of any use to me?" If you can
describe what you want, and post to one of the comp.os.linux.*
groups (I have cc'd this to comp.os.linux.misc), then I'm sure you
can get a good answer.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: isp assigned ip
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 15:07:15 +0100
SJB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did eloquently scribble:
> How would I go about finding out what ip adress my isp has assigned my
> computer on login?
type ifconfig
This lists all active network links and the related IP addresses.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ICQ for Linux
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 15:09:16 +0100
P.Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did eloquently scribble:
> Hi ,
> i am a newby in Linux. I just installed Suse Linux 7.0 professional and want
> to install an ICQ version for Linux.
> I found several ICQ-Clones in the internet, but since i don't have any
> experience, i am not able to install one of them.
There are several ICQ clones on the SuSE CDs.
GTKICQ and KICQ are two of them.
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Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 01:18:34 +0800
From: zoot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: X-windows newbie question
> This, however, is distinctly not correct.
>
> Gnome and KDE represent two things:
> a) A set of libraries providing useful services for applications, such
> as parsing configuration files, widgets to display things, and
> interprocess communicatoins, just to name a few services;
>
> then there are...
> b) A variety of applications that use those libraries.
>
> The notion of "running KDE" isn't a sensible concept; KDE is not
> identifiable as a program.
>
> The crucial thing is not the applications, but rather the _libraries_.
They're development environments.
> Unfortunately, the makers of Linux distributions have tended to muddy
>
> There are some distributions that try to be at least somewhat neutral
>
> Others are rather less neutral; Caldera towards KDE, Red Hat towards
> GNOME.
and Mandrake towards KDE.
> _STRANGELY_, Red Hat has also been somewhat biased towards the
> "Enlightenment" window manger. This is strange because:
> a) Enlightenment is, of all window managers, the most hungry
> of CPU and memory resources, and thus can hurt performance;
> b) The author of Enlightenment left Red Hat a couple years ago
> under a bit of a cloud, not on _great_ terms.
This is part of the reason why I gave up on RH.
> Other distributions have somewhat similar biases...
> -> Red Hat, at one point, by default would install fvwm-95, with
> a _REALLY WILD_ configuration scheme called "The Next Level,"
> which involved a complex combination of M4 scripts; this was
> _REALLY_ a pain to try to reconfigure;
must have been fun.
> -> Corel Linux biased towards installing a number of KDE-based
> components, as did Caldera.
Corel was also very much into "lets hide everything in corners and let
the user go look for it."
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From: "Barry Samuels" <Barry Samuels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Recording using a SoundBlaster Live - can YOU do it?
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 18:18:03 +0100
This is a follow-up to a previous posting of mine.
I am running Debian 2.2, kernel 2.2.17pre6, emu10k1 driver (20000721) with
a SoundBlaster Live 1024.
I could not get a recording, using the line input socket, to produce any
sound when played back.
Someone suggested trying the Microphone socket and that, indeed produces a
recording that does play back albeit at a rather low volume level even
with the Microphone recording level, on the mixer, at maximum.
The same card will produce acceptable recordings using the line input
socket and the Windows software that was supplied with the card. I really
don't want to do it that way!
Has anyone else experienced this? Do you have a solution or an explanation?
Barry Samuels
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From: "Barry Samuels" <Barry Samuels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sound recording (or rather lack of it).
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 18:18:03 +0100
In article <8ppb25$7e9$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> "Barry Samuels" <Barry Samuels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I am running Debian 2.2, kernel 2.2.17pre6 and a SoundBlaster Live
> using
>> the Creative/Emu module.
>>
>> Try as I might I cannot record anything!
>>
>> When I say I cannot record I mean that, although I can create a file
> by
>> using something like Gramofile, Sound-recorder or KRecord, when it is
>
> This is a real long shot, but in case it helps...
>
> I am using krecord and gramofile on two systems with older soundblaster
> cards. Try as I might, I could not record anything from the line in. In
> desperation, I tried the microphone in, and I could record.
>
> This does not make any sense to me, and I kept trying the line in with
> various mixer settings, nothing but soft white noise.
I have now tried your suggestion of using the microphone socket and it
does work. However the sound level is quite low - it needs the microphone
recording level at its maximum to produce anything audible.
I find this to be very strange as the same recording setup produces an
acceptable recording under Windows when using the line input socket. It
doesn't seem to make any sense.
Barry Samuels
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Toffer)
Subject: Re: PLIP Errors
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 17:24:59 GMT
Try this (it works for me).
insnod parport
insmod parport_pc
insmod plip
Chris
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>PLIP Errors
>
>After doing a full installed of redhat 6.2, if I try to install the
>plip module but using the following command I get errors
>
>command:
> 'insmod plip'
>
>error:
>/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/net/plip.o: unresolved symbol
>parport_enumerate_Rdcb625ab
>/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/net/plip.o: unresolved symbol
>parport_claim_R46138e04
>/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/net/plip.o: unresolved symbol
>parport_register_device_Ra78805aa
>/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/net/plip.o: unresolved symbol
>parport_unregister_device_R857406d1
>/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/net/plip.o: unresolved symbol
>parport_release_Re207d4f8
>
>
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Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 01:35:45 +0800
From: zoot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Windows: Missing in Action
Rafael Przybyszewski wrote:
>
> If you have LILO you can find the configuration file in /etc/lilo.conf
>
> After you will make changes to that file run lilo to load the config to
> lilo.
>
> Rafael
>
for GRUB it's /boot/grub/menu.lst. Info grub for details.
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Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 01:34:15 +0800
From: zoot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mpeg player for linux?
Raminder Singh Gill wrote:
>
> Copernicus Skygazer wrote:
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > > In article <8p610n$ka$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Bismuti) wrote:
> > > > Are there any mpeg players for Linux?
> >
> > I recommend mpegtv myself.
>
> know of any serial numbers to register the software?
>
> thanks
It's not _that_ expensive...:) and the command line player is free... no
serial numbers needed. Can't get it to play full screen though. it just
plays in a box in the center of a black screen.. oh well. I can expand
the window to almost full screen though... so its not so bad.
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Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 01:38:24 +0800
From: zoot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: what is the ORB?
Nesman wrote:
>
> anyone knows the orb is? what is for? where can doc? searched the redhat /
> ldp site, nothing comes out like orb. who knows aabout the orb? thanks,
> nesman
http://webopedia.internet.com/TERM/O/ORB.html
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: X-windows newbie question
From: Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 17:36:09 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne) writes:
> _STRANGELY_, Red Hat has also been somewhat biased towards the
> "Enlightenment" window manger. This is strange because:
At the time, that was one of the most Gnome-compatible window
managers. They've switched to sawfish in RH6.9.5.
--
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56 days, 22 hours, 5 minutes, 4 seconds till we run away.
Life is knowing how far to go without crossing the line.
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From: <test>
Subject: managing analog modem pools
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 10:37:58 -0700
I've written a set of perl scripts that track and fix potential problems in
analog modem pools ( I'm using cisco 2500 series terminal server). I was
wondering if anyone would find this useful. If so I'll bundle them in an rpm
or tarball...
ET
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Subject: Re: colors in login console
Date: 15 Sep 2000 17:40:03 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Garry Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
]On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Ray Yang wrote:
]>Hi:
]> I just installed Redhat 6.2, and whenever I log in, I get lots of colors
]>on my screen when I type ls. However, when I add a .cshrc and a .login
]>file to my home directory, I don't get the colors anymore! How do I get
]>the colors back while still having a .cshrc and .login file?
And here is someone who LIKES the colours? I find that they severely
detract from my actually being able to read what is being said.
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Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 01:47:32 +0800
From: zoot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: End-User Alternative to Windows
a fistful of binaries?
wasn't that a western ? :)
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Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 01:48:24 +0800
From: zoot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: what rpm includes rman (Mandrake 7)
doug edmunds wrote:
>
> I am trying to figure out which rpm installed the file "rman:
> which is in /bin.
> Is there a tool out there which will search rpms for file
> names or part names?
>
> -- doug edmunds
rpmdrake.
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Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 01:50:05 +0800
From: zoot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: sony vaio laptop??
sami k mossessian wrote:
>
> Hi,does anyone know if I can install linux on sony vaio laptop (500/64/P),
> and will I have any problems??
>
> thanks
> sam
>
> --
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> http://www.help.com/
I've seen Debian and RH installed on the VAIO.
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Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 01:52:36 +0800
From: zoot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: netscape stalled ... again with java
"Dr. Mathias Hellwig" wrote:
>
> hi
>
> I'm using (Suze 6.4):
>
> Linux xxx 2.2.14 #1 Sat Mar 25 00:45:35 GMT 2000 i686 unknown
>
> with Netscape� Communicator 4.75
>
> with libc.so.4.7.6 /lib/libc.so.6
>
> everything is fine, except if java is involved. I tried a couple of
> things, buts nothing works. What's wrong?
>
> Mathias
>
> PS: hurry up that drives me nuts! :-)
http://www.mandrakeuser.org/connect/cnetscap.html
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From: Garry Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hex editors?
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 14:38:01 +0100
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Art Decco wrote:
>Is there any standard unix command line tool that will display a hex view of
>a file? I'm asking about standard in the sense of likely to be available on
>most unix boxes I visit, so I can count on it (usually) being there, like vi
>or cat.
I think you'll find od fits the bill. For hex output, use it as:
$ od -h filename
My Mandrake 7.1 system also has hexdump and hexedit, but I'm not sure how
common those are amongst Unices.
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From: The Darkener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: netscape stalled ... again with java
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 17:57:53 GMT
Wow. Talk about ironic!! As I tried posting my original reply to this msg,
Netscape crashes (of course I'm using Messenger on a Windoze box, still funny as
hell)...
Netscape isn't too bad as far as crashing (for me) as long as Java/Javascript is
turned off. It's still a big cpu/memory hog though.
Manfred Muench wrote:
> >>>>> "SG" == Steve Gage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> SG> I have tried every suggestion under the sun to get java working under NS
> SG> for a couple of years now. As of NS 4.75, it still locks up. If I turn
> SG> java off, NS 4.75 is quite reliable for me. Turn java on, and it's just
> SG> a matter of a few minutes before it freezes. Oh well.
>
> Same with me. I have tried different NS-versions (up to 4.73) but
> nothing could solve that problem. Java and Netscape are just two
> things that don't go together, such as CSS 2.0 and Netscape, HTML 4.0
> and NS, xyz and NS... You name it... After having been a fanatic user
> of NS I'm so disappointed meanwhile that I will dump it asap. At the
> moment I'm using VMware and WinNT 4 just to have a decent browser
> which can handle Java, JS, HTML 4.0, CSS 2.0 and all that stuff
> without showing strange results or crashes... If anyone knows a
> browser for Linux which can do all that, please let me know!
>
> Cheers,
> Manfred
>
> --
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> | Dept. of Computer Science III
> | Aachen University of Technology
> | Ahornstr. 55, 52074 Aachen, Germany
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (RogerB)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: ATI ALL IN WONDER
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 17:59:32 GMT
Try the rage driver and I think you config it with XF86cfg or
something like that it's in one of the docs. If youhave Suse you can
use sax2.
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000 13:50:42 -0400, Samuel Irlapati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
m> wrote:
>Can someone please send me their Xfree86_config (or whatever the config file
>is called) which they have gotten to work with the ATI ALL IN WONDER 128
>card, which is compatible with XFree86 v4.01? I have tried upgrading to
>v4.01 and the new X server could not read some of the statements in the
>config file. So I hope someone else got it to work and can send me their
>config file.
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (RogerB)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: End-User Alternative to Windows
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 17:59:34 GMT
Crap. For years Ms has been the only produce because
the stores sell nothing else. The average user gets a PC pre-installed
and couldn't install windows any easier than linux. Out here in the
country I have to drive twice as far for a loaf of bread than a pc
with windows. The masses don't want choice they want a a loaf of
bread or a button to push. As far as Ms being the best thing
available thats real crap, for most people it's just the only thing
available.
Availability will come with with large companies finding a
business model were they can make a buck from something that's
given away. If the numbers that I have read are correct, companies like
IBM and Dell make more money off of installing windows than MS does
and money talks.
You might get the impression from this post that I think that
MS sucks and that's wouldn't be that far from the truth. Windows is very
poor value for the money. The basic package is a lame workstation.
This could be one of the reasons that slows Linux acceptance as a consumer
produce (who wants to disable so much)? This could give companies a chance
to make a buck selling easy installation packages to the consumers.
They could come up with neat acronyms like RPM or DEB and put buttons
on it.
MS seems to be changing it's distribution model to a warped
form of service style with their web install stuff,as apposed to their
rabid crack dealer style of world domination (got to stick in a poke
here and there:). Other companies like those virus scan people seem to
be going that way to (subscription).This in itself could drive a lot of
people away from MS. Without the ability to steal software the real cost
of ownership is very high. How many home users really spend $300 for
Ms office or a $100 for a virus scanner. Maybe someday you will have to
subscribe to Nortons to get a disk defraged (10 for a buck that will
break the bank).
The acceptance of linux as an alterative to windows
won't happen because linux has a better GUI (which it has),or that it's
more stable (which it is ) or that it's better value (which it s).
Lets face it linux and windows are very easy to use when they come
preinstalled and they can do more things than the average user requires.
It will happen when people can make a buck off it. Maybe something like
OEM Linux. Then you will see it on all the shelves like ms and
tupperware.
I like linux on the desktop. It's not that hard to install
and it's as easy to use as you want it to be. There are far more
applications than I have time to learn. I think lot more people would
really enjoy using if it came preinstalled.
BTW I don't care what MS does as long as their doing it someplace else.
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000 13:15:06 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On 14 Sep 2000 19:19:15 +0800, Lee Sau Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>So, why would any corporate buy MS Windows -- a non-clonable product?
>
>Because for years MS software (the OS's in particular) have been the
>best thing available. IMO, they still are, though there is some
>argument that it's changing. Linux isn't ready for the masses. It
>doesn't have nearly the variety/quality of software, it isn't nearly
>as easy to use.
>
>Regardless, when MS took over the market, they weren't competing with
>linux.
>
>
>
>--
>Stephen Whitis
>Email replies should go to...
>scw120198 (at) whitis.com
>
>The address in the header is not valid.
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From: The Darkener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Uninstalling Linux
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 17:59:48 GMT
Use Partition Magic, it works great, and very easy to use.
Hima Parimisetty wrote:
> Hi ,
> I have a Dell PC with both linux and Windows '98 on different partitions
> of the hard disk. I wanted to unistall linux completely and format the
> linux partition back to FAT file system .I did the following:
> 1)Removed LILO by
> booting into MSDOS and FDISK /MBR
> 2)Then deleted the Linux partitions with the help of linux install CD.
> Now the hard disk is like this :
> one partition with(FAT) windows'98(primary partition)
> second partition with out any file system.
>
> Now the pc boots straight windows'98 ,but what i'd like to know is
> how to stretch the FAT partition to encapsulate the whole hard disk with
> out losing data on my FAT partition ?
>
> If i have to use dos fdisk,what option should i use? I just want to make
> sure i don't destruct the data on FAT partition.
>
> Your help is greatly appreciated.
>
> TIA,
> Hima.
>
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From: The Darkener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SWAP Partition size?
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 18:07:19 GMT
I've heard from a few sources that using 3/2 the amount of physical RAM in
your system is best (as long as it doesn't exceed 128MB). So if you've got
32mb RAM, do a 48mb swap. I've also heard *just* the amount is good, and
even twice the amount. In any case, don't exceed 128mb in a single swap
partition. You can always create more than one, but it's really not
necessary (IMHO) unless you're running a very high-load server or something.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello all
>
> My computer has a P166 processor, 32 MB of RAM and a 3g HD. I want to
> Install Redhat's Linux 6.2 and the manual says to create a swap
> partition at the same size as the RAM. Now I only have 32mb, so why wont
> I make a larger swap partition, like 128mb or so? Will it improve/hurt
> the system performance?
> I have also thought about creating only one large partition of what left
> of the HD (after creating the swap and the boot partitions). Does it
> have any disadvantages?
>
> Thnx
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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